Meyer, H.J. - Bibliographic Institute

LB8404

Manuscript map of Iceland

 

Iceland

"ISLAND" from "Zeitungs-Atlas 2. Europa außer Deutschland und die übrigen Erdtheile."

A basic edition with 120 maps, 1849-52, and with the handwritten title:
"Atlas über alle bekannten Theile der Erde sowie über die wichtigste mathem. & phys. Geographie von Herrmann J. Meyer Theil II. Hildburghausen 1852."

Manuscript, drawn with brown ink, coastlines and islands with red, county borders with blue and green watercolor.
21,5 x 26 cm, map no 74.

A manuscript map of Iceland with much information about the topography of the island, drawn between 1849 and 1852.

See also under 'Old maps of America'

€ 3000,-

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