Hand Atlas. 1868. 84 Karten (maps). Cet article n’est pas disponible.Hand Atlas. 1868. 84 Karten (maps)

Oblong folio atlas with 84 steel engraved maps with period outline color and no fold lines. Beautiful color steel engraved maps, unfolded, including the moon's surface, celestial maps, hemisphere maps, the winds, Europe, Africa, North & South America, Australia, Middle East, most with insets of principal cities. In the US maps many of the western states appear as territories. Map dates vary from 1866-1868. Detailed Arctic & Antarctic maps, with explorers tracks, dates & soundings. Australia with explanation tracks til Sept. 1864 and map dated 1866. Handsome, precise maps. Sturdily but rather unusually bound in green wrappers with green cloth spine. With the dated notice at the rear, "Vorbericht zu Stieler's Hand-Atlas Zehnte auglage 1868", ii, 10pp, dated November 1868, 8 1/2 x 12". A tide mark on the foredge of titlethat is not repeated on any of the rest of the pages. page along with a crease near inner hinge.