Lot 20
  • 20

Kiepert, Heinrich

Estimate
1,200 - 1,800 USD
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Description

  • Mexico, Texas und Californien. Weimar: Verlag des Geographischen Instituts, 1853
  • paper, ink
Engraved map (22 1/4 x 26 3/4 in.; 564 x 680 mm), engraved by Karl Joseph Mädel & C. Jungmann, contemporary outline handcoloring, large inset map "Die Republiken von Central-America im Maasstab der Hauptkarte," smaller insets of "Haupt-Gold-District in Californien im doppelten maastab der Hauptkarte" and "Plateau von Mexico." 

Handsomely framed and glazed with UVIII Plexiglass. Accompanied by the original printed text for the map from the Allgemeiner Hand-Atlas.

Literature

Rumsey 2077 (1855 printing); Wheat, Gold Regions 199 (1851 printing)

Catalogue Note

An excellent map showing locations of settlements, roads, missions, Indian peoples, removed from Der Erde und des Himmels, "a marvelous atlas" (Rumsey). A fine copy.