Title: Hand-Atlas über alle Theile der Erde und über das Weitgebäude Author: Stieler, Adolf Place: Gotha Publisher: Julius Perthes Date: [1873-75] Description: With 97 steel-engraved maps and charts, hand-colored in outline (some in wash including 3 celestial maps); plus a steel-engraved pictorial title page. (Oblong folio) 14½x18, original quarter brown calf and cloth, spine lettered in gilt and coated in clear tape. Nice large and detailed maps of the world and its various nations and states, including North America, the United States and Mexico, 6 regions of the U.S., etc., plus several Indian tribes mentioned within the maps of the U.S. Phillips Atlases 819 cites the 1856 edition, with 30 pp. text and 52 maps on 84 sheets; this edition with title page undated, but maps mostly dating from 1873 to 1875. Also see Phillips 6098. Lot Amendments Condition: Mild rubbing and edge wear; binding a bit shaken, faint marginal dampstains, occasional light foxing and finger-soiling; else very good or better. Item number: 144436
Title: Hand-Atlas über alle Theile der Erde und über das Weitgebäude Author: Stieler, Adolf Place: Gotha Publisher: Julius Perthes Date: [1873-75] Description: With 97 steel-engraved maps and charts, hand-colored in outline (some in wash including 3 celestial maps); plus a steel-engraved pictorial title page. (Oblong folio) 14½x18, original quarter brown calf and cloth, spine lettered in gilt and coated in clear tape. Nice large and detailed maps of the world and its various nations and states, including North America, the United States and Mexico, 6 regions of the U.S., etc., plus several Indian tribes mentioned within the maps of the U.S. Phillips Atlases 819 cites the 1856 edition, with 30 pp. text and 52 maps on 84 sheets; this edition with title page undated, but maps mostly dating from 1873 to 1875. Also see Phillips 6098. Lot Amendments Condition: Mild rubbing and edge wear; binding a bit shaken, faint marginal dampstains, occasional light foxing and finger-soiling; else very good or better. Item number: 144436
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