Print on handmade paper from Amalfi Measurement : 29 x 42 cm Material : work printed on very fine handmade Amalfi paper with fringed edges Frame : Light brown in beech wood and handmade wood pulp
First edition, 1859 print of Kiepert's antique atlas, with 8 double-page maps. Published by Williams & Norgate, London and Edinburgh.
Also published by Dietrich Reimer in Berlin. Cover and title page in English and Latin. Maps in Latin, hand-colored outlines, of political and administrative borders. Some maps dated 1858.
They show major cities, towns, roads, rivers, canals and mountains. Relief shown by hatches. The prime meridians are Paris and Greenwich. The geographer Heinrich Kiepert (1818-1899) is generally recognized as one of the most important scholarly cartographers of the second half of the 19th century.
