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C1850
Asia
Mapmaker:
Detailed c.19th German map of Asia with a scrolled title and a key within the lower margin. From Stieler’s, A. Hand Atlas. Gotha, Germany.
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Full Title:
Asia
Date:
C1850
Mapmaker:
Condition:
Small repaired tear at lower sheet edge, otherwise in good condition.
Technique:
Hand coloured copper engraving.
Image Size:
338mm
x 320mm
Paper Size:
400mm
x 305mm
AUTHENTICITY
Genuine antique
dated:
1850
Description:
Detailed c.19th German map of Asia with a scrolled title and a key within the lower margin.
From Stieler’s, A. Hand Atlas. Gotha, Germany.
Collections:
National Library Australia: Bib ID 6850116 (1871 edition)
State Library Victoria: SLV_VOYAGER3661362
State Library New South Wales: R.I. 74VKVELObVlg
National Library Australia: Bib ID 6850116 (1871 edition)
State Library Victoria: SLV_VOYAGER3661362
State Library New South Wales: R.I. 74VKVELObVlg
Adolf Stieler (1775 - 1836)
Stieler was a German cartographer and lawyer who worked most of his life in the Justus Perthes Geographical Institute in Gotha. His Handatlas was the leading German world atlas until the middle of the 20th century. Stieler spent much of his early youth in Gotha, where his father was the mayor. In his adolescence, he showed an interest in geography and maps. Stieler's cartographic career began with a position as a geography teacher at a girls' school in Gotha and then with Franz Xaver von Zach, the director of the Gotha Observatory. His works during this period include publishing cartographic representations of a number of von Zach's observations. From 1804, Stieler worked in the Geographical Institute of Weimar, continuing his goal of starting a geographical publishing business.
