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| Keywords: Joseph Meyer, Westliche Halfte von Paris, 1860 - David Rumsey.jpg Artwork 1860 Size cm 56 41 David Rumsey Historical Map Collection object history exhibition history credit line Scale 1 16 000 Two engraved maps Includes drawings of the facades of 21 buildings Profile der merkwurdigsten Pariser Gebaude nach ihren Grossenverhaltnissen Copied from the 1834 maps published by the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge London Meyer's Hand-Atlas No 14 and No 15 David Rumsey Collection copy mounted as 1 sheet <br/> This is Meyer's grandest production a real tour de force that has fifty maps of the Americas including thirty three maps that are derived from the Tanner/Mitchell Universal atlas maps of the various U S States and Territories Canada and South America and are dated from 1844 to 1854 with most dated 1844 or 1845 Many of the maps in this atlas have Philadelphia as a place of publication along with several other cities indicating that there may have been an arrangement with Tanner and/or Mitchell to copy the maps The U S maps dated 1844-46 all appear to derive from a late 1830s edition of Tanner's Universal atlas Those dated from 1850-54 derive from the Mitchell and Thomas Cowperthwait issues of the Universal atlas from 1850-54 Espenhorst lists a separate atlas 3 3 3 published in 1860 with these U S maps only titled Grosse und vollstandiger Auswanderungs-Atlas fur Nordamerika The Iowa Wisconsin and Texas maps are not copied from the Universal atlas but all the others are almost exact copies and it is strange that no credit is given to Tanner or Mitchell Notwithstanding that the copies are beautifully done and in some cases the California map adds an inset of San Francisco Bay not on the Mitchell version superior to the American originals Wheat misses the Tanner/Mitchell derivation in the two maps he cites The other maps in the atlas are all superbly engraved and the city maps have exquisite views -- all combining to make this the finest German atlas of the mid 19th century Full and outline hand coloring Maps are bound in half leather marbled boards with Meyer's Grosser Hand-Atlas aller Theile der Erde stamped on the spine in gilt Scarce accession number place of creation http //www davidrumsey com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~21848~680004 David Rumsey Historical Map Collection PD-100 Maps of Paris in the 19th century 19th-century maps of Paris David Rumsey Historical Map Collection Joseph Meyer 1860 in Paris 1860 maps | ||||
