Antique Maps of Africa, Relief, Geology and Vegetation, Set of Three, 1916
€ 230
Original antique · The actual sheet photographed · Certificate of authenticity on request · Sold unframed · Worldwide shipping from € 15 (rates)
Date
1916
Publisher
Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig and Vienna
Technique
Chromolithograph
Coloring
Printed color
Sheet size
30 × 24.5 cm (11.8 × 9.6 in)
Condition
Good
Reference
BG-06668-29
What the condition grades mean
Excellent
Bright and clean, with no faults worth mentioning.
Very good
Only light signs of age, such as faint toning.
Good
Normal signs of age for a sheet of this period: toning, some foxing, small marks or neat old repairs.
Fair
Clear faults such as staining, tears or repairs, priced to match.
Every fault we see is written in the condition note, and the whole sheet is shown uncropped in the photos.
Condition
Uneven toning, browner at the edges. Handling soiling along the edges of two of the three sheets. Slight wear at the corners of two of the three sheets. Shallow nicks along an edge of one of the three sheets. Center folds, as issued.
About this sheet
A set of three original antique thematic maps from Meyers Physikalischer Handatlas. They are three original sheets sold together, and the set is never split. The three sheets are Africa, physical map of rivers and mountain systems; Africa, geological map; Africa, vegetation map. Each was printed in color by the Bibliographisches Institut in Leipzig and Vienna in 1916.
All three maps come from the same atlas, Meyers Physikalischer Handatlas, fifty one maps of oceanography, morphology, geology, climatology, plant and animal geography and ethnology, published by the Bibliographisches Institut in Leipzig and Vienna in 1916. They share a format, a typeface and a palette, which is the whole reason they work on a wall together: hung in a row or in a block they read as one considered group rather than as three unrelated prints. The atlas was the physical geography companion to Meyers Grosses Konversations-Lexikon and was compiled from the leading specialist sources of the day, including the Berghaus physical atlas, Alexander Supan, Julius Hann and Oscar Drude.
Thematic maps take one idea and lay it across a whole region in color, and a set of them shows the same ground answering three different questions at once. That is a more interesting wall than three views of the same thing. Framed in matching plain dark moldings with wide off white mats, a set like this suits a study, a library, a hallway, a boardroom or a stair wall, and because the sheets are the same size the framing cost is the same for each one.
Uneven toning, browner at the edges. Handling soiling along the edges of two of the three sheets. Slight wear at the corners of two of the three sheets. Shallow nicks along an edge of one of the three sheets. Center folds, as issued.
These are original antique maps, not modern reproductions. This item is sold unframed. Any framed or interior images are shown for presentation and inspiration only, unless the listing explicitly states that the item is sold framed.
