Volcanoes – Meyer, Joseph. (1796 – 1856).

Die Vulkan Gürtel des Atlantischen Oceans [Translates: “The Volcano – Belt of the Atlantic Ocean”].

Original hand-coloured engraving. Hildburghausen, Joseph Meyer, [1852]. Plate Size: 28 cm x 19.4 cm. Sheet Size: 31.6 cm x 25.6 cm. Original map. Very good conditions but with some foxing towards sheet edges.

A very detailed and interesting collection of maps of the volcanic islands found in the seas of the Atlantic Ocean. Included are the Canaries, Azores, Italian heel and Sicily, the Antilles, Iceland, Greece. Mountains rivers and the major towns and cities are identified on the eleven maps.
A number of miniature but noteworthy scenes and vignettes are also included. The explosion of the volcano on ‘Ferdinandea’ in ‘Die Liparischen Inseln’ (Graham Island in the Mediterranean Sea) in 1831 is shown. The Somma volcano of Mount Vesuvius is depicted. The smoldering Icelandic volcano Eyafiäl (Eyjafjallajökull) is also engraved on the map. Etna and the Val del Bove is also pictured on the map.
A beautiful example of the fine, precise German engraving style of the mid-19th Century.

Joseph Meyer (May 9, 1796 – June 27, 1856) was a German industrialist and publisher, most noted for his encyclopedia, Meyers Konversations-Lexikon. Besides successfully investing the burgeoning German railway industry, Meyer operated very successfully as a publisher, employing a system of serial subscription to publications, which was new at that time. To this end he founded a company, Bibliographisches Institut, in Gotha in 1826. It published several editions of the Bible, works of classical literature (″Miniatur-Bibliothek der deutschen Classiker”, “Groschen-Bibliothek”), atlases, the world in pictures on steel engravings (″Meyers Universum”, 1833–61, 17 volumes in 12 languages with 80,000 subscribers all over Europe), and an encyclopaedia, (″das Grosse Conversations-Lexikon für die gebildeten Stände”; see Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 1839–55, 52 volumes). His company grew substantially, and in 1828 he moved it from Gotha to Hildburghausen, where he died thirty years later. (Wikipedia)

• Keywords: 19th Century · Atlantic · Cartography · Catalogue No.5 – Maps of the World · Geology – Rare · German · Islands · Maps · Mediterranean · Original Engraving · Original Map · Original Maps · Rare Map Europe · Rare Map South America · Vintage Map · Volcano · Volcano(es)
• Language: Deutsch
• Inventory Number: 200022AG

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