Detail View: David Rumsey Historical Map Collection: Bavaria proper

Author: 
Lizars, William Home, 1788-1859
Date: 
1841
Short Title: 
Bavaria proper
Publisher: 
W.H. Lizars
Publisher: 
S. Highley; W. Curry, Jun. & Co.
Publisher Location: 
Edinburgh,London; Dublin
Publisher Location: 
Edinburgh,London; Dublin
Type: 
Atlas Map
Obj Height cm: 
39
Obj Width cm: 
48
Scale 1: 
850,000
Note: 
Double page engraved hand colored in outline map. Relief shown by hachures. Shows towns, roads, rivers, forests and mountains. Includes legend. Prime meridian is Greenwich.
Reference: 
Philips Atlases 782.
Country: 
Germany
Full Title: 
Bavaria proper. Published by W. Lizars, Edinburgh. (to accompany) Lizars' Edinburgh Geographical General Atlas ... 1841.
List No: 
0438.037
Page No: 
XXVIII
Series No: 
37
Publication Author: 
Lizars, William Home, 1788-1859
Pub Date: 
1841
Pub Title: 
Lizars' Edinburgh Geographical General Atlas: Containing Maps Of Every Empire, State, And Kingdom; With A Tabular View Of The Heights Of The Great Mountain Chains, And A Very Copious And Comprehensive Consulting Index. Compiled, Drawn, And Engraved, From The Latest And Most Authentic Sources ... The Whole Engraved Upon Sixty-Nine Plates. Edinburgh: W.H. Lizars, 3, St James' Square; S. Highley, 32, Fleet Street, London; And W. Curry, Jun., & Co., Dublin. 1841.
Pub Reference: 
Philips Atlases 782.
Pub Note: 
A later edition of the 1826 atlas, published by William H. Lizars, a Scottish painter and engraver. Date is on the spine only. Atlas contains 69 double-page engraved hand colored in outline map sheets, contents ”Index to the maps”, numbered 1-70, as listed but no. 32 omitted, no. 70 is double-page engraved “Table of mountain chains”, and 16 pages of index to the name of places and maps" at the end. Maps show political and administrative boundaries, cities, villages, rivers, lakes and mountains. This volume includes two maps, one of the United States and one of Mexico, both showing the Republic of Texas. Relief shown by hachures. Some maps includes notes. Prime meridian is Greenwich. Covers are half leather dark green cloth covered boards with "Lizars' General Atlas. 1841" stamped in gilt on the spine.
Pub List No: 
0438.000
Pub Type: 
World Atlas
Pub Maps: 
68
Pub Height cm: 
49
Pub Width cm: 
34
Image No: 
0438037.jp2
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Authors: 
Lizars, William Home, 1788-1859