[Rarebooks] fa: 1860 MAPS of THE ALLEGHENIES + AMERICAN EXPEDITION TO THE COAST OF LABRADOR

[Ardwight Chamberlain]

Listed now, auctions ending Sunday, February 23. More details and images can be found at the URL below or by searching under the seller name arch_in_la.

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Ardwight Chamberlain
L.A.


August Petermann (editor): Mittheilungen aus Justus Perthes' Geographischer Anstalt über wichtige neue Erforschungen auf dem Gesammtgebiete der Geographie. 1860. [No.] VII. Gotha: Justus Perthes, 1860. Text in German. Original printed wraps; 4to (28 cm); ca. 40-50 pp. Some creases and bumping to the corners; scattered foxing to the text leaves, light foxing to the map.
With a folding map, colored in outline, accompanying an article on surveys in the ALLEGHENY MOUNTAINS, with insets of the White Mountains and Black Mountains (Neue Forschungen und Messungen im Gebirgssystem Alleghanies). Also: in-text charts of the MERSEY ESTUARY 1689-1847 (Die Veränderungen der Mersey-Mündung von 1689 bis 1847) and an 11-page article on the fauna of RIO DE JANEIRO (Thierleben in der Brasilianischen Provinz Rio de Janeiro).

August Petermann (editor): Mittheilungen aus Justus Perthes' Geographischer Anstalt über wichtige neue Erforschungen auf dem Gesammtgebiete der Geographie. 1861. [No.] VI. Gotha: Justus Perthes, 1861. Text in German. Original printed wraps; 4to (28 cm); ca. 40-50 pp. Bumping to the corners, light wear/chipping to the spine and fore-edge of the front cover; scattered foxing to a few text leaves, light foxing to the margin of the map.
Includes an account by Oscar Montgomery Lieber of the American Astronomical Expedition to the coast of Labrador (Die Amerikanische astronomische Expedition nach Labrador in Juli 1860), accompanied by a map. The expedition was dispatched for the purpose of observing the total solar eclipse, with Lieber along as geologist. A South Carolinian, he joined the Confederate Army at the outbreak of the Civil War and died from wounds received at the Battle of Williamsburg (1862).

One of the leading geographical periodicals of its time, Petermann's geographische Mitteilungen, as it was familiarly known, was begun in 1855 by the renowned cartographer August Heinrich Petermann, who drew most of the maps in the early years himself; he continued to supervise their execution until  his death in 1878. Issued monthly, PGM published the reports of explorers, surveyors, geographers, geologists, etc., from all over the world, often accompanied by up-to-date maps. From the beginning,  Petermann promised that every issue would contain at least one supplementary map, a tradition that was maintained until the journal ceased publication in 2004.