The advertisement of today is the ninth edition of the atlas Stieler.
The Atlas Stieler (German: Stielers Handatlas) was one of the most famous atlases universal in the late nineteenth and first half of the twentieth century. Published by the publisher Justus Perthes of Gotha, was published in ten editions from 1816 to 1944, takes its name from German cartographer Adolf Stieler (1775-1836), who edited the first edition. The subsequent editions are considered masterpieces of the highest scientific value due to the quality of printing and the fineness of the engraving on copper, which are distinguished by their accuracy and elegance.
History Atlas Stieler.
The first edition of the atlas, by Stieler and Christian Gottlieb Reichard (1758-1837), was entitled "Hand-Atlas über to Theile der Erde und über das Weltgebäude" ("Atlas of all parts of the Earth and World ") and distributed, like many nineteenth-century publications, files monthly between 1817 and 1823 for a total of 50 tables. Following the death of Stieler in 1836, the work was continued and enlarged by Friedrich von Stülpnagel (1786-1865), who edited the second (1845-47) and third (1852-54) edition, each consisting of 83 tables. A fourth edition was published in 1862-64 and a fifth in 1866-68 (each divided into 84 plates). However, it was only For the sixth year (1871-75, 90 boards), edited by August Petermann (1822-78), Hermann Berghaus (1828-1890) and Carl Vogel (1828-1897), the work reached a high scientific level and the unsurpassed importance to which the Stieler Atlas has become famous. The Atlas Stieler owed his fame to the enormous amount of work that lay behind every detail: the draft of a single table called for a year and a half of work, while the other two copper engraving, faced with a circulation maximum, however, could not exceed 2,000 copies (limit due to the deformation of copper in the press). Given that the sheets had to be moistened before printing was not possible to make a color print, for which the plates were hand-colored by the use of hundreds of colors. A seventh was fired between 1879 and 1882, while an eighth (of 95 boards this well in 32 files and edited by Berghaus, Vogel and Hermann Habenicht (1844-1917)) was given to the press in the period 1888-91. Despite the industry was already long gone to lithography, some Stieler Atlas plates were reproduced by the technique of pressing and colored by hand until the year 1890.
With the ninth edition (1901-05), edited by Habenicht, the work reached the threshold of one hundred plates (double the first edition) and was first printed in full with the lithographic technique, which is why is considered the most valuable in terms of typography. This innovation served to halve the price of the atlas and contribute to its dissemination to a wide audience. The centenary edition of
(1920-25, 108 plates) was edited by Hermann Haack (1872-1966) and with an index of 320,000 entries, which made him the most detailed global atlas of modern times. The ninth and tenth edition appeared also in English under the name of Stieler's Atlas of Modern Geography; similar editions were published in French, Italian and English.
Between 1934 and 1940 international edition was prepared, which remained unfinished, however, because of the war. Of the 114 tables provided they were finished anyway 84, 432 engraved on copper plates that have come down to this day.
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