UNITED STATES 1876 PETERMANN/STIELER HUGE UNUSUAL 6-SHEETS ANTIQUE ORIGINAL MAP

Die Vereinigten Staaten von Nord-Amerika on 6 Blättern im Maassstabe 1:3.700.000 Von A. Petermann. Gotha: Justus Perthes 1876.

Description: Striking and highly detailed fine unusual huge original colored steel map of the southern region of the United States, printed on 6-sheets to be joined.

The map is richly detailed with cities, towns, villages, roads, rivers, lakes, reliefs and islands.
 
Structure of the 6 sheets (from left to right)
 
Top row:
 
Sheet 1: Northwest Coast (North Pacific, Oregon and Washington Territories).
 
Sheet 2: Northern Great Plains and the upper Missouri River basin.
 
Sheet 3: Great Lakes Area and the Northeastern States (New England).
 
Bottom row:
 
Sheet 4 (Bottom left): Includes the main title cartouche and depicts California, Arizona, Nevada, and part of Mexico.
 
Sheet 5 (Bottom center): Texas, Indian Territory (the future Oklahoma), and the Gulf of Mexico coast.
 
Sheet 6 (Bottom right): The Southern States and the Southeast Atlantic Coast.
 
There are four inserts, including:
 
1- the southern part of Florida ("Der südliche Teil von Florida"), including the Keys.
 
2 - The southern tip of Texas, along the Mexican border and the Gulf Coast.
 
3 - Boston & Surrounding Area: Shows Boston Bay, the urban peninsula, and neighboring towns such as Salem, Cambridge, Quincy, and Lynn.
 
4 - New York and Surrounding Area: Delineates Manhattan, Brooklyn, Staten Island, Long Island, and the opposite shore of New Jersey (Newark, Paterson, Jersey City), with 19th-century railroad tracks.

The map was created by A. Petermann and published by Gotha Justus Perthes.

Date: 1876 ( dated )

Dimension: Paper size approx.: cm 47,7 x 38,4 each sheet

Condition: Very strong and dark impression on good paper. Map old original colored. Small foxings and browning. Small marginal tears. Map folded. Conditions are as you can see in the images.

Mapmakers: Johan Georg Justus Perthes (September 11, 1749 - May 2, 1816) was one of the most important German cartographic engravers of the 19th century. He was born in the Thuringian town of Rudolstadt, the son of a court physician. In 1778, he began working as a bookseller in Gotha. Perthes began his publishing empire shortly thereafter with the 1784 issue of the famed survey of European nobility known as the Almanac de Gotha. In the next year, 1785, he founded the cartographic firm of Justus Perthes Geographische Anstalt Gotha. His son Wilhelm Perthes (1793 - 1853) joined the firm in 1814. Wilhelm had prior publishing experience at the firm of Justus Perthes' nephew, Friedrich Christoph Perthes, who ran a publishing house in Hamburg. After Justus Perthes died in 1816, Wilhelm took charge and laid the groundwork for the firm to become a cartographic publishing titan. From 1817 to 1890. the Perthes firm issued thousands of maps and more than 20 different atlases. Along with the visionary editors Hermann Berghaus (1797 - 1884), Adolph Stieler (1775 - 1836), and Karl Spruner (1803 - 1892), the Perthes firm pioneered the Hand Atlas. When Wilhelm retired, management of the firm passed to his son, Bernhardt Wilhelm Perthes (1821 – 1857). Bernhardt brought on the cartographic geniuses August Heinrich Peterman (1822 - 1878) and Bruno Hassenstein (1839 - 1902). The firm was subsequently passed to a fourth generation in the form of Berhanrd Perthes (1858 – 1919), Bernhard Wilhelm's son. The firm continued in the family until 1953 when, being in East Germany, it was nationalized and run as a state-owned enterprise as VEB Hermann Haack Geographisch-Kartographische Anstalt Gotha. The Justus family, led by Joachim Justus Perthes and his son Wolf-Jürgen Perthes, relocated to Darmstadt where they founded the Justus Perthes Geographische Verlagsanstalt Darmstadt.

August Heinrich Petermann (1822 - 1878) was a German cartographer. Petermann attended the 'Geographische Kuntschule' (Geographica School of Art), which was started by Heinrich Berghaus with the support of Alexander von Humboldt, in Potsdam beginning in 1839. Students at the school were obliged to work on many of the school's contracts, including maps for several different atlases. Following his time in Potsdam, Petermann relocated to Edinburgh and London from 1845 to 1854, where he gained insight into the commercial aspects of the cartography business. In 1854, Petermann returned to Gotha, Germany and began working with the Perthes brothers publishers. While working with the Perthes brothers, Petermann founded the journal Petermanns Geographische Mitteilungen, published from 1855 until 2014, long one of the most prominent German-language geography journals.

Adolf Stieler (1775 – 1836) was a German cartographer who worked most of his life in the Justus Perthes Geographical Institute in Gotha. His atlases are deservedly held in high esteem for their excellence. His Handatlas was the leading German world atlas until the middle of the 20th century, parts of which were printed until 1944.