Pontische Colonien. XVIII

Engraved hand colored map of Polish colonies and Black Sea Region on 2 sheets XVII-XVIII. Color coded by states and colonies. Shows cities, towns, landmarks, buildings and roads. Includes legend. Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Prime meridian is Paris. // First edition of Topographical-historical Atlas of Greece and the Greek Colonies, with 24 maps, 6 pages of text, including 2 pages of forward by Prof. Carl Ritter inserted in, and 4 pages of explanatory text by H. Kiepert. Half title page pasted on inside front cover. Title page includes table of contents. Bound in half-calf and corners with marbled board covers. Maps are engraved by Delius, H., hand colored, showing political and administrative boundaries, cities, towns, villages, rivers, lakes, canals and mountains. Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Heinrich Kiepert (1818-1899) is known as one of the most important scholarly cartographers of the second half of the 19th century. Ritter and Kiepert produced the topographical-historical Atlas of Hellas and the Hellenic Colonies in 24 sheets (1840-1846) plus several additional compilations of maps of the classical world. In 1845 he became a cartographer of the Bertuchian Geographical Institute in Weimar, and in 1852 he moved to Berlin in the same capacity at Dietrich Reimer. Kiepert contributed to Carl Ritters' work on maps of the General Geography (1852-54), and designed maps for the Berlin Society for Geography.