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Christian Gottlieb Reichard (1758-1837) was a German cartographer. Reichard studied law in Leipzig and found work as a town clerk in Bad Lobenstein. He had great personal interest in geography, history, and cartography, hobbies which gained him more renown than law. However, even after he began making maps, he continued working his clerk job, which gave him the financial stability to support his family.

Reichard is best known for his work on his Atlas des Ganzen Erdkreises in der Central Projection (Atlas of the Whole World in the Central Projection) in 1803 and the Orbis terrarum antiquus (Atlas of the Ancient World) of 1824. He is also likely the first published cartographer to adopt the Albers conic projection, in his map Die Vereinigten Staaten von Nord-America, nach den sichersten Bestimmungen, neuesten Nachrichten und Charten, in der Alber’schen Projection entworfen, (The United States of North America, after the safest regulations, latest news and charts, designed in the Alberian projection), where he references the Albers projection by name.

Reichard’s work was known by his contemporaries as highly accurate, and in fact this descriptor still holds up today. This accuracy, along with his skill, made him very publishable, and he worked on a number of atlases with other cartographers, such as Steiler’s Handatlas. Reichard’s style is simple but includes great detail, making his maps both recognizable at a glance and engaging upon deeper study.

Place/Date:
Nuremberg / 1829
Size:
22.5 x 18 inches
Condition:
VG+
Stock#:
99198

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Place/Date:
Weimar / 1800 circa
Size:
12.5 x 9.5 inches
Condition:
VG
Stock#:
0173gh
Place/Date:
Weimar / 1803
Size:
26.5 x 19.5 inches
Condition:
Stock#:
33907
Place/Date:
Weimar / 1803
Size:
26.5 x 19.5 inches
Condition:
Stock#:
37801
Place/Date:
Wiemar / 1804
Size:
23 x 21 inches
Condition:
VG+
Stock#:
38279
Place/Date:
Weimar / 1804
Size:
26.5 x 19.5 inches
Condition:
VG+
Stock#:
57011
Place/Date:
Gotha / 1818
Size:
13.5 x 11 inches
Condition:
VG
Stock#:
13581
Place/Date:
Gotha / 1818 (1824)
Size:
14 x 11 inches
Condition:
VG
Stock#:
74884
Place/Date:
Gotha / 1824
Size:
13.5 x 11 inches
Condition:
VG+
Stock#:
6280
Place/Date:
Gotha / 1824
Size:
13.5 x 11 inches
Condition:
VG
Stock#:
7234
Place/Date:
Nuremberg / 1825
Size:
71.75 x 50.5 inches
Condition:
VG
Stock#:
99195