Sign In

- Or use -
Forgot Password Create Account
This item has been sold, but you can enter your email address to be notified if another example becomes available.
Description

Striking map of the West, with a large inset of San Francisco and Environs, from Meyer's Hand-Atlas. Shows Spanish Trail, Cooke's Wagon Route, Kearney's Route, Lewis & Clarke's Canoe Route, Oregon Route, early roads, towns, Indian Tribes, mining claims, mountains, rivers, etc. Mormon Settlement at Salt Lake shown. No Lake Tahoe. Massive Tule Lake. Early California Counties shown. Pre-Gadsden purchase border with Mexico. Early forts located, especially in Oregon Territory. Nice topographical detail after Fremont, although still very conjectural in the Great Basin. This map is often referred to as the German Mitchell, but the inset of the Gold Regions makes it unique and more attractive than contemporary maps by Mitchell. A highly desirable map.

Joseph Meyer Biography

Joseph Meyer (1796-1856) was a German publisher who released Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, a German-language encyclopedia in print from 1839 to 1984. Meyer was born in Gotha and educated as a merchant in Frankfurt, an important city in the book trade. He traveled in London in 1816 and was back in German in 1820, where he began to invest in textiles and railways. He opened his publishing operation, Bibliographisches Institut, in 1826. His publications each had a serial number, a new innovation at the time. He was best known for his atlases and the Meyers Universum (1833-1861), which featured steel-engravings of the world. The Universum stretched to 17 volumes in 12 languages and was subscribed to by 80,000 people all over Europe. Thanks to his publishing success, Meyer moved the Institut from Gotha to Hildburghausen in 1828. Meyer died in the latter city in 1856.