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Description

Striking 1844 town plan of Munich, with vignettes showing ten major churches and buildings.

The map is very detailed, showing the old city as well as some suburbs. Detail extends past the Isar to the east bank of the river. The Hof-Garten is shown, as are many other monuments. Featured below the map are the Pinakothek, the Hoftheater, and Hofgarten, and other sites of the city.

This map appeared in Meyer's Grosser Hand-Atlas uber alle Theile der Erde in 170 Karten, an important mid-19th-century German atlas.

Condition Description
Minor staining to edges.
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.