Steel engraved colour folding map, 51 x 88 cm, laid down on linen, kept in thick marbled folder, fitted in a slipcase, title gilt on slipcase spine, Dietrich Reimer (Ernst Vohsen), Berlin, 1854.

Synopsis

Heinrich Kiepert (1818-1899) was a German cartographer. He travelled frequently as a youth with his family and documented his travels by drawing. His family was friends with Leopold von Ranke, who inspired Kiepert’s creative endeavours. He attended Humboldt University of Berlin where he studied history, philology, and geography.
He published his first geographical work, with Carl Ritter, in 1840, titled Atlas von Hellas und den hellenischen Kolonien. The atlas focused on ancient Greece. In 1841, he drew the maps which appeared in a groundbreaking book on the Mideast, Biblical Researches in Palestine, written by Edward Robinson. In 1848 his Historisch-geographischer Atlas der alten Welt was published. In 1854, his atlas, Atlas antiquus was released. It was translated into five languages. He travelled to Asia Minor four times between 1841 and 1848. He created two maps of the region, including Karte des osmanischen Reiches in Asien, in 1844. Furthermore he made some maps for the Baedeker publishing, mainly for their Egypt and Palestine outstanding guides but also for some of Europe (Paris, London, South Italy, etc.).