Justus Perthes
Kilimanjaro and Kenya, 1864
17 ½ x 10 in
44 x 26 cm
44 x 26 cm
AFR6481
£ 325.00
Das Gebiet der Schneeberge Kilima-ndscharo und Kenia in Ost-Afrika Map of the snowcapped mountains of Kilimanjaro and Kenya in East Africa. With inset maps of Mombas (Mombasa) and the Usambara...
Das Gebiet der Schneeberge Kilima-ndscharo und Kenia in Ost-Afrika
Map of the snowcapped mountains of Kilimanjaro and Kenya in East Africa. With inset maps of Mombas (Mombasa) and the Usambara Mountains in Tanzania. Based on the travel accounts of missionaries Johann Ludwig Krapf & Johannes Rebmann (1844–53) and the research of Karl Klaus von der Decken (1861 and 1862), Richard Francis Burton & John Hanning Speke (1857), William Fitzwilliam Owen (1824), and others. With a key to show routes in the bottom left corner.
The Geographische Mitteilungen, in which this map was originally published, is the oldest German language geographical journal - its first issue was in 1855 and it finally closed its doors in 2004. The magazine was conceived and edited by August Heinrich Petermann and published by the venerable firm of Justus Perthes in Gotha, Germany.
In comparison to its contemporaries, such as the Geographical Journal of the Royal Geographical Society, the Mitteilungen had a far greater interest in ethnography and the physical and natural sciences, leading to the inclusion of many fascinating, but sometimes obscure, maps on the most recent theories related to climatology, meteorology, botany, and zoology.
Original colour.
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Map of the snowcapped mountains of Kilimanjaro and Kenya in East Africa. With inset maps of Mombas (Mombasa) and the Usambara Mountains in Tanzania. Based on the travel accounts of missionaries Johann Ludwig Krapf & Johannes Rebmann (1844–53) and the research of Karl Klaus von der Decken (1861 and 1862), Richard Francis Burton & John Hanning Speke (1857), William Fitzwilliam Owen (1824), and others. With a key to show routes in the bottom left corner.
The Geographische Mitteilungen, in which this map was originally published, is the oldest German language geographical journal - its first issue was in 1855 and it finally closed its doors in 2004. The magazine was conceived and edited by August Heinrich Petermann and published by the venerable firm of Justus Perthes in Gotha, Germany.
In comparison to its contemporaries, such as the Geographical Journal of the Royal Geographical Society, the Mitteilungen had a far greater interest in ethnography and the physical and natural sciences, leading to the inclusion of many fascinating, but sometimes obscure, maps on the most recent theories related to climatology, meteorology, botany, and zoology.
Original colour.
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