Lot 212
H. Meyer, In den Hoch-Anden von Ecuador. Text and illustrated atlas in 2 volumes. Berlin 1907.
Estimate
€ 1.200
Starting Price
€ 800
Lot:
212
Category:
Geography and work of views
Artist:
Hans Meyer
Meyer, Hans: In den Hoch-Anden von Ecuador: Chimborazo, Cotopaxi etc. Reisen und Studien. Text and illustrated atlas in 2 volumes. Berlin: Reimer (Vohsen) 1907. 24,5 x 16,5 cm. (Picture Atlas: 31,7 x 39,7 cm.) Text volume with 3 colour folded maps and 119 illustrations on 37 plates, mostly printed on both sides, including 1 folded panorama. 1 leaf, 14* pp., 551 pp., 1 unnumbered page; Illustrated atlas comprising 43 plates, some of double-sheet size, including 23 chromolithographs after R. Reschreiter mounted on card and 20 photolithographs. Text booklet: 4 leaves, 24 pp. Red linen with a gold-embossed title, title on the spine and borders. Red half-linen folder with a gold-embossed title and blind-embossed borders.
(One end flap has been torn off and included. The picture atlas is scuffed and bumped. The colour plates have small remnants of the silk protective sheets. Overall, few signs of age or wear.)
Henze III, 456. – From spring to summer 1903, Hans Meyer (1858–1929), a professor of colonial geography who came from a family of encyclopaedia publishers (Meyers Konversations-Lexikon), travelled to South America to study the snow and ice regions of the Ecuadorian high mountains. Meyer, who was one of the first to climb Kilimanjaro and had previously undertaken several expeditions to equatorial East Africa, wished to supplement and verify the insights he had gained in Africa regarding glacier formation, fluctuations in snow and glacier lines, the distribution of moraines, and the advance and retreat of glaciers through comparative studies in the snow-capped mountains of tropical South America. Together with the Munich-based painter and mountaineer Rudolf Reschreiter (1868–1938), he travelled through the highlands of the Andes, climbed Cerro Altar, Cotopaxi and Quilindaña, and circumnavigated Chimborazo at an altitude of 4,000 metres.
(One end flap has been torn off and included. The picture atlas is scuffed and bumped. The colour plates have small remnants of the silk protective sheets. Overall, few signs of age or wear.)
Henze III, 456. – From spring to summer 1903, Hans Meyer (1858–1929), a professor of colonial geography who came from a family of encyclopaedia publishers (Meyers Konversations-Lexikon), travelled to South America to study the snow and ice regions of the Ecuadorian high mountains. Meyer, who was one of the first to climb Kilimanjaro and had previously undertaken several expeditions to equatorial East Africa, wished to supplement and verify the insights he had gained in Africa regarding glacier formation, fluctuations in snow and glacier lines, the distribution of moraines, and the advance and retreat of glaciers through comparative studies in the snow-capped mountains of tropical South America. Together with the Munich-based painter and mountaineer Rudolf Reschreiter (1868–1938), he travelled through the highlands of the Andes, climbed Cerro Altar, Cotopaxi and Quilindaña, and circumnavigated Chimborazo at an altitude of 4,000 metres.