PETRI, Otto and Adolf BAEDEKER.

School Atlas van alle deelen der Aarde.Rotterdam, Otto Petri, ca. 1867. 8vo. With lithographed title-page in red and black (with forest scenes of wild animals) and 25 numbered lithographed double-page maps. Hand coloured as published (the maps in outline: the provincial coats-of-arms in the map of the Netherlands also coloured). Contemporary half sheepskin, marbled-paper sides.

Koeman Pet 3.An entirely lithographic school atlas dedicated to Count J. van den Bosch (apparently the third generation to appear in the dedications of the Baedeker and Petri atlases). It includes maps of the world, the continents, the various parts of Europe, the United States of America, the Dutch East Indies, Java, Australia & New Zealand, and Palestine. It was probably sold coloured by the publisher, for some of the maps have printed colour keys, filled in by hand. Two maps name their lithographer (D. Heyse in the Hague).The firm was established by Baedeker, publishing the first edition of the present school atlas (with 22 maps) in 1840, and Petri took it over ca. 1850. Nearly all the maps still bear Baedeker's name, but followed by Petri's in parentheses. Six maps note they were revised by L.J.C. Ludolph. Koeman gives the atlas a 'probable date' 1870, but the maps reflect a slightly earlier situation and Koeman's supplement dates a version with 5 more maps revised 1870. The map of the United States (which does not indicate that it was revised by Ludolph) shows the country between the admission to the union of the states Kansas (1861) and West Virginia (1863), and even the map of North America (which is revised by Ludolph) still shows Alaska as "Russisch Amerika" (Russian America), not reflecting its purchase in 1868. It of course does not yet reflect Stanley's 1770s exploration of the Congo, with that open region labelled 'onafhankelijke onbekende negervolken' (independent unknown negro people). There are apparently minor variants from copy to copy, ours having map 14 revised by Ludolph, map 10 but not map 20 naming the lithographer Heyse, map 16 numbered, and map 4 correctly numbered but map 23 misnumbered 22.With small, mostly marginal, tears in a few maps. Binding rubbed. A nice school atlas with illustrated lithographic title-page.

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