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Meyer's Universum, oder, Abbildung und Beschreibung des sehenswerthesten und merkwürdigsten der Natur und Kunst auf der ganzen Erde.

Title
Meyer's Universum, oder, Abbildung und Beschreibung des sehenswerthesten und merkwürdigsten der Natur und Kunst auf der ganzen Erde.
Publication
Hildburghausen ; New York : Druck und Verlag vom Bibliographischen Institut, 1835-1860.

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Additional Authors
  • Meyer, Joseph, 1796-1856
  • Hofmann, Friedrich, 1813-1888.
  • Bibliographisches Institut Leipzig.
Description
21 volumes : plates; 19 x 28 cm
Alternative Title
Abbildung und Beschreibung des sehenswerthesten und merkwürdigsten der Natur und Kunst auf der ganzen Erde
Subject
  • Views
  • scenic wallpapers
Note
  • Imprint varies: v. 3-5, Hildburghausen, Amsterdam and New York. -- v. 6-12, Hildburghausen, Amsterdam and Philadelphia. -- v. 13-15, Hildburghausen und Amsterdam.
  • Added title-pages, engraved each with a different vignette view, have title: Meyer's Universum; oder, Die schönsten Ansichten der Erde (on the engr. t.-p. of v. 4 the subtitle is omitted). Vols. 1, 2, 3 and 5 have no engraved title-pages, v. 15 has engraved t.-p. only.
  • Vol. 1: 8. aufl., 1835; v. 2: 6. aufl., 1835.
  • Alphabetisches Inhaltsverzeichniss zu Band 1-XVIII; xv p. at end of v. 18.
  • Originally issued in parts, monthly 1835-1860, with intermissions (1843-46? 1851-53?) each part with 4 views, 12 parts with 47 or 48 plates forming a volume. Continued after vol. XXI (1860) as Meyer's Universum für 1861-[1863] the serial numbering of the volumes being discontinued, 20 parts (regular instead of oblong quarto) with 4 views each, forming a volume per year. There is also an octavo edition, v. 1-16 ([1.]-3. folge, and 4. folge, 1. bd.) 1859-1864, and there are editions in English and other languages.
  • L.C. has v. 1-18 only, and p. 63-138 of v.20, which are bound at end of v. 17; the volumes, except 4, 8, 13, 14 and 15, have each its separate "Inhaltsverzeichniss" at end.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
LCCN
23017052
OCLC
  • ocm11092501
  • 11092501
  • SCSB-847082
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library