Atlas öfver allmänna historien i sammandrag efter v. Spruner, v. Wedell, Kiepert, Barberet m. fl. (..) Gamla Tiden. Andra genomsedda och tillökade upplagan.
Grafik, karta.
Second edition. Stockholm. På P. A. Huldbergs förlag. Regeringsgatan No. 11. [Ca. 1867-1870] Folio 33 x 52 cm. Title + 9 maps. Original brown wrapper with title and contents printed at the front. The binding is loose and starting to come apart. A few spots and some fraying and small losses to the wrapper. Some spots and creases to the title and the margins of the maps. Some dog eared maps. A couple of maps with small losses in the corners. A swedish historical world atlas with beautiful hand colored maps. It shows "Gamla Tiden" (The Ancient Time). A second section showing "Medeltiden och Nyare Tiden" (The Middle Agesl and the Newer Times ) was also published. The atlas has its very own characteristic compared to most contemporary atlases - with several insets and different lay outs. It has lovely toned down pastel colors. Mentzer was the architecht behind a number of swedish atlases and maps in the second half of the 19th. century. In 1856 Mentzer and Wiberg published their famous "Atlas till Sveriges Historia" a historic atlas of Sweden. In 1860 Mentzer published a geographical world atlas in folio. Scarce in original wrapper.
