Brockhaus, Friedrich Arnold (sold)
Friedrich Arnold Brockhaus (May 4, 1772 - August 20, 1823) was a German publisher and editor. He was born in Dortmund and from 1788 - 1793 apprenticed at a mercantile concern in Düsseldorf. He subsequently studied language and literature at the University of Leipzig, then went on to establish a Dortmund-based concern importing and selling English goods. He developed his business in Amsterdam for a time before economic pressures forced him to close. He turned to publishing, founding 'F. A. Brockhaus', in 1805. The firm was initially based in Amsterdam, but in 1811 relocated to Altenburg, Germany, then, in 1818, to Leipzig. There he established a large printing house dedicated to encyclopedias, scientific publications, and literature. Friedrich Arnold died in Leipzig in 1823, but the business was taken over by his sons, Friedrich Brockhaus (1800 - 1865), who retired in 1850, and Heinrich Brockhaus (1804 - 1874), under whom it was considerably extended. Their most significant publication was the Brockhaus Enzyklopädie, also known as Der Grosse Brockhaus. In 1953, after World War II (1939 - 1945), its Leipzig operations were nationalized by East Germany. Its West German successor established itself in Wiesbaden. Following German reunification, corporate headquarters were moved to Munich. The firm continues to publish as F. A. Brockhaus AG.
First mapping of pan-European wine production.
Weinkarte von Europa.
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An exceptional 1871 Wilhelm Hamm infographic map of Europe illustrating wine production - considered a cartographic masterpiece in the illustration of viticulture. According to Petermann's, writing when this map was published, 'to our knowledge, the cultivation of viticulture throughout Europe has never been attempted to be presented in such completeness and with such detail'. (our translation, 'Prospectus') (more details)
Foundational map of the Nile Delta and the basis of all subsequent regional maps.
كهاريطات الءواجه الءباحاري ليلأقاليم الءميصريياه / [Map of the Egyptian Regions facing the Sea].
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A striking, important, and rare Arabic-language chromolithographed map of the Nile Delta, prepared in 1872 by Mahmoud Bey al-Falaky. Aside from its aesthetic qualities, it also represented the most accurate map of the region when it was produced, combining the most up-to-date cartographic methods with extensive research on local placenames, terrain, and topography. As this map replaced French benchmark maps of the region from the early 19th century, it became the new gold standard and was continually used as the basis for most subsequent maps. (more details)
Founding the Kingdom of Romania.
ROMANIA ȘI ȚERILE VECINE DANUBIENE de la Peșta pănă la Odessa; compusă de I. V. Massaloup, Inginer, revadută și complectata de A. Gorjean Ediția III.
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This is the extremely rare 1893 edition of Josef Massaloup's map of Romania, one of the earliest published maps to illustrate the Kingdom of Romania, established in 1881. The fusion of multiple Ottoman-dominated principalities into a sovereign, modernized European state shaped Romania's national identity and laid the groundwork for its subsequent involvement in regional and global affairs, including the two World Wars. (more details)
Ubersichtskarte des Mondes.
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This extraordinary item rare and beautiful 1889 Map of the Moon by German lexiconographer F. A Brockhaus. There are for insets of important lunar craters, the Gutenberg group, the Julius Caesar Group, the Plate Crater, and the Guericke, Parry, Bonpland and Fra. ... (more details)