Stuttgart: Carl Hoffman, 1864. VG- with mild marginal browning. The first sheet shows various climatological and meteorological phenomena, including a sandstorm, rainbow, northern lights, rainstorm and others. The second sheet of steel-plate engravings shows 9 separate geological formations including Gigraltar and numerous rock formations. The second plate shows an African forest scene, Niagra Falls, the Himalayas and others.… Read more about this item

Stuttgart: Carl Hoffman, 1864. VG with mild marginal browning. Original printed two-toned coloring with isolinear summaries of tides around the world (after Whewell) This is plate 15 from the 1864 edition of Humboldt's "Atlas zu Alexander von Humboldt's Kosmos...". Johnston's original "Physical Atlas..." was dedicated to von Humboldt. The attractive image measures 8.25x11 inches (21x28cm)..

Stuttgart: Carl Hoffman, 1864. VG with mild marginal browning. Original hand coloring of an EXCEPTIONALLY UNUSUAL IMAGE of small seas and major lakes, broken into eastern and western hemispheres. Over 80 separate images on this small plate, making some images tiny, with a central image of the Black Sea. this includes the Great Lakes (Obere, Michigan, Eerie, Huron and… Read more about this item

Stuttgart: Carl Hoffman, 1864. VG with mild marginal browning. Original, tinted coloring with elaborate coding and tabular data of various types of worldwide bird and reptile distributions. This is plate 33 from the 1864 edition of Humboldt's "Atlas zu Alexander von Humboldt's Kosmos...". Johnston's original "Physical Atlas..." was dedicated to von Humboldt. The attractive image measures 8.5x11.5… Read more about this item

Stuttgart: Carl Hoffman, 1864. VG with mild marginal browning. Original hand coloring with dual hemispheric views, surrounded by several smaller images. This is plate 4 from the 1864 edition of Humboldt's "Atlas zu Alexander von Humboldt's Kosmos...". Johnston's original "Physical Atlas..." was dedicated to von Humboldt. The attractive image measures 8.5x117.5 inches (21.5x30cm)..

Stuttgart: Carl Hoffman, 1864. VG with mild marginal browning. Original coloring, with a very nice image of the continent. This is plate 27 from the 1864 edition of Humboldt's "Atlas zu Alexander von Humboldt's Kosmos...". Johnston's original "Physical Atlas..." was dedicated to von Humboldt. The attractive image measures 8.5x11.5 inches (21x29cm)..

Stuttgart: Carl Hoffman, 1864. VG with mild marginal browning. Original hand coloring with a striking image of the known planetary orbits and their relationship to the sun. This is plate 2 from the 1864 edition of Humboldt's "Atlas zu Alexander von Humboldt's Kosmos...". Johnston's original "Physical Atlas..." was dedicated to von Humboldt. The attractive image measures 8.5x11.5 inches… Read more about this item

Stuttgart: Carl Hoffman, 1864. VG with mild marginal browning. Original printed two-toned coloring with 4 plates on a single sheet. Several appear to be variations on the T-O maps, ranging from 900-20 BCE. The dominant plate, attributed to Eratosthenes (but dated well after the Greek astronomer's death) and Strabo (more prominent intellectually with his contemporaries, and temporally closer to the… Read more about this item

Stuttgart: Carl Hoffman, 1864. VG with mild marginal browning. Origina hand colored outlines with elaborate coding of various physical details of the earth's crust, focusing on regional mountain ranges. This is a very unusal image, clearly a map, but of a different sort, with emphasisi on geological formations. This is plate 34 from the 1864 edition of Humboldt's "Atlas… Read more about this item

Stuttgart: Carl Hoffman, 1864. VG with mild marginal browning. Original printed two-toned coloring with color coded trade routes of areas noted in title. Although listed as a world map, it really is of regional trade. This is plate 41 from the 1864 edition of Humboldt's "Atlas zu Alexander von Humboldt's Kosmos...". Johnston's original "Physical Atlas..." was dedicated to von… Read more about this item

Stuttgart: Carl Hoffman, 1864. VG with mild marginal browning. Original printed color, with elaborate information on atmospheric pressure (isobars) and windcurrents. Two nice small lower engraved insets: a coaral reef and an atoll. This is plate 20 from the 1864 edition of Humboldt's "Atlas zu Alexander von Humboldt's Kosmos...". Johnston's original "Physical Atlas..." was dedicated to von Humboldt. The… Read more about this item

Stuttgart: Carl Hoffman, 1864. VG with mild marginal browning. Original hand coloring with a striking image of the known constellations, with 2 larger southern and northern hemispheric projections, and several smaller lower images. This is plate 1 from the 1864 edition of Humboldt's "Atlas zu Alexander von Humboldt's Kosmos...". Johnston's original "Physical Atlas..." was dedicated to von Humboldt. The… Read more about this item

Stuttgart: Carl Hoffman, 1864. VG with mild marginal browning. Original hand coloring, with a very nice image of the mountain ranges, with elaborate place-name detail. This is plate 24 from the 1864 edition of Humboldt's "Atlas zu Alexander von Humboldt's Kosmos...". Johnston's original "Physical Atlas..." was dedicated to von Humboldt. The attractive image measures 8.5x11.5 inches (21x29cm)..

Stuttgart: Carl Hoffman, 1864. VG with mild marginal browning. Original hand coloring with small b&w profile views of many major rivers: Rhein, Loire, Tajo, Wolga, Euphrates, Ganges and others. This is plate 17 from the 1864 edition of Humboldt's "Atlas zu Alexander von Humboldt's Kosmos...". Johnston's original "Physical Atlas..." was dedicated to von Humboldt. The attractive image measures… Read more about this item

Stuttgart: Carl Hoffman, 1864. VG with mild marginal browning. Original printed (and some hand) color, with elaborate information on world rainfall, with equatorial and polar insets. This is plate 21 from the 1864 edition of Humboldt's "Atlas zu Alexander von Humboldt's Kosmos...". Johnston's original "Physical Atlas..." was dedicated to von Humboldt. The handsome image measures 8.5x11.5 inches… Read more about this item

Stuttgart: Carl Hoffman, 1864. VG with mild marginal browning. Original, striking hand coloring with elaborate color coding of various types of worldwide animal distributions.. This is plate 32 from the 1864 edition of Humboldt's "Atlas zu Alexander von Humboldt's Kosmos...". Johnston's original "Physical Atlas..." was dedicated to von Humboldt. The attractive image measures 8.5x11.5 inches (21x29cm)..

Stuttgart: Carl Hoffman, 1864. VG with mild marginal browning. Original printed color, with elaborate information on temperature discributions, including ocean temperature chart.. This is plate 19 from the 1864 edition of Humboldt's "Atlas zu Alexander von Humboldt's Kosmos...". Johnston's original "Physical Atlas..." was dedicated to von Humboldt. The handsome image measures 8.5x11.5 inches (21x29cm)..

Stuttgart: Carl Hoffman, 1864. VG+ with mild marginal browning. Original, tinted and hand coloring with elaborate coding of various ethnographic groups of world. there is an inset ethnographic map of Europe. This is plate 34 from the 1864 edition of Humboldt's "Atlas zu Alexander von Humboldt's Kosmos...". Johnston's original "Physical Atlas..." was dedicated to von Humboldt. The striking… Read more about this item

Stuttgart: Carl Hoffman, 1864. VG with mild marginal browning. Original printed color with hand colored lower insets of earth sections based on data from AK Johnston, with inset of German mountain ranges. This is plate 7 from the 1864 edition of Humboldt's "Atlas zu Alexander von Humboldt's Kosmos...". Johnston's original "Physical Atlas..." was dedicated to von Humboldt. The… Read more about this item

Stuttgart: Carl Hoffman, 1864. VG with mild marginal browning. Original hand coloring with elaborate coding of 53 expeditionary routes. This is plate 42 from the 1864 edition of Humboldt's "Atlas zu Alexander von Humboldt's Kosmos...". Voyages of Magellan, Drake, Vancouver, Dumont and many others coded on this wonderful image. Johnston's original "Physical Atlas..." was dedicated to von Humboldt. The … Read more about this item