Editing Andrees Allgemeiner Handatlas

{{short description|German general atlas}}
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| publisher         = Velhagen & Klasing
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'''''Andrees Allgemeiner Handatlas''''' was a major cartographic work (general atlas) published in several German and foreign editions 1881–1937. It was named after [[Richard Andree]] (1835–1912) and published by Velhagen & Klasing, [[Bielefeld]] and [[Leipzig]], Germany.

By using [[chromolithography]], rather than copper plate [[engraving]], but reproducing the maps from zinc plates that were etched in [[relief print|relief]] (just like [[letterpress printing]]), V & K was able to offer detailed maps at a much lower price than competing works, such as the 7th and 8th editions of [[Stielers Handatlas]]. The 1937 edition of ''Andrees Handatlas'' was printed using [[offset printing]].

==Editions==
The first edition appeared in 1881.<ref name="pp1">{{cite book|last1=Espenhorst|first1=Jürgen|title=Petermann's Planet, vol. 1|date=2003|publisher=Pangaea Verlag|isbn=978-3-930401-35-2}}</ref>{{rp|567}} The 4th and 5th editions were edited by Carl Paul Albert (1851-1912);<ref name="pp1" />{{rp|568–569}} the 6th through 8th editions, by Ernst Ambrosius;<ref name="pp1" />{{rp|569–570}} and the final edition, by Konrad Frenzel. Cartographers were G. Jungk (†1932), R. Kocher, E. Umbreit (†1904), T. Adolph (†1930), H. Mielisch (†1925), and K. Tänzler (†1944)<ref name="pp1" />{{rp|586}} although production of a number of maps was contracted out to geographical institutes like Peip, Wagner & Debes, Sternkopf, Sulzer.

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|+'''Editions of Andrees Allgemeiner Handatlas'''
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! Date || Edition || Edition || Main Maps|| Side Maps  || Names || Revisions, Notes
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| 1881 || [1st] || - || 86 || - || - || -
|- align="center"
| 1887 || 2nd || Zweite || 120 + 2 || - || - || 1889, 1890
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| 1887 || - || Supplement || 33 || - || - || For owners of the 1st edition.
|- align="center"
| 1893 || 3rd || Dritte || 91 || 86 || - || 1896
|- align="center"
| 1893 || - || Supplement || 64 || - || - || For owners of the 1st and 2nd editions.
|- align="center"
| 1899 || 4th || Vierte || 126 || 137 || - || 1900, 1901, 1903, 1904
|- align="center"
| 1899 || - || Supplement || 53 || - || - || For owners of the 2nd and 3rd editions.
|- align="center"
| 1906 || 5th || Fünfte<sup>1</sup>  || 139 || 161 || - || 1907, 1908, 1909, 1910, 1911, 1912, 1913
|- align="center"
| 1914 || 6th || Sechste<sup>2</sup> || 221 || 192 || - || -
|- align="center"
| 1921 || 7th || Siebente<sup>2</sup>  || 228 || 215 || -  || 1921
|- align="center"
| 1922 || 8th || Achte<sup>2</sup> || 228  || 198 || - || 1924, 1924, 1928
|- align="center"
| 1922 || - || Ergänzungsband  || 62 || - || -  || Supplement, for earlier editions.
|- align="center"
| 1930 || 8th || Achte<sup>2</sup>  || 231 || 211 || 300,000 || 5th revision
|- align="center" 
| 1937 || [9th] || Ausgewählte<sup>3</sup> || 100 || - || - || -
|- colspan="9" align="left"
| colspan="9" |  <sup>1</sup>Jubiläumsausgabe (jubilee, or anniversary, edition).

<sup>2</sup>Namenverzeichnis (names index) in a separate volume.

<sup>3</sup>Selected, or concise, edition, in one volume.
|}

Editions for other countries were also issued:
*Österreichisch-Ungarischer (Austrian-Hungarian) editions were published in Vienna in 1881, 1889, 1893, 1903, and 1913.<ref name="pp1" />{{rp|615–617}}
*Four editions of ''Andree's Stora Handatlas'' were published in Stockholm (1881, 96 pages of maps; 1899, second edition ({{lang|sv|andra}}), 130 large maps and 140 inset maps; 1907, third edition ({{lang|sv|tredje}}), 143 large maps and 163 inset maps), with additional maps of Scandinavia; and 1924.<ref name="pp1" />{{rp|608}} The [[verso]] text and the introductory material was in Swedish.
*The maps of Andree's atlas were used for Cassell's ''Universal Atlas,'' which was published in London in 1891-1893 using maps printed in Leipzig in English; and for the [[Times Atlas of the World|Times Atlas]] of 1895-1900.<ref name="pp1" />{{rp|610–613}}
*French editions were published from 1882 onwards.<ref name="pp1" />{{rp|608}}
*Italian editions were published in 1899 and 1915.<ref name="pp1" />{{rp|613}}
*Danish editions were published in 1882 and, after the [[1920 Schleswig plebiscites|Schleswig plebiscite]], 1923.<ref name="pp1" />{{rp|621}}
*Norwegian editions were published in 1882 and 1923.<ref name="pp1" />{{rp|622}}
*A Finnish edition was published in 1899.<ref name="pp1" />{{rp|623}}

Editions of a ''Geographisches Handbuch'' (Geographical Handbook) for Andrees ''Handatlas'' were issued in 1882, 1894 (1st edition),<ref name="pp1" />{{rp|635}} 1895 (2nd edition), 1898-1899 (3rd), 1902 (4th) and 1909 (5th).

Other well-known titles of Velhagen & Klasing were Putzgers (after F.W. Putzger, †1913) ''Historischer Schulatlas'' (Historical School Atlas; 1877, as ''Historischer Weltatlas'' or Historical Worldatlas; 100th ed. 1979), ''Grosser Volksatlas'' (Large Peoples Atlas, 1935)<ref name="pp1" />{{rp|626}} and ''Grosser Wehratlas'' (Large Military Atlas, 1937).<ref name="pp1" />{{rp|629}} Founded 1835, the firm was taken over by F. Cornelsen in 1954, and is now fully merged into that company.

==References==
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==External links==
{{commonscat|Andrees Allgemeiner Handatlas}}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20060208091326/http://www.ubka.uni-karlsruhe.de/hylib/en/kvk.html Karlsruhrer Virtueller Katalog]

[[Category:1881 non-fiction books]]
[[Category:Atlases]]