The Plates of my former Atlas having been destroyed by fire, I hereby offer the public an essentially new Historical Atlas, accompanied by a compendium of general history, thus forming a basis for that geographic treatment of history which is essential to a clear understanding of human society.
For the last twenty years I have been engaged on a large historical and genealogical atlas, which unfortunately has reached such dimensions as to make its publication impossible.
Many maps and plans from this larger work are published in the present atlas, especially the maps on Eastern History, which are chiefly based on RAWLINSON: Cuneiform Inscriptions of Western Asia, 5 vols. Records of the Past, 12 vols. Journal Asiatique, Revue Archeologique. Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenlandischen Gesellschaft. Zeitschrift fur aegyptische Sprache und Alterthumskunde. SCHRADER: Die Keilenschriften und das alte Testament. SHRADER: Keilinschriften und Geshichtsforshung. DELITZSCH: Wo lag das Paradies ? etc...
