1785 History of the American Revolutionary WAR German Sprengel RARE Color MAP

1785 History of the American Revolutionary WAR German Sprengel RARE Color MAP

An extremely rare first edition German account of the American Revolutionary War by Matthias Christian Sprengel. His works helped satiate the need of the German people to understand this new nation.  Two versions of this book exist with map. The map is based on a reduced version of the famous 1783 Faden map of the United States. While both versions of the book include this famous map, this smaller, rarer edition’s map is colored! It is very rare to find this work complete with map. Because of the desirability of the map itself, it has regularly been extracted from this book for map collectors.

Matthias Christian Sprengel (1746 – 1803) was a German geographer and historian. He was notably the author of works on North American history and the American Revolution.

We find this title (without the map!) selling for over $1000. The map alone is worth our asking price. Just BEAUTIFUL.

Main author: M C Sprengel

 

Title: Geschichte der Revolution von Nord-Amerika

Published: Speyer, 1785. Smith 2199. Howes S 846; Sabin 89758.

Language: German

Notes & contents:

• Illustrated title page vignette
• An extremely rare, folding colored map of the United States

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Wear: wear as seen in photos

Binding: tight and secure leather binding

Pages: complete with all VIII + 196 pages; plus indexes, prefaces, and such

Publisher: Speyer, 1785.

Size: ~6.5in X 4in (16.5cm x 10cm)

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Matthias Christian Sprengel (24 August 1746, in Rostock – 7 January 1803, in Halle an der Saale) was a German geographer and historian. He was notably the author of works on North American history and the American Revolution.

He studied history at the University of Göttingen as a pupil of August Ludwig von Schlözer. In 1778 he became an associate professor, and during the following year, relocated to the University of Halle as a full professor of history. At Halle he worked closely with Johann Reinhold Forster, who in time, became Sprengel’s father-in-law.[1]

From 1800 onward, he was editor of Bibliothek der neuesten und wichtigsten Reisebeschreibungen (“Library of the latest and most important travelogues”).

Selected works[edit]

Vom Ursprung des Negerhandels: Ein Antrittsprogramm, 1779 – From the origin of the slave trade.

Geschichte der Europäer in Nordamerika, 1782 – History of Europeans in North America.

Geschichte der Falkland-Inseln, 1781 – History of the Falkland Islands.

Geschichte und Beschreibung der Philippinischen Inseln, 1782 – History and description of the Philippines.

Neuester Zustand von Connecticut, 1782 – The recent state of Connecticut.

Geschichte der Revolution von Nord-Amerika, 1785 – History of the Revolution in North America.

Geschichte der wichtigsten geographischen Entdeckungen bis zur Ankunft der Portugiesen in Japan 1542 (2nd edition, 1792) – History of the most important geographical discoveries until the arrival of the Portuguese in Japan in 1542.

Auswahl der besten ausländischen geographischen und statistischen Nachrichten zur Aufklärung der Völker- und Länderkunde (14 volumes, 1784–1800) – Selection of the best foreign geographical and statistical notices for the explanation of geography and ethnography

Mathias Christian Sprengels Erdbeschreibung von Ostindien, 1802 – Sprengel’s geography of East India.[2]