World – Engelmann

Engelmann, Godefroy (1788-1839):  World Map: Welt-Karte der Mission. 

Engelmann pere et fils Mulhouse 1830 

lithographed map with modern hand colouring, image size 46 x 31 cm.

A very rare and highly decorative world map showing the various evangelical missions across the world, decorated with figures from the Continents.

Engelmann (1788-1839) was a Franco-German lithographer and chromolithographer. He trained in Switzerland and France, and he studied painting and sketching in Paris. In 1814 he travelled to Munich, Germany to study lithography, a German invention. The following spring, he founded La Société Lithotypique de Mulhouse. In June 1816 he opened a workshop in Paris.  Engelmann is largely credited with bringing lithography to France, and  commercializing chromolithography. In 1837 he was granted an English patent for a process of chromolithography that provided consistently high-quality results.

folds as issued, add. creases, holes in cross folds, some foxing, some marginal tears not affecting image, o/w vg cond.