Andrees General Handbook
Andree's General Handbook is a work of cartography . The atlas is named after Richard Andree (1835–1912) and was published from 1881 to 1937 by the Velhagen & Klasing publishers in Bielefeld and Leipzig .
Andree originally used chromolithographic plates instead of copperplate engravings and was thus able to offer maps with good resolution and detailed reproduction at an affordable price. With the exception of the 1937 edition, which was produced in offset printing , "the Andree" was reproduced using zinc plates in the letterpress process , which allows finer color gradations.
The first edition appeared in 1881. The fourth and fifth editions were edited by Albert Scobel (1851–1912), the sixth to eighth by Ernst Ambrosius and the last by Konrad Frenzel. The cartographers were G. Jungk († 1932), R. Köcher († 1958), E. Umbreit († 1904), A. Thomas († 1930), H. Mielisch († 1925) and K. Tänzler († 1944). Individual maps were also produced by other geographic institutes such as Peip, Wagner & Debes, Sternkopf and Sulzer.
A geographic manual for Andrees Handatlas was published in 1882, 1894, 1895 (2nd edition), 1898–1899 (3rd), 1902 (4th) and 1909 (5th).
| year | Edition | Main maps | Side cards | Names | Revisions, comments | |||
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| 1881 | - | 86 | - | - | - | |||
| 1887 | Second | 120 + 2 Krtn.S. | - | - | 1889, 1890 | |||
| 1887 | Supplement | 33 Krtn.S. | - | - | For owners of the 1st edition | |||
| 1893 | third | 91, 99, 99 | 86, 82, 82 | 175,000 | 1895, 1896 | |||
| 1893 | Supplement | 64 Krtn.S. | - | - | For owners of the 1st and 2nd edition | |||
| 1899 | Fourth | 126 | 137, 138, 139, 139, 139 | > 200,000 | 1900, 1901, 1903, 1904 | |||
| 1899 | Supplement | 53 Krtn.S. | - | - | For owners of the 2nd and 3rd edition | |||
| 1906 | Fifth 1 | 139 | 161 | - | 1907, 1908, 1909, 1910, 1911, 1912, 1913 | |||
| 1914 | Sixth 2 | 221 | 192 | - | - | |||
| 1921 | Seventh 2 | 222 | 192 | - | 1921 | |||
| 1922 | Eighth 2 | 228 | 198, 198, 215, 211 | - | 1924, 1924, 1928 | |||
| 1922 | Supplementary volume | 62 Krtn.S. | - | - | - | |||
| 1930 | Eighth 2 | 231 | 211 | 300,000 | 5th, verb. u. presumably imprint | |||
| 1937 | Selected 3 | 100 ct. | - | 150,000 | - | |||
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1 anniversary edition
2 List of names in a special volume 3 short edition |
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Spending in other countries
- Austro-Hungarian editions: 1904, 1909, 1910, 1911, 1912 and 1913 ( Moritz Perles , Vienna)
- Three editions of Andree's Stora Handatlas appeared in Sweden : 1881 with 96 map pages, 1899 with 130 main and 140 secondary maps, in 1907 a third edition with 143 main and 163 secondary maps and a 1924 edition under the title Bonniers Världsatlas with 200 map sheets, all with additional maps over Scandinavia. The verso text and the introduction were in Swedish. There were also Danish, Norwegian and Finnish editions.
- Hachette and Le Soudier in France had several French editions of the atlas. At least one Italian translation was also published.
- Andrees maps were also used for Cassell's Universal Atlas (London 1893) and for the Times Atlas (1895–1900).
