Specialkarte vom Chonos Archipel nach den englischen und chilenischen Aufnahmen. Von A. Petermann.

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Lithograph, printed in colors when published. Detailled map, showing the Chonos Archipel from the gulf of Penas with the Peninsula de Taytao up to the gulf of Corcovado. Very detailled map with an enormous number of islands and peninsulas, most of them with place names. August Heinrich Petermann (1822–1878) was one of the most important German cartographers and geographers of the 19th century. Born in Bleicherode, Saxony, he trained at the Geographische Kunstschule in Potsdam under Heinrich Berghaus — himself a leading student of Alexander von Humboldt. After a formative decade in Edinburgh and London (1845–1854), where he gained broad experience in the commercial and scientific aspects of cartography, Petermann returned to Gotha and joined the Justus Perthes publishing house. In 1855 he founded 'Petermanns Geographische Mitteilungen' (PGM), which swiftly became one of the world's foremost geographical journals — the definitive record of the great age of exploration and discovery. Petermann personally produced over 500 maps and signed 226 articles in PGM, ranging across Africa, the Polar regions, Asia, and the history and practice of cartography. In 1902, the eminent British cartographer J. G. Bartholomew wrote: 'No one has done more than he to advance modern cartography.' His maps are held in major institutions worldwide, including the Library of Congress, the British Library, and the Bibliothèque nationale de France. The map provides an overview of the results of the travel by Th. von Heugelin to Somalia. It is also ornated with a scene of birds and mammals, which were discovered by Th. Heugelin in Somali. In very good condition.

Petermann, A. – Chonos Archipelago, Chile · Lithograph, Printed in Colours · Petermanns Geographische Mitteilungen, Gotha · 1878