| General Note | Imprint varies: v. 3-5, Hildburghausen, Amsterdam and New York. -- v. 6-12, Hildburghausen, Amsterdam and Philadelphia. -- v. 13-15, Hildburghausen und Amsterdam.
Added title-pages, engraved each with a different vignette view, have title: Meyer's Universum; oder, Die schönsten Ansichten der Erde (on the engr. t.-p. of v. 4 the subtitle is omitted). Vols. 1, 2, 3 and 5 have no engraved title-pages, v. 15 has engraved t.-p. only.
Vol. 1: 8. aufl., 1835; v. 2: 6. aufl., 1835.
Alphabetisches Inhaltsverzeichniss zu Band 1-XVIII; xv p. at end of v. 18.
Originally issued in parts, monthly 1835-1860, with intermissions (1843-46? 1851-53?) each part with 4 views, 12 parts with 47 or 48 plates forming a volume. Continued after vol. XXI (1860) as Meyer's Universum für 1861-[1863] the serial numbering of the volumes being discontinued, 20 parts (regular instead of oblong quarto) with 4 views each, forming a volume per year. There is also an octavo edition, v. 1-16 ([1.]-3. folge, and 4. folge, 1. bd.) 1859-1864, and there are editions in English and other languages.
L.C. has v. 1-18 only, and p. 63-138 of v.20, which are bound at end of v. 17; the volumes, except 4, 8, 13, 14 and 15, have each its separate "Inhaltsverzeichniss" at end.
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