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New Gotha Research Library blog post: "A Book Returns. History and Future of the Perthes Publishing Library".

In December 2022, the Gotha Research Library achieved a surprising coup. It acquired the "Vollständige Handbuch der neuesten Erdbeschreibung" by Adam Christian Gaspari. Published in a second edition from 1819 to 1832 by Friedrich Justin Bertuch's "Geographisches Institut" in Weimar, the handbook was a widely used geographical standard work at the time. The acquisition was sensational because it was the hand copy of Adolf Stieler.

Perthes Magazine
Library of Justus Perthes Verlag, 1906, FB Gotha, SPA-Bildarchiv A 1906.

Read the full text on the Gotha Research Library blog.

Link to the german blog post