Doctor Heinrich Carl Wilhelm Berghaus (1797-1884) was an engineer and geographer from Cleve, now in Germany. After his studies he worked in the Prussian Land Survey Office he then became a teacher of geodesy and a pioneer in the field of scientific and thematic cartography. He worked closely with the publisher Justus Perthes, who published the first edition of the ‘Physikalischer Atlas’ in 1836. The atlas is organised by science including sections on meteorology and meteorology, hydrology, geology, magnetism, botanic geography, zoological geography, anthropology and ethnography. Each section bears introductory text. Provenance: ‘Ex Libris J. H. Rausch 1829’; private English collection. Dreyer-Eimbcke, Oswald (1997) ‘Heinrich Berghaus and August Petermann’ in IMCoS Journal 70 pp. 19-27; Phillips 214; Robinson, A. H. (1982) ‘Early Thematic Mapping in the History of Cartography’ pp. 65-7, 114-5; Sabin 4856; Shirley (2000) ‘Berghaus and Johnston: Pioneers of the Thematic Atlas’, in IMCoS Journal no. 83 pp. 31-5; Tooley Dictionary (1999-2004).