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Originally Posted by drjenkins
According to Wikipedia the Klencke Atlas consists of 41 copperplate wall maps. The supposed intention was that you would tear out the map you wanted and mount it on the wall. Apparently someone said "Don't do that, this might be worth something in 350 years". 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klencke_Atlas |
We should be thankful for that! Although most all of the pages probably could have been found, if not in a public collection, then in someone's private collection. It would just be a long, drawn-out, very expensive process of trying to bring all of the pages back together again. Some people wouldn't sell at any price, and it might take several generations before one of them decided that they could part with it.