Book reviews: Atlas of Switzerland

Summary

Werner Witt reviews the ninth installment of the Atlas of Switzerland (1978), which adds seven sheets on history, agriculture, education, and topographic mapping, together with four transparent place-name maps. It completes sixteen years of work on the 96-plate atlas. Witt praises editor-in-chief E. Imhof and the institutions responsible for cartographic preparation and printing. While acknowledging possible reader preferences for synthesis maps or a stronger problem orientation, he ranks it first among comparably sized atlases as a model of methodological rigor, precision of representation, and cartographic production quality.