1. (Text Page to) Karte der Zu- und Abnahme der Bevölkerung Österreich-Ungarn's in dem Zeitraume 1869 bis 1880 / von Franz Ritter v. Le Monnier k. k. Ministerial-Vice-Secretär und General-Secretär der k. k. Geographischen Gesellschaft in Wien. (1)
- Author
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Hölzel, Eduard, 1817-1885, Ed. Hölzel (Firm), Toula, Franz, 1845-1920, Chavanne, Josef, 1846-1902, and Ritter, Franz, -1932
- Subjects
- Vienna
- Abstract
Descriptive text to accompany Nr. 21, following map. Describes the distribution of population increase and decrease during the period from 1869 to 1880, based upon the census of December 31, 1880, for Austria-Hungary. With an historiated initial. Text spans two pages. Accompanying tables follow on subsequent page., Physikalisch-Statistischer Hand-Atlas von Osterreich-Ungarn, edited and executed by Eduard Hölzel's Geographical Institute in Vienna, 1887. Title translates to: Physical-statistical hand atlas of Austria-Hungary. Bound in green and black mottled board. With gilded title on front cover and spine. Back cover and verso of front cover both have bookplate: Hochschule für Bodenkultur Landw. Betriebslehre [University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Agricultural Management]. Bookplates stamped with "St 135". Includes a title page with an extended statement of responsibility, crediting contributors, as well as a table of contents, introductory text, and descriptive texts, with tables, following maps. Atlas comprised of twenty-five numbered plates, with two plates printed as 17. Plates present forty maps of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, as well as several additionally depicting Bosnia and Herzegovina. Volume divided into two parts: Physikalischer [= Physical] (plates 1-15) and Statistischer [= Statistical] (16-24). Physical maps feature physical phenomena such as rainfall, thunderstorms, geology, minerals, forest and flower distribution; statistical maps feature cultural geography, such as population, sex ratio, mother-tongues, administrative divisions, religious denominations and education levels. Maps also show political boundaries, cities, railways, roads, valleys, lakes, drainage, coastlines and islands. Maps include latitudinal and longitudinal lines, as well as legends. Maps showing human characteristics also utilize data visualization. Colored lithographs.
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- 1887