Central-Asien : nach den neuesten Quellen bearbeitet / von D-Joseph Chavanne.
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TextLanguage: German Publication details: [Place of publication not identified] : A. Hartleben’s Verlag in Wien, 1880.Description: 1 map : color ; 53 x 84 cmSubject(s): LOC classification: - G2202. C4.
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Afghanistan Centre at Kabul University | G2202.C4.C439 1880 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | The digital file donated from Library of Congress-World Digital Library, PDF is available in ACKU. | 3ACKU000507755 |
German language.
"Druck v.J.Appel & Cie, Wien." Shows boundaries, rivers and water features and other details. "London: Edward Stanford, wholesale and retail..."—map case.
“Central Asia. Edited According to the Latest Sources : This map covers Central Asia and adjoining regions, including eastern Persia and the lands stretching from east of the Caspian Sea to Mongolia and Tibet. It was published in 1880 in Vienna, Leipzig, and Pest (Hungary), based on the research of Josef (also seen as Joseph) Chavanne (1846−1902), an Austrian geographer, cartographer, and explorer. The map shows cities and towns, which are classified according to three different population sizes (fewer than 20,000, 20,000−50,000, and more than 50,000 inhabitants), as well as forts and fortified cities, wells, and topographic details, including mountains, deserts, swamps and salt lakes, and “known” and “presumed” courses of rivers. International borders and borders between governorates in the Russian Empire are shown. Elevations are given in meters. The map has four scales: kilometers, English miles, geographic miles, and Russian versts. Chavanne traveled extensively in America and Africa, but he does not appear to have personally visited the regions depicted on this map. He recorded his experiences in Africa in his Die Sahara, oder: Von Oase zu Oase (The Sahara, or: From oasis to oasis) published in Vienna in 1879. Chavanne was admired in Europe not only for his geographic knowledge and cartographic skill but also for the ethnographic insights he drew from his own travels”—copied from website.
The Library of Congress donated copies of the digitized material (along with extensive bibliographic records) containing more than 163,000 pages of documents to ACKU, the collections that include thousands of historical, cultural, and scholarly materials dating from the early 1300s to the 1990s includes books, manuscripts, maps, photographs, newspapers and periodicals related to Afghanistan in Pushto, Dari, as well as in English, French, German, Russian and other European languages ACKU has a PDF copy of the item.
German