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General Map of Central Europe in 47 Sheets

Author: Joseph von Scheda, publisher: Imperial and Royal Military Geographical Institute, Vienna, 1871

Container: cardboard, glued; map, paper on canvas, print; 49,5 × 56 cm; scale: 1:576,000; on volume cover: ‘FORTSETZUNG / DER / GENERAL-KARTE / DES / österreichischen / Kaiserstaates / VON / J. Scheda’; publisher and author information on cover sheet: ‘General - Karte / von / CENTRAL - EUROPA / in 47 Blättern im Maſse 1:576.000 / entworfen, gegeichnet und herausgegeben / von / Josef Ritter von Scheda / k.k.oesterreichischen Oberst / 1871.’; the map volume also contains an overview sheet, ‘ÜBERSICHTS – BLATT /für die Zusammenstellung der Blätter der Karte von Central – Europa.’

Received from the 16th Imperial and Royal Varaždin Infantry Regiment

HPM/PMH-10004 – HPM/PMH-10031

Incomplete volume of a map of central Europe containing 27 map sheets depicting the countries of Europe (sheets XXIX–XXIII, XXVII–XXXII, XXXV–XXXIX, and XXXXIV–XXXXVII are missing). This cartographical depiction of central Europe is among the most important cartographical works by Scheda that are kept in the Cartographical Collection of the Croatian History Museum, along with the general map of the Austrian Empire (‘General Karte des Oesterreichischen Kaiserstaates’) and the general map of Europe in 25 sheets (‘General Karte von Europa in 25 Blättern’). The map sheets are as follows:
I. Birmingham
II. Leenwarden (today Leeuwarden)
III. Hamburg
IV. Kopenhagen (today Copenhagen)
V. Danzig (today Gdańsk)
VI. Königsberg (today Kaliningrad)
VII. Wilno (today Vilnius)
VIII. Mogilow (today Mahilyow)
IX. London
X. Amsterdam
XI. Köln (today Cologne)
XII. Berlin
XIII. Posen (today Poznań)
XIV. Warschau (today Warsaw)
XV. Pinsk
XVI. Mozyr (today Mazyr)
XVII. Paris
XVIII. Metz
XXIV. Kiew (today Kiev)
XXV. Tours
XXVI. Dijon
XXXIII. Odessa
XXXIV. Toulouse
XXXX. Lyon
XXXXI. Galaz (today Galați)

Izvori / literatura: first publication
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