Central-Asien : nach den neuesten Quellen bearbeitet / von D-Joseph Chavanne.
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- Created Date
- 1880
- Description
"Druck v.J.Appel & Cie, Wien." Shows boundaries, rivers and water features and other details. "London: Edward Stanford, wholesale and retail ..."--map case.
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 th
Color
1:5,000,000
- Creator
Chavanne, Josef, 1846-1902
- Partner
- Recollection Wisconsin
- Contributing Institution
- University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
- Collection
- American Geographical Society Library - Maps
American Geographical Society Library, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries
American Geographical Society Library Digital Map Collection - Publisher
- A. Hartleben’s Verlag in Wien (Leipzig)
- Location
- Asia;
- Type
- image
- Language
- German
- Rights
- https://uwm.edu/libraries/digital-collections/copyright-digcoll/
- Chicago citation style
- Chavanne, Josef, 1846-1902. Central-Asien : nach den neuesten Quellen bearbeitet / von D-Joseph Chavanne.. 1880. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://collections.lib.uwm.edu/cdm/ref/collection/agdm/id/314. (Accessed April 19, 2024.)
- APA citation style
- Chavanne, Josef, 1846-1902, (1880) Central-Asien : nach den neuesten Quellen bearbeitet / von D-Joseph Chavanne.. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://collections.lib.uwm.edu/cdm/ref/collection/agdm/id/314
- MLA citation style
- Chavanne, Josef, 1846-1902. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <http://collections.lib.uwm.edu/cdm/ref/collection/agdm/id/314>.