MAKE A MEME View Large Image Perthes Map of Bohemia and Austria - Geographicus - DeutchlandSE-perthes-1862.jpg This fascinating 1862 map by Justus Perthes and Stieler depicts Bohemia modern day Czech Republic and Austria Unlike other cartographic publishers of the ...
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Keywords: 1862 Perthes Map of Bohemia and Austria - Geographicus - DeutchlandSE-perthes-1862.jpg This fascinating 1862 map by Justus Perthes and Stieler depicts Bohemia modern day Czech Republic and Austria Unlike other cartographic publishers of the period the Justus Perthes firm did not transition to lithographic printing techniques until the early 1870s Instead all of his maps are copper plate engravings and hence offer a level of character and depth of detail that was impossible to find in lithography or wax-process engraving All text in German Issued in the 1862 edition of Stieler ™s Schul-Atlas 1862 Size in 10 8 object history credit line accession number DeutchlandSE-perthes-1862 Geographicus-source PD-old-100 Maps by Justus Perthes Old maps of Austria Old maps of Bohemia 19th-century maps of Moravia 19th-century maps of Slovenia 1862 maps
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