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Images from the Crown Prince’s Works, Die Österreichisch-ungarische Monarchie in Wort und Bild which is, The Austro-Hungarian Monarchy in Words and Pictures, a 24-volume encyclopaedia, of which I have only volume 2. I bought this volume in Prague, and were it not for the cost of shipping I would gladly buy as many of the other volumes as they had.
I am only including illustrations here that I have reason to think are now out of copright. The full text is available at archive.org, so feel free to use the Comment box under any image in this book to ask me to scan others.
Title: Die Österreichisch-ungarische Monarchie in Wort und Bild
Published by: K. K. Hof- und Staatsdruckerei
City: Vienna
Date: 1888
Total items: 8
Out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free for all purposes usage credit requested, or as marked.
Border of overgrown ruins with Roman inscription
The border includes a stone pillar with perhaps ivy growing over it, some old coins (possibly Roman) and a Latin inscription with a bas-relief sculpture of a winged boy, a cupid. There’s a ruined arch in the background, a plough, and some grasses. The arch is “Heathen’s Gate” or the Heidentor, a [...] [more...] [$]
Farmer and his Wife, Ybbstal Valley
The picture shows a farmer and his wife wearing (one assumes) clothing that was typical for such people in the 1880s in the Ybbstal Valley in Austria. I think, [...] [more...] [$]
Images from the Crown Prince’s Works, Die Österreichisch-ungarische Monarchie in Wort und Bild which is, The Austro-Hungarian Monarchy in Words and Pictures, a 24-volume encyclopaedia, of which I have only volume 2. I bought this volume in Prague, and were it not for the cost of shipping I would gladly buy as many of the other volumes as they had.
I am only including illustrations here that I have reason to think are now out of copright. The full text is available at archive.org, so feel free to use the Comment box under any image in this book to ask me to scan others.
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