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Die Österreichisch-ungarische Monarchie in Wort und Bild (page 1/2)

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[picture: Front Cover]

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

Author: Various

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.

Some sample images

[picture: Front Cover]

Front Cover

The front cover of this late 1880s book is ornately decorated: it’s a dark blue-green with black printing and gold foil-stamping. [more...] [$]

[picture: Border of overgrown ruins with Roman inscription]

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...] [$]

[picture: Khaya (Kaja) Castle]

Khaya (Kaja) Castle

Burgruine Kaja, or the ruined castle of Khaya, is a castle in Lower Austria. [more...] [$]

[picture: Farmer and his Wife, Ybbstal Valley]

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...] [$]

[picture: Border of ancient skulls]

Border of ancient skulls

This full-page border surrounded the opening of an article on the hstory of Lower Austria. It includes carefully-drawn skulls and other bones from long-extinct creatures, presumably based on fossils. There’s elk and [...] [more...] [$]


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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.


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