10. Before and After the Big Ruptures

10. Before and After the Big Ruptures. Travel Guides and Atlases in the First Half of the 20th Century

During the first half of the 20th century, the map of Central and Eastern Europe was so fundamentally reshaped that every cartographic undertaking needed several new and completely revised editions. Thus, only 20 years after The Touring Club Italiano (TCI) brought out the first edition of its Atlante Internazionale in 1927, they had to come up with …

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Karl Baedecker: Russland nebst Teheran, Port Arthur, Peking. Handbuch für Reisende

Karl Baedecker: Russland nebst Teheran, Port Arthur, Peking. Handbuch für Reisende [1883] Baedekers Reisehandbücher], 7th ed., Leipzig: Baedeker 1912 Signature: Mg 20-5120 raro II  Figures: Frontispiece; Map („Russland“); Map („Kiew“); Map („Crimea“) The 1912 edition of the Baedeker travel guide of Russland nebst Teheran, Port Arthur, Peking represents the pre-World-War I world order. The territory …

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Luigi Vittorio Bertarelli: Atlante internazionale del Touring Club Italiano

Luigi Vittorio Bertarelli: Atlante internazionale del Touring Club Italiano [1927], 2 vols., Milano: Touring Club Italiano 1956–1957, vol. 1 (1956) Signature: Zh 300-5561 1/[1] gr Figures: Frontispiece; Map (S.S.S.R.); Explanations to the map; Detail The Touring Club Italiano (TCI) was founded in Milan in 1894 to foster the use of bicycles. Later, its primary interest …

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Friedrich Wilhelm Putzger: Historischer Schulatlas

Friedrich Wilhelm Putzger: Historischer Schulatlas. Von der Altsteinzeit bis zur Gegenwart [1877], 74th ed., Bielefeld/Berlin/Hannover: Velhagen & Klasing 1958 Signature: ZH 300-5590 Figures: Frontispiece; Map (“Europa 1914 bis 1918”); Map („Europa nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg“); Map („Bombenschäden“) Friedrich Wilhelm Putzger’s (1849–1913) Historischer Schulatlas / Historischer Weltatlas was first published in 1877. Its author, as he …

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