Das Hochland von Iran enthaltend die Staaten von Persien, Afghanistan und Beludschistan / contributor Weiland, C. F. (Carl Ferdinand), -1847.
Material type: TextLanguage: German Publication details: Weimar : im Verlage des geogr. Inst., 1846.Description: 1 map : color ; 45 x 60 cmSubject(s): LOC classification:- G7620. W455 1846
Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Map | Afghanistan Centre at Kabul University | G7620.W455 1846 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | The digital file donated from Library of Congress-World Digital Library, PDF is available in ACKU. | 3ACKU000507110 |
German language.
“Description Relief shown in hachures. Prime meridians: Paris and Ferro. Available also through the Library of Congress web site as a raster image”.
“The Highlands of Iran Including the States of Persia, Afghanistan, and Baluchistan : This hand-colored map of 1846 shows the Iranian Plateau, a geographical and geological formation encompassing parts of Persia (present-day Iran), Afghanistan, and Baluchistan (in present-day Iran and Pakistan). The map shows cities of different sizes, provinces and provincial capitals, caravan routes, fortresses, ruins, and rivers, mountains, and other geographic features. Three distance scales are provided: English miles, German miles, and Persian farsangs (also seen as parasangs and fursakhs). The map is by the German cartographer Carl Ferdinand Weiland (1782−1847) and was published in Allgemeiner Hand-Atlas der Erde und des Himmels nach den besten astronomischen Bestimmungen, neuesten Entdeckungen und kritischen Untersuchungen entworfen (General atlas of the Earth and skies, drawn according to the best astronomical determinations, latest discoveries, and critical investigations) issued by the Geographical Institute of Weimar. Founded in 1804, the institute was an important publisher of maps, globes, and statistical yearbooks that was known for the high quality of its products. Among the German geographers and cartographers associated with the institute were Weiland, Adam Christian Gaspari, and Heinrich Kiepert”—copied from website.
The Library of Congress donated copies of the digitized material (along with extensive bibliographic records) containing more than 163,000 pages of documents to ACKU, the collections that include thousands of historical, cultural, and scholarly materials dating from the early 1300s to the 1990s includes books, manuscripts, maps, photographs, newspapers and periodicals related to Afghanistan in Pushto, Dari, as well as in English, French, German, Russian and other European languages ACKU has a PDF copy of the item.
German