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Nuova rete ferroviaria : per avvicinare Trieste alla Pontebba, al Brennero ed all'Italia
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Panorama delle Alpi carniche e goriziane preso da Opcina presso Trieste Panorama der venetianischen u. görzischen Alpen vom Triangulirungspuncte Opcina bei Triest
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Kirkpatrick Catalogue entry: "2509 Club Alpino Austro-Germanico. Sezione di Trieste. Panorama delle Alpi carniche e goriziane preso de Opcina presso Trieste. Vienna, Stamperia di Corte ed Instituto artistico di. G. Reiffenstein., [18--]. 1 sheet. [see cabinet]."The peaks and towns are numbered with a key at the bottom given their names and, in case of the mountains, their heights.Das deutscher und oesterreichischer Alpenvereins was formed on January 1st 1874 by the merging of the German Alpine Club and the Austrian Alpine Club (Brockhaus' Conversations-Lexikon: allgemeine deutsche Real-Encyklopädie, F.A. Brockhaus, Leipzig, 1882, volume 1, page 479). The end date provided is the year Burton died. MS notes: Burton (map cabinet) Club Alpine 2509. Printing Process: Lithography.
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