[Borderlands] - Illustrated guide to c.k. Austrian state railroads on the routes : Lviv - Brody, Lviv - Kolomyja, Stanislawow - Husiatyn, Buczacz. With 27 pictures and 2 maps, Vienna 1892

Illustrated guide to the imperial royal Austrian national railroads on the routes :

1. Lviv - Krasne - Podwołoczyska,

2. Krasne - Brody,

3 .Lviv - Stanislawow - Kolomyja - Sniatyn - Chernivtsi,

4 .Kolomyja - Sloboda rungurska,

5 .Kolomyja - Kniazhzhwór,

6 .Stanislaviv-Buchach-Husiatyn,

7 .Stanislaviv-Voronienka,

8. the Podolia Railway.

With 27 pictures and 2 geographical cards [ maps].

According to the instructions of the c.k. General Directorate of Austrian State Railways edited and written by Adolf Inlender.*.

Publisher: Printing House and Artistic Establishment "Steyrermühl" - Vienna [1892].

Publisher's softcover. Front cover decorated according to the design of Anton Paul Heilmann (1850 - 1912) - Austrian painter, watercolorist. Back cover with a view of Stanislawow.

Block consistent, pages clean. Complete pages and maps. Minor rubbing of the spine.

Number of pages : 98 + maps

Format : 11 x 19 [cm].

Format of maps : a) - 25 x 75 [cm] - Krakow Lviv, Brody

b) - 25 x 40 [cm] - Kolomyja, Chernivtsi

Condition of maps very good, one loose.

Unique beautifully published guidebook in Polish language from the end of the 19th century which contains descriptions of: rail routes, towns, monuments, historical and ethnographic news, beliefs and occupations of the peoples living in the area and numerous illustrations.

From the text :

" The greatest peculiarity of Halych is the colony of the Karaite sect. The Karaites or Karaites are a Jewish sect founded in the 8th century in Babylon(...). "

*Adolf Władysław Inlender (Inleander) (born December 19, 1853 in Buczacz, died February 27, 1920 in Lviv) - Polish pharmacist, socialist and socialist activist.