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Some pictures from Illustrirtes Familienbuch zur Unterhaltung & Belehrung häuslicher Kreise, which is, Illustrated family book for entertainment and instruction in domestic circles, by Lloyd Oesterreichischen. There is no imprint page and no date on the title page, but this is volume Five; it seems there were 15 volumes in all, from 1851 to 1865. The magazine would have been issued monthly, so this volume represents a year, probably from Summer 1857.
Pages are approximately 32cm, or a little over a foot, in height.
Lloyd Oesterreichischen, or Österreichischen, was the largest Austro-Hungarian shipping company, founded in 1833 and based in Trieste.
Title: Illustrirtes Familienbuch zur Unterhaltung & Belehrung häuslicher Kreise, V Band
Published by: Lloyd, Oesterreichischen
City: Trieste
Date: 1858
Total items: 15
Out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free for all purposes usage credit requested, or as marked.
Isaak Newton [Portrait of Sir Isaac Newton]
A portrait of Isaac Newton based on a painting by Enoch Seeman (credited here in its German form, E. Seemann). It was engraved by someone named only as Baumann, [...] [more...] [$]
This engraving by Schultheiss is based on an oil painting by Moitz von Schwind, and depicts a scene about Rudolf von Habsburg (1218 – 1291), King of Germany. The story is that Rudolf, when he was still Count of Swabia, met a priest who was carrying the Sacrement for a Mass. Rudolf got off his horse to let the priest ride, out of respect for the Host. In this picture the scene happens in a forest at night; the count’s servant leads the way [more...] [$]
Lake Como: The Waterfall of the Fiumelatte
The River Fiumelatte in Varenna in Italy, a town built on a steep slope and with a rapid river running through it. There are brdges, one of stone and one looking rather rickety of wood; there are houses and probably [...] [more...] [$]
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