The first and second Austrian school of layered relief maps in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries∗

The three illustrations to this article are reproduced as the frontispiece. They are:

Fig. 1. Hypsometrische Uebersichtskarte der Alpen (scale of original 1:700 000), compiled by Anton Steinhauser and published by Artaria & Co (Wien, 1873), showing relief according to F. von Hauslab's system. Contour lines are at vertical intervals of 1000 French feet. By courtesy of the Institute of Geography, University of Vienna.

Fig. 2. Colour chart compiled by K. Peucker.

Fig. 3. Map example following K. Peucker's colour chart. The map shows the Alps in northern Italy, some parts by shading and some without (scale of original 1:200 000).

The chart and the map (2 and 3) were printed in the Military Geographical Institute in Vienna and published by Konrad Wittwer (Stuttgart, 1910/11). Copies of both are now extremely rare. The defects visible in the present reproduction are in the originals which were damaged during the Second World War. Their reproduction is by courtesy of the Library of Bundesamt fur Eich‐ und Vermessungswesen, Vienna.

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The three illustrations to this article are reproduced as the frontispiece. They are:

Fig. 1. Hypsometrische Uebersichtskarte der Alpen (scale of original 1:700 000), compiled by Anton Steinhauser and published by Artaria & Co (Wien, 1873), showing relief according to F. von Hauslab's system. Contour lines are at vertical intervals of 1000 French feet. By courtesy of the Institute of Geography, University of Vienna.

Fig. 2. Colour chart compiled by K. Peucker.

Fig. 3. Map example following K. Peucker's colour chart. The map shows the Alps in northern Italy, some parts by shading and some without (scale of original 1:200 000).

The chart and the map (2 and 3) were printed in the Military Geographical Institute in Vienna and published by Konrad Wittwer (Stuttgart, 1910/11). Copies of both are now extremely rare. The defects visible in the present reproduction are in the originals which were damaged during the Second World War. Their reproduction is by courtesy of the Library of Bundesamt fur Eich‐ und Vermessungswesen, Vienna.