Print from steel engraving titled „Athen“.From Meyers Reisebücher (1862-1936), a series of German-language travel guide books published by the Bibliographisches Institut of Hildburghausen and Leipzig.The German publishing company "Bibliographisches Institut" was founded 1826 in Gotha by Joseph Meyer, moved 1828 to Hildburghausen and 1874 to Leipzig. Its production over the years includes such well-known titles as "Meyers Lexikon" (encyclopaedias, since 1839, see "Meyers Konversations-Lexikon"), "Brehms Tierleben" (animal life, 1863-69, 4th ed. 1911-18); "Duden" (dictionaries on every aspect of the language, since 1880); Meyers Reisebücher (guide books, 1862-1936); "Meyers Klassiker" (home and foreign literature); atlases ("Meyers Handatlas", "Der Grosse Weltatlas"), and others. The buildings of the company were completely destroyed by the bombing raids on Leipzig 1943/44; the company itself expropriated by the communist regime in 1946 and turned into a "Volkseigener Betrieb". The shareholders moved the concern to Mannheim in Western-Germany in 1953 (Bibliographisches Institut AG). Titles like "Meyers (Enzyklopädisches) Lexikon", "Der Grosse Duden", "Schlag Nach!" and "Meyers Grosser Weltatlas" appeared again. In Leipzig remained the VEB Bibliographisches Institut, operating in the same field, publishing "Meyers Neues Lexikon", "Duden" etc.Athens is the capital and largest city of Greece. Athens dominates the Attica region and is one of the world's oldest cities, with its recorded history spanning around 3,400 years. Classical Athens, as a landlocked location was a powerful city-state that emerged in conjunction with the seagoing development of the port of Piraeus. A centre for the arts, learning and philosophy, home of Plato's Academy and Aristotle's Lyceum, it is widely referred to as the cradle of Western civilization and the birthplace of democracy, largely due to the impact of its cultural and political achievements during the 5th and 4th centuries BC on the rest of the then known European continent. Today a cosmopolitan metropolis, modern Athens is central to economic, financial, industrial, political and cultural life in Greece. Approx. image size 21 x 14, 1/23 x 15, 9 cm.

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