Lloyd's travel guide


Lloyd's Illustrated Travel Library. II. Trieste (1857) , linen cover and title page

Lloyd's Guide were with illustrations and maps equipped guide in German, English and French, which until 1881 initially each "Illustrirte Lloyd's travel library" of 1854 as a "guidebook" in the Literary and Artistic [n] -Abtheilung the Austrian Lloyd , later the Literarisch-Artistische Anstalt (Julius Ohswaldt.), as well as in the years 1901 and 1902 as the "Officielles Reisehandbuch der Dampfschiffahrtsgesellschaft des Österreichischer Lloyd".

Lloyd's Illustrated Travel Library

Variants of the book spines from Lloyd's illustrated travel library , brochures, cardboard and calico bindings

Especially due to the rapid expansion of the railway network in Central Europe, the interest in travel of the economically aspiring bourgeoisie in all developed European countries increased sharply from the middle of the 19th century. This went hand in hand with a rapidly growing need for handy travel guides in which the information required for carrying out a trip is compiled in a concise form. To satisfy this, designed in Germany especially Karl Baedeker and the Bibliographical Institute with Meyers travel books , in England John Murray and France Adolphe Joanne travel books series, which soon were increasingly popular. In the Empire of Austria this trend picked u. a. the Austrian Lloyd , which was based in the Adriatic city of Trieste , Austria's gateway to the sea. In the 19th century, the Adriatic and Mediterranean regions in particular enjoyed growing popularity as travel destinations among the wealthier population of inland Austria, as they had become directly accessible by rail and ship from the summer of 1857. However, as early as 1852, the 3rd Section, founded in 1849 for the publishing activities of Österreichischer Lloyd, had already started to publish travel guides with elaborate illustrations; the first volume was dedicated to the location of the company's headquarters in Trieste. From 1854 they had the subtitle "Travel Guide".

The nine travel guides numbered with Roman numerals from I to VIII - Volume VII had two sub-numbers - were mostly printed in the printing house of the Austrian Lloyd and, according to the price lists often given in the volumes, cost between 80 new cruisers or 16 silver groschen (Adelsberger Grotte) and 3 Gulden or 2 Talers (volumes of the Orient series). The Caliko bindings are - possibly with recourse to the Murray’s and Baedeker , which were offered a little earlier - in a dark red color, but in the Orient series they also come in light pink and purple and - different from the basic color - even dark green. They bear the name of the described travel area or city, decorated with Biedermeier ornaments, in gold-colored letters on the front cover. In addition to the title, Biedermeier decorations appear on the book covers of the Orient volumes.

The design of the spine of the book varies greatly, as the adjacent illustration clearly shows. Sometimes it bears the series name ( Trieste , Venise ), mostly just the abbreviated band name ( Venice , Vienna to Trieste ). Sometimes the author's name is even given ( Turkey ). The first edition of Venice (1854) also appears in a paperback cover, and the volume Adelsberg und seine Grotten was probably only delivered in this way , according to the list of offers in the other volumes. “Triest” (1852) and “Venice” (1854) - here next to the brochure - and “Venise” (1855), all of the first editions of the titles, were delivered in a cardboard volume.

In terms of content, the volumes are usually divided into a historical-geographical outline, a description of the main sights and practical information on the travel area, such as accommodation, currency, exchange rates and means of transport .

City and local volumes

Furnishing

Lloyd's Triest (1857), " Trade flags of different seafaring nations" and "Explanations of the lighthouse signals for Trieste "

The treated locations were mapped topographically through city maps in steel engraving (Venice) or as lithography (Trieste) as well as maps of the area. In contrast to the Baedekern, which were already widespread in Germany at that time, where illustrations were mostly dispensed with, the most important sights were depicted in the Lloyd travel guides with elaborate steel engravings. In some cases, additional wood engravings illustrated the descriptions directly in the text. In addition, z. As the issues of Trieste , a hand-colored flag chart and a plan " Dampfschiffahrt the Austrian Lloyd" - the 2nd edition additionally a railway timetable and a floor plan of the new Lloyd Arsenal - and the band Adelberg added a cave plan and a railway map. The two first editions of the Trieste volume have a title woodcut depicting the Piazza della Borsa .

Lloyd's Triest (1857), "Plan of Steamship" (excerpt)

Trieste

The first edition for the European area, the band Trieste and its surroundings. A guide for foreigners and locals , appeared as early as 1852 without an author's name, but probably still outside of the “Illustrated Travel Library” series. This can be seen in the design of the cardboard cover with a picture of the cenotaph by Johann Joachim Winckelmann in Trieste and the title page on which the Börsenplatz (Piazza della Borsa) with the Leopold Column is depicted. This was built in memory of Emperor Leopold I's visit to the city and the littoral in 1660 . The second edition that followed in 1857 was then titled Trieste. Historical-topographical travel guide for visitors to this city and its surroundings and now followed the serial arrangement, but received only the entire volume number II , although the first edition of the volume for Venice was not published until 1854, i.e. later as Trieste .
In addition to the explanations of Trieste's geography, history, way of life and sights as well as its authorities and institutions, many places in the vicinity of Trieste were sketched. Only striped u. a. Miramare Castle, which was still under construction in 1857, as well as the Lipizza stud farm, Triests suburb Opichina and the Parenzo bishopric . More detailed awards received a. Duino Castle , where the poet Rilke was to write the first three of his famous Duinese elegies over half a century later , the Zirkniz , located on the world's largest seepage lake, the Adelsberg cave community - they then received their own travel guide from Lloyd (see below) in 1861 - and the Lueg cave castle and the Istrian coastal town of Pola , which had a Roman amphitheater.

Lloyd's Illustrated Travel Library. I. Venice (1854) , paperback cover

Lloyd's Venice Travel Guide (1862), map of the lagoon

Lloyd's Venice (1862), steel engraving Piazza San Marco by Giovanni Pividor (1816–1872)

Venice

After the first edition of the volume Historisch- topographisches -artistisches Reisehandbuch for visitors to the lagoon city (complete volume I) from 1854 - as with "Triest" still without a row reference - there were now extended subsequent editions for Venice in 1857 and 1862 in which the painter and Art writer Friedrich Pecht had edited and supplemented the art-historical part; Except for Friedrich Pecht, no author was given for the content of any edition of this volume.
It was not until the last edition that the traveler was given an additional, fold-out map of the lagoon from Porto Caleri (S), where a botanical garden extends today , to Porto di Piave vecchia (N) - a lighthouse town since 1846. The 12 steel engravings of the sights of the city by Giovanni Pividor , which were completely in front of the text part in the first edition , have been assigned to the respective descriptions in the subsequent editions. However, a steel engraving remained as a frontispiece.
In the third edition, the text arrangement changed: the text section "The Stranger in Venice", which had previously been in the 1st section (geography, history, cultural history and art history) was moved to the end of the book after the description of the individual places and sights of Venice. In the third edition of a binding rate, the steel engraving of the piazetta was incorporated twice, but the piazza is missing .

Adelsberg

The two aforementioned volumes for larger cities were followed in 1861 as the final volume VIII of the “Illustrated Travel Library”, the guide Adelsberg and his grottoes , written by Peter von Radics for his place of birth . A historical-topographical description of the place, its grottos and the closest ones in its surroundings. Sights . The inclusion of the comparatively small town of Adelsberg in the series was due to its famous grottos , which had been visited 10 years earlier, on March 11, 1851, also by the imperial couple Franz Joseph I and Elisabeth , especially since the place had had a train station at the since 1857 Karstbahn from Ljubljana to Trieste (entire route: Vienna - Trieste) and was therefore very easily accessible for visitors. The templates for the three steel engravings contained in the volume, u. a. a view of the Second World War destroyed viaduct of Franzdorf (now Borovnica in Slovenia ), created Chapuy .
With the volume, Radics also provides a detailed description of the place and its history, which goes back to Roman times . For the grotto itself he provides a plan for a hike, as well as a detailed list of literature and an extract from the so-called grotto logbooks, in which more or less illustrious visitors are listed. In addition to the imperial couple and many members of the nobility, there are also many scientists and artists from the first half of the 19th century, such as the stenographer Gabelsberger , the hygienist Max von Pettenkofer , the painter Waldmüller , the doctor and botanist Hugo von Mohl or the Pedagogue Adolph Diesterweg . After a short list of the flora and fauna of the grotto, the author closes the brochure with sketches of places in the Adelsberg area that are close to railway stations of the Südbahn (Franzensdorf, Loitsch or Prestranek).

Venise. Guide historique – topographique et artistique (1855), cardboard tape

French editions

The Lloyd also published translations into French of the editions for Venice and Trieste, but these did not contain a series reference.
Venise first appeared in 1855. A correction slip indicated that the paintings were being re-hung in the Accademia at the same time as the volume was published , which made the description in the guide partly obsolete. In the 1861 edition, which was initially only textually expanded and restructured, some museums, such as the Municipal Museum and walks through the city, such as the one over the Riva degli Schiavoni , found more detailed descriptions. A later binding rate also contained a map of the lagoon, which had been available since the third German-language edition.
The volume Trieste from 1853 seemed to satisfy the demand; there was no new edition here.

Summary table of expenses

All titles were printed in the print shop of Österreichischer Lloyd in Trieste.

Row number	title	Edition year	Pages foreword	Bindings	Steel engraved views of maps / plans	image	Online text (link)
I.	Venice. Historical-topographical-artistic travel guide for visitors to the lagoon city	1. 1854	194 VIII	Paperboard tape	12 city map		reader.digitale-sammlungen.de
		2nd 1857	206 VIII	linen	12 city map		reader.digitale-sammlungen.de
		3rd 1862	208 VIII	linen	12 Map of the lagoon
without	Trieste and its surroundings. A guide for strangers and locals	1. 1852	98 VI	Cardboard tape	7 Trieste Surroundings of Trieste Östl. Mediterranean flag plan Lloydarsenal ship timetable ( ÖL )		babel.hathitrust.org
II.	Trieste. Historical-topographical travel guide for visitors to this city and its surroundings	2nd 1857	112 VI	linen	8 Trieste Trieste u. Istria East Mediterranean flag plan Lloydarsenal train schedule ( southern runway ) ship schedule (ÖL)
VIII.	Adelsberg and its grottoes. A topographical-historical description of the place, the caves and the nearest sights in the area	1861	61 IX	Paperback	3 Grotto map Railway map from Ljubljana to Trieste		dlib.si
without	Venise Guide historique-topographique et artistique	1. 1855	192 VIII	Cardboard tape	12 city map
		2. 1861	287 VIII	linen	12 city map
		2. 1861	287 VIII	linen	12 Map of the lagoon
without	Trieste et ses environs Guide contenant les renseignements les plus intéressants puisés aux meilleures sources, à l'usage des étrangers et des indigènes	1853	152 VI	Cardboard tape	7 Trieste Surroundings of Trieste Östl. Mediterranean flag plan Ship list of the ÖL Ship timetable (ÖL)		digital.onb.ac.at

Railroad guides

Railway map “Vienna-Linz” ( Kaiserin Elisabeth-Westbahn ) from: Lloyd's travel guide From Vienna to Munich , Trieste 1861

A three-volume series of travel manuals dedicated to Austrian railway lines starting in Vienna, the capital of Austria , began in 1856. Here, landscapes and sights in the immediate vicinity of the railway lines and stations were described and supplemented with illustrations. In addition to current tariff and timetable information, the travelers were also given the basics of the development of the railway system and the routes covered, as well as connection times for buses and steamers, so that reliable travel planning was possible. The volumes devoted to the railway lines sometimes contained several steel engravings bound on separate panels, but always woodcuts that loosened up the text, as well as one or more route maps of the railway lines and separate timetables with tariff information.

Lloyd's Wien-Triest (2nd edition, 1860), front cover

From Vienna to Trieste

After the opening of the southern railway line from Vienna to Trieste via Semmering on July 28, 1857, the first volume was August Mandl’s From Vienna to Trieste, along with journeys from Bodenbach , Linz , Pesth to Vienna and from Trieste to Venice. Travel guide for all stations of the KK Priv. Southern runway from 1858 (complete volume IV). A large fold-out route map of the southern railway from Vienna to Trieste was attached to the back of this volume, but it was extremely difficult to use on the way.

In 1860 an expanded follow-up edition appeared, which also described the journey from Olomouc and Cracow , and a third edition as a reprint without any changes in content with the dates 1865 and 1868 (reprint?). Instead of the entire route map of the southern runway of the first edition, the individual route sections were now prefixed with partial maps in normal book format. In addition to this title, the passage by ship from Trieste to Venice is described in a 30-page appendix "Venice" and a brief description of the history and the main attractions of the lagoon city is offered. In conclusion, Count von Platen has his say with his sonnets “Venice” from 1825.

From Vienna to Linz

In 1859, the volume From Vienna to Linz, equipped with 15 wood engravings and a railway map, followed . Travel guide for all stations of the Kaiserin Elisabeth-Westbahn from Linz to Vienna including the Danube journey from Linz to Vienna (Volume VII.1). On 76 pages plus VIII pages for the title and table of contents, the volume describes the sights of all railway stations along the section , which opened on December 15, 1858 , which led via St. Pölten , Melk - in the book still written as "Mölk" - Enns . The description of the railway line was supplemented by impressions of a Danube journey from Linz to Vienna, with which the traveler would have returned to the place where the train started. The little book is concluded with tariffs and timetables for the railways.

Wiener Westbahnhof from: Lloyd's travel guide From Vienna to Munich , Trieste 1861

From Vienna to Munich

After the completion of the Westbahn with a connection to Munich on the Bavarian Maximiliansbahn in 1860, Volume VII was expanded and described under the title From Vienna to Munich. Travel guide for all stations of the Kaiserin Elisabeth-Westbahn and the k. bair. State railway along with the Danube journey from Passau to Vienna, the extended total route (volume VII.2). Two further railway maps, from Linz to Salzburg and from there to Munich , complete the route description. The number of wood engravings had more than doubled to 34. The starting point of the Danube return journey was now in Passau, about 150 km from Munich .
The five steel engravings for this volume, which u. a. The Salzburg artist Georg Pezolt drew Gmunden , St. Wolfgang and Possenhofen in the picture, and they were engraved by C. Bertrand.

Summary table of expenses

All 3 titles are bound in red linen and printed in the Lloyd's printing house in Trieste.

Row number	title	Edition year	Pages foreword	Illustrations maps / plans	image	Online text (link)
IV.	From Vienna to Trieste. Travel guide for all stations of the kk Südbahn along with journeys from Bodenbach, Linz, Pesth to Vienna and from Trieste to Venice	1. 1858	214 XVII	13 steel engravings 22 wood engravings Map of the Southern Railway Timetable of the Southern Railway Timetable of the Austrian. Lloyd		digital.onb
	From Vienna to Trieste. Travel guide for all stations of the kk Südbahn as well as journeys from Bodenbach, Olmütz, Krakow, Linz, Pesth to Vienna and from Trieste to Venice	2nd 1860	218 XVIII	13 steel engravings 22 wood engravings 6 cards of the southern railway 2 timetables
		3. 1865 (1868 reprint)	218 XVIII
VII.1	From Vienna to Linz. Travel guide for all stations of the Kaiserin Elisabeth-Westbahn from Linz to Vienna including the Danube journey from Linz to Vienna	1. 1859	76 VIII	15 wood engravings Railway timetable Vienna-Linz Ship timetable Linz-Vienna Baggage tariff Linz-Vienna (ship) 1 train ticket		digital.onb
VII.2	From Vienna to Munich. Travel guide for all stations of the Kaiserin Elisabeth-Westbahn and the k. bair. State railway and Danube journey from Passau to Vienna	1. 1860	112 VI	5 steel engravings 34 wood engravings 3 railway maps Railway timetable Vienna-Munich Ship timetable Vienna-Passau Fiaker -fahraxen		digital.onb

The Orient series

A third series, also in three volumes, was dedicated to the Orient and was written by Moritz Busch , a traveler to the Orient . An English translation of the volume Egypt has also been brought onto the market.

Egypt


Lloyd's Illustrated Travel Library. II. Egypt (2nd edition, 1870) , linen binding and title page

Notably, the series began as early as 1858 with the title Egypt . Travel guide for Egypt and the neighboring countries subject to the Pasha (Complete Volume III, Orient Volume I). Its appearance was in connection with the opening of the Vienna-Trieste railway line a year earlier, via which the Lloyd's Mediterranean shipping line "Trieste-Alexandria" was easily accessible, and was long before Baedeker's first travel guides for Lower Egypt (1877 ) and Meyer for the Orient (1881) on the market.

The 226-page title, printed in Leipzig by Giesecke & Devrient , showed the most important sights on 14 wooden engraved plates. The figure of the Sphinx along with Great Pyramid had August Löffler drawn. It was used again as a frontispiece in Busch's book “Pictures from the Orient” from 1864. Lithographic plans for " Cairo " and "Egypt along with Northern Nubia " by Henry Lange should make it easier for users to find their way around the described travel area. In Egypt it comprised Alexandria as the entrance gate along with its surroundings (including Rosette , Tanta and Damiette), then the state capital, the pyramids of Giza and Saqqara , the Nile to Thebes and Aswan and up to the 2nd cataract ( Wadi Halfa , today: Sudan) . Additional tours to Suez, Sinai and Jerusalem are also outlined.

The volume was preceded by a short personal foreword by the author, in which he emphasized his practical approach and the use of the latest literature, such as Lepsius , Brugsch and Braun, in the preparation. In the Roman numbered “General Introduction”, travelers were given information on trips to the Orient in general (costs, travel time, equipment) and the timetables of the Lloyd steamers on the Orient routes. In the [special] "introduction" there was information worth knowing about the geographic and ethnographic conditions of the country, its history and religion, the hieroglyphs and the travel conditions (currency and prices, accommodation). The discussion of possible diseases that were to be expected in Egypt appears to be very interesting in terms of medical history. From today's point of view, the statements on the occasional outbreak of the plague are extremely astonishing . After that, it was not contagious and feared “by no means as it used to be”. It can be combated with emetics when the first symptoms appear, whereas bloodletting should be refused (p. 29, 86: "Supplements I. The infectiousness of the plague").

In the 2nd edition, published in 1870 immediately after the opening of the Suez Canal , which had now been printed by the 3rd section of Lloyd itself, a map supplied by the Bibliographical Institute (“ Isthmus of Suez ”) was also included, the Buschs were now omitted Foreword and the ÖL ship timetables. The binding comes alternatively in dark red color without Biedermeier decorations (this only for the title) and dark green color with the decorations.

For comparison: Baedeker's Lower Egypt from 1877 with 16 maps, 29 plans and 7 views and 76 text vignettes as well as Meyer's Orient from 1881 with 8 maps, 11 plans and 42 text images were significantly better equipped than the second edition of Lloyd for Egypt.

Greece

Lloyd's Illustrated Travel Library. V. Greece (1859), frontispiece and title page

The issue for Greece followed in 1859 . Travel guide for Greece including Thessaly, Albania , the islands of the Archipelagus and the Jonian Republic as volume V of the complete series (Orient volume II). This edition printed by Otto Wigand in Leipzig with a XXXVI-page general introduction for travelers to the Orient, which also included trips to the area around Trieste and Venice, along with a foreword and 217 pages of text, which contain a special introduction and a. on geography, ethnography, history and art history for this classic travel destination was also provided with - here 12 - wooden engraving boards and lithographed plans for the Greek capital and the travel area. Are described in eight chapters u. a. Athens, Attica , the Peloponnese , Aegina and Albania .

According to Busch's foreword, the content of the volume was based on a trip to Greece in the spring of 1858, which he completed in the company of Eduard Duboc and who also provided drawings for the book. A “scholar in Athens” who did not want to be named contributed otherwise. For the rest, the author based his travel guide on the writings of Ernst Curtius , Johan Louis Ussing, William Martin Leake , who was involved in the transport of the so-called Elgin Marbles from Athens to England, and Vischer.

In the introduction there was also an overview of the “trips of the Lloyd steamers in the Orient”. A second, essentially unchanged edition followed in 1871.

Turkey (3rd edition, 1881 - already out of sequence)

Turkey

The Orient series finally ended at the end of 1859 (editorial deadline) with the third volume (complete volume VI) Turkey. Travel guide for Rumelia , the Lower Danube , Anatolia , Syria , Palestine , Rhodes and Cyprus , which included all areas that were part of the Ottoman Empire at the time . As evidenced by the preface, he took “especially [...] the needs of pilgrims for the holy land ” and “ travelers to Constantinople ” into account. When writing this volume, Busch relied on the experiences of his own travel activities in 1859 and on statements by Tobler and Robinson as well as by White and "other reliable travelers of recent years". The general introduction and the ship's timetable corresponded to those of the Greece volume from 1858. With regard to the timeliness of the ship's timetable, he advised readers to contact Lloyd agencies such as Gebr. Dufour & Comp. (Leipzig), JA Boecker (Coeln) or Wagenseil & Sohn (Augsburg).
The main part was divided into travel descriptions from Palestine, Jerusalem, Syria (including Cyprus and Rhodes), Asia Minor and Contantinople, the Danube principalities such as Moldova , Wallachia and Serbia , as well as Bulgaria, Thrace and Macedonia . The volume included 8 woodcut panels and a floor plan ( Church of the Holy Sepulcher ) as well as 16 other text illustrations.

After the first edition of 1860, a slightly edited 2nd edition appeared in 1870, in which the short foreword by Busch and the ship's timetable were omitted, but a “plan of Constantinople” was added. In this edition, too, a day trip from Damascus to the temples of Baalbek is described in detail, but a visit to the ruins of Palmyra , which have recently been badly affected by the IS terrorism , is dispensed with because it is to protect against Robbers required Bedouin escort at the cost of 50 Napoleons, which was not affordable for the common traveler.

The last edition of 1881, which was organized by Lloyd together with the Wiener Verlag by Moritz Perles and which no longer contained any reference to the “Illustrirte Travel Library”, limited its description to Turkey and the Balkans - the Middle East was therefore missing. It now had a frontispiece with the image of Hagia Sophia - this was still included in the text in the previous editions - but in addition to two cards (Constantinople and Bosporus ) and an additional Turkey card file, only one more text image was added to it, the thread binding had also given way to stapling.

Egypt

Hand-Book for travelers in Egypt (2nd edition, 1864), title page and frontispiece

At the same time as the German first edition of “Egypt” in 1858, the volume translated into English by WC Wrankmore was also presented under the title Hand-book for travelers in Egypt and adjacent countries subject to the Pasha with identical equipment, the one at Trübner & Co., London , was relocated. A second edition followed in 1864. The literary-artistic section of the Austrian Lloyd, Trieste, was now specified as the publisher. In both cases, the printing was outsourced to the Leipzig company FA Brockhaus . Although there was lively advertising for this edition in the other printed matter of Lloyd and it was included in the volumes of "Lloyd's illustrated travel library", the volume on the dirty headers showed no affiliation to the series otherwise only published in German and French . Obviously, the volume represented a special offer for British tourists who, after having passed the English Channel by rail, could reach the Adriatic port of Trieste without having to change trains and then directly to Egypt - at that time a popular travel destination for the British - with Lloyd steamers.

Summary table of expenses

Row number Orient (total)	title	Edition year	printing house	Pages foreword	Cover variants	Illustrations maps / plans	image	Online text (link)
I. (III.)	Egypt. Travel guide for Egypt and the neighboring countries subject to the Pasha	1. 1858	Giesecke & Devrient Leipzig	188 XXXVIII	red / pink	14 Egypt, Cairo		archive.org
	Egypt. Travel guide for Egypt	2nd 1870	Austrian Lloyd Trieste	244 VIII	red / pink decorative frame	16 Egypt, Cairo, Isthmus of Suez		archive.org
				244 VI	purple green
II. (V.)	Greece. Travel guide for Greece including Thessaly, Albania , the islands of the Archipelagus and the Jonian Republic	1. 1859	Otto Wigand Leipzig	217 XXXVI	red / pink	12 Greece, Athens		archive.org
		2nd 1871						books.google.de
III. (VI.)	Turkey. Travel guide for Rumelia , the Lower Danube , Anatolia , Syria , Palestine , Rhodus and Cyprus	1. 1860	Austrian Lloyd Trieste	286 XXXV	red / pink	24 Constantinople Bosporus		books.google.de (only title page)
		2nd 1870		331 VIII	red			archive.org
					pink decorative frame
without	Turkey. Travel guide for Constantinople , Rumelia , Bulgaria , Macedonia, Bosnia and Albania	3rd 1881	W. Stein Vienna	232 VI 2 (advertising)	red	2 Turkey Constantinople, Bosporus
					carmine red decorative frame
without	Egypt. Hand-Book for travelers in Egypt and adjacent countries subject to the Pasha (by WC Wrankmore )	1. 1858	FA Brockhaus Leipzig	181 XXXIII	red	14 Egypt and Northern Nubia, Cairo		books1.scholarsportal.info
		2nd 1864

Advertising for the travel library and other editions of the literary-artistic department of the OIL

The publisher often presented the range of available volumes directly in the travel guides. For the brochures and cardboard volumes, the backs of the covers were printed. In the bound volumes there are lists of offers that have been glued to the book mirror or integrated directly into the book text.

Variants of row advertising
Advertisement on the back of the cover ( Venice , 1854)
Glued in list of offers I ( Venice , 1857)
Glued in list of offers I ( Trieste , 1857)
Glued-in list of offers II
List of offers in the text ( Egypt , 1870)

Official travel guide of the steamship company

German-language editions

Preliminary remarks

At the beginning of the 20th century, a series of travel guides was published again by the Austrian Lloyd, which was originally intended to describe all shipping lines operated by Lloyd. Editor-in-chief of the series with the volume title “Officielles Reisehandbuch. The Oesterreichischer Lloyd and its traffic area “was Hugo Bürger (d. I. Hugo Lubliner ). The guides, which were primarily designed for the passengers of Österreichischer Lloyd, were equipped with a map of the covered travel area and ship timetables, which were attached in a removable loop in the rear mirror. Regardless of the different travel areas covered, the same ship timetables are loosely enclosed with all volumes, namely for the Adriatic Service, the Levant and Mediterranean Service and the lines from Trieste to the Far East ( Bombay , Kobe , Calcutta ), which give users an overview of the whole Lloyd's passenger line service was delivered at the turn of the century. They were partially updated for the two editions of 1902. In the illustrative area, photographs of travel destinations have completely replaced the steel and wood engravings or lithographs that were common in Lloyd travel guides a quarter of a century ago. At the end of the volumes there was always an extensive advertising section, the advertisers of which were identical in all volumes with minor deviations. The binding was designed in the then prevailing forms of Art Nouveau ; the spellings of the country names used there differ in part from the title pages.

In the prefaces of the first two volumes - this also applies to the two English-language and probably also the French-language editions - it was pointed out that, in the interests of greater handiness, the respective volume content of the complete edition was divided into smaller volumes parallel to this. The total circulation of both editions should be 100,000 copies and they should appear in German, English, French and Italian. There is no evidence for the partial volumes or the complete edition in languages other than German, English and French.

The year of publication is missing in the imprint; but it results from the respective editorial foreword. According to the preface on Constantinople and the surrounding area, these volumes belonged to a first section. Accordingly, as the cover shown in the list of countries by Greece shows, another section should present issues for countries in the Far East, Africa and South America; however, these titles were not realized.

The following editions are documented, all of which were published by the steam shipping company of Österreichischer Lloyd with the places of publication “Vienna-Brünn-Leipzig” and the indication “Druck und Verlag Rudolf M. Rohrer ”:

Istria, Dalmatia, Herzegovina and Bosnia

The opening volume of the series from 1901 provides an introductory outline of the history of Oesterreichischer Lloyd from 1832. It ends with a description and a virtual tour of the latest steamer at the time, the SS " Archduke Franz Ferdinand ", and a preview of the completion of the SS, which is currently under construction “Austria”, both ships with over 6,000 GRT , and a list of the 66 ships in the Lloyd fleet. Then, on 20 pages, Trieste is presented in detail with the Lloydpalais, the Lloyd Arsenal and the port , the starting point for so many trips to the Adriatic by the ÖL, before the volume with its travelogues, most of which were written by Josef Stradner Adriatic coast to the south to Sarajevo , the Bosnian capital, follows. The purchase price of the band was 1 crown.

Egypt

The volume “Egypt” published in the same year - written on the book cover “Egypt” - is the only one with a frontispiece, a portrait photo of Khedive Abbas II . The introductory “General Information” with information on rail and ship connections, according to which the climate of the country is discussed, is used for practical travel purposes. Then the main part introduces the travelers to modern and ancient Egypt in two articles. Most of the book was written by the railway official and railway historian Peter Friedrich Kupka. The loosely enclosed map shows the Nile Valley with the Sinai and a "map of Cairo".

The 219 pages on the subject of the volume are surprisingly followed by a chapter with descriptions of Austrian health resorts that are ideal for a visit “before and after Egypt”, such as the seaside resorts of Abazzia and Ragusa, the places on Lake Garda Arco, Riva and Torbole or the Tyroleans Cities of Bolzano and Merano. Obviously, the travelers should recover from the exertions of a more education-oriented trip to the Orient under difficult climatic conditions in their native regions or draw strength for such a journey beforehand. The purchase price of the band was 2 crowns.

Palestine, Syria, Asia Minor

In this volume from 1902, in contrast to what they consider to be "almost all previous descriptions of the Holy Land by Protestant writers", the editors expressly emphasize their Catholic-based treatise on the journey to the Holy Land . In this way she wanted to “do justice to the Catholic feeling of the majority of [her] readers [...]” in the Catholic Empire. Noticeable differences in the description of the holy places, especially in Jerusalem , compared to other German-language travel guides such as Baedeker or Meyer, however, cannot be identified. The purchase price of the band was 2 crowns.

Constantinople and environs, Black Sea, Greece

A brief description of the Ottoman Empire (state constitution, administration, religion and culture) is followed by the main part of the volume, also from 1902, with a detailed description of Constantinople. Then the coast of the Black Sea ( Constantza - from there an excursion to Bucharest is made -, Odessa, Batumi ) and the Crimean peninsula are described. On the loosely enclosed map, the Eastern Balkans, what was then Western Turkey (Greece) and the Black Sea with southern Russia and Constantinople (general plan) are shown. The return journey then leads via Greece and Corfu to Trieste, whereby reference is made to Volume I for the details of the Adriatic cruise. The purchase price of the band was 1.50 crowns.

Official travel guide part I to IV
Part I: Istria, Dalmatia, Herzegovina and Bosnia [1901]
Part II: Egypt [1901]
III. Part: Palestine, Syria, Asia Minor [1902]
Part IV: Constantinople and environs, Black Sea , Greece [1902]

Official Guidebook I: Istria, Dalmatia, Herzegovina and Bosnia (1901)

English language editions

English-language versions were probably only published in volumes I and II under the titles Istria, Dalmatia, Herzegovina and Bosnia and Egypt (264 pages), each with the series specification The Austrian Lloyd and the Territory Along Its Route. Official Guide-Book of the Steamship Company . Here too, Hugo Bürger was the editor-in-chief. The volumes have the year 1901 and 1902 in the preface.

French language edition

At least of the Egypt volume (II) there is also a French-language version from 1901 under the title Egypte (264 pages), with the series indication Le Lloyd Autrichien et les contrées visitées par ses lignes and again with editor-in-chief Hugo Bürger.

Development after the First World War

The city of Trieste and its surrounding area fell to Italy after the First World War . The Austrian Lloyd, called "Lloyd Austriaco" in Italian , which was under Italian state administration from 1919 to 1921, was given the name Lloyd Triestino . Only smaller, mostly short-lived travel guides and information, such as the Handbook of Information for Passengers to India and Eastern Asia (1922, English), Egypt, Sudan, Palestine and neighboring countries , were under the “new flag” . 1927–1928 or the travel guide to the sea. Mediterranean Sea. The Places of Pleasure Travel (1935), relocated.

Reprints and online digital copies

From various publishers were individual titles in recent years facsimile - reprints ; presented at reduced format card Reproductions but also paperback reprints in simple form provide today's reader with at least the complete volume content in book form in addition to the digital copies made available by libraries and internet providers.

literature

Christine Haug: Traveling and Reading in the Age of Industrialization . Harrassowitz Verlag, Wiesbaden 2007
Lloyd triestino: Dall'Adriatico al mondo. mostro del centocinquantenario. Lloyd triestino di navigazione, Trieste 1986 (Italian)
Elmar Samsinger: From a travel manual of the Österreichischer Lloyd - Orientreisen around 1900 , in: Rudolf Agstner, Elmar Samsinger (Hrsg.): Austria in Istanbul. K. (below) K. Presence in the Ottoman Empire . LIT Verlag, Vienna 2010, pp. 299–332 ( online )

Web links

Commons : Lloyd's Travel Guide - Collection of images, videos and audio files

References and comments

↑ Wilhelm Heinsius (Ed.), Edited by Karl Robert Heumann: General Book Lexicon or complete alphabetical index of all books published from 1700 to the end of 1861 which were printed in Germany and in countries related by language and literature. , Leipzig, FA Brockhaus 1864, 2nd section LZ, p. 46

↑ Compare the 2nd edition of the "Egypt" volume from 1870 as well as the first edition of the "Turkey" volume from 1857 and the 3rd edition of the same title from 1881.

↑ In the foreword to vol. I of his history of the city of Trieste (Trieste 1857, p. II ), the author Jakob Löwenthal mentioned that Pietro Kandler had published a “guide” for Trieste in 1852. H. a “guide for strangers”, which was limited to the “most excellent events” of the city's historical development. The mentioned “Guida” (German: Führer ) could be the first edition of the Führer [s] for Trieste and its surroundings , from the second edition this was Volume II of the “Illustrirte [n] Travel Library” from that year. So Kandler comes into consideration as the author of this title.

↑ Compare the Italian Wikipedia .

↑ The visit of Emperor Leopold I is described in detail in Daniela Hahn's diploma thesis: Two visits to the Austrian littoral. Trieste as a station of the inner Austrian hereditary homage journeys Leopold I. 1660 and Karl VI. 1728 . University of Vienna, Vienna 2013 - online access

↑ Compare the Italian Wikipedia .

↑ The engravings were previously in a separate folder under the title Venise en miniature. Collection de douze Vues sur acier (Italian: Venezia in miniatura ) by JA Habnit, Venice, Place St. Marc 102 (no year), published.

↑ The print version of both bindings is identical.

↑ The volume appears with the advertisement “Stahlstich-Werke, Reise-Handbuch und Albums ...” stuck on the inside mirror.

↑ After the lagoon map was available in the 3rd German-language edition from 1862, it was also included in this edition. The title page has been modified accordingly, with the year and edition details unchanged.

^ Kk priv. Südbahn-Gesellschaft (Hrsg.): The Südbahn and its traffic area in Austria-Hungary. Rudolf M. Rohrer, Berlin-Brünn-Leipzig, no year (approx. 1901), p. 5.

↑ Compare the online version of the sonnets.

↑ The volume appears with the advertisement “Stahlstich-Werke, Reise-Handbuch und Albums ...” stuck on the inside mirror.

↑ Digitized : "Images from the Orient".

↑ In accordance with the usual practice at the time, the year of publication is pre-dated on the title page. Contemporary entries in the volume document the sale as early as 1869 (November).

↑ This processed his travel impressions in his work Wander-Studien. Italy, Greece and at home. Leipzig: Theodor Thomas 1861, Volume 2 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive )

↑ This was probably the Swiss classical philologist Wilhelm Vischer-Bilfinger , who had undertaken his first trip to Greece a few years earlier (1853/1854).

↑ What is meant here is the 20 franc gold piece .
↑ On the other hand, only 5 years later, the first Palestine and Syria Baedeker provided a detailed description of this first-rate sight with two cards.
↑ The band name was repeatedly misspelled "Egypt e ".
↑ ^a ^b ^c The pages include the table of contents and the publisher's advertising. The other preliminary remarks were included in the Arabic numbered page count.
↑ The publisher's advertising has ceased to exist.
↑ In the 1870 edition, volume number II of the Orient Series was inadvertently given in the book. In fact, as correctly noted in the first edition from 1860, it is Volume III.
↑ There is at least one other cover variant known here with additional embossed, interwoven decorative lines.
↑ When the volume was published in 1881, the entire series “Lloyd's Illustrierte Travel Library” had probably already been given up by the publisher. Due to the demand, a revised and heavily abridged new edition (3rd edition) in the old version was only published for the travel area Turkey. Strictly speaking, the edition no longer belongs to the “Lloyd's Illustrierte Travel Library” series, but is included here due to its proximity to content.
↑ This edition was published jointly by Liter.-artist. Establishment of the oil (Julius Ohswaldt) and the Moritz Perles publishing house (Vienna)
↑ This title was essentially a translation of the German-language version and also had an identical set-up to the German-language Lloyd band Egypt . Since only this one English-language edition was planned by the publisher, there was no numbering as with the German-language volumes.
↑ For Wrankmore's biography, see the English-language website of the Edinburgh University Library on "Walter Scott - Digital Archive" for William Colley Wrankmore .
↑ This edition was published by Trübner & Co. in London.
↑ This edition was published by the Literary-artistic Section of the Austrian Lloyd.
↑ Ua Istria, Dalmatia, Herzegovina and Bosnia (The Austrian Lloyd and the Territory Along Its Route. Official Guide-Book of the Steamship Company), Rudolf M. Rohrer, Vienna-Brünn-Leipsic 1901, p. 5
↑ Constantinople and Environs, Black Sea, Greece (Vol. IV, 1902), p. 5.
^ Rudolf Agstner, Elmar Samsinger (ed.): Austria in Istanbul. K. (below) K. Presence in the Ottoman Empire . LIT Verlag, Vienna, Berlin, Münster 2010 (Research on the History of the Austrian Foreign Service, Vol. 1), p. 299
↑ Josef Stradner (1852–1905) came from Graz, where he worked as a teacher and clergyman. Compare the entry in the Austrian Biographical Lexicon ( digitized version ).
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d Advertisement of the Graz bookstore Styria in the Grazer Volksblatt of March 10, 1903 ( anno.onb.ac.at ).
↑ Peter Friedrich Kupka (1846–1924) was one of the first historians to deal with Austrian railway history. Compare the entry in the Austrian Biographical Lexicon ( digitized version ).
↑ Online edition . Retrieved August 13, 2018.
↑ Neither Worldcat nor the Karlsruhe Virtual Catalog contain entries for further volumes.
↑ The volume is cataloged in the Moravská Galerie knihovna Brno ( [1] ). In contrast, neither Worldcat nor the Karlsruhe Virtual Catalog contain entries for this volume.

[1] Wilhelm Heinsius (Ed.), Edited by Karl Robert Heumann: General Book Lexicon or complete alphabetical index of all books published from 1700 to the end of 1861 which were printed in Germany and in countries related by language and literature. , Leipzig, FA Brockhaus 1864, 2nd section LZ, p. 46

[2] Compare the 2nd edition of the "Egypt" volume from 1870 as well as the first edition of the "Turkey" volume from 1857 and the 3rd edition of the same title from 1881.

[3] In the foreword to vol. I of his history of the city of Trieste (Trieste 1857, p. II ), the author Jakob Löwenthal mentioned that Pietro Kandler had published a “guide” for Trieste in 1852. H. a “guide for strangers”, which was limited to the “most excellent events” of the city's historical development. The mentioned “Guida” (German: Führer ) could be the first edition of the Führer [s] for Trieste and its surroundings , from the second edition this was Volume II of the “Illustrirte [n] Travel Library” from that year. So Kandler comes into consideration as the author of this title.

[4] Compare the Italian Wikipedia .

[5] The visit of Emperor Leopold I is described in detail in Daniela Hahn's diploma thesis: Two visits to the Austrian littoral. Trieste as a station of the inner Austrian hereditary homage journeys Leopold I. 1660 and Karl VI. 1728 . University of Vienna, Vienna 2013 - online access

[6] Compare the Italian Wikipedia .

[7] Compare the Italian Wikipedia .

[8] The engravings were previously in a separate folder under the title Venise en miniature. Collection de douze Vues sur acier (Italian: Venezia in miniatura ) by JA Habnit, Venice, Place St. Marc 102 (no year), published.

[9] The print version of both bindings is identical.

[10] The volume appears with the advertisement “Stahlstich-Werke, Reise-Handbuch und Albums ...” stuck on the inside mirror.

[11] After the lagoon map was available in the 3rd German-language edition from 1862, it was also included in this edition. The title page has been modified accordingly, with the year and edition details unchanged.

[12] Kk priv. Südbahn-Gesellschaft (Hrsg.): The Südbahn and its traffic area in Austria-Hungary. Rudolf M. Rohrer, Berlin-Brünn-Leipzig, no year (approx. 1901), p. 5.

[13] Compare the online version of the sonnets.

[14] The volume appears with the advertisement “Stahlstich-Werke, Reise-Handbuch und Albums ...” stuck on the inside mirror.

[15] Digitized : "Images from the Orient".

[Erscheinungsjahr-16] In accordance with the usual practice at the time, the year of publication is pre-dated on the title page. Contemporary entries in the volume document the sale as early as 1869 (November).

[17] This processed his travel impressions in his work Wander-Studien. Italy, Greece and at home. Leipzig: Theodor Thomas 1861, Volume 2 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive )

[18] This was probably the Swiss classical philologist Wilhelm Vischer-Bilfinger , who had undertaken his first trip to Greece a few years earlier (1853/1854).