Map of Bosnia and Herzegovina (1875)

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Map of Bosnia and Herzegovina (1875)
Accession number: 
Balfour Library, Eur 8vo (6)
Collection: 
Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford

Printed map of Bosnia and Herzegovina, showing the route (marked in red) taken by Arthur Evans and his brother Lewis during a journey through the region in the summer of 1875, titled ‘Sketch Map of the Vilayet of Bosnia including The Herzegóvina or Sandjakate of Mostar, but excluding Rascia or the Sandjakate of Novi-pazar’, and described as being ‘Prepared from the Austrian Official Survey With additions & Corrections’, published in Arthur J. Evans, Through Bosnia and the Herzegovina on Foot during the Insurrection, August and September 1875, 2nd edn. (London, 1877), between pp.lxiv and 1.

Author: Arthur John Evans (‘Arthur J. Evans’)
Title of book: Through Bosnia and the Herzegovina on Foot during the Insurrection, August and September 1875
Publisher: Longmans, Green, and Co.
Place of publication: London
Date of publication: 1877
Edition: Second edition (‘revised and enlarged’); first edition published in 1876
Acquisition: Henry Balfour. Bequeathed February 1939