Marco Berra Map of Galicia (undated ca. 1840)

Historic map of Galicia, with the Free City of Kraków, showing towns, roads, and color-highlighted boundaries of the Galician kreise. Published by Pietro Marco Giulio Berra from an unknown source and engraver, in Prague. Berra was primarily a music publisher, active in Prague between 1811 and 1853; this map is estimated around 1840, when other maps in this style were produced. Stitched images of a map purchased and scanned for Gesher Galicia by Pamela Weisberger, sourced from an antiquarian bookstore in the Josefov distric of Prague.

Original map in the public domain. Digital scan, stitched image and online interactive map © 2013 Gesher Galicia, Inc. For more information, visit the Gesher Galicia Map Room.