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| 6759 |  | Details | Clary, A. D. | |
| Pictorial map San Joaquin Power Club Wishon Cove Camp |
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Clary, A. D. |
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| $250.00 | Clary--A--D- | Pictorial-map-San-Joaquin-Power-Club-Wishon-Cove-Camp | You have heard about "Where's Waldo?" but on this map I ask: "Where's Killroy?"
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An original post-WWII pictorial map of Wishon Cove Camp at Wishon Cove on Bass Lake in Crane Valley, California <b>featuring Killroy</b> (1). Subtitled "San Joaquin Power Club", apparently this camp was originally a private club for the San Joaquin Power Company. Today the camp is run by the Pacific Service Employees Association.
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The map shows hikers, horse-back riders, dancers, hunters, boaters, Boy Scouts, fishermen, and swimmers, all enjoying themselves oudoors on what appears to be some steep slopes. McDougald's store is located next to the shoreline and red-roofed Sam's Place seems to be the local watering hole, surrounded by apartments, dormitories, and numerous outhouses. The camp was named after businessman Arthur Wishon.
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Arthur Emory Wishon, often known as A. Emory Wishon, was a pioneering figure in the development of hydroelectric power in California, using Bass Lake water. He served as a chief engineer and later as a vice president for San Joaquin Light and Power Corporation. His work significantly contributed to the construction of multiple dams and power plants in the region.
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| 6748 |  | Details | Bertuch, Friedrich | 1795 |
| Antique copperplate engraving of Cannabis Sativa or chanvre |
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Bertuch, Friedrich |
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| 1795 |
| LOC:87 |
| $500.00 | Bertuch--Friedrich | Antique-copperplate-engraving-of-Cannabis-Sativa-or-chanvre | Antique hand-colored engraved plate ca. 1795 containing early depictions of Cannabis Sativa
( chanvre or hemp). A sub-species of weed, wacky tobakky, boucan, dope, marijuana, grass, reefer, pot, maryjane, ganja, etc. Left-most plant depicted is flax. To the right are male and female specimens of Cannabis Sativa. Scarce.
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From Bilderbuch fur Kinder, published from 1792-1830 by Friedrich Justin Bertuch (1727-1822). This encyclopedia was published in 237 parts with 1186 engravings.
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Two leaves total. Leaf 1 on wove with images, verso blank. Leaf 2 on laid paper with text descriptions in French and German.
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Before you forget, fire up your credit card and score this very rare engraving today. Bhang!
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| 6737 |  | Details | Duperrey, Louis-Isidore | 1824 |
| Chart of the Harbor of Doreri West Papua New Guinea |
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Duperrey, Louis-Isidore |
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| 1824 |
| LOC:59 |
| $500.00 | Duperrey--Louis-Isidore | Chart-of-the-Harbor-of-Doreri-West-Papua-New-Guinea | Copperplate engraved French nautical chart of the bay and harbor of Doreri in the Province of West Papua on the island of New Guinea, Indonesia. Duperrey explored the region in 1793 while searching for the missing expedition of Jean-François de La Pérouse. Shows the route of the Corvette "la Coquille" during July, 1824.
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From 'Voyage autour du monde' ('Voyage round the world') by Louis Isidore Duperrey (1826). Plate 34. Engraved by Tardieu.
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The bay is on the east coast of West Papua near the city of Manokwari, which is the capital of the province. One notable fact about the Bay of Doreri is that today it is home to Doreri Nature Reserve, which is a protected area encompassing coastal and marine ecosystems.
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The chart includes these other nearby locations:
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<ul style="list-style-type: circle;">
<li>Point Ambla</li>
<li>Isle Manas-Ouari (Mansinam)</li>
<li>Isle Masmapi</li>
<li>Baie Masinami</li>
<li>Baie Ouahouzi</li>
<li>Cap Ouacalo</li>
</ul>
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| 6757 |  | Details | U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey | 1892 |
| Scarce original antique nautical chart of Pensacola, Florida |
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U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey |
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| 1892 |
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| $2,500.00 | U-S--Coast-and-Geodetic-Survey | Scarce-original-antique-nautical-chart-of-Pensacola--Florida | Quite scarce original nautical chart of the entrance to Pensacola Harbor, Florida. The map was first published by the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey (U.S.C.G.S.) in 1859 but this updated edition dates from May, 1892. The map shows Big Lagoon, ruins of Fort McRee, Fort Pickens on Santa Rosa Island, Woolsey, Warrington, and English Navy Cove. Pensacola is depicted laid out in a grid pattern while the entire tip of Fairpoint Peninsula including Gulf Breeze is shown forested as "United States Live Oak Plantations".
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Rare. Over the last decade a resurgent interest in nautical charts and in Floridiana has made this chart increasingly difficult to obtain. 31" x 25" inside the neatlines.
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Price of this chart when issued was 25 cents. Electrotype Copy No. 5. (1) U.S.C.G.S. Chart No. 490.
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(1) Electrotyping is a reprographic printmaking method that was especially important in the 19th century, as it allowed for high-quality, high-volume reproduction of texts and images. Electrotype printing involves creating a metal plate via electroplating for printing. The process starts by forming a mold of the original work with a soft material like wax. This mold is dusted with graphite powder for conductivity, then submerged in a copper sulfate solution. An electric current is applied, causing copper ions to deposit onto the mold. The process continues until a sufficient copper layer forms. The new copper shell or 'electrotype' is separated from the mold and its back is filled with a type metal like lead for strength.
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After cooling, the electrotype is finished and trimmed for use. It is inked and pressed against paper to produce prints of the original plate. This process was significant in the 19th century for high-quality, high-volume reproduction. |
| 6724 |  | Details | Perry, Heather "Herry" | 1930 |
| Rare Art Deco Imperial and International Communications Ltd Map Puzzle |
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Perry, Heather "Herry" |
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| 1930 |
| LOC:500 |
| $3,500.00 | Perry--Heather-"Herry" | Rare-Art-Deco-Imperial-and-International-Communications-Ltd-Map-Puzzle | <br></br>Bring a piece of British telecommunications history to your collection. This exquisite, complete, and rare Art Deco style puzzle map of the Imperial and International Communications (IICL) network ca. 1930 precedes McDonald Gill's Cable and Wireless Great Circle map by 15 years and features elegant characters representing the Anemoi, mythological Roman wind gods, and the Greek wind gods or Venti: Boreas, Zephyrus, Notus, Eurus, Aquilo, Favonius, Auster, and Vulturnus. Green lines indicate the undersea cables of the IICL, while dotted green lines signify IICL wireless transmissions.
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<a title="Perry's Telecom Map Puzzle"></a> <img id="3" src="/zoomifyimages/SC_6724/SC_6724_Detail.jpg" alt="Art Deco details from Herry Perry map puzzle for Imperial and International Communications Ltd, 1930, London." width="350"/> <br><small>Detail from Herry Perry's Art Deco IICL map puzzle, 1930.</small>
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The map was designed by Herry Perry and manufactured as a promotional item for the IICL, by the Chad Valley Company, an eminent English toy manufacturer . The Chad Valley Company was active from 1860 to 1978. Its products ranged from high-quality soft toys, educational puzzles, board games, to construction sets.
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In 1929, the Imperial Telegraphs Act paved the way for the formation of two new companies that would merge the various telegraph and wireless services within the British Empire and create a coordinated global communications network. Initially, IICL focused on expanding its services within the British Empire, but it eventually expanded its coverage to other regions like the Middle East, Africa, and Asia. IICL merged with Cable & Wireless Limited in 1934. Includes the intact original puzzle box.
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Don't miss out on the opportunity to own a rare and remarkable piece of British telecommunications history - purchase this Art Deco map puzzle of the IICL network today. |
| 6728 |  | Details | Anonymous | 1932 |
| Child's pencil box pictorial map United States |
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Anonymous |
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| 1932 |
| LOC:13 |
| $125.00 | Anonymous | Child-s-pencil-box-pictorial-map-United-States | Lithographed uncommon pictorial map ca. 1932 of the United States by the Joseph Dixon Crucible Company (DCC). Inset maps for the Philippine Islands, Alaska, Hawaiian Islands, Panama, and Porto Rico. Map interior is the standard cotton, cattle, and cactus and the seas are filled with the scene of a whaleboat capsized by its quarry, a fierce WWI-era battleship, a passenger liner, and a single-deck ship-of-the-line, possibly the Constitution. Following restoration that began in 1925, the Constitution sailed on a 90-port tour along United States' coasts by late 1931.
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The DCC is also credited with the publication of Dixon's Mickey Mouse Map of the United States ca. 1936. That 10"x14" map was designed for inclusion in a set of child's pencils.
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The Dixon Crucible Company was established by Joseph Dixon in Jersey City, NJ in 1847. Dixon (1799-1869) invented the Dixon Ticonderoga pencil, which was made by mixing graphite with clay and water and pressing it into grooved cedarwood. The company was taken over by Dixon's son-in-law, Orestes Cleveland, who established it as a highly regarded brand for mass production. The company suffered financial setbacks due to Cleveland's malfeasance, but it was saved by Edward F.C. Young and eventually came under the control of his son-in-law George T. Smith. The manufacturing complex was later converted into the Dixon Mills, a mixed-use apartment complex. In 2005, Dixon-Ticonderoga was acquired by the Italian-based FILA Group, a manufacturer in Mexico and China. |
| 6730 |  | Details | Gaffney, Walter M. | 1933 |
| Pictorial advertising map for the Cape Cod Creamery |
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Gaffney, Walter M. |
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| 1933 |
| LOC:13 |
| $550.00 | Gaffney--Walter-M- | Pictorial-advertising-map-for-the-Cape-Cod-Creamery | Historical pictorial map for Cape Cod Creamery ca. 1933 by Walter M. Gaffney. An unrecorded advertising piece for Cape Cod Creamery, associated with Noble's milk. On heavy card stock. Maps numerous historical and geographic locations including Pilgrim Monument, the Highland Light, Pleasant Bay, the Sandy Neck Light, the Cape Cod Canal. Scattered in each corner is a logo for Noble's milk, the map shows several delivery trucks labeled "Noble's that's good milk", and the large compass rose with a bottle of milk arranged at the center. Small piece of contiguous card stock apparently fashioned into a print hanger suggests the piece may have been trimmed into this shape by a previous owner.
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Includes Buzzards Bay, Duxbury Bay, Provincetown Harbor, Wellfleet Harbor, Barnstable Harbor, Pleasant Bay ,and a portion of Nantucket Sound.
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"Wellfleet or Whalefleet as it was originally called undoubtedly surpassed other towns. In 1843 a whale was captured near the end of the Cape and estimated to contain 200 barrels of oil and 2000 pounds of bone. Only 125 barrels of oil and 300 lbs. of bone were saved but with this waste it netted $10,000."
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Gaffney is also credited with a larger pictorial map of Cap Cod 1932, in a different style, less historically oriented. |
| 6522 |  | Details | Cockrell, Monroe F. | 1941 |
| Cyanotype 1st ed Military Campaigns of Nathan Bedford Forrest |
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Cockrell, Monroe F. |
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| 1941 |
| LOC: |
| $375.00 | Cockrell--Monroe-F- | Cyanotype-1st-ed-Military-Campaigns-of-Nathan-Bedford-Forrest | Cyanotype or blueprint map - "The Military Campaigns of Nathan Bedford Forrest" based on Forrest's calvary campaigns in Tennessee, Alabama and Mississippi during the Civil War. The map was copyrighted in 1907 and published by Monroe F. Cockrell in 1941. Cockrell developed the map originally in 1907 when he was at V.M.I. based on information on N.B. Forrest from John Allen Wyeth's Life of Forrest (1900). Drawn by Emery L. Ring. September 18, 1941.
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Rare. Only one copy of this map found online and this, the earliest known edition. A later 1944 printed edition is found online with citation at lower right to R.S. Henry's 1944 work "First with the Most - Forrest". The citation is lacking in this 1941 edition.[1]
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Nathan Bedford Forrest (1821- 1877) was a <strong>Confederate calvary commander</strong>during the U.S. Civil War. "His command was responsible for the massacre of African American Union troops stationed at Fort Pillow, Tennessee, in April 1864, and he served as the first grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan in the early years of Reconstruction." [2]
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A similar cyanotype map by Cockrell on Stonewall Jackson is also found online- " The Military Campaigns of Stonewall Jackson based on Henderson's Life of Jackson. June 1, 1940. [1]
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[1] Tennessee Virtual Archive. Online: https://teva.contentdm.oclc.org <br>
[2] Glaze, Robert L.. Nathan Bedford Forrest Confederate general. Britannica. Online: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Nathan-Bedford-Forrest |
| 6742 |  | Details | Asahi Shimbun | 1942 |
| Japanese map of Singapore printed the day Britain capitulated |
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Asahi Shimbun |
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| 1942 |
| LOC:6 |
| $400.00 | Asahi-Shimbun | Japanese-map-of-Singapore-printed-the-day-Britain-capitulated | Interesting Japanese maps of the Malaysian Peninsula and Singapore, Malaysia printed on February 15, 1942 (Showa 17).
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<img id="6742" src="/ZoomifyImages/SC_6742/SC_6742_detail.jpg" alt="Japanese map of Singapore published the day Britain capitulated to Japan in February, 1942." width="340"/> <br><br> <font size="-2">Japanese Map of Singapore. 1942. (6.5" x 4.5")</font>
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Maps and text related to Malaysian history, terrain and climate, natural resources, population, and administration. Smaller map of Singapore contains information related to fortifications, broadcast towers, airfields, and oil storage facilities.
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Translation (partial): "In 1824 Singapore reached the southern coast of the island of Singapore, which the Englishman Raffles purchased from the King of Johor for $600,000. With a population of 600,000, it is the base of the British East Asian Fleet, along with Malacca in the Strait of Malacca and Jiyoji Town on Penang Island, and is the <b>cornerstone of world shipping that connects the Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean.</b>"
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February 15, 1942, was a significant day during World War II as it marked the fall of Singapore to the Japanese forces. Singapore, then a British colony, was considered a crucial strategic stronghold in Southeast Asia. On that day, Japanese troops launched a major assault on Singapore, breaching the defensive lines and rapidly advancing. The British and Commonwealth forces, vastly outnumbered and lacking in supplies and reinforcements, were unable to hold back the Japanese onslaught.
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Printed by Seiko Printing Co., Ltd. For Asahi Shimbun, Japan Publishing Culture Association Member Number 101503B. (1) |
| 6765 |  | Details | St. Johns County Florida Chamber of Commerce | 1945 |
| St. Johns County blueprint style pictorial map |
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St. Johns County Florida Chamber of Commerce |
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| 1945 |
| LOC: |
| $220.00 | St--Johns-County-Florida-Chamber-of-Commerce | St--Johns-County-blueprint-style-pictorial-map | Scarce ephemera. Interesting blueprint style pictorial map of St. John's County on the east coast of Florida. Drawn by Sam Hubbard. Issued by the St. John's County Chamber of Commerce ca. 1945. A broadside, on a larger sheet with printing on both sides 23" x 14". Contains a cute compass rose incorporating a fishing rod into the graphic.
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<img id="6765" src="/ZoomifyImages/SC_6765/SC_6765_400x300.jpg" alt=blueprint style pictorial map of St. John's County, Florida ca, 1965." width="300"/> <br><br> <font size="-2">Broadside with map of St. John's County, Florida.</font>
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| 6735 |  | Details | Ramsey, George | 1947 |
| Scarce pictorial fun map of Santa Catalina Island |
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Ramsey, George |
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| 1947 |
| LOC:89 |
| $295.00 | Ramsey--George | Scarce-pictorial-fun-map-of-Santa-Catalina-Island | <br><div class="indenttextblocksingle"><b>For a lasting remembrance of a grand vacation!</b> Keep this souvenir fun-map and mark the points you visit and the dates. Trace the routes of your travels on Catalina. Send copies to friends</div>
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Where to go - What to see Santa Catalina Island fun map. A post-WWII pictorial map of Catalina Island, California. Copyright by George Ramsey. Published 1947 by Recreation Publishing Company, Los Angeles, CA. Price when issued 25 cents. Features include: Location of Ling-Ho Chinese junk movie set; Seal Rocks; submarine gardens; Chicago Cubs Ball Park and training grounds; the Catalina Visitors Country Club and much more.
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Verso with map for Avalon Town |
| 6763 |  | Details | National Company | 1949 |
| Map of the World in Azimuthal Projection Centered on Malden Mass USA |
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National Company |
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| 1949 |
| LOC: |
| $250.00 | National-Company | Map-of-the-World-in-Azimuthal-Projection-Centered-on-Malden-Mass-USA | Scarce "Map of the World in Azimuthal Projection Centered on Malden, Mass USA". Presumed first edition lacking the more elaborate title cartouche found on the 2nd. No copies located in WorldCat.
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Malden was home to the National Company, a heavyweight in the manufacturing of radio equipment. The legacy of this enterprise and the town's distinctive place in radio history were immortalized in a unique piece of advertising - this world map centered on this otherwise little-known Massachusetts town.
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This ingeniously designed cartographic promotional material was part of a strategy tailored to captivate the attention of amateur radio enthusiasts. It underscored the awe-inspiring power of radio communication, visualizing the potential of the most potent transmitters of the time. One glance at this map made it crystal clear: with the right equipment, you could quite literally tap into the global conversation.
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A feature that makes the azimuthal projection stand out among other cartographic methods is its fidelity to directions. Any line drawn from the center point to another location on the map accurately represents the real-world direction. This attribute, where all points appear radially symmetrical around the center, makes it an invaluable tool in aeronautical charts.
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| 6750 |  | Details | Nicholson, George F. | 1956 |
| Unrecorded Marina del Rey Economic Study |
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Nicholson, George F. |
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| 1956 |
| LOC: |
| $950.00 | Nicholson--George-F- | Unrecorded-Marina-del-Rey-Economic-Study | Unrecorded, detailed analytical economic report "Marina del Rey Economic Study" produced March 5, 1956 by George F. Nicholson, C.E. Consulting Engineer.
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A detailed report by Nicholson bound with transmittal letter and six-page summary from Nicholson to J.A. Lambie, Los Angeles County Engineer. Hard cover. 79 pages text. Table of Contents. Three maps. One site photograph. Four tables. Manuscript signature inside cover for Walt Petty.
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Rare. No copy of this report is found anywhere online. |
| 6736 |  | Details | Information Bureau Royal Afghan Embassy London | 1960 |
| Rare Pictorial tourist map of Afghanistan |
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Information Bureau Royal Afghan Embassy London |
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| 1960 |
| LOC:54 |
| $475.00 | Information-Bureau-Royal-Afghan-Embassy-London | Rare-Pictorial-tourist-map-of-Afghanistan | A serious (not comical) pictorial map of Afghanistan published in the early 1960's by the Information Bureau of the Royal Afghan Embassy in London.
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Rare, only one copy in WorldCat, at the University of Nebraska, Omaha.
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Map focuses on mosques, livestock, and natural resources of Afghanistan. Boundaries of provinces delineated with dotted lines, and mountain passes shown by reversed brackets. Small inset map of Wakhan and Pamir. Scale 1:2,000,000. Roads with distances between major cities. |