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Europe: Stanfords Tourist/Railways Map of Europe 1928 SMALL
Cloth-backed reproduction of a Tourist Map of Europe published by Stanford’s Geographical Establishment in May 1928, showing country borders in contrasting colours and the network on main and subsidiary railway lines. Coverage includes the southern coastline of the Mediterranean and extends to the eastern coast of the Black Sea, but in the north only the southern part of Scandinavia is included.The map shows Europe with its post-Versailles borders; British Isles have the same red border for both GB and the whole of Ireland, but acknowledging the existence of the ‘Irish Free State”. International borders along the southern and the eastern Mediterranean indicate colonial or mandated possessions. Within all the countries map shows main and subsidiary railway lines, displaying the great contrast between the extensive networks within Germany, most of England or northern France and the less densely covered eastern and south-eastern parts of Europe. Within Russia the ‘straight-as-the-Tsar’s-ruler-but-with-two-kinks-for-his-fingers” line linking St. Petersburg with Moscow catches one’s eye. Latitude and longitude lines are drawn at 2ยฐ intervals. Each individual map is sold folded in a colourful case covered with a unique design marbled paper ‘“ no two cases are identical.PLEASE NOTE: this title is also available in two sizes as a wall map in the ‘Stanfords Classics Collection of Historical Maps”. To see the full list of other titles in this fascinating series of cloth-backed maps from the Old Folding Maps company please click on the series link.