Bartholomew's War Map of Italy and the Balkan States

Edinburgh: John Bartholomew & Co/ The Geographical Institute, 1915. Hardcover. Rare World War I map, undated but circa 1915, showing Italy and Switzerland plus all nations and nation-states in the Balkans before post war treaties: Austria hungary, Roumania, Russia (just the part around Odessa on rthe Black Sea), Bulgaria, Serbia, Montenegro, Albania, Greece, Turkey (just the west side of the Bosphorus) and Asia Minor (what is now Turkey to the west of the Bosphorus). Insets around perimeter of map are the Dardenelles, Constantinople, Odessa, Trieste, and the Bosphorus. The cloth /canvasssed-backed map, printed in color, is in 32 folds, unfolded measures 29.5" x 39.5" folds to 5"x 9" tipped onto paper covers. Map is in fine condition. Paper covers are shallowly split at edges with the paper over spine being repaired with archival tape for a short space. Cover verso has pastedown of pictorial description of Bartholomew's half-inch mile map of England and Wales, the t verso of the front panel of the folded map a pastedown for Bartholomew's Road Map of England and Wales. Verso of paper cover advertises Bartholomew's Citizen's Atlas of the World, described as "an indispensable work of reference during the present crisis" NF. Item #009796

Price: $95.00

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