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1944205765London.: George Philip & Son. 1944. Full colour folding map 101.5 x 76cm sheet inset maps legend folding into title wrapper 25.7 x 19.4 cms covers a little dusty and discoloured a few short fold splits without loss but the map in very good bright condition. Map of the Pacific Theatre of World War II with borders drawn as they stood in 1937 - complete with Chinese claims on Mongolia Tuva and Tibet. <br> <br>Shows transportation routes principal railways oil fields Allied naval bases territory occupied by the British Empire French Empire and the United States. This map shows only the northernmost section of Australia which allows for much better detail of the countries of East Asia. Small inset map of the Hawaiin Islands at mid right. Inset map of the Pacific Ocean at upper left. . George Philip & Son. unknown
194463900Washington D.C. & New York NY: Navy distribution by Educational Services Section; Prepared and distributed by Army Information Branch Army Service Forces 1944. Oblong double atlas folio. 47 x 34.5 in. One large double-sided colour lithograph map and panoramic cutaway view minor dustsoiling light age toning very minor creasing at folds still a NF copy. First edition of this splendid educational panorama with cutaway view of a World War II Balao-class submarine conning tower lines have been altered to prevent enemy identification when surfacing which improved upon the Gato class with higher yield-strength steel pressure hull skins and increased depth to 400 feet. The four inset maps on verso track the campaigns in the Philippine Islands with maps for Manila Bay and Cebu Leyte & Samar separately as well as maps tracking the Western Front progress in 1944 just 4 months after D-Day. Navy distribution by Educational Services Section; Prepared and distributed by Army Information Branch, Army Service Forces, unknown
1819162103Tokyo.: Tōseisha. Showa 18 1943. Folding colour map of Australia 54.2 x 76.4cm. Some foxing particularly along folds and upper right margins a few repaired tears and small holes at folds.With original sleeve. The 15th map in the Standard Maps of Greater East Asia series of 20 maps. Shows the natural resources such as sheep gold pearl diary regions opals etc. Tasmania appears as an inset in the bottom right corner. Text in Japanese. . Tōseisha. unknown
1942206849Chicago.: Chicago Daily Tribune. 28 January1942. Printed colour map 40.3 x 53.6 cm; 46.5 x 60 cm sheet inset map of the North Pacific back cover from a section of the Chicago Daily Tribune newspaper pages 21-34 January 28 1942; central fold edgewear and browning with a few minor tears not affecting the map in very good condition. Based on a Rand McNally map and issued less than two months after the bombing of Pearl Harbour by the Japanese. The Tribune briskly got to work issuing maps for readers showing the beginnings of the war with Japan. Later maps were also published for sale separately but remarkably few have survived. The map shows "the nearness of our Aleutian Island chain west of Alaska to the islands of Japan. At Dutch Harbor and other points in the Aleutians are actual and potential sea and air bases lying on the shortest route from northwestern United States to Japan." The inset map at lower right situates the areas in the larger map in respect to the countries bordering the North Pacific Ocean. <br> <br>Included with the map is the complete newspaper section from which it is the final full page. Covering sport and the market with half a dozen popular comic strips including "Dick Tracy" and "Little Orphan Annie" it shows a domestic United States a world away from what had been seen as a European War. <br> <br>". the historic Chicago Tribune was an innovator in color inks and printing but also a pioneer in bringing colorful art in the form of illustrations photographs cartoons and advertisements to the average person in an everyday medium." see The Janet A. Ginsburg Chicago Tribune Collection Michigan State University Libraries." . Chicago Daily Tribune. unknown
1942180751Chicago.: Chicago Daily Tribune. Friday June 51942. Printed colour map on a single newspaper leaf 37.5 x 53.2 cm; 44.7 x 59.8 cm sheet inset legend marginal browning and at the folds some undulation of paper and tide mark along lower section but in remarkably bright very good condition. Strategic map published in the Chicago Daily Tribune "The World's Greatest Newspaper" on June 5th 1942 two days after the Japanese attack on Dutch Harbor the site of the US army and navy bases in the Aleutians and as it transpired at the outset of the Battle of MIdway. The owner and proprietor of the Tribune Robert McCormick was staunchly against the United States entering the war and had firm views once it had occurred that American resources should not be used defending the British Empire. Famously the Tribune published the "Victory Program" Roosevelt’s military plan to prepare the United States for possible entry into World War II and was subject to prosecution for an alleged violation of the Espionage Act relating to the newspaper’s front-page account of the Battle of Midway 4-7 June 1942. It became an important test case for the limits of free speech and censorship during war-time. <br> <br>The Legend shows territorial Control of Ocean Areas marking Japanese Naval and Air bases as of 1941 and "according to latest reports" those established in the first six months of 1942. Also shown are pre-war sovereignties as at the bombing of Pearl Harbour on December 7th 1941. The Anson Archipelago is shown but a question mark "indicates islands etc. whose existence or give position is doubtful…". . Chicago Daily Tribune. unknown
1935214827Tokyo.: Nihon-Kenkyusha. 1935. Large folding colour map of Japan 74.3 x 105 cms; folding into printed card covers 27 x 19.5 cms: 9 insets: Chosen Korea; Hokkaido; Chisima Islands; General Map of Japan and Manchuokuo; Karafuto Saghalien; Okinawa Loochoo; Taiwan Formosa; Micronesia; Ogasawara; Hajijoshima; the covers a litle worn and marked and the sheet slightly toned but the map is in very bright clean condition. Scarce World War II era map of Japan including Korea published in English by Kenkyusha. Founded in 1907 it had a history of publishing for students of English and the English market. An attractively composed map in remarkbable condition; with the insets circled around the islands of Japan heights marked in graduations from green to red and showing provinces railways roads steamer routes Buddhist and Shinto Temples. . Nihon-Kenkyusha. unknown
1942180782Chicago.: Chicago Daily Tribune. April 211942. Printed colour map on a single newspaper leaf 37.5 x 53.2 cm; 60 x 45 x 59.6 cm sheet marginal browning and at the folds but remarkably bright in very good condition. World War II map of Asia save for Japan showing British allies colonies and lines of supply and marking Japanese territorial occupation published in the Chicago Daily Tribune "The World's Greatest Newspaper" in April 1942. <br>"The Indian Ocean and the Bay of Bengal are the strategic waters in this campaign in which the occupied parts of Burma and the Andaman Islands serve as bases" caption <br>". the historic Chicago Tribune was an innovator in color inks and printing but also a pioneer in bringing colorful art in the form of illustrations photographs cartoons and advertisements to the average person in an everyday medium." see The Janet A. Ginsburg Chicago Tribune Collection Michigan State University Libraries. . Chicago Daily Tribune. unknown
1619180757Chicago.: Chicago Daily Tribune. December 161942. Printed colour map on a single newspaper leaf 41.6 x 52.8 cm; 45 x 60 cm sheet inset legends marginal browning and at the folds but remarkably bright in very good condition. Map of Southeast Asia published in the Chicago Daily Tribune "The World's Greatest Newspaper" delineating the Pacific theatre of war with a detailed text legend. "This is a new war map of the far east showing an important part of southeastern Asia and Australasian waters from a station in which according to Prime Minister Curtin of Australia a United States fleet will operate." Interestingly New Guinea is marked as British rather than as an Australian administrative region which it became following the Treaty of Versailles. <br> <br>"… the historic Chicago Tribune was an innovator in color inks and printing but also a pioneer in bringing colorful art in the form of illustrations photographs cartoons and advertisements to the average person in an everyday medium." see The Janet A. Ginsburg Chicago Tribune Collection Michigan State University Libraries. . Chicago Daily Tribune. unknown
1942180760Chicago.: Chicago Daily Tribune. January 91942. Printed colour map on a single newspaper leaf 37.2 x 53.4 cm; 45 x 59.9 cm sheet inset legend marginal browning and at the folds lower margin with small edges tears not affecting the caption but remarkably bright in very good condition. Rare map of Asia "Between Suez on the west and Shanghai on the east" showing territorial interests and theatres of war published in the Chicago Daily Tribune in January 1942 barely two months after the Uniited States had joined the war effort after the bombing of Pearl Harbour. Thailand and Vietnam "French Indo-China" are marked "Occupied by the Japanese" and north-eastern China similarly marked Iran "Anglo-Russian Occupation" and the Gulf states "British Ally". The caption notes that "The map inludes waters thru which runs the British life line from the Suez canal to remote Australia and New Zealand. Nearly half the people in the world live in the lands shown on this map--more than 450 million for example in China and more than 375 million in India". <br> <br>". the historic Chicago Tribune was an innovator in color inks and printing but also a pioneer in bringing colorful art in the form of illustrations photographs cartoons and advertisements to the average person in an everyday medium." see The Janet A. Ginsburg Chicago Tribune Collection Michigan State University Libraries. . Chicago Daily Tribune. unknown
1941180789Chicago.: Chicago Daily Tribune. December 121941. Printed colour map on a single newspaper leaf 41.5 x 53 cm; 45.1 x 59.9 cm sheet three inset maps of the Japanese Empire; Taiwan and Ryukyu Islands; and Hokkaido and Chisima marginal browning and at the central fold but remarkably bright in very good condition. Map of the Japanese Empire ominously titled published in the Chicago Daily Tribune one week after the bombing of Pearl Harbour. Prefectures are attractively coloured. <br> <br>Based on a Rand McNally map the Tribune briskly got to work issuing maps for readers showing the beginnings of the war with Japan. Later maps were also published for sale separately but remarkably few have survived. <br>". the historic Chicago Tribune was an innovator in color inks and printing but also a pioneer in bringing colorful art in the form of illustrations photographs cartoons and advertisements to the average person in an everyday medium." see The Janet A. Ginsburg Chicago Tribune Collection Michigan State University Libraries. . Chicago Daily Tribune. unknown
1619180755Chicago.: Chicago Daily Tribune. December 161941. Printed colour map on a single newspaper leaf 50 x 41.5 cm; 60 x 45 cm sheet two inset legends marginal browning and at the folds but remarkably bright in very good condition. Map of the Japanese Empire published in the Chicago Daily Tribune "The World's Greatest Newspaper" on December 16th 1941 9 days after the bombing of Pearl Harbour. The two legends list the "Wars of Modern Japan" from 1894 with territorial gains marked noting that "Each seizure of mainland areas has given Japan new field of raw materials." <br> <br>"… the historic Chicago Tribune was an innovator in color inks and printing but also a pioneer in bringing colorful art in the form of illustrations photographs cartoons and advertisements to the average person in an everyday medium." see The Janet A. Ginsburg Chicago Tribune Collection Michigan State University Libraries. . Chicago Daily Tribune. unknown
1519180794Chicago.: Chicago Daily Tribune. January 151942. Printed colour map on a single newspaper leaf 53 x 40.7 cm; 59.8 x 45 cm sheet inset text box marginal browning and at the folds but remarkably bright in very good condition. WWII map of China showing most of China Indo-China Thailand and Korea with territory captured and controlled by Japan shaded in orange and red published by the Chicago Daily Tribune barely six weeks after the bombing of Pearl Harbour. The text on the map reads "Since 1937 China has been at war with Japan. Lacking many essentials of war the Chinese nevertheless have managed to maintain a front against the aggressors. China's principal life line is the Burma road shown on the map which starts at Lashio Burma and extends to Kunming Yunnan province where it links with connections to Chunking the present Chinese capital". <br> <br>Based on a Rand McNally map the Tribune briskly got to work issuing maps for readers showing the beginnings of the war with Japan. Later maps were also published for sale separately but remarkably few have survived. <br>"… the historic Chicago Tribune was an innovator in color inks and printing but also a pioneer in bringing colorful art in the form of illustrations photographs cartoons and advertisements to the average person in an everyday medium." see The Janet A. Ginsburg Chicago Tribune Collection Michigan State University Libraries. . Chicago Daily Tribune. unknown
1952215851大陸輿地社. 1952. Charming pocket size atlas with double page coloured map showing China as a whole and the provinces with inset maps of special geographical features and a description of key information about each province vertical text. Text in traditional Chinese characters names on map read from right to left or vertically. Light wear little light browning but maps very clean and bright very good condition 14.5 x 9.8cm. . 大陸輿地社. unknown
1955172396No publication details. Circa1955. Chinese black and white military map of Japan based on a map issued by 赤旗報 Shimbun Akahata on 24 June 1953. No scale given inset map of Hokkaido upper left corner legend lower section showing air and navy bases military exercise bases ammunition dump shooting ranges for the air force and navy headquarters of the coast guard etc. Text upper section provides details of the different types of US military bases and infrastructure. Text in traditional Chinese. 25.8 x 35.8cm. . No publication details. unknown
1922171899京都. Kyoto.: 山中書房. Yamanaka Shobō. 大正 11 1922. Attractive colour folding map of Kyoto with a quite detailed illustrated tourist guide printed in blue and white on the reverse some light browning holes at some folds good copy. 78.5 x 54cm This 1922 colour folding tourist map of Kyoto offers sightseeing information each panel showing a photographic monochrome image of the site discussed. <br> <br>The two inset maps on the Kyoto map show Otsu city on the shore of Lake Biwa and the Arashiyama area north of Kyoto. The main map highlights the major temples and famous sights in red geographic features such as rivers and hills are shown and an inset chart shows distances of sights from the nearby stations. The information on the reverse gives more detail on the famous sights a calendar of events seasonal highlights and details of the Imperial graves around Kyoto. . 山中書房. [Yamanaka Shobō]. unknown
1333598327.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
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1915015456Antwerpen: Willem Seghers Litho-Grav. 1915. Map. Good. Unframed. First Edition. 120x86cm. A substantial map 120 x 86cm colour printed in two halves and joined on the back. A few edge tears and a few splits to the central folds a couple of splits repaired to the verso with paper tape several light creases. A good copy. Seemingly scarce. Willem Seghers, Litho-Grav. unknown
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