- Map
- Used
Seller: Julian Wilson Rare Books, London, United KingdomJulian Wilson Rare Books
AbeBooks seller since September 18, 2025
Condition: Used - Very good
£ 45.00
Quantity: 1 available
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An unidentified Russian map from the Second World War with Soviet troop movements indicated in red chinagraph pencil. Despite researches in various library databases, we cannot trace a Russian map that matches this scale and size. It is also interestingly annotated, with Soviet advances through Poland westward from Rzeszów indicated marked as moving slightly north to take Wroclaw, before swinging south to Pardubice in modern-day Czech Republic. A ring of red circles to the south-east of Berlin indicates the Red Army's intentions, although there are other red circles further west in Germany, including Nuremburg and Stuttgart. Most other western cities are circled in black ink, although Bremen is also ringed in red with what looks like an arrow of advance pointing towards Hamburg. Cities to the north east along the Baltic coast and extending further south along the pre-war Polish-German border are also ringed in black ink. Lithographic map (293 x 342mm), extending from Sylt in the north to Klagenfurth in the south, and from Aachen in the west to Rzeszów in the east, pre-Second World War international boundaries marked with black shading, scale of 1:1,600,000. (Sometime folded and repaired with extensive old paper repairs on verso, faint creasing, soiling and occasional abrasion and fading with associated loss of a few letters, small chip to north-west corner with loss of border but mainly affected blank North Sea area.) Provenance: Ilya Parafina (ownership inscription in pencil on verso) - markings in red chinagraph pencil and black ink.…
Seller Inventory # 1027
Bibliographic details
- Title
- Карта Германии [Map of Germany in Russian].
- Author
- Anonymous
- Publication year
- 1944
- Condition
- Very good
- Language
- Russian
Julian Wilson Rare Books
London, United Kingdom
AbeBooks seller since September 18, 2025
Shipping rates from United Kingdom to U.S.A.
| Item | 14 to 45 business days | 5 to 10 business days |
|---|---|---|
| First item | £ 4.10 | £ 8.85 |
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Welcome to Julian Wilson Rare Books. With nearly 30 years’ experience in handling rare and antiquarian books, atlases and maps, we offer specialist knowledge of travel, natural history and science, especially geology and geological maps, as well as manuscripts, archives, prints, drawings and topographical art. Julian started his career in the world of antiquarian books when he joined Maggs Bros Ltd in 1997, apprenticed under the late John Collins in the Natural History department. In 2008, Julian took the opportunity to join Christie’s as a Specialist, later becoming Associate Director and Senior Specialist in the King Street Book Department. He has handled many important works in diverse subjects over the years, including a complete subscriber’s set of John Gould’s magnificent ornithological books, a fine coloured copy of the complete first edition of Gerard Mercator’s Atlas, 1585-1595, a pair of John Russell’s extremely scarce prints of the moon, two copies of Mendel’s offprint on genetics and the laws of inheritance, a beautiful example of the famous Chinese ‘Blue Map’, Complete Geographical Map of the Great Qing Dynasty, and Marx’s presentation copy of Das Kapital to his cousin. He has also enjoyed being involved with non-book items, such as an Apple-1 computer and an Enigma machine. Over the past decade, Julian has grown and developed successful sales of photographs, maps, posters and other ephemera relating to major 20th-century geo-political events, tying into his life-long interest with TE Lawrence. Julian also has a fascination with paleontology, geology and the earth sciences, and has helped catalogue a major private collection on the subject. In January 2025, after 17 years at Christie’s, Julian stepped away from the auction world to create his new independent dealership. …
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Travel, natural history, science, maps, atlasesSeller's business information
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