Phoney War Map of the Maginot & Siegfried Lines Date of Publication_1517 Green publisher’s cloth with Survey

Green publisher’s cloth with Survey of India crest (pre- and post-Independence according to date) blocked in gilt on the front covers

Heschyii ill

the figures in the foreground wear fashionable early 18th century dress and the text beneath describes the destruction caused by the Great Fire of 1666

featuring a ‘thermos flask’ shaped Circle Line

Map of Cardiganshire from “the rarest edition of Blaeu’s Large Atlases”: only ten of the proposed eleven volumes were completed and issued in a limited quantity between 1658 and the the 1672 fire

Phoney War Map of the Maginot & Siegfried Lines Date of Publication_1517 Green publisher’s cloth with SurveyDe Maginot En Siegfried Line. Met alle steden, germeenten, spoorwegen, verstingen en versterkingen, bosschen, heuvels, enz. This map was published during the Phoney War, when Belgium and the Netherlands had both proclaimed their neutrality and most observers anticipated a drawn out conflict on the continent as there had been between 1914 18. British newspapers began publishing new war maps of the Western Front. The costly chain of French