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COMIC MAP ROSE (FREDERICK W.) Angling in Troubled Waters - A Serio-Comic Map of Europe, G.W. Bacon, 1899
23 March 2022, 12:00 GMT
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £612 inc. premium
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COMIC MAP
ROSE (FREDERICK W.) Angling in Troubled Waters - A Serio-Comic Map of Europe, chromolithographed pictorial map, tears to folds some folds split, 3 small areas of loss to image (in body of Tsar, and touching letters of "Port Arthur"), old paper adhered to blank area beside title area, old tape repair along margins and folds on verso, folding into original printed wrappers, printed label ("R. Lechner... Univ. Buchandl") on upper cover, sheet size 545 x 760mm., G.W. Bacon, 1899
Footnotes
A celebrated anthropomorphic comic map summarizing the political landscape and expansionist aspirations of the European powers at the end of the nineteenth century, Tsar Nicholas II of Russia looming largest.