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TRAVEL, ATLASES AND MAPS
Lot 24

COMIC MAP
ROSE (FREDERICK W.) John Bull and His Friends. A Serio-Comic Map of Europe, G.W. Bacon, 1900

1 December 2021, 12:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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COMIC MAP

ROSE (FREDERICK W.) John Bull and His Friends. A Serio-Comic Map of Europe, chromolithographed pictorial map, inset map of Europe, splitting at a few folds, old tape repairs on verso (resulting in some discolouring on recto), one ragged tear in lower blank area, folding into original printed wrappers, sheet size 532 x 725, G.W. Bacon, 1900

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A pictorial map depicing the Russian Empire as a vast octopus (with the face of Nicholas II) reaching across the continent and beyond - "China feels the power of her suckers, and two of her tentacles are invidiously creeping towards Persia and Afghanistan".

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