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WORLD WAR TWO – 512 Field Survey Company, Royal Engineers. M.T. Route Map - Egypt, Palestine & Syria. Second edition. [Cairo:] M[iddle East] D[rawing and] R[eproduction] Misc. 8048, December 1944.
Exceptionally rare diagrammatic map enabling British military drivers to navigate their way around the Middle East theatre. Colour-coded routes give details of the road surfaces of various routes, while city plans show through routes and nearest fuel stops. Staging posts are colour-coded too, indicating the availability of water, fuel and signals communications. 'Highly malarious areas' are shaded pink, and includes the whole of the Nile delta and the Jordan Valley. We have only been able to trace 4 copies in institutions (British Library, Oxford, Bartholomew Archive, NLS, and Alexander Turnbull Library, New Zealand).
Folding chromolithographic map of Egypt, Palestine, Transjordan and Syria to the scale of 1:1,000,000 (855 x 1105mm). Marked 'Restricted' in top left-hand corner, 14 inset plans of cities and junctions, colour-coded keys 'Road surface details of various routes,' 'Table of route mileages' and 'Reference' (some uneven creasing along creasefolds, a couple of tiny holes at fold joins, light soiling in lower margin just into image, 2 very minor tears along creasefolds, minor creasing at corners, a few very small pinholes). Provenance: small ink calculation in middle of map.
Exceptionally rare diagrammatic map enabling British military drivers to navigate their way around the Middle East theatre. Colour-coded routes give details of the road surfaces of various routes, while city plans show through routes and nearest fuel stops. Staging posts are colour-coded too, indicating the availability of water, fuel and signals communications. 'Highly malarious areas' are shaded pink, and includes the whole of the Nile delta and the Jordan Valley. We have only been able to trace 4 copies in institutions (British Library, Oxford, Bartholomew Archive, NLS, and Alexander Turnbull Library, New Zealand).
Folding chromolithographic map of Egypt, Palestine, Transjordan and Syria to the scale of 1:1,000,000 (855 x 1105mm). Marked 'Restricted' in top left-hand corner, 14 inset plans of cities and junctions, colour-coded keys 'Road surface details of various routes,' 'Table of route mileages' and 'Reference' (some uneven creasing along creasefolds, a couple of tiny holes at fold joins, light soiling in lower margin just into image, 2 very minor tears along creasefolds, minor creasing at corners, a few very small pinholes). Provenance: small ink calculation in middle of map.
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