STANFORD

STANFORD’S

POPULAR MAP OF THE SEAT OF WAR IN THE EAST,

Turkey in Europe and Asia, Greece, the Black Sea,the Adjacent Parts of Austria, Russia &c.; Egypt, Cairo and Suez, on the south; the Caspian Sea on the East; and Venice, Rome and Malata on the West.

Published by Edward Stanford, London, 1877

The long title is from the front panel. The map itself is simply titled “Stanford’s Popular Map of the Seat of War”. Colour folding map 68 x 50cm dissected in 18 sections mounted on linen, folding into the original red cloth case 12 x 18cm with Stanford’s printed label to the front and advert for Stanford’s Series of New Library Maps to inner panels. Map very good, tanned with some spotting, creased to the lower right corner. Case good, marked, with partial splits and minor loss to spine cloth. Undated, c1877, dating to the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-78, which weakened and diminished the Ottoman Empire. Scale approx 1:5,000,000. Features include railways, submarine telegraph lines, and relief shown by hachures.