A scarce and fascinating work of early American Cold War propaganda, being a map of the Soviet Union depicting its horrific archipelago of gulags, published in Vienna in 1951 by the U.S. Information Service and directed towards the Austrian audience which was supposedly to be technically ‘neutral’ in the Cold War. Colour printed map, folding into paper covers…
[Plan of St. Petersburg with depictions of Government Buildings, Gardens, Parks, Horse-Railroad Networks, etc.]. Rare – one of the great 19th Century maps of St. Petersburg, exactingly detailed and produced through award-winning techniques of colour lithography, issued by Alexey Ilyin’s Cartographic Establishment, Russia’s premier commercial mapmaker. Lithograph in colour, folding into original bluish-grey printed paper wrappers, with the…
A tourist map of Moscow published in East Berlin in 1959 Colour printing, 38 x 50,5 cm (15 x 20 inches) (soft folds with tiny tears and holes, verso old address, otherwise in a good condition).
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