Phoney War Map of the Maginot & Siegfried Lines Date of Publication_1517 Map of Cardiganshire from “the

Map of Cardiganshire from “the rarest edition of Blaeu’s Large Atlases”: only ten of the proposed eleven volumes were completed and issued in a limited quantity between 1658 and the the 1672 fire

vol IV has a tipped in slip

The outline of the Crimean peninsular becomes a puff of smoke - an ingenious use of cartography

sheet size 78 x 53 cm

Phoney War Map of the Maginot & Siegfried Lines Date of Publication_1517 Map of Cardiganshire from “theDe Maginot En Siegfried Line. Met alle steden, germeenten, spoorwegen, verstingen en versterkingen, bosschen, heuvels, enz. This map was published during the Phoney War, when Belgium and the Netherlands had both proclaimed their neutrality and most observers anticipated a drawn out conflict on the continent as there had been between 1914 18. British newspapers began publishing new war maps of the Western Front. The costly chain of French