War Office Map of Anglo-Egyptian Sudan Printed Area Measurement_47 x 38.5 cm sheet size

War Office Map of Anglo-Egyptian Sudan Printed Area Measurement_47 x 38.5 cm sheet sizeFirst published in 1914, this revised edition highlights administrative boundaries. Though technically administered jointly by Egypt and Britain between 1899 and 1956, todays Sudan and South Sudan were effectively ruled as a Crown Colony. The Sudan Political Service, often considered the elite of the British colonial civil servants in Africa, never employed more than 150 Europeans at once. Condition & Materials Folding lithographically printed map of

vetus descriptio

distinguished local historical figures with their coats of arms

“a fragment of that older and more beautiful world”

this appears to be the first published edition with no revisions or corrections

District within ¼ mile radius [of] Paddington Praed Street

original hand colour

Prague remained under Austrian control until the collapse of the Holy Roman Empire during the First World War

Folding lithographically printed map of Anglo-Egyptian Sudan

Roughly contemporary with the Great Siege of 1779-1782

wiping out innumerable fortunes after a period of intense speculation

Though described in the title as a road map of France

near Cuneo in Piedmont