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[GEOGRAPHICAL SECTION GENERAL STAFF].

Persia and Afghanistan.

Persia and Afghanistan.

Stock Code 117492

[London], War Office, April, 1903.

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A wonderful map of Central Asia showing Persia and Afghanistan at the denouement of the Great Game. This map was published just 8 months before the departure of the Younghusband expedition in December 1903 and shows the Trans-Caspian Railway along the border of Russia through Samarkand and Bokhara to Baku. The Anglo-Russian Entente would be signed in 1907 effectively ending the Great Game and securing Russia's advancement up to the Iranian and Afghani borders.

Lithographed folding map printed in colours, 88.5 x 59.5 cm. dissected into 18 sheets mounted on linen, scale 1 inch to 64 miles, original brown cloth lettered in gilt, a very good copy.

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