General Map Of Egypt
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Original vintage map of Egypt by A. Nicohosoff, issued in Alexandria, Egypt in c.1940. This World War II folding map of Lower and Upper Egypt is still in its original cover, and it shows the road and railway system, canals and drains, landing grounds for aeroplanes and the limit of arable land. The map was drafted by Alexandere Nicohosoff, an engineer and the proprietor of the Establissement des Arts Graphique, one of Egypt's leading publishers of maps and guides from around 1920 to 1950. During this era, Alexandria was one of the most fashionable and cosmopolitan cities in the world, the haunt of writers, adventurers and business magnates. The present map was made in the first half of World War II, when Egypt (a British Protectorate) was fighting off a German invasion led by General Erwin Rommel's famed Afrikakorps. At the climax of the harrowing Western Desert Campaign, the British Allied armies under Generals Harold Alexander and Bernard Montgomery decisively defeated the Germans at the Second Battle of El Alamein (23 October 23 - November 11, 1942), saving Egypt for the remainder of the war. The present map is scarce and rare. A large map with no notes or highlighting.
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