Our Own Baedeker ~Catalog 56~ Image size 8 x 6

Image size 8 x 6

This map from a set that were initially published in 1837 and became so scarce that it warrented the government to reprint them again in 1860

up to the Arctic Ocean

Pechanmant Rosette

and immediately identifiable

Our Own Baedeker ~Catalog 56~ Image size 8 x 6Our Own Baedeker from the New Yorker. A fun world war two era travel book for the world done solely for comic purposes complimented by comic maps and illustrations done by illustrator Carl Rose. Numerous single page maps are ornate little pictorial maps that play off regional culture, and war ear tensions. Italy, Germany, Japan all have a lot of war allusions, complete with the title cartouche for Japan showing a sketch of a Japanese royal bowing to