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Colour photolithograph, on 6 untrimmed and un-joined sheets of thick paper, housed in decorative printed paper sleave bearing blindstamp of the Depósito de la Guerra , rolling into original crimson tube bearing title in silver lettering (Very Good, clean and bright with lovely colours, just a small hole to outer blank margins and light creasing to extremities of map sheets, sleave with a few minor marginal repairs, tube worn with some surface loss to one end), each map sheet: 60 x 79.5 cm (23.5 x 31.5 inches), if sheets trimmed and joined would form a map measuring approximately: 100 x 205 cm (39.5 x 80.5 inches) MOROCCO (SPANISH / NORTHERN) / RIF WAR: An extraordinarily beautiful and monumental production (over 2 metres wide!), being an official map of Spanish Morocco (comprising the far north of the country), produced by the General Staff of the Spanish Army to celebrate their triumph in the recent Rif War (1921-6), during which Franco-Spanish forces (with great difficulty) suppressed a Berber mass insurgency; surmounted by a grand cartouche with the Spanish royal arms, with resplendent colouring and a wealth of detail, the map is predicated upon the best and most recent scientific surveys, making it both decorative and practically useful a stellar example with the original crimson, silver-lettered tube in which it was issued. - This is almost certainly the most beautiful and impressive map ever made of Spanish Morocco. It was created in December 1927 by the Cuerpo de Estado Mayor del Ejército (General Staff of the Spanish Army) and printed in Madrid by the Talleres del Depósito de la Guerra, the army s publishing division. The giant 6 sheet map (that if joined would measure approximately 100 x 205 cm) is surmounted by flamboyant cartouche featuring the Spanish royal arms and is executed to an ample scale of 1:200,000. The photolithography employed is of the top quality and the colours are resplendent, while the topography is predicated upon the best and most recent scientific surveys. Thus, the map, being both decorative and practically useful, was clearly intended to be a graphic manifestation of Spain s triumph in the Rif War. The map features a vast wealth of detail, as explained in the Signos , in upper left corner of Sheet 3, featuring the symbols used to identify European towns; Moroccan villages; souks; mosques; isolated houses; military positions or European camps; aerodromes; lighthouses; anchorages; Moroccan tent encampments; roads; highways; railways; bridges; the Line of the 1912 Treaty; district boundaries; contour lines (at 50 metre intervals); rivers; arroyos; lagoons, swamps, canals; springs; wells; and Officinas de Intervención (Spanish colonial offices). The chart of Abreviaturas below explains the shorthand used to describe topographical terms. PLEASE SEE OUR WEB PAGE FOR A LONGER DESCRIPTION. Seller Inventory # 70822
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