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A complete set of 6 colour maps in fine condition, folded down to 13x22cm with title panels and sheet index to the fronts. These were first compiled in 1962 from the World 1/1M Series 1301, revised, and variously printed during 1963-68 as follows: (1) United Arab Republic, 10-68, 100x101cm with insets for Cairo, Alexandria, Asyut, Suez, Ismailia // (2) Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Jordan, 10-68, 91x101cm with insets for Damascus, Aleppo, Beirut, Jerusalem, and Amman // (3) Iran, Iraq, Turkey, 12-63, 100x87cm with insets for Al Mawsil, Tehran, Tabriz, Baghdad, and Isfahan // (4) Iran, Afghanistan, USSR, 3-64, 99x86cm with inset for Mashhad // (5) Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait (also including Bahrain and northern Qatar), 5-64, 99x86cm with insets for Basrah, Abadan, and Ahvaz // (6) Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan (also including Trucial States and northern Muscat and Oman), 7-64, 99x86cm. Features include international and military boundaries, 5 road types, oil pipelines and pumping stations, rail, airports and airstrips, drainage, relief, explanatory notes, and an Arabic-English glossary. The versos repeat the main map in b/w on a 1/1.5M scale with distinctive areas demarcated and described in detail (as sand dunes, cultivated plains etc). It also contains military focused phrases, requesting help, water, the location of soldiers etc (in English, Arabic, Persian, Russian, Turkish, and Azeri Turkish varying based on the coverage), and hours of darkness.
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