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American occupation of Iceland by G. H. Davis

The USA in European waters: American occupation of Iceland during the Second World War. A detailed relief map of Iceland, its fjords and mountains, showing distances from America, Greenland and Britain. Another map showing its position in relation to other countries. Date: 1941

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Old Map of Sweden and Norway 1852 by Henry George Collins

This is a finely detailed map of Sweden and Norway remastered from a rare Atlas of the World published in 1852 by Henry George Collins. Although these Henry Collins produced maps of the highest quality in his time unfortunately not the same could be said in terms of his business success. His maps were later obtained by the famous Stanford Map Company and used in their publications

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Map of Prussia, c1872. Creator: Unknown

Map of Prussia, c1872. Showing the various regions including Holstein, Hanover, Westphalia, Lower Rhine, Lorraine, Nassau, Cassel, Saxony, Brandedburg, Silesia, Pomerania, West Prussia, East Prussia and Posen. From "The Franco-Prussian War: its causes, incidents and consequences", Volume I, by Captain H M Hozier. [William Mackenzie, London, 1872]

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