First Map of the Soviet Gulags British Empire Exhibition Roberts toured Egypt

Roberts toured Egypt

published by Henri Estienne and his son Paul

54 x 60 cm

the City & South London Railway and the Great Northern & City Railway (the first two purchased by the UERL and the latter by the Metropolitan Railway

map of Yemen engraved by Defehrt after Martin

First Map of the Soviet Gulags British Empire Exhibition Roberts toured EgyptThis important map of the Gulag, the Soviet system of forced labour camps, is seemingly the earliest published example of what was to become one of the most widely circulated pieces of anti Communist literature. It was published in a work titled, with heavy irony, Sprawiedliwosc Sowiecka (Soviet Justice), which was also published as La Justice Sovietique and Giustizia Sovietica. There was no English edition, but English may have been chosen as a