May 29 at 12:00 PM - Sale 2706 -

Sale 2706 - Lot 195

Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
(POLAND -- PICTORIAL.) Eliasz Kanarek; and Tadeusz Lipski. Poloniae Regni Amplissimi in quo Abundantiam Silvarum Paradisum Venatorum nec non Naturae ad Vetustarum Divitatum Amoenissimos Prospectus. Offset color-printed map of Poland, wonderfully and densely illustrating her natural appeal. 13½x18 inches sheet size; small stains, mounted on thick board precluding the visibility of printed matter on verso. Warsaw, 1938

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Printed by the Polish State Forestry Board for free distribution at the 1939 New York World's Fair, the map is scarce today as circulation was halted and most copies destroyed following German and Soviet objection to the veiled inclusion of armed figures threatening invasion at the west and east borders.