Bird's Eye View of the Far East.: Geographicus Rare Antique Maps
1904 (undated) Description This is a finely executed George Washington Bacon and NIC's chromolithograph bird's-eye view of the theater of the Russo-Japanese War (1904 - 1905). Presented as a Bird's eye view and centered on Vladivostok, the view covers from the Arctic to Shanghai and from China to Kamchatka. The focus is on Japan, Korea, and Manchuria, the seat of the Russo-Japanese War. In the lower right, Japanese gunships and battleships prepare for war. This view and map was issued early in the war, just following the Japanese Imperial Navy attack on the Russian Far East Fleet...
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