War Office: France: Amiens 17 (1916)

£12.15

Ordnance Survey. Paperback. Folding cloth-backed 1:100,000 British Army map. Geographical Section, General Staff No. 2364. War Office October 1915, Ordnance Survey 1916. Settlements include Amiens, Peronne, Noyon, Roye, north of map is of Amiens sector of River Somme. Google John Cruickshank, “Small scale maps of the Western front” for an excellent overview of British Army/Ordnance Survey mapping during the First World War.

Condition: Used – Very Good. Mild discolouration, fading of covers, cover signed “W Lake”. ISBN: none. Box MC13

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From the library of the archaeologist Arthur ApSimon (1927-2019). Reminiscences and obituaries in Salon (Society of Antiquaries), Mike Pitts’ Digging Deeper, Proceedings of the University of Bristol Spelæological Society, Cornish Archaeology (paywall).

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A watercolour of Stonehenge by the young Arthur ApSimon.

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