Stanford's Map of the Siberian Railway, the Great Land Route to China and Korea.

by STANFORD, Edward.

$1,037 · Offered by Biblio

London: Published by Edward Stanford, 7th August, 1917.. Large colour-lithographed map (75.5 x 115.5 cm) of Russia, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, northern China and Korea with the Railway system and stations printed in red. Dissected into 28 sections and laid onto cloth, folding between publisher's original plum cloth with yellow title-label to upper cover. Some light toning, generally an excellent clean copy in well-preserved cloth covers. The 1917 edition of this long-running map, the working copy of Captain Noël Louis St Pierre Bunbury, a member of Major-General Alfred Knox's British Military Mission to Siberia. Bunbury travelled along the Trans-Siberian Railway between April and November 1919, training White Russian officers and soldiers. Important stops along the railway are marked in blue pencil. Appointed by Lloyd George and Winston Churchill, Knox was a logical choice, being fluent in Russian and having served in St Petersburg in diplomatic posts before the First World War. His mission, running parallel to the deployment of British troops, arrived in Omsk in October 1918. Knox was tasked with organizing Russian units to fight the Bolsheviks and strategically advising Admiral Kolchak, who was installed as Supreme Ruler of Russia at Omsk the following month. Bunbury (1890-1971) served in several campaigns in Waziristan, received the DSO in 1937, and earned promotion to brigadier in the Indian Army in 1941. Between 1943 and 1944, he was aide-de-camp to George VI.

• Publisher: London: Published by Edward Stanford, 7th August, 1917.
• Binding: hardcover

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