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G.S.G.S. Short Glossaries for use on foreign maps. A seemingly complete run, as per the list on the rear pastedown, of these official short-lists of foreign language topographical and descriptive terms to assist in the interpretation of Geographical Section, General Staff maps, together constituting an excellent period cartographic resource. The majority of these copies are first editions, some provisional issues, where stated the print-runs are 10,000, but nonetheless they remain decidedly uncommon."This collection of short loose-leaf glossaries has been compiled from official maps of the countries concerned. It does not attempt to be a complete list of all terms found on maps... neither the time nor the labour has been available. The Glossaries do, however, claim to cover the more usual and essential foreign terms which are likely to be found on maps, and for which the map reader does require to know the English equivalent" (intro.).The glossaries collected here are first editions and 1943 unless otherwise stated - Albania, Second Edition, 1946; Arabic, 1947; Burmese, 1945; Bulgarian, 1944; Chinese; Czech and Slovak; Danish, 1944; Dutch; Estonian, Provisional; Finnish; French; Indo-Chinese Languages A. Romanized Annamese, 1945; B Romanized Thai (Laos & Tonkin), Provisional 1945; C. Romanized Khmer, Provisional, 1945; German; Greek; Hungarian; Icelandic, 1944; Italian; Japanese, Provisional; Latvian, Provisional; Lithuanian, Provisional; Malay (A) in English Orthography; Mal

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