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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;wlwhittier, post: 4495846, member: 76316&quot;]Yep, roughly the same size. And, due to both of them being about Africa, there&#039;s a good chance they are from the same volume.</p><p>However, as in many older books with large illustrations, their size isn&#039;t limited by page size; these two maps show fold creases, and I strongly suspect they may have been tipped-in along a short linear portion of an edge, and so occupied a smaller published &#039;footprint&#039; within the volume than their full, opened size. Alternatively, some books included paper pouches or pockets to contain such auxilliary maps, etc.</p><p><br /></p><p>Other maps I will subsequently show in this forum, of roughly the same age and of Africa &amp; other parts of the globe, are similarly creased.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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