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Manuscript geographical maps

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Twenty-five geographical maps handwritten on color cardboard, depicting areas of Italy and Europe but also the other continents make up a short and peculiar collection composed by General Otto Campini (1), probably as an aid to his Military Tactics lessons. Drawn up between Senigallia and Turin, they cover the period between April and July 1909.

  1. France – Senigallia, 3 April 1909.
  2. Germany Thuringia – Czechoslovakia, Senigallia 4 April 1909.
  3. East Germany, Senigallia 6 April 1909.
  4. North-eastern Germany, Senigallia 7 April 1909.
  5. Sarmatian Lowland, Senigallia, 10 May 1909.
  6. Spain, Senigallia 10 May 1909.
  7. Sweden-Norway, Senigallia, 11 May 1909.
  8. Asia, Senigallia 13 May 1909.
  9. Africa, Senigallia 14 May 1909.
  10. North America, Senigallia 22 May 1909.
  11. Australia, Turin 7 June 1909.
  12. Hills included in the territory delimited between Turin-Bra-Basta-Savona-La Spezia-Parma-Alessandria, Turin 12 June 1909.
  13. Hills included in the territory between Viareggio on the Tyrrhenian coast and Fano on the Adriatic coast, Turin 13 June 1909.
  14. Umbrian hills, Turin 13 June 1909.
  15. Hills between Camerino-Macerata-Aquila-Ortona, Turin 15 June 1909.
  16. Policastro, Lago Negro, Le Murgie, Turin 17 June 1909.
  17. Hills between Eboli and Torremare, Turin 17 June 1909.
  18. Calabria, Turin 19 June 1909.
  19. From Cadibona to Colle del Mercante, Turin 22 June 1909.
  20. Colli Trentini, Turin 25 June 1909.
  21. From Locarno to Bolzano, Turin 24 June 1909.
  22. From Freiburg to the Toggenburg Alps, Turin 24 June 1909.
  23. Alps and plain in Lombardy, Turin 25 June 1909.
  24. From the Bavarian Oberland to Switzerland, Turin 27 June 1909.
  25. From the Gail Alps to Fiamona, Turin 3 July 1909.



Note:
1) Otto Campini is the owner of a bibliographic fund and an archive that belong to the heritage of the Giuseppe Grosso Library of History and Culture of Piedmont. Additional information about it can be found on other pages of this website.