[ Tunisia Campaign, Second World War. ] Set of twenty-two printed coloured fold-out GSGS British Army maps of Tunisia, with index. With covering Autograph Note Signed from Vincent Jones to military historian Barrie Pitt.

Author: 
Captain Vincent Duncan Jones, 6th Armoured Division, British Army [ Tunisia Campaign [ Battle of Tunisia; Run for Tunis ] 1942-1943, in the Second World War North Africa Campaign ] [ Barrie Pitt ]
Publication details: 
GSGS [ Geographical Section, General Staff ]. Without date or place. [ Circa 1940 and 1941. ]
£400.00
SKU: 17399

Twenty-one of the twenty-two maps are stapled into a buff card folder, bearing on the cover, in manuscript: Maj. V. S. Duncan-Jones. | Tunisia | 1/200,000'. The twenty-second map loosely inserted, as is Jones's autograph letter to Pitt. In fair condition, with light signs of age and wear. The bound maps, all of which are in colour and all around 50 x 33 cm., are numbered in pencil 1 to 23, with 16 and 20 lacking. They depict: Tabarka (2nd edition); Bizerte and Cap Bon (3rd edition, two maps, one on each side of the sheet); Cap Bon (2nd edition); Souk el Arba (2nd edition); Tunis (2nd edition); La Goulette (2nd edition); Le Kef (2nd edition); Maktar (2nd edition); Sousse (2nd edition); Thala (2nd edition); Kairouan (3rd edition); El Djem (2nd edition); Feriana (3rd edition); Sbeitla (2nd edition); Sfax (2nd edition); Gafsa (2nd edition); El Ayacha (2nd edition); Mahares (2nd edition); Tozeur (2nd edition); Kebili (2nd edition); Gabes (2nd edition). Jones's covering ANS to Pitt, 1p., 4to, on his letterhead and from 89 Defoe House, Barbican [ London ], 20 July 1976.