Chromolithographed pictorial map (545 x 760 mm), folding into original printed wrappers, printed label ("R. Lechner... Univ. Buchandl") on upper cover (tears to folds, some folds split, 3 small areas of loss to image (in body of Tsar, and touching letters of "Port Arthur"), old paper adhered to blank area beside title area, old tape repair along margins and folds on verso).

A celebrated anthropomorphic comic map summarizing the political landscape and expansionist aspirations of the European powers at the end of the nineteenth century, Tsar Nicholas II of Russia looming largest.