Garbutt’s 1966 Quad Royal Station Map Jamaica with ‘Egypt and Nubia’

with ‘Egypt and Nubia’

was a founder member of the Royal Geographical Society and was appointed Geographer to both George IV and William IV

postally used with a franked green Edward VII halfpenny stamp

(26 x 19 cms) pp

when Roberts and his party were travelling between Suez and St Catherine’s Monastery

Garbutt’s 1966 Quad Royal Station Map Jamaica with ‘Egypt and Nubia’Garbutt believed he had rescued the London Underground map from the clutches of Harold Hutchison and his ham fisted parody of Becks designs (Roberts p. 21). His basic configuration proved extremely durable, featuring a thermos flask shaped Circle Line, horizontal Central Line and vertical Northern Line, but with effective use of diagonals which helped return the map closer to geographical reality than Becks later rectilinear designs. Roberts suggests