Hai-Nan Tao. AMS Series 1301 NE 49
Washington DC: Army Map Service, 1962. Seveth edition, broadside map; 26 x 28 in., 1:1,000,000 scale; showing roadways, settlements, and elevation light creasing at lower border, else fine. Published under the schema for the International Map of the World. The IMW was the cartographical brain child of Albrecht Penck, who in the late 19th century conceived of a series of maps uniformly produced that would cover the whole of the Earth's land mass. To accomplish this, the planet was divided into 2,500 segments, and each segment was to be produced independently by various governments and NGOs. The project was envisioned to be strictly apolitical, but this meant that buy-in was slow for governmental bodies, and the lack of thematic information frustrated potential contributors in industry and led to University of Wisconsin cartographer Arthur Robinson declaring the resulting maps "cartographic wallpaper." When government agencies did contribute, they did so as here, in service to a baldly political interest in a given region. Item #70451
Price: $30.00
