10 maps of Central Asia from AMS map series 1301
Washington DC: Army Map Service, 1953-1963. 10 color broadside maps showing various regions of regions ranging from Xinjiang, up to Mongolia, Northeast USSR and the Yellow Sea; sizes ranging between 24.5 x 21.5 in. to 26 x 32 in., 1:1,000,000 scale; showing roadways, settlements and elevation, one map with smudged printing, else all largely fine. This group includes the following maps (first edition unless otherwise stated): Wen-Ch'eng (NM 51, 2nd ed); Nan-T'ung (NI 51, 6th ed.); O-Chi-Na Ho (NK 47); Ha-Erh-Pin (Harbin)(NL 52, 2nd ed.); Ch'eng-Hua (NL 45); Zeya (NN 52, 3rd ed.); Ha-Mi (Kumil) (NK46); Hobsogol (NM 47); Jirgalanta (Kobdo) (NM 46); Ch'ieh-Mo (Charchan Bazar) (NJ 45). A scattered sampling of maps from 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 #70465
Price: $300.00
