Central Europe Including the Balkan States Compiled and Drawn in the Cartographic Section of the National Geographic Society for the National Geographic Magazine, Gilbert Grosvenor, Editor. Albers Conical Equal-Area Projection, Scale 1:2,500,000 or 39.46 Miles to the Inch.

[NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC], GROSVENOR, Gilbert (ed.)

Published by Baltimore MdLithographed by A. Hoen and Co. September ., 1951

About this Item

Colour printed map of Central Europe and the Balkan States (96.5 x 73 cm) folding to 24.5 x 16 cm. Showing occupation zones in Germany and Austria, World War II (American, British, French, Russian). Russian and Polish boundaries are shown "according to treaties and claims as of July 1, 1951". Also showing principal railways, highways, autobahn, canals, oil pipe lines, oil fields, principal airports, passes, ruins. Old fold creases, minor light browning along some folds. Generally an excellent example. "Gilbert Grosvenor was elected president of the National Geographic Society in 1920. During his administration, greatly increased revenues enabled the society to send out numerous expeditions to the North and South poles, into the stratosphere, and to the ocean depths and to conduct a myriad of other investigations." (Britannica).

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Central Europe Including the Balkan States Compiled and Drawn in the Cartographic Section of the National Geographic Society for the National Geographic Magazine, Gilbert Grosvenor, Editor. Albers Conical Equal-Area Projection, Scale 1:2,500,000 or 39.46 Miles to the Inch.
• Publisher: Baltimore MdLithographed by A. Hoen and Co. September .
• Publication Date: 1951
• Seller catalogs:
  • MAPS - EUROPE
  • Central / Eastern Europe