[Navigation chart] Arabia (1948)

CHARTING THE PERSIAN GULF Language: English Second edition, subject to correction. Large long range navigation cart, coloured. Scale 1:3,000,000. Several ms. notes in pencil, a few small marginal tears, one light stain. In good condition and suitable for framing Washington, D.C., Army Map Service, U.S. Army. The second edition of this impressive chart, issued for use by the U.S. Army Air Force during the Second World War. The first edition was published two years earlier, in April 1942.Most copies will have been discarded as the charts were updated, making these rare survivals of the cartographic development of the region during the twentieth century. Rare.