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1964 Institut Geographique City Map of Dakar, Senegal
Dakar-instituegeographique-1964$275.00
Title
Ville de Dakar.
1964 (dated) 38.5 x 27.5 in (97.79 x 69.85 cm) 1 : 10000
1964 (dated) 38.5 x 27.5 in (97.79 x 69.85 cm) 1 : 10000
Description
This is an uncommon first edition 1964 map of Dakar, capital of Senegal. The map was prepared by the Institut Géographique National, which maintained a West African office in Dakar. The map is beautiful produced on a large scale, covering the Dakar Plateau from Cape Manuel to the Parc Forestier de Hann (Parc Hann). It meticulously details roads, parks, individual buildings, important facilities, and more. An inset in the lower right focuses on the island of Gorée. When it was issued this was the finest and most highly detailed map of Dakar yet produced. The map has some representation in institutional collections, but is very scarce on the market.
Cartographer
Institut Géographique National (1940 - present) is a French state administrative establishment organized to produce and maintain geographical information for France and its overseas departments and territories. The Institut Géographique is the successor organization to the Service Géographique de L’Armée (1887 – 1940), which was officially closed in 1940, and its maps shuttled to other organizations, with more than half going to the newly formed Institut Géographique National. When Nazi Germany invaded the IGN became a part of the hidden resistance, where it became famous for counterfeiting fake identify papers to frustrate the German controlled Vichy Regime. In secret, they brought a complete set of their maps to England, most covering France and North Africa, in order to replace maps destroyed in the bombardment of London. Today the organization has been folded into the larger Institut National de L’Information Géographique et Forestière. More by this mapmaker...
Condition
Very good. Light wear on original fold lines.
References
OCLC 71679424.