Descartes Lunar Topographic Map

Sale 2001 - Lot 239

Price Realized: $ 1,092

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Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500

Descartes Lunar Topographic Map. A shaded relief map with contour lines in red at 50 meter intervals. Area covered is approximately from 8 to 10 degrees south latitude and from 15 to 17 degrees east longitude. Scale is 1:100,000. Approximately 25x25 inches, first edition. Army Topographic Command, March 1972

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Inscribed and signed by Duke with: "Descartes and the Cayley Plains, Fifth Lunar Landing, April 1972, 71 hours on the Moon, 3 EVAs, Charles M. Duke, Jr. 'Wow! What a place!'." Duke often made this and other enthusiastic comments during his lunar explorations. He has marked the landing site with an "X."