A detailed map of the Moon issued for the Apollo landings

CHEMLA-LAMECH, Felix.

Carte Générale de la Lune Dressée d'Après l'Observation par Félix Chemla Lamech. Troisiéme Édition.
Paris: Girard & Barrère, 1969. Chromolithograph, sheet 1020 x 740mm.

Laid on archival canvas,

A large poster map of the Moon, detailing the craters, first published 1957 but here reissued for the 1969 Moon landings.
Félix Chemla-Lamèch (1894-1962) was a Greek-French astronomer who specialised in the mapping of the Moon. He founded the Corfu Observatory in 1924 and the 'Astronomical Society of Greece' in 1927.


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