Sale 2496 - Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books, December 13, 2018

221 c   (WORLD WAR I.) Map to Illustrate the Meuse-Argonne Offensive - First, Second and Last Phases. Large French military map overprinted in blue and red. 32x28 1 / 2 inches sheet size, wide margins; one tear and fold separations reinforced on verso. France: Base Printing Plant, 29th Engineers, U.S. Army, 1918 [600/900] Military map detailing the daily lines of American advance into the Western Front as part of the Hundred Days Offensive, the final Allied drive which brought World War I to an end. The Meuse-Argonne Offensive was the largest and bloodiest military operation in American history, leaving 26,277 American soldiers’ lives lost; at the time of this cataloging, a campaign which occurred exactly 100 years ago.