H.E.C.R. Invasion Map (c.WWII) By H.E.C. Robinson Pty Ltd
 
Robinson's Invasion Map of Part of Europe covering Britain, Part of Norway, Part of Sweden, Denmark, Part of Germany, Netherlands, Belgium, France, Luxembourg, Switzerland, and Part of Italy.
 
H.E.C. Robinson Pty Ltd, 221-3 George Street, Sydney
 
Herbert Edward Cooper Robinson (1857-1933), map publisher, was baptised on 6 January 1858 at Winchester, Hampshire, England, the sixth child of Sidney Rudge Robinson (d.1898), medical practitioner, and his first wife, Katherine Emily, née Cooper. About 1863, he arrived with his family in Victoria, where his father set up practice in Ryrie Street, Geelong. In his early twenties, Robinson moved to Sydney, where he joined the public service as a temporary draughtsman.
 
A founder of the (Royal) Geographical Society of Australasia in 1885, Robinson was a member of the Geographical Society of New South Wales in the late 1920s and fellow of the Royal Geographical Society of London. He made many valuable contributions to geographical science and was a delegate to the 1923 Sydney Regional Plan Convention. A friend and technical collaborator of Professor Sir Edgeworth David, he helped to produce David's monumental large-scale Geological Map of the Commonwealth of Australia in 1932; his draughtsmen also produced the maps for Donald Mackay's important aerial surveys of Australia from 1930.
 
Robinson died in St Luke's Hospital, Darlinghurst, on 17 January 1933 and was buried in the Presbyterian section of Waverley Cemetery. He was survived by his son and daughter, Mrs Eileen Robinson Brooks, a successful actress. In November 1959, H. E. C. Robinson Ltd became a subsidiary of Angus & Robertson Ltd.
 
Width: 19.5 centimetres, Height: 25.5 centimetres
 
In Fair Condition