1940 Pageant of the Pacific - Complete Portfolio of Maps

A very fine example of the complete Pageant of the Pacific portfolio by Miguel Covarrubias, consisting of of six maps but without the informational booklet. This wonderful piece was made for the Pacific House during the 1940 Golden Gate International Exposition held on Treasure Island in San Francisco, CA.  As described within the booklet (not included), it's "purpose is to extend the knowledge of countries of the Pacific Basin to create those friendly relations which make a wider understanding of peoples.... Miguel Covarrubias was selected as the one who could make visual the idea of the Pacific Area, not only with the imagination and skill of a great artist, but with an understanding of the verities and needs all peoples hold in common. Covarrubias is an ethnologist and anthropologist, subtle and sensitive to the unrecorded past of unknown peoples, with a humorous, penetrating perspicacity of contemporaneous life, and a wide knowledge of the governmental forms and trade relations, of