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B T Batsford 6th edn 1978
4to F/VG++ 865 gms
(Order reference 6950).
This standard work gives full information and illustrations of the principal map-makers and map publishers and their work from the earliest times to the nineteenth century, combining an appreciation of the popular decorative side of early maps with historical and bibliographical notes. For this new edition a fresh general introduction has been provided, and the lists of authorities at the ends of chapters have been brought up to date.
“… a magnificently illustrated study of map-making from the earliest times to the mid-nineteenth century.”— The Daily Telegraph
“It is the first really extensive catalogue raisonne on its subject.”— New Statesman
“No book quite like Maps and Map-Makers, nor so useful in its way, has ever been published in England. Nor have we any work on this subject so well or so generously illustrated, for it contains nearly a hundred large plates, several of them in colour. It has come very opportunely.”— Dr Edward Lynam in The Spectator
“This is the most comprehensive book on maps yet published in England.”—The Times
“Amateur collectors will find this book most useful; experts, librarians and booksellers will hardly be able to dispense with it as a reference book.”— The American Geographical Magazine
The jacket illustration, of De Jode's map of Alaska, Antwerp 1593 is from a transparency by S. Gooders.
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