Explorers' Maps: Chapters in the Cartographic Record of Geographical Discovery
New York: Spring Books, 1970. Reprint. Large Hardcover. Near Fine / Very Good. Item #2332282
ISBN: 060001195X
Reprint. Jacket edges rubbed and bumped, spine faded, sticker on front jacket flap. Page ridges lightly foxed.
xi, 337 pp. Traces the development of cartography from the maps and charts of medieval travellers, who filled the unknown areas of their maps with drawings of spouting whales or ships sailing across improbable seas, to the scientifically accurate and highly sophisticated charts of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century surveyors...
Price: $40.00
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