Explorers' Maps: Chapters in the Cartographic Record of Geographical Discovery
New York: Spring Books, 1970. Reprint. Large Hardcover. Very Good / Good. Item #2337867
ISBN: 060001195X
Reprint. Jacket faded, foxing to page ridge.
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: $30.00
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