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Ten Modern Books Relating to Maps and Cartography. Glanville, Philippa, London in Maps, London: The Connoisseur, 1972, illustrated throughout with sixty-nine plates, with dust jacket, some loss and tearing of jacket at foot of spine and along head edge, 14 1/4 x 8 1/2 in.; Portinaro, Pierluigi and Knirsch, Franco, The Cartography of North America 1500-1800, New York: Crescent Books, 1987, 171 color plates, with dust jacket, 13 x 9 3/4 in.; Allen, Phillip, The Atlas of Atlases: The Map Maker's Vision of the World, New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1992, with dust jacket, minimal wear, 12 1/4 x 10 3/4 in.; Virga, Vincent, Cartographia: Mapping Civilizations, New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2007, illustrated with 201 color plates, with dust jacket, 13 1/4 x 10 1/2 in.; Campbell, Tony, Early Maps, New York: Abbeville Press, 1981, sixty-eight plates, with dust jacket, 15 1/4 x 12 in.; Akerman, James and Karrow, Robert, Maps: Finding Our Place in the World, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2007, collection of essays by various authors, illustrated throughout, with dust jacket, 11 1/4 x 8 3/4 in.; Barber, Peter, The Map Book, New York: Walker & Company, 2006, collection of approximately 175 maps, with dust jacket, 11 3/4 x 10 1/4 in.; Krieger, Alex and Cobb, David, Mapping Boston, Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1999, collection of essays, with dust jacket, slight tearing to jacket on fore-edge of front cover, 11 3/4 x 12 1/4 in.; Whitfield, Peter, The Charting of the Oceans: Ten Centuries of Maritime Maps, Rohnert Park: Pomegranate Artbooks, 1996, illustrated throughout, with dust jacket, 11 1/2 x 10 3/4 in.; Riffenburgh, Beau, The Men Who Mapped the World: The Treasures of Cartography, London: Carlton Books, 2011, accompanied by approximately twenty removeable facsimiles of historical maps, 11 1/2 x 10 in.
Estimate $40-60
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Keywords
The University of Chicago Press, Alex, David, James, Robert, Vincent, Tony, Campbell, Barber, Cobb, Virga, Whitfield, Karrow, Krieger, Philippa, Pierluigi, Riffenburgh, Akerman, London, Cambridge, Chicago, GlanvilleJohn Dorfman
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