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Cloth in Illustrated Slipcase. Atlas folio. Profusely illustrated. One of 1200 copies. 1978 Hardcover. Fine. Seller Inventory # B20618
This lavish volume charts the course of exploration and settlement in the Americas with maps found in major museums and libraries around the world. Reproduced with painstaking accuracy, the maps are accompanied by scholarly commentary prepared by Egon Klemp, who describes the history of each map and the discoveries that generated it. The maps are grouped by region, placed in chronological order to facilitate reference and comparison, and printed in a limited, numbered edition.
Title: America in Maps Dating from 1500 to 1856. ...
Publisher: Holmes & Meier Publishers, 1976.
Publication Date: 1976
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Used - Like New
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