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Antique Map Auction Sale No. 99 - closed 6/12/2002

Featuring 713 lots of rare antique maps, charts, pocket maps, globes and atlases
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Lot #713: The Mapping of America

Cartographic reference book The Mapping of America
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Estimate:
$60.00 - $70.00
Sold for: $70.00

Lot 713
By: S. Schwartz & R. Ehrenberg
Subject: Reference - Cartography
Date: 2001

Publication: Wellfleet Press

Condition: A+
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Size: 11.5 x 11 inches
29.3 x 28.0 cm

An essential reference by a scholarly pair of writers. They present a detailed, analytic history of the mapping of North America, emphasizing the area that comprises the United States. Two major periods are covered; the first extending from 1500 to 1800 and the second from 1800 to the present. This reprint edition makes the work available once more to collectors. 363 pp, index, 223 maps, 84 reproduced in full color, 354 illustrations altogether. Hardbound in green cloth with dustjacket.

Top corners bumped, else like new.

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