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733		The Making of the Nuremberg Chronicle		Reference Books Adrian Wilson		1978 A+		$210.00 Closed
Click on the Title for details and to bid on this lot. (Size: 10 x 13.8 inches) Detailed examination of the making of this important early illustrated book taken from surviving page layouts, original contracts for the illustrations, contracts for printing, etc. It includes a history of the printer, Anton Koberger, and a list of known copies of the first Latin and German editions. The text of this study of the Chronicle's production combines scholarship with wit, providing a...

734		Views and Viewmakers of Urban America		Reference Books John W. Reps		1984 A+		$110.00 Closed
Click on the Title for details and to bid on this lot. (Size: 10 x 13 inches) This huge reference book is subtitled - "Lithographs of Towns and Cities in the United States and Canada, Notes on the Artists and Publishers, and a Union Catalog of their Work, 1825 - 1925." This is the definitive work on the subject of separately published city views of the United States and Canada with over 4,400 referenced including size, date, title, artist, lithographer and publisher. A re...

735		Railroad Maps of North America - The First Hundred Years		Reference Books Andrew M. Modelski		1987 A+		$60.00 Closed
Click on the Title for details and to bid on this lot. (Size: 14.3 x 11.3 inches) The ninety-two maps reproduced are a representative sample from the collection in the Library of Congress. They illustrate the development of cartographic style and technique and record the achievements of the early railroad companies. The introductory essay by Sandra J. Still Ph.D. traces the history of this continent's first hundred years of railroad mapping. Illustrated in color and black a...

736		The Mapping of North America - Three Centuries of Map-Making (1500-1860)		Reference Books John Goss		1990 A+		$75.00 Closed
Click on the Title for details and to bid on this lot. (Size: 10.5 x 14.5 inches) By focusing on the evolution of mapping, this book reveals how the perceptions of the world changed as more areas were explored. It contains many of the most important and famous maps of the Americas as well as some of the more common nineteenth century examples. 184 pp, introduction plus 85 full-page illustrations, of which 80 are in color, each with well researched information. Hardbound in c...

737		Bel et Utile - The Work of the Robert de Vaugondy Family of Mapmakers		Reference Books		1992 A+		$140.00 Closed
Click on the Title for details and to bid on this lot. (Size: 9.4 x 12 inches) By Mary Sponberg Pedley and published by Map Collector Publications. An important and scholarly work that was published in a limited edition of 750 copies, this being 546. This is the best published biography of the Robert de Vaugondy family and an important resource with a complete carto-bibliography of the maps published by this important family of French cartographers. Hardbound in green clo...

738		Mapping the Transmississippi West...1540-1861		Reference Books Carl I. Wheat		1995 A+		$600.00 Closed
Click on the Title for details and to bid on this lot. (Size: 8.2 x 12.3 inches) Carl Wheat's monumental work on western cartography. This is the Martino reprint, limited to 350 copies. Lists1302 maps, fully annotated with 376 illustrated. This reprint is in a size that is much more useful than the original first edition which was published from San Francisco between 1957 and 1963. Illustrated throughout with facsimile maps, many folding and colored. Considered the definit...

739		The Iconography of Manhattan Island, 1498 to 1909 (Volumes I - VI)		Reference Books		1998 A+		Available for Purchase
Click on the Title for details and to bid on this lot. (Size: 9 x 11.4 inches) The title continues "Compiled from Original Sources and Illustrated by Photo-Intaglio Reproductions of Important Maps, Plans, Views, and Documents in Public and Private Collections. By I.N. Phelps Stokes." Complete in six volumes, this is the 1998 Martino reprint. This enormous book contains 500 to 600 pages in each volume and is filled with plans, hundreds of maps, portraits, broadsides and ot...

740		Early Mapping of Southeast Asia		Reference Books Thomas Suarez		1999 A+		$60.00 Closed
Click on the Title for details and to bid on this lot. (Size: 9.5 x 12.2 inches) This scholarly book documents the cartographic record of Southeast Asia from the earliest times up to the modern era. The author uses maps, itineraries, sailing instructions, travelers' tales, religious texts and other contemporary sources in this in-depth study. 280 pp. Hardbound with illustrated cover and matching pictorial dust jacket.

741		Early Mapping of the Pacific The Epic Story of Seafarers, Adventurers, and Cartographers Who Mapped the Earth's Greatest Ocean		Reference Books Thomas Suarez		2004 A		$70.00 Closed
Click on the Title for details and to bid on this lot. (Size: 9.3 x 12.3 inches) This book traces the exploration of the Pacific Ocean through milestones in the mapping of the region. The author does an excellent job integrating the history of exploration and cartography and the book is richly illustrated with maps and early views. Published by Periplus Editions, Singapore. 224 pp. including bibliography and index. 223 beautiful illustrations, mostly in color. Hard illust...