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Auction 130, Lot 873

"The Mapping of America", Tooley, R. V.

Subject: Reference Books

Period: 1985 (published)

Publication: Holland Press Limited

Color: Black & White

Size:
8 x 10 inches
20.3 x 25.4 cm
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An excellent reference work detailing the cartographic history of North America. Essays on French mapping of the Americas, California as an island, Smith's map of Virginia and its many derivative, marine surveys of James Cook, City Plans, Jansson-Visscher maps of New England, mapping the Great Lakes, and maps of America in various editions of Ortelius' Theatrum. Volume 2 in The Holland Press Cartographia series, 519 pp., with 179 uncolored illustrations. Hard bound in green buckram, with illustrated dust jacket.

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Condition: A

Estimate: $100 - $150

Sold for: $150

Closed on 12/2/2009

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