[0-88029-349-7] 1989. (hardcover) Very good in very good dust jacket. 276pp. Folio. Over 350 illustrations, which includes maps, some of which are fold-out, as well as portraits of cartographers and explorers. A clean, bright, crisp, and solid copy.

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Landmarks of Mapmaking; An Illustrated History of Maps and Mapmakers

Publisher

Dorset Press, Hertfordshire, England

ISBN 10

0880293497

ISBN 13

9780880293495

Binding

Hardcover

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Dust Jacket Included

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1989, extra-large, oversize hardcover title (first published in Switzerland in 1975, with a British edition that appeared in 1976), Dorset Press, NY, 276 pages. Amazing illustrations, over 350 in all. 14 fold-out facsimile maps in full color.

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