America in Maps: Dating From 1500-1856
Egon Klemp, compiler and editor | | ISBN: 978-08419-0200-8 $495.00 |
1978/290 pages Distributed for Holmes and Meier Publishers
Includes b&w and color maps, 14" x 20" boxed |
DESCRIPTION
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.
"Because this is the first new facsimile atlas of maps of the Americas to be published in a long while, it is all the more welcome.... It is lavishly produced and contains reproductions of priceless historical documents, the originals of which are dispersed in many archives and museums. It deserves to be in the collection of every research library."—Geographical Review