America in maps : dating from 1500 to 1856

Author(s)

• Klemp, Egon

Bibliographic Information

America in maps : dating from 1500 to 1856

compiled and edited by Egon Klemp ; [translated from the German by Margaret and Jeffrey C. Stone]

Holmes & Meier Publishers, 1976

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

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.

by "Nielsen BookData"

• NCID: BA11040372
• ISBN:
  • 0841902003
• LCCN: 75015952
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Original Language Code: ger
• Place of Publication: New York
• Pages/Volumes: 293 [ie. 291] p.
• Size: 52 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : G1100
  • DC : 912/.73
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : America -- Maps
  • LCSH : America -- Maps -- To 1800
  • LCSH : Maps -- Facsimiles
  • LCSH : Maps, Early -- Facsimiles