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Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. First Edition. Very minor rippling to the dust jacket otherwise a wonderful copy. A landmark history of cartography that features 14 luxurious full color, oversize fold-out maps by master cartographers. Text by Charles Bricker includes details of astronomical and mathematical advances, voyages of discovery, new printing techniques, carto-biographies, etc. Enhanced with 350 maps, portraits of explorers and mapmakers, sea charts, reproductions from contemporary publications, etc. Illustrated endpapers. Preface by Gerald Roe Crone. Bound in the original oatmeal color cloth, gilt-stamped over bright white accents. Big and beautiful and therefore requiring Extra Postage. Illustrated (illustrator).…

Zustand: Very good. 1976, Oxford, Phaidon, folio, reprint, pp276, colour and black and white maps and illustrations, cream cloth spine over brown rexine in dustwrapper in open cardboard sleeve. This is a large, heavy book and will incur extra postage.