[Rarebooks] FS: THE STORY OF MAPS

[Gerard Gormley]

For your kind consideration ---



Brown, Lloyd A~.  THE STORY OF MAPS~.  NY NY, USA: Bonanza Books,
no date (circa 1950).  Keywords: abundance of maps & diagrams --
color frontis -- Ancient History -- History -- Illustrated --
Illustrated (photos) -- Marine-Nautical -- Military-War-Spy --
Non-Fiction -- Politics & Government -- Science & Technology --
Travel-Description-Exploration -- story of maps, people who made
them, methods employed, what maps contain, politics &
international competition -- English language.  Reprint of 1949
edition, 2nd printing thus.  Hardcover.  Dust jacket present,
price clipped (trade edition -- besides, Bonanza doesn't print
prices, anyway).  393 pages: Notes, Bibliography, Index, color
(1) & black & white photographs, maps, art reproductions &
illustrations throughout.  Binding height: 10-1/4".   Publisher's
full cloth.  Book Very Good to Near Fine: gift message on half-
title page, light bumping & rubbing to fore-corners & spine-
top/bottom, slightest board-warp.  Binding strong & tight,
insides Fine.  Dust jacket Good to Very Good: heavy chipping &
tearing to top edges, heavy tearing to front flap-fold, spine
sun-browned & damp-stained (no sstains to book spine).  Dust
jacket pluses: absolutely no rubbing, scratching or scoring to
front, spine or back.  [Digital JPEG image (3) available on
request].  2401~.  US$50.-


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