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American maps and mapmakers : commercial cartography in the nineteenth century / Walter W. Ristow.
LIBRA - Athenaeum of Philadelphia Circulating GA405 .R57 1985
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ristow, Walter W. (Walter William), 1908-2006.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cartography--United States--History.
- Cartography.
- History.
- United States.
- Genre:
- printing in gold
- publishers' cloth bindings
- Physical Description:
- 488 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 x 26 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Detroit : Wayne State University Press, 1985.
- Contents:
- Our cartographic heritage
- The maps of the American Revolution
- Maps of the colonies and provinces to 1784
- The first maps of the United States of America
- Simeon De Witt, pioneer cartographer
- Early state maps : the New England states
- Early state maps : the middle States
- Early state maps : the southern states
- Early state maps : the trans-Appalachian states
- Early American atlases
- The Ebeling-Sotzmann Atlas von Nordamerika
- John Melish
- Henry S. Tanner
- Robert Mills's Atlas of South Carolina
- Charts and guides for navigating costs and rivers
- Urban plans and atlases
- Other map publishers of the engraving period
- The lithographic revolution
- The S. A. Mitchell and J. H. Colton map publishing companies
- Henry Francis Walling
- Robert Pearsall Smith
- The French-Smith map and gazetteer of New York state
- Jay Gould as surveyor and mapper
- More about county maps and mappers
- The county atlas
- The new state of state atlases
- Mapping the trans-Mississippi West
- Rand McNally & Company.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum circulating copy: Brown cloth binding with gold lettering on spine.
- Athenaeum circulating copy: From the Library of Aaron V. Wunsch.
- ISBN:
- 0814317685
- OCLC:
- 11469667
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