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Daguerre Savoie

55 - (Cartography) – 4 works
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(Cartography) – 4 works - CHUBB (Thomas). *The Printed Maps in the Atlases of Great Britain and Ireland. A Bibliography, 1579–1870*. London, 1927 (Reprint, 2004). 8vo, [1 leaf] (frontispiece), XVII, 479 pp, publisher’s cloth. Numerous illustrations. - WINSOR (Justin). The Kohl Collection (now in the Library of Congress) of Maps Relating to America. With an index by Philip Lee Phillips. Washington, 1904 (Reprint, 2002). In-8, [1 f], 189 pp, publisher’s cloth. “A total of 474 early maps of America are described, many with useful annotations and comments”. - FORDHAM (Herbert George). Studies in British and French Carto-Bibliography and the Bibliography of Itineraries and Road-Books. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1914 (Reprint, 2004). In-8, [1 f], VII pp, [1 f], 180 pp, publisher’s red cloth. 4 illustrations, including the frontispiece and a separate plate. FORDHAM (Herbert George). Some Notable Surveyors & Map-Makers of the Sixteenth, Seventeenth & Eighteenth Centuries and their Work. A Study in the History of Cartography. Cambridge, 1929 (Reprint, 2005). 8vo, XII, 99 pp, publisher’s red cloth. 9 illustrations, including the frontispiece and 3 plates. Two booklets are included: - The La Rochefoucauld Atlas, sold at auction in 1994. - MARCEL (Gabriel). The Origins of the Map of Spain. Paris, 1899.
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