The mapmaker's art : essays on the history of maps / Edward Lynam, with a foreword by Sir Thomas Kendrick
1953, First Edition. London : Batchworth Press. Near fine copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #434304
Physical description; 140 pages illustrations, maps 26 cm. Notes; "List of books and articles by Edward Lynam on cartography and geographical discovery": page 137. Contents; The character of England in maps -- Period ornament, writing and symbols on maps -- English maps and mapmakers of the sixteenth century -- Saxton's atlas of England and Wales -- Flemish engravers in England in the sixteenth century -- William Hack and the South Sea buccanners -- Early days in the Bahamas. Subjects; Ortelius, Abraham. Saxton, Christopher. Cartography Great Britain.
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