American Maps and Mapmakers: Commercial Cartography in the Nineteenth Century
by Ristow, Walter W
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0814317685
- ISBN 13
- 9780814317686
- Seller
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Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
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About This Item
Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 1985 Book. Very Good. Hard Cover - Cloth. First Edition / Second Printing. Oblong Octavo. 488 pp, 2nd printing - 1986, list of 212 illustrations, acknowledgments, introduction, 28 chapters with endnotes, text body includes over 200 quality b&w reproductions, index. Binding tight, pages clean and unmarked, cover cloth Very Good, DJ Near Fine. 8.8" x 10.25" brown cloth boards in orange illustrated DJ. DJ in removable mylar protector..
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Details
- Bookseller
- West Side Book Shop, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 003940
- Title
- American Maps and Mapmakers: Commercial Cartography in the Nineteenth Century
- Author
- Ristow, Walter W
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- First Edition / Second Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0814317685
- ISBN 13
- 9780814317686
- Publisher
- Wayne State University Press
- Place of Publication
- Detroit, MI
- Date Published
- 1985
- Keywords
- Maps and Geography - History - North America United States
- Bookseller catalogs
- GEOGRAPHY & MAPS;
- Size
- Oblong Octavo
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About the Seller
West Side Book Shop, ABAA
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Ann Arbor, Michigan
About West Side Book Shop, ABAA
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- Octavo
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- Cloth
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- Tight
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- First Edition
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- Fine
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