Maps Globes, Atlases and Geographies Through the Year 1800: The Eleanor Houston and Lawrence M. C. Smith Cartographic Collection

Produced in an edition of 1,250 copies. This cartographic book contains six hundred entries including nearly 20,000 maps and geographies collected by Mr. and Mrs. L.M.C. Smith over a period of two decades. These examples of three centuries of mapmaking through the year 1800 have great value not only to the students and scholars of geography but to the invested general public. The catalogue is intended for use both by groups, and the illustrations give a sample of the beauty and utility of such maps, globes, atlases, and geographies. The text of this volume was composed in Linotype Garamond No. 3 and printed letterpress at The Shagbark Press, South Portland, Maine. The illustrations were printed by offset lithography at Meriden-Stinehour Press, Meriden, Connecticut. Bound by Acme Bookbinding Company, Charlestown, Massachusetts. Very well illustrated with color and black and white plates. xx , 146, 8 pages. cloth. 4to..