John Cary Engraver, Map, Chart And Print Seller And Globe Maker 1754-1835
by Fordham, Herbert George
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- Hardcover
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- 1578983312
- ISBN 13
- 9781578983315
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About This Item
Mansfield, CT: Martino Pub, 2001. facsimile edition. Hardcover. New. John Cary. 8vo; xxxiv, 139+(1) pages; Brown cloth facsimile edition of the volume first published by Cambridge University Press in 1925. Cary was a well-known English cartographer who began his career as an engraver in London, turning to publishing and land surveying in 1783. He is perhaps best known for his Universal Atlas, published in 1808. Fordham, a renown expert in the history of cartography, meticulously describes 300 of Cary's works.
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- Bookseller
- Palmer Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 16
- Title
- John Cary Engraver, Map, Chart And Print Seller And Globe Maker 1754-1835
- Author
- Fordham, Herbert George
- Illustrator
- John Cary
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- facsimile edition
- ISBN 10
- 1578983312
- ISBN 13
- 9781578983315
- Publisher
- Martino Pub
- Place of Publication
- Mansfield, CT
- Date Published
- 2001
- Keywords
- Prints, Engraving, Bibliography, Cartography, Geography, Atlas, Mapmaking Bibliography, Reference, Survey
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