Search Results: Cartography & Mapmaking from The Owl at the Bridge

"The Commentary is an essential adjunct to the facsimiles published in 1970 as The Blathwayt Atlas, Volume I: The Maps. ...Assembled by English colonial administrators, for whom they were working tools, these maps show the areas of English overseas colonial and commercial interest, especially in the Western Hemisphere, in the latter part of the seventeenth century." xx, 235 pages, index; 26 cm. Bound in maroon binder's cloth, maroon dust jacket protected in mylar, spine sunned; Very Good+. Stock#ofc0526.

Abridged republication of the work originally published by the Harvard University Press in 1926. Maps presented in roughly chronological order. Publisher's Note to the Reprint Edition, pages v-vi. Folio; xvi, 299 pages; maps included in pagination; 35 cm. Paper; spine faded; Good+. Stock#ofc0534.

London, Kegan Paul, 1987. Nearly seventy maps, complemented by more than twenty views and portraits. The cartographic history of Hawaii began with the arrival of Captain James Cook to the Sandwich Islands in 1778. Foreigners introduced the concept of mapmaking to Hawaii, and made maps of the islands to satisfy the needs of maritime commerce, missionary endeavors, and scientific investigations. Chapters include Captain James Cook and the First Map of Hawai'i; The Explorers; Harbor Charts; Mapping Hawaiian Volcanoes; Missionaries and Maps; Hawai'i in the World; Hawai'i Nei; Bibliography pages 153-156. Hard Cover. Folio; 160 pages, 90 illustrations; 36 cm. New from publisher, in shipping box. Stock#24493x oversize.

Land Maps, Water Maps, Sky Maps, Map Products. An Appendix lists Federal, State, and International map agencies. 252 pages, index, illus. incl. color plates; pictorial paper covers; Good+. Stock#ofc0377.

"Entries in this edition... are arranged alphabetically by city within a state or province. Each page has a running title indicating the name of the state or province and entry numbers found on that page... All data included have been taken directly from the questionnaires... numbers in the index refer to individual entries... 178 pages; 28 cm. Softcover; Very Good. Stock#ofc0737.

Xerox copy of article in The Map Collectors' Circle, 1970, pages [1]-15 plus 18 plates; untrimmed; Good in mylar envelope. Stock#ofc0714.

Chapter headings: The Earth Takes Shape; The Habitable World; The World of Claudius Ptolemy; The Middle Ages; Charts and the Haven-Finding Art; The Map and Chart Trade; The Latitude; The Longitude; Survey of a Country; Survey of a World; Bibliography, pages 341-373; Index. 393 pages, illustrations include color frontispiece; 26 cm. Pictorial dust jacket worn & chipped, spine darkened; the book Very Good. Stock#ofc0591.
A second copy, paperback (PLEASE SPECIFY WHEN ORDERING). N.Y., Dover, 1979. First published 1949, Lloyd Brown's history of maps is still the one to read. Soft Cover. xix, 397 pages, 86 illustrations, 23.5 cm. Softcover; Very Good, slight shelfwear. Stock#ofc0591b / $20.