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NEW ENGLAND IN EARLY PRINTED MAPS 1513 TO 1800, AN ILLUSTRATED CARTO-BIBLIOGRAPHY.
McCorkle, Barbara Backus
Foreword by Edward H. Dahl.
Limited to 1000 copies. As the first comprehensive, fully descriptive list of the printed maps of New England prior to 1800, this volume documents every effort to depict the area cartographically, including maps printed in the Netherlands, France, Germany, and Italy, as well as English and American maps. Designed to be a practical reference tool for historians, collectors, antiquarian map dealers and all lovers of early cartography, it offers descriptions of over 800 maps. With 455 black-and-white illustrations, quick visual identification of specific areas is possible. Includes indexes by title, by persons associated with the creation of the map, an annotated bibliography and a listing of individual state maps.
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THE WIND'S TALE.
by Anderson, Hans Christian.
Limited to 200 numbered and signed copies. Illustrated, designed, and produced by Elfriede Abbe. Abbe (1919-) is a scupltor and wood engraver who has won numerous prizes for her work. Printed on Linweave hand-made paper. Printed on a Chandler and Price platen press, manually operated. Loosely inserted is an A.L.S. from Abbe dated 1996 in which she talks about this book and even enclosed a marbled paper sample to show the color of the binding and a sample page of the text with an illustration. The letter must have worked as the collector bought the book.
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