FLAGS ALONG THE COAST.
Charting the Gulf of Mexico, 1519-1759: A Reappraisal.
- N.P. Book Club of Texas, (1995).
- folio
- quarter cloth, paper-covered boards, paper spine label.
- xii, 225, (2) pages
Price: $250.00 other currencies
Order Nr. 101284
Limited to 350 numbered copies. A fine copy in lightly torn jacket. Designed and printed at the Wind River Press in Austin, Texas. Contains a preface, endnotes, an appendix, a list of plates, plate reproductions, a bibliography, and an index. With 50 black-and-white plates. Part I: "A Tale of Two Maps: The Impact of the Enriquez Barroto/Bisente Maps of the Gulf of Mexico on European Cartography in the Early Eighteenth Century"; Part II: "'Living at Mobile is beginning to be more disagreeable than ever.' The Gulf Coast Maps of Engineer Valentin Devin". From the private reference library of Dorothy Sloan with a commemorative bookplate loosely inserted.