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MapTrade Mailing List archive[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Essential NW Coast Map Reference
We offer the following: Wagner, Henry Raup. The Cartography of the Northwest Coast of America To The Year 1800. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1937. 2 vols. 543pp. and Folio. Original cloth, near fine in near fine dust jackets. A tremendously important work by a noted bibliographer. "All of the bibliographical works of this eminent scholar are characterized by profound research and great accuracy." - Cowan. Wagner's plan was to describe each exploration and more than 900 important maps of the northwest coast of America to demonstrate how the cartography of the region developed from the purely imaginary and mythical to the hardheaded precision of the Vancouver expedition. In addition to achieving that goal, Wagner has given us a superb picture of the background that the Spanish, French, Russians, English and Americans had to work with when they planned their better-known voyages in the 19th century. Now acknowledged to be one of Wagner's masterworks, this title had a rocky beginning. Wagner advanced the University of California Press the funds to print and publish the first edition in 1937. Streeter 4405. Price: $575.00
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