Title: The Cartography of the Northwest Coast of America to the Year 1800
Author: Wagner, Henry R.
Description: 2 volumes. Illustrated with facsimile maps, many folding. 12¼x9¼, dark blue cloth, spines lettered in gilt, jackets, together in publisher's slipcase with paper spine label. First Edition.Seminal work on the subject, offering a chronological listing of some 862 maps, identifying and giving the origins of countless place names, and detailing the explorations that revealed the shape of the continent.
Heading: zzcPlace Published: Berkeley
Publisher: University of California Press
Date Published: 1937
Author: Wagner, Henry R.
Description: 2 volumes. Illustrated with facsimile maps, many folding. 12¼x9¼, dark blue cloth, spines lettered in gilt, jackets, together in publisher's slipcase with paper spine label. First Edition.Seminal work on the subject, offering a chronological listing of some 862 maps, identifying and giving the origins of countless place names, and detailing the explorations that revealed the shape of the continent.
Heading: zzcPlace Published: Berkeley
Publisher: University of California Press
Date Published: 1937
Condition report
Light wear overall; jacket spines a bit sunned; tan spots on front endpapers of Volume I; else near fine in jackets and slipcase.
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