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THE MAPMAKERS
by Wilford, John Noble
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0394461940
- ISBN 13
- 9780394461946
- Seller
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Cadyville, New York, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1981.. 1981.. Fine. - Octavo, cloth-backed boards, in a dust wrapper. The dust jacket is lightly rubbed with a short tear to the top edge of the rear panel. xi, 414 & [3] pages plus colophon. Black-and-white illustrations. Fine in a near fine dust wrapper. <p>Third printing.<p>Subtitled on the dust jacket: "The story of the great pioneers in cartography - from antiquity to the space age".
Synopsis
John Noble Wilford is a science correspondent for The New York Times. He lives in New York.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd. (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4970
- Title
- THE MAPMAKERS
- Author
- Wilford, John Noble
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0394461940
- ISBN 13
- 9780394461946
- Publisher
- New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1981.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1981.
- Keywords
- GEOGRAPHY; CARTOGRAPHY; MAPS; MAPMAKERS; CARTOGRAPHERS; JOHN NOBLE WILFORD. HISTORY OF CARTOGRAPHY; ILLUSTRATIONS.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Geography;
Terms of Sale
Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.
Payment with order from individuals. Items are offered subject to prior sale. All purchases are subject to your approval, returnable within 10 days. New York State residents please add sales tax to your purchases. All items are guaranteed authentic and as described.
About the Seller
Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.
Biblio member since 2003
Cadyville, New York
About Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.
Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd. (incorporated 1989) is a general antiquarian book store which buys and sells collections and individual items of significance. Booksellers Ric Zank and Daniel Meunier each bring to the business over 18 years of experience in seeking out and offering for sale unusual, uncommon and rare books, autographs, and ephemera in all fields. Our office is open 7 days a week from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and frequently later. An answering machine will take your message after hours and when we are out of the office.
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Colophon
- The colophon contains information about a book's publisher, the typesetting, printer, and possibly even includes a printer's...