Search Results: Explorers' Maps by R A Skelton

London: Routledge. Good; some wear. 1960. Hardbound. 337 pages .

Frederick A. Praeger, 1958. Hardcover. Very Good/Missing. DJ not present. Beautiful book with map reproductions. Unmarked.

New York: Frederick A. Praeger, 1958. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition.. New York: Frederick A. Praeger, 1958. First Edition . Very Good/Very Good. First Edition in original unclipped jacket. Missing front free endpaper. Yellow green cloth boards with gold lettering on spine. No bumping or fraying. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. No names, writing or bookplates. 200 half-tone illustrations, most of them from old maps. A concise accompanying text gives an ever-interesting account of the geographical ideas and events associated with the maps. Color frontis illustration (H.M.S. Racehorse in the ice north of Spitsbergen, 10 August 1773. 337 pages with index. Dust jacket is not price clipped (12.50 on front inside flap), has shallow edge chipping and short closed edge tears. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover..

praeger publishers, 1958. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Two-inch tear to jacket. Previous owner name..

Praeger, 1958-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. 9x6x1. ***please read*** no marks on text - no DJ - my shelf location 17-D-18*

Frederick A. Praeger. Very Good in Good+ dust jacket. 1958. Hardcover. 060001195X . Exlibrary with usual library markings. Some dust jacket wear and stains. ; 337 pages .

Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, first edition, 1958. Cloth, 4to, 26 cm,. xi, 337 pp, ills, maps, charts. From the blurb: "The book may be regarded as a pictorial companion to general histories of exploration ...The maps used or drawn by explorers describe the borderland between the known and the unknown. Their evidence may tell us what a traveller expected to find or what he in fact discovered. They may have the authority of a prophecy, of a prospectus, or of a chronicle. In early maps information derived from theory and from experience is often inextricably entangled, and for this very reason they are important documents in the history both of geographical ideas and of geographical discovery. They illustrate the always shifting 'relation of observation, theory, and practice' in this field of science. Good in price-clipped and slightly worn dustwrapper.

Spring Books, 1970-01-01. Hardcover. Like New.

Spring Books, 1970. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. 337 pages (complete). Dust jacket a bit torn, shelf rubbed,corner nip and marked. Boards shelf rubbed and marked. Tanning, foxing. However, it is still in a very good condition, tightly bound and intact. MN.. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Spring Books, 1970. Hardcover. Good/Fair. 9x6x1. reprint. the jacket is creased, with a few tears around. some foxing and usage markings. all pages are clear, legible and intact. may require extra postage. [SK]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

GB: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1958. Mustard cloth with gold lettering to spine. Top edge grey. In very good, clean, tight condition BUT dust mark to bottom corner of fore and bottom text edges. Some slight shading to covers and three small marks to front cover. Corners and spine ends a little bumped. Dustwrapper/dustjacket is price clipped, dust marked and inside of spine is spotted. Top of spine chipped, base creased. SPECIAL POSTAGE RATES APPLY Packed weight 1375g.. 1st Edition. Hardback. nrVG/G++ Pc DW.

Spring Books, 1970. Book. Very Good. hardback. hardback, quarto, 11 1/4" x 8 3/4", a very good tightly bound copy in a pictorial dust wrapper that is chipped and creased and has faded of colour to spine, the text is clean and is unmarked, illustrated throughout, 337pp.

New York: Spring Books, 1970. Reprint. Large Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 9x6x1. Reprint. Jacket faded, foxing to page ridge. 1970 Large Hardcover. xi, 337 pp. Traces the development of cartography from the maps and charts of medieval travellers, who filled the unknown areas of their maps with drawings of spouting whales or ships sailing across improbable seas, to the scientifically accurate and highly sophisticated charts of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century surveyors...

Littlehampton Book Services Ltd. Used - Acceptable. 1970. Cloth, dj, 4to, xi and 337pp. Illus. Sunning, chipping, and soiling to dj. Slight warping to boards. Browning to text block. Some foxing present. Internally sound. (Subject: Cartography.)

Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, first edition, 1958. Cloth, 4to, 26 cm,. xi, 337 pp, ills, maps, charts. From the blurb: "The book may be regarded as a pictorial companion to general histories of exploration ...The maps used or drawn by explorers describe the borderland between the known and the unknown. Their evidence may tell us what a traveller expected to find or what he in fact discovered. They may have the authority of a prophecy, of a prospectus, or of a chronicle. In early maps information derived from theory and from experience is often inextricably entangled, and for this very reason they are important documents in the history both of geographical ideas and of geographical discovery. They illustrate the always shifting 'relation of observation, theory, and practice' in this field of science. An ex-library copy with a label on the front pastedown endpaper, a partly removed label on the front free endpaper, stamp on the title-page, and tapemarks on the verso of the rear… Read More

New York: Spring Books, 1970. Reprint. Large Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 9x6x1. Reprint. Jacket edges rubbed and bumped, spine faded, sticker on front jacket flap. Page ridges lightly foxed. 1970 Large Hardcover. xi, 337 pp. Traces the development of cartography from the maps and charts of medieval travellers, who filled the unknown areas of their maps with drawings of spouting whales or ships sailing across improbable seas, to the scientifically accurate and highly sophisticated charts of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century surveyors...

Routledge and Kegan Paul. Used - Very Good. 1960. Cloth, dj. 4to. xi & 337 pp. Illustrated. Second impression. Mild shelf wear and scuffing to dust jacket otherwise protected by acetate cover. Altogether a copy in Very Good condition. (Subject: Cartography.)