The John Carter Brown Library announces a new publication:
New England in Early Printed Maps, 1513-1800: An Illustrated
Carto-Bibliography is the first comprehensive, fully descriptive list
of the printed maps of New England for this period. Over 450 of the
800 maps listed chronologically are illustrated, making possible
quick visual identification. Each description includes a note of
locations where the original may be found.
The work is based upon many years of research and visits to dozens of
cartographic collections by Barbara Backus McCorkle, formerly Curator
of the Map Collection, Yale University Library. Both separately
printed maps and many maps bound up in early books have been included.
Designed to serve as a practical reference tool for librarians,
historians, collectors, antiquarian map dealers, and lovers of early
cartography, it presents indexes not only of map titles but of every
name associated with each map: publisher, cartographer, engraver,
printer, artist, dedicatee, and so forth. An annotated bibliography
of relevant secondary works and individual New England state map
listings without illustration have been appended.
Highlights of the book include maps related to boundary disputes
between Britain and France and to the Revolutionary War.
For further information, contact the John Carter Brown Library, Box
1894, Providence, Rhode Island 02912, see http://www.JCBL.org on the
web, or e-mail queries to JCBL_Publications@Brown.edu.
John Carter Brown Library
Box 1894
Providence, RI 02912
401-863-9030
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