cloth, dust jacket
1970 · London
by Skelton, R.A.
London: Spring Books, 1970. cloth, dust jacket. Maps. 4to. cloth, dust jacket. xi, 337 pages. Reprint of 1958 first edition. Tells both the history of cartography and how Europe discovered and explored the rest of the world. Illustrated with over two hundred maps, frontispiece in color. Spine of jacket faded and price clipped. From the private reference library of Dorothy Sloan with a commemorative bookplate loosely inserted. (Inventory #: 33993)