Literary Selections on Cartography

Madison, WI: The History of Cartography Project, 2007. Hardcover. 9.5x12 inch quarter-cloth folder with marbled boards and a ribbon closure, containing two broadsides and two commentaries on 8.5x11 inch sheets of paper, all in very good condition. The first broadsheet is titled "Cassiodorus, Quaestor to the Ostrogothic King Theoderic, to the Illustrious Consularis, c. 510" and is number 175 of 250 copies, the second consists of a passage from The Book of Job and is number 108 of 193 copies. The commentaries are "No. 1: The Navigator's Line" and "No. 15: The Surveyor as 'Madman.' (Inventory #: 274357)