[SIGNED] [MAPS] THE HISTORY OF CARTOGRAPHY. THREE VOLUMES ISSUED IN SIX

Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1987. Hard Cover. Near Fine binding/Near Fine dust jacket. Signed. Six large quarto volumes; in publisher’s grey cloth with titling in red and gilt, and with pictorial dustjackets; profusely illustrated in color and in black and white; the first volume is signed by editor David Woodward.~~The contents of the three volumes bound in 6 are as follows; Vol. 1: Cartography in Prehistoric, Ancient and Medieval Europe and the Mediterranean; Vol. 2, Book One: Cartography in the Traditional Islamic and South Asian Societies; Vol. 2, Book Two: Cartography in the Traditional East and Southeast Asian Societies; Vol. 2, Book Three: Cartography in the Traditional African, American, Arctic, Australian, and Pacific Societies; Vol. 3, Part One: Cartography in the European Renaissance; Vol. 3, Part Two: Cartography in the European Renaissance.~~Reviewed in the New York Times: the History of Cartography “is the most ambitious overview of map making ever undertaken.” [Edward Rothstein].~~~~. Near Fine binding / Near Fine dust jacket.