Entrée principale:

Ristow, Walter W. (Walter William), 1908-2006.

Titre et auteur:

American maps and mapmakers : commercial cartography in the nineteenth century / Walter W. Ristow.

Publication:

Detroit : Wayne State University Press, 1985.

Description:

488 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 x 27 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Our cartographic heritage -- The maps of the American Revolution -- Maps of the colonies and provinces to 1784 -- The first maps of the United States of America -- Simeon De Witt, pioneer cartographer -- Early state maps : the New England states -- Early state maps : the middle States -- Early state maps : the southern states -- Early state maps : the trans-Appalachian states -- Early American atlases -- The Ebeling-Sotzmann Atlas von Nordamerika -- John Melish -- Henry S. Tanner -- Robert Mills's Atlas of South Carolina -- Charts and guides for navigating costs and rivers -- Urban plans and atlases -- Other map publishers of the engraving period -- The lithographic revolution -- The S. A. Mitchell and J. H. Colton map publishing companies -- Henry Francis Walling -- Robert Pearsall Smith -- The French-Smith map and gazetteer of New York state -- Jay Gould as surveyor and mapper -- More about county maps and mappers -- The county atlas -- The new state of state atlases -- Mapping the trans-Mississippi West -- Rand McNally & Company.

ISBN:

0814317685
9780814317686

Sujet:

Cartography United States History.
Cartographie États-Unis Histoire.
Cartography
Karte
Kartografie
Cartografie.
Bedrijven.
United States of America. [Literature] 1985.
United States
USA
Cartography History United States

Classification/genre:

History
printing in gold. PPA
publishers' cloth bindings. PPA

Exemplaires:

Localisation: Bibliothèque study room 106106
Cote: ID GA405 REF; ID:86-B21221
Statut: Disponible