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Date: Sat, 5 Oct 2002 12:32:35 -0400
From: ahudson <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: new book from Williamsburg Fdtn on maps of America
Sender: ahudson <[log in to unmask]>


fyi mapsters, a new book for your delectation, I picked mine up at the
New-York Historical Society bookstore, and it will be available on
Amazon.com, etc. Asof today Amazon still has it "not yet published." Little
do they know...

I have not read the whole book yet, so this is not a review, just
information for you mappy types...
The book is latest in the "Williamsburg Decorative Arts Series."

Degrees of Latitude, Mapping Colonial America
by Margaret Beck Pritchard and Henry G. Taliaferro, 2002

2 isbns one for Williamsburg Fdtn, one for Abrams: 0-87935-214-0,
0-8109-3539-2
US $95.00; Canada $150.00

Alice C. Hudson
Chief, Map Division
The Humanities and Social Sciences Library
The New York Public Library
5th Avenue & 42nd Street, Room 117
New York, NY 10018-2788

[log in to unmask]; 212-930-0589; fax 212-930-0027

http://nypl.org/research/chss/map/map.html


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