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Subject:        new old books on maps
Date:   Thu, 27 Mar 2008 12:05:37 -0400
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Just received the  Scholar's Bookshelf catalog for History and several
mappy titles are there with good prices. I am not an agent for Scholar's
bookshelf, but I am an agent for cost saving when I see it...  and some of
these are real surprises. I was told Cartographia was o.p.

Atlas of Atlantis and other lost civilizations $24.95
Historical atlas of ancient Mesopotamia  2003    $19.95
Atlas of Medieval Europe 2007 19.95
Vinland map and Tartar relation 1995 ed.  $18.95
Historical atlas of exploration 2007  $19.95
Schilder. Three World maps. $49.50
Schilder. Van den Keere  $49.50.
Schilder. Hondius/Visscher  $49.50
Virga. Cartographia. $47.95
Ciment. Atlas of African american history. 2007  $24.95
Garver. Surveying the Shore:Historic maps of coastal Massachusetts 2006
$24.95
Andrew Robinson. The Story of Measurement. 2007  $34.95
The Ghost Map. 2007  $15.00
Measuring the World. [Novel, comic fiction about Humboldt & Gauss, who knew
they were funny?]  2007  $14.95

They have a website so you can follow up if interested:
www.scholarsbookshelf.com/history

OK, that was my nice librarian fix for the day, now I can face my public in
a properly rude way. Can only be nice for sooo many minutes a day.       ;
- )


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

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Hours: 1-7:30 Tu & Wed, 1-6 Thurs-Sat.    Closed Sun, Mon.

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