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This collection of old maps is designed to illustrate the course of American history from the earliest time down to the close of the Revolutionary War. The editors have brought them together from their hiding places in dark, dusty, and, in some cases, forgotten repositories. The seventy-four maps here reproduced were selected from many thousands examined by the editors in the great libraries in America, in the Vatican, in the British Museum, and in the Biblioth??que Nationale. Each map is accompanied by a brief essay setting forth its historical significance. As far as possible, the map is allowed to tell its own story through the reproduction of its numerous legends, aided by quotations from contemporary books.
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Compilation of 74 maps of the globe and of America from 1440 through 1775. With explanatory essay and biography of the map maker for each one. This work is an authorized 1969 reproduction of the 1927 edition and includes the 1440 Vlinland Map.
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1926
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