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Mapping America, Exploring the Continent  •  Duncan McCorquodale REFERENCE •  2010 •  HARD COVER  • 240 PAGES This colorful compendium for map-lovers gathers four centuries of maps of the United States, including early colonial engravings, census maps, maps charting Presidential campaigns, environmental maps, satellite maps, maps showing changes during landmark events and artistic renderings of contemporary America. (USA426, $45.00)
Atlas of World History  •  Patric O'Brien REFERENCE •  2010 •  HARD COVER  • 312 PAGES This fully revised second edition of the Oxford Atlas of World History traces religions, populations, languages, trade, people and places from the first civilizations of Mesopotamia to the 21st-Century in hundreds of charts and maps, color illustrations and essays by dozens of contributors. (REF32, $49.95)
Historical Atlas of the North American Railroad  •  Derek Hayes HISTORY •  2010 •  HARD COVER  • 224 PAGES Hayes (Historical Atlas of the American West) approaches railroad history through an array of maps, ranging from utilitarian to ornate. He traces the development of trains from Britain in the 1820s to today's railroad revival with historical maps, photos, brochures and posters. (NAM56, $39.95)
Atlas of Exploration  •  Oxford University Press REFERENCE •  2008 •  HARD COVER  • 256 PAGES The Atlas of Exploration, now in an updated Second Edition, is a splendidly illustrated and authoritative history of these bold adventures. With a vivid and informative text, supported by nearly 100 specially drawn maps and 300 photographs and illustrations, it traces these journeys of discovery from the earliest recorded trips, ranging from the time of the Phoenicians' voyages in the North Atlantic through the launch of the first Pluto explorer. We follow Cortes in Mexico, La Salle on the Mississippi, Darwin in the Galapagos Islands, James Cook in the Antarctic, and many others. In each section, graphic relief maps highlight the main routes of exploration, while photographs, paintings and engravings brilliantly capture the variety of terrain through which these courageous men and women passed. Also included are maps from different historical periods which reveal cartographers' growing knowledge of the shape of the world's continents and oceans. The final section of the atlas, thoroughly updated and expanded, covers many of the discoveries of the last decade. The Second Edition also contains new biographical details on many great explorers, geographers, and cartographers, plus a revised time chart which summarizes the history of exploration over 5000 years (EXP63, $50.00)
Atlas Maior  •  Peter van der Krogt ART & ARCHITECTURE •  2010 •  HARD COVER  • 626 PAGES A richly embellished, gloriously annotated collection of maps from the largest, most complete atlas of its day, published between 1662 and 1672 by Amsterdam mapmaker and entrepreneur Joan Blaeu. The gold-heightened, hand-colored 11-volume original, from which this sumptuous book is taken, is the showpiece of the Austrian National Library in Vienna. Editor Peter van der Grogt provides a history of this exceptional example of art and cartography. (MAP22, $69.99)
Cities of the World, A History in Maps  •  Peter Whitfield ART & ARCHITECTURE •  2010 •  HARD COVER  • 208 PAGES Map-maven Peter Whitfield's Cities of the World, A History in Maps is an A-to-Z of 60 cities from vanished Alexandria to Athens, Beijing, Cuzco, Delhi, New York, Paris, Sydney and Vienna. Each city gets beautiful antique maps, site plans and paintings, most taken from the British Library. We like the book not just because it's so beautiful but also because of the inspired choices of cities (Lhasa, Mantua, Salzburg). (MAP21, $50.00)

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