America on the map
By: edited by Miklos Pinther
Contributors: CartoPhilatelic Society
Series: Occasional publications series -- no. 1
Publisher: CartoPhilatelic Society
Published: 2007
Place of publication: St. Louis, Mo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 52
Subjects: Maps on postage stamps; Postage stamps
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: America's birth certificate, the Waldseemüller map of 1507; title: Waldseemüller names the new world America; title: The image of Amerigo Vespucci; title: And meanwhile, Leonardo was painting the Mona Lisa...; title: Waldseemüller's globe; title: The Waldseemüller-Mercator connection; title: Netherland in America; title: "Fifty-four forty or fight," longitudes and latitudes in the United States; title: Latin American border disputes and shown on postage stamps; title: European postal system in the 16th century; title: The growth and development cycle.