Images and icons of the New World
Subtitle: essays on American cartography
By: edited by Karen Severud Cook.
Contributors: Cook, Karen Severud.; British Library.
Publisher: British Library
Published: 1996
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 112
Subjects: Cartography -- America -- History.
Other titles: British Library journal.
Notes: Issued as The British Library journal, v. 22, no. 1, Spring 1996.
Table of contents: value: "A very common and usuall trade": the relationship between cartographic perceptions and "fishing" in the Davis Strait circa 1500-1550 / Kirsten A. Seaver; value: Thomas Jefferys' map of Canada and the mapping of the western part of North America, 1750-1768 / Joan Winearls; value: Two manuscript maps of the Nuevo Santander in northern New Spain from the eighteenth century / Dennis Reinhartz; value: An early map on skin of the area later to become Indiana and Illinois / G. Malcolm Lewis; value: Benjamin Franklin and the snake that would not die / Karen Severud Cook.