The commerce of cartography
Subtitle: making and marketing maps in eighteenth-century France and England
By: Mary Sponberg Pedley.
Series: The Kenneth Nebenzahl, Jr., lectures in the history of cartography
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 345
Subjects: Map industry and trade -- France -- History -- 18th century.; Map industry and trade -- England -- History -- 18th century.; Cartography -- France -- History -- 18th century.; Cartography -- England -- History -- 18th century.
Description: "A thorough and provocative study of the business of cartography during the Enlightenment. The Commerce of Cartography charts a new cartographic landscape and will prove invaluable to scholars of economic history, historical geography, and the history of publishing."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [313]-326) and index.