Degrees of Latitude: Mapping Colonial America AS NEW

Williamsburg, Virginia: Colonial Williamsburg Foundation , 2002. In exceptionally good condition/In exceptionally good condition. Demy folio, [27.75cm/11inches], full gilt-embossed rich maroon cloth with mylar-protected dust jacket, pp. xii, 434 , indexed. Illustrated with b-w halftones, colour plates &tc. . Please feel free to ask for particulars and/or additional photographs. ... The New York Historical Society noted: "We are thrilled and honored to be able to exhibit these maps," said Margaret Heilbrun, Vice President for Library Services and Head Librarian for the New-York Historical Society, "This is a rare chance for New Yorkers and their visitors to see and experience these important documents of early American exploration." Degrees of Latitude will use maps as a point of departure for understanding the history of American settlement and colonization. These maps, representing each of the 13 colonies, were selected for their rarity, historical importance and aesthetic beauty. A few, such as Bernard Ratzer's Plan for the City of New York, are rare or unique examples never before published. The Custis Atlas, once owned by Virginian John Custis IV, features an additional 100 maps. As this remarkable volume passed through generations of the Custis family, it was familiar to two other prominent Virginians who were related by marriage: George Washington and Robert E. Lee. Maps tell us what was known or believed about the land, suggest how people traveled and traded, and record routes taken across oceans and continents," said Margaret Beck Pritchard, Colonial Williamsburg curator of prints, maps and wallpaper since 1982.".