Unrolling the map: the story of exploration. With drawings of ships by Gordon Grant and . . . specially devised maps.
by [MAPS -- CARTOGRAPHY]. OUTHWAITE, Leonard
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- Hardcover
- first
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Vancouver, Washington, United States
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About This Item
New York: John Day, Reynal & Hitchcock, [1935]. 4to. xiv, 351, [1] pp. With 56 maps (most full-page), numerous text illustrations. Blue publisher’s cloth, silver lettering front cover & spine (minor shelfwear, light rubbing at head & foot of spine, corners), w/ d.j. striking Art Deco cover art of ships voyaging (minor creasing, edgewear, couple closed tears on back cover, wear to corners), still NF/VG- copy, inscribed by author on half-title. First edition, inscribed, of this unashamedly Eurocentric voyages and exploration history detailing “all the great adventurers by land and sea from Hannu 2750 B.C. to Piccard 1935.” The specially prepared maps specifically show the ground and oceans covered by each explorer, with the contemporary “Known World” starkly defined. The maps and histories sequentially “unroll” from the very small area around the Mediterranean to the World. Outhwaite (1892-1979) was an anthropologist who worked on American race relations at the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial from 1923-1028, worked for the Rockefeller Foundation through the 1930’s, and organized “Outhwaite Exhibits” for museums, World’s Fairs, and window displays. He also was an adventurer who sailed 14,000 miles on the Atlantic Ocean from 1929-1930 onboard the yacht “Kinkajou” visiting Mt. Pelee, Martinique.
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- Bookseller
- Zephyr Used & Rare Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 60001
- Title
- Unrolling the map: the story of exploration. With drawings of ships by Gordon Grant and . . . specially devised maps.
- Author
- [MAPS -- CARTOGRAPHY]. OUTHWAITE, Leonard
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- John Day, Reynal & Hitchcock,
- Place of Publication
- New York:
- Date Published
- [1935].
- Keywords
- Maps, Cartography, Exploration, Voyages, Travel, Ancient History, Maritime, Nautical, Gordon Grant, Illustrated Books, Signed Firsts, Inscribed, Leonard Outhwaite
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