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Auction 124, Lot 788

"[Lot of 3] Pioneer Atlas of the American West [and] Another America Native American Maps and the History of Our Land [and] Maps and Mapmakers of the Civil War"

Subject: Reference Books

Period: 1969-99 (published)

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1) Pioneer Atlas of the American West , historical text by Dale J. Morgan, 1969 edition. Facsimile reproductions of maps and indexes from the 1876 first edition of Rand, McNally and Co.'s Business Atlas of the Great Mississippi Valley and Pacific Slope together with Contemporary Railroad Maps and Travel Literature. Hardbound, 80 pp, illustrated cover. Grade A. A small amount of soiling on covers. (14 x 11").

2) Another America: Native American Maps and the History of Our Land, by Mark Waarhus, is the first book to present rare and seldom seen maps made by Native Americans. St. Martin's Press, 1997 (7.7 x 9.4"") first edition, 242 pp. xiv, 80 ills. Hardbound with dust jacket. Grade A+. As new.

3) Maps and Mapmakers of the Civil War, Earl B. McElfresh with foreword by Stephen W. Sears, 1999. A thorough examination of Civil War maps, mapmaking and mapmakers, documents the techniques and travails of the mapmaker in the field. Lively anecdotes are retold alongside discussion of the practical effect of the cartographer's art on actual military operations. (12 x 10"). 272 pp., notes, bibliography, index, 180 illustrations, 150 in full-color, many never before reproduced. Hardbound with dust jacket and wrapped in plastic. Grade A+.

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