Studies in carto-bibliography, British and French, and in the bibliography of itineraries and road-books, by Sir Herbert George Fordham.

Author
Fordham, Herbert George, Sir, 1854-1929 [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Oxford, Clarendon press, 1914.
Description
vii, [2] p., 1 l., [3]-180 p. front. (map) 1 illus., 2 facsim. 23 cm.

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Notes
  • Frontispiece accompanied by guard sheet with descriptive letterpress.
  • "The papers here reprinted, after a more or less complete revision, have been thought worthy of rescue from the oblivion of the transactions and other publications of various societies and of private impressions."--Pref.
Contents
I. An introduction to the study of the cartography of the English and Welsh counties. Index list of the maps of Hertfordshire, 1579-1900.--II. British and Irish itineraries and road-books.--III. Descriptive list of the maps of the great level of the Fens, 1604-1900.--IV. John Cary, engraver, map-seller, and globe-maker.--V. Descriptive catalogues of maps: methods of arrangement. Specimens of full and abridged descriptions of maps of various dates.--VI. An itinerary of the sixteenth century; La guide des chemins d'Angleterre.--VII. The carography of the provinces of France, 1570-1757.--A bibliography and cartography.--Index.
LCCN
15010496
OCLC
1866782
RCP
N - S
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