Volume 5, Number 4 · September 30, 1965
Charting the World
By W.V. Quine
History of Cartography
by Leo Bagrow, Translated from the German by D.L. Paisey, revised and enlarged by R.A. Skelton
Harvard, 312, and 138 plates pp., $19.95
This handsome volume is high, wide, and two inches thick. If the text were printed continuously without lists and illustrations, it would account for only 120 of these spacious pages. The two inches are due partly to heavy paper and generous half-titles, partly to extensive lists, and mainly to the wealth of illustration. For this is primarily a book of reproductions of old maps. Each of the 138 plates is page size or double, and many are in splendid color. In addition there are seventy-six figures in the text, and many of these fill a page apiece.
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