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Mary Sponberg Pedley

The Commerce of Cartography

Making and Marketing Maps in Eighteenth-Century France and England

232 pages, 8 color plates, 41 halftones  6 x 9  © 2005
Series: The Kenneth Nebenzahl, Jr., Lectures in the History of Cartography

Cloth $43.00

ISBN: 9780226653419   Published April 2005

List of Illustrations
Monetary Units
List of Abbreviations
Part I: Making Maps
Chapter One: Getting to Market
Chapter Two: The Costs of Map Production
Part II: Selling Maps
Chapter Three: Getting and Spending
Chapter Four: Plagiarism and Protection
Chapter Five: Multiplying Maps: The Survey and Printed Charts of Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island
Part III: Evaluating Maps
Chapter Six: Giving Pleasure to the Public: Telling Good from Bad
Conclusions
Appendixes
Bibliography
Index
Subjects


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