Cartographic Sources in the Rosenberg Library by TALIAFERRO, Henry G

College Station, TX: Texas A & M University Press, 1988. Hardcover. VG/Very Good. 234 pp. Biblio., index, illus, "...documents the development of cartography for the coastal region." Over 550 maps in the collection are described 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 1st Edition

From the library of Jack Jackson, the author of Manuscript Maps Concerning the Gulf Coast, Texas, and the Southwest (1519-1836); VG- condition hardcover with foxing on edges in VG condition dustjacket. Handwritten notes by Jackson in text. The Texas coast remained for a long time one of the least-known stretches of the American Atlantic littoral, and Galveston Bay, the coast's most prominent feature, was not even shown by commercial mapmakers until 1799. The extensive cartographic collection of the Rosenberg Library in Galveston documents the development of cartography for this region. The Rosenberg holds maps that show Galveston Bay from 1725 on, as well as the rest of Texas, the Gulf of Mexico, the Caribbean Sea, and adjacent coasts. Its maps illustrate European exploration of the New World during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and the development of Texas during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. This detailed guide to the important cartographic collection at the… Read More

College Station, Texas: Texas A&M University Press, 1988. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Tall octavo. 234pp. Illustrated. Fine in a lighlty spine-sunned else fine dustwrapper.