Picturing America, 1497-1899: Prints, Maps, and Drawings Bearing on the New World Discoveries and on the Development of the Territory That Is Now th

by Gloria-Gilda Deak and Gloria Gilda Deak

Gloria Gilda Deak's comprehensive documentation of over a thousand maps, drawings, and urban views, selected from the New York Public Library's notable collection of Americana, makes her work a primary reference tool in the area of American historical prints. As such it will replace Stokes and Haskell's American Historical Prints, which for over half a century has been the chief reference work in this area. For more than four centuries, graphic artists...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691039992
• ISBN13: 9780691039992
• Release Date: November 1988
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 688 Pages
• Weight: 4.25 lbs.