American Maps and Mapmakers: Commercial Cartography in the Nineteenth Century

Detrioit, MI: Wayne State University Press. Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket. 1985. First Edition. First Printing; Hardcover. 0814317685 . B&W Illustrations & Maps; 10.2 X 8.7 X 1.3 inches; 488 pages; AUTHOR SIGNED ON TITLE PAGE, below his printed name. Oblong shaped book has tan colored boards with black lettering on spine. Boards have some bumping, rubbing, scuffing. DJ has rubbing, scuffing, sunning, creasing, bumping, fading, 2 x 1 1/2" chunk missing from bottom of front, series of closed tears around edges; in a mylar cover. Black end papers. Slight bumping to bottom corner of a few pages. Pages are clean and tight. Exhaustively illustrated with 100+ b/w pictures. 28 chapters, each with notes at end of chapter. Walter William Ristow (April 20, 1908 in – April 3, 2006) was the head librarian of the map library at the New York Public Library and later the Library of Congress. Ristow graduated with a degree in geography from the University of Wisconsin in 1931. He went on to earn a master's degree in geography from Oberlin College and a doctorate from Clark University. Ristow joined the Library of Congress in 1946 and became chief of its map department in 1967. He retired in 1978. In 1979, Ristow helped establish the Washington Map Society. The Society gives an award in his name annually to an author of "a paper in the field of cartographic history or map librarianship." Ristow was a prolific author on maps and cartography. Index. oversized, 4#.; Signed by Author .