Helen Wallis; Anita McConnell [editors] — Historians&Apos; Guide to Early British Maps

London, Offices of the Royal Historical Society , 1994. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this historical guide to early British maps, issued by the Royal Historical Society. First edition. Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks No. 18. A detailed and comprehensive guide to the location of pre-1900 maps of the British Isles preserved in the United Kingdom and Ireland from the Royal Historical Society. Edited by Helen Margaret Wallis, a British historian and the Map Curator at the British Museum, as well as the British Library, and Anita McConnell, a British writer on the history of science and a curator at the Science Museum, London. In the original red cloth binding. Externally, very smart with minor bumping to the extremities. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with the odd small spot to the endpapers. Near Fine . Ill.: Not Stated. Near Fine .