Date: 1999. 1999 Krieger, Alex, ed MAPPING BOSTON Foreword Norman B Leventhal Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, c1999 second printing 278pp, index, color, black and white illustrations and maps Rectangular lg 4to Tipped on bookplate on half title-page "Please accept my book Mapping Boston in recognition of your membership in The Killian Society as a Patron for the 2000-2001 Alumni Fund Year "Norman" ink signature Norman B Leventhal Class of 1938" Laid-in certificate from The Killian Society As new hardcover in as new d/j. 1999. ISBN 0262112442 9780262112444 [US]

ISBN10: 0262112442, ISBN13: 9780262112444, [publisher: The MIT Press] Hardcover 1999 Krieger, Alex, ed MAPPING BOSTON Foreword Norman B Leventhal Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, c1999 second printing 278pp, index, color, black and white illustrations and maps Rectangular lg 4to Tipped on bookplate on half title-page "Please accept my book Mapping Boston in recognition of your membership in The Killian Society as a Patron for the 2000-2001 Alumni Fund Year "Norman" ink signature Norman B Leventhal Class of 1938" Laid-in certificate from The Killian Society As new hardcover in as new d/j.
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ISBN10: 0262112442, ISBN13: 9780262112444, [publisher: The MIT Press, [Cambridge, Mass.] Hardcover 278 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Large heavy volume. Light edgewear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy. Record # 460496
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The MIT Press, Date: 1999 4to (30.5 cm), 290 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket (tears top back of dust jacket, cloth of the back board scratched). An informative and beautiful exploration of the life and history of a city through its maps. The book includes both historical maps of the city and maps showing the gradual emergence of the New England region from the imaginations of explorers to a form that we would recognize today. Each map is accompanied by a full description and by a short essay offering an insight into its context. The topics of these essays by Anne Mackin include people both familiar and unknown, landmarks, and events that were significant in shaping the landscape or life of the city. A highlight of the book is a series of new maps detailing Boston's growth. The book also contains seven essays that explore the intertwining of maps and history. Urban historian Sam Bass Warner, Jr., starts with a capsule history of Boston. Barbara McCorkle, David Bosse, and David Cobb discuss the making and trading of maps from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century. Historian Nancy S. Seasholes reviews the city's remarkable topographic history as reflected in maps, and planner Alex Krieger explores the relation between maps and the physical reality of the city as experienced by residents and visitors. In an epilogue, novelist James Carroll ponders the place of Boston in contemporary culture and the interior maps we carry of a city. 1999. The MIT Press ISBN ...