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PUBLICATION DETAILS: Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Williamsburg, V1rginia in association with Henry N. Abrams, Inc., Publisher, New York. 2002. Burgundy cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. Glossy dust jacket with color-illustrated map of North America and white and gilt lettering. 434 pp. 283 illustrations, 159 in full-color. Handsomely illustrated.
 
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Pritchard also co-authored William Byrd II and His Lost History: Engravings of the Americas (1993), published by Colonial Williamsburg. She is Curator of Prints, Maps, and Wallpaper, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation.
 
Taliaferro was a well-known dealer of rare maps and prints in New York. He was a co-founder of Cohen & Taliaferro LLC, a firm specializing in fine antique maps. Taliaferro worked in the field for over 45 years, helping to develop some of the most important private and institutional collections in the United States He compiled Cartographic Sources in the Rosenberg Library (1987) and has authored several articles on Virginia genealogy and 17th- through 19th-century mapmaking.
 
CONDITION: Like new.
 
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