PUBLICATION DETAILS: Richmond, Virginia State Library, 1975. Sanchez-Saavedra wrote the accompanying text for this portfolio.

CONTENTS:

THE BOOK: Paperback, 130 pages, 6” wide x 8” high. Blue cover with title over a portion of a map of Virginia. The book contains in-depth essays on each map.

THE PORTFOLIO: The maps are contained in a paper portfolio with an illustrated cover. Blue paper, 15” wide X 11’ high. Includes facsimile reproductions of 9 maps on 20 sheets, 5 n color. According to the preface, “This portfolio is not intended to be a collection of cartographic museum pieces for decorative purposes; rather it attempts to show the evolutionary development of a vital branch of science.”

Among the maps are Captain John Smith’s Virginia, Farrer’s A mapp of Virginia discovered to ye Hills, and the Fry-Jefferson map.

CONDITION: Maps in folio having unopened plastic cover. The book is sunned around the periphery.