Research Catalog

Title

The Southeast in early maps / William P. Cumming.

Author

Cumming, William Patterson, 1900-1989.

Publication

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [1998], ©1998.

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Additional Authors

De Vorsey, Louis.

Description

xiv, 362 pages, 71 pages of plates : illustrations, maps (some color); 32 cm.

Summary

• First published in 1958, The Southeast in Early Maps is William Cumming's classic study of the mapping of the Southeast before the American Revolution. By analyzing printed and manuscript maps of the region in light of other contemporary primary documents, the book traces the expansion of geographical knowledge about the Southeast over the course of its discovery and colonization.
• With 124 illustrations - including a gallery of 24 color reproductions of maps selected from the Cumming Collection in the E. H. Little Library at Davidson College - this edition will be a valuable reference for collectors, cartographers, geographers, historians, archaeologists, archivists, librarians, genealogists, and surveyors.

Series Statement

The Fred W. Morrison series in Southern studies

Uniform Title

Fred W. Morrison series in Southern studies.

Subject

• Cartography > Southern States
• Southern States > Maps

Genre/Form

Maps.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

The Early Maps of Southeastern North America: An Introductory Essay. Primary Cartography: The Discovery. Transitional or Descriptive Maps: Early Explorations and Settlements. Attempts at Settlement: 1562-1663. The Establishment of Carolina 1663-1700. Expansion of the Frontier and the Surveys. The Expansion of the Frontier in the Early Eighteenth Century. The Surveys: The Third Quarter of the Eighteenth Century. Appendix. Chief Type Maps in the Cartography of Southeastern North America -- American Indians and the Early Mapping of the Southeast / Louis De Vorsey, Jr. -- List of Maps of the Southeast during the Colonial Period, Including Local Maps and Plans of the Region South of Virginia and North of the Florida Peninsula.

ISBN

0807823716 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

97046332

OCLC

ocm37928591

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries