Author : Thomas D. Clark
Release : 2014-07-15
Genre : History
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Historic Maps of Kentucky - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Historic Maps of Kentucky write by Thomas D. Clark. This book was released on 2014-07-15. Historic Maps of Kentucky available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Maps published frorn the third quarter of the eighteenth century through the Civil War reflect in colorful detail the emergence of the Commonwealth of Kentucky and the unfolding art of American cartography. Ten maps, selected and annotated by the most eminent historian of Kentucky, have been reproduced in authentic facsimiles. The accompanying booklet includes an illuminating historical essay, as well as notes on the individuaL facsimiles, and is illustrated with numerous details of other notable Kentucky maps. Among the rare maps reproduced are one of the battlefield of Perryville (1877), a colorful travelers' map (1839), and a map of the Falls of the Ohio (1806) believed to be the first map printed in Kentucky.