The City in Maps: urban mapping to 1900

London: The British Library, 1987. Paperback. 88p., profuse b&w reproductions facing the running text or incorporating detailed captions, with eight (8) fullpage color facsimiles, semi-glazed alkaline paperstock softbound in 9.5x7.5 inch color wraps. Covers mildly edgeworn, clean within and unmarked except for a dealer's price in pencil to half-title, a very good copy of a handsome book. Commences with a fragmentary stunning cuneiform 4th century BC plat of a city on the Euphrates, segues to an oddly similar map in stone of Rome, centuries later. (Inventory #: 302929)