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Collecting Antique Maps
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Price Last Updated : 5-23-2012
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Features
Hardcover: 220 pages
Publisher: Jonathan Potter Limited; 4th edition June 2002
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0951157760
ISBN-13: 978-0951157763
Product Dimensions:
11.8 x 8.7 x 0.9 inches
Shipping Weight: 2.6 pounds
Reader Reviews
Map collectors have had, in the past, a problem finding books that contain useful information to help with collecting. At first impression, Potter's book looks like it should be a very useful and important asset. Alas, not true. Although this book is visually attractive, it is poorly written. There is some information here, but Potter's style is ponderous and soporific, making reading it difficult and irritating. Overall, the writing seems to be sloppy and hastily done and this appears to be a book written (quickly) to order. Fifty-word sentences are common! I actually counted 97 words in a single sentence! That particular sentence contained some half-dozen, mostly unrelated, thoughts. Where was the editor? (Was there an editor?) There are also some conceptual errors. One example is when Potter writes about projections and explains that it is difficult to represent a circular object on a plane piece of paper, not knowing that a circle is a plane figure. It is surprising that these errors and difficult writing were not corrected in the second edition. In recent years, collecting maps has grown in popularity as a hobby (I've been at it for about 6 years). This book does little for the majority of new collectors. Potter has chosen to illustrate and to discuss (not with much relevant insight, I might add) only the most "important" and expensive maps, many of which are museum items, and the book is very out of touch with today's American (and many European) map collectors. A London map dealer's stilted (and often erroneous) prose does not help us with our hobby. Many collectors today focus on other types of maps, building very nice, and important, collections around themes other than just scarcity or museum quality. Unfortunately this book is of little help to the majority of these modern-day collectors, and map collectors who buy museum pieces don't need a book like this! The book might be nice as a collection of pictures, but otherwise has relatively little value, and I don't think I shall be consulting my copy very much. The previous review recommended Moreland and Bannister's "Antique Maps", and I concur. This is far better than the Potter volume. I also suggest getting Manasek's "Collecting Old Maps" whch is an important new book quite unlike most other map books. These latter two books will be of inestimable help to most collectors and make Potter's book an unecessary encumbrance.
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Collecting Antique Maps
Hardcover
by Jonathan Potter
Available from Amazon
Price: $32.88
on 5-23-2012
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