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Antique Map Price Guide No. 5: Printed Maps of America, from 1512 to 1850.
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Price Last Updated : 5-25-2012
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Features
Paperback: 110 pages
Publisher: CreateSpace November 17, 2011
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1467954268
ISBN-13: 978-1467954266
Product Dimensions:
11 x 8.5 x 0.3 inches
Shipping Weight: 12.2 ounces
Reader Reviews
This book is a self-published PDF file that had originally been issued in May, 2010 on a CD-ROM that contained a number of PDF files covering different regions of the world. Unfortunately, the data in this book are largely plagiarized from the Antique Map Price Record, a copyrighted, long-running (nearly 30 years) compendium of map sales data from dealers and auctions. The plagiarism behind this work was described in 2010 in an article that appeared in a well respected publication that is widely read by map collectors and by people interested in the history of cartography.Aside from the fact that the data in this book have been illegally pirated, the book itself is of little or no value, since the pricing information (which is the raison d'etre of the book in the first place, and which is the only significant non-pirated piece of information about each map), is essentially useless. Claiming to be the "current estimated insurance values" for maps in "fine" condition, the prices bear only a vague relationship to actual prices achieved at auctions or asked by dealers, and, in any case, are useless in the real world where antiquarian maps are almost never found in "fine" condition. Condition is a hugely overriding factor in determining an individual map's value, and some made-up price for a perfect copy is both inaccurate and a waste of a collector's time. The same information can be easily, and much more accurately, found via a simple Google search.If, despite its uselessness, you would consider buying this book, you might want to consider why you should pay $35 for it, when the same work, along with corresponding information for 29 other regions, was offered for sale in CD-ROM format for $40. I guess the author decided he could make more money by dividing his original rip-off into 30 parts and selling them individually. Sounds a lot like map dealers who would buy an old atlas at auction, tear it apart, and sell the maps individually, a practice that is widely looked down on by anybody who cares about old books and atlases. Come to think of it, the author of this book IS a map dealer.
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Antique Map Price Guide No. 5: Printed Maps of America, from 1512 to 1850.
by Mr Jeffrey Sharpe
Available from Amazon
Price: $35.00
on 5-25-2012
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