My Head is a Map – Essays & Memoirs in Honour of R.V. Tooley

Antique reference books on Cartography are especially hard to find, and ASI is proud to offer some of these rare books.This volume of essays celebrates Ronald Vere Tooley’s 75th birthday…Tooley has long been a familiar figure in the sale-rooms and in the map departments of the major libraries in London…Tooley established himself as one of the leading ‘map-men’ in London with a specialized knowledge which only the constant handling of maps could give. He helped to stock some of the finest map-collections, public and private, in the world…In fifty-three years of selling antique maps Tooley must have seen most of the Books>Atlases ever printed.””

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