NOEL and CLARK. A History of Tennis. 1924 View & Exploration Humboldt’s map of New Spain

Humboldt’s map of New Spain was the first “modern” map of the Spanish dominions in North America

Many other works followed

Fine was educated in Paris (Collège de Navarre)

The map opened the area to settlement from the east and defined the western limits of the American colonies

and hence it got its Latin name of cerasus

NOEL and CLARK. A History of Tennis. 1924 View & Exploration Humboldt’s map of New SpainA History of TennisNOEL, E. B. and CLARK, J. O. M. Published by Oxford University Press, 1924, 1924 2 volumes. 4to., (11 x 7 4 8 inches). Half titles. Colour frontispiece and illustratedthroughout reproducing original artwork and from photographs. Original bluebuckram, gilt, fore and lower edges uncut (spines a bit sunned). Provenance: fromthe Croydon Public Libraries, Central Reference Library, with their bookplate onthe front paste down of each