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New Found Lands: Maps in the History of Exploration
by Peter Whitfield
In this volume the author uses maps and mapmaking to examine the intellectual concept of exploration. Representations of the world, known and unknown, are seen as a reflection of the viewpoints of explorers and their patrons. With 150 illustrations, the ...
Hardback. Price GB £25.00

William Faden and Norfolk's Eighteenth Century Landscape: A Digital Re-Assessment of his Historic Map
by Andrew Macnair and Tom Williamson
William Faden's map of Norfolk, published in 1797, was one of a large number of surveys of English counties produced in the second half of the eighteenth century. This book, with accompanying DVD, presents a new digital version of the map, and explains how this can be interrogated to produce a wealth of new historical information. It discusses the making of the Norfolk map, and Faden's own career, within the wider context of the ...
Paperback. Price GB £25.00

Maps for Historians
by Paul Hindle
A revised and updated edition of the author's Maps for Local History which was published in 1988. This is a practical, comprehensive, and user-friendly guide to the provenance, content, accuracy, location and uses of English and Welsh historical maps, which also charts their development from medieval times to the Ordnance Survey. The text is richly illustrated with examples of each type of map discussed. 148p, many illus (Phillimore ...
Hardback. Price GB £14.99

Fra Mauro's Mappa Mundi and Fifteenth-Century Venice
by Angelo Cattaneo
Fra Mauro's mappamundi, drawn around 1450 in the monastery of San Michele on Murano in the lagoon of Venice, is among the most relevant compendia of knowledge of the Earth and the Cosmos of the fifteenth century. By examining literary, visual, textual and archival evidences, some long considered lost, this book places the map within the larger context of Venetian culture in the fifteenth century. It provides a detailed analysis of both its ...
Hardback. Price GB £81.00

Fra Mauro's Map of the World
by P. Falchetta
Fra Mauro's map of the world - a masterpiece of western cartography, composed around 1450 - has until now never been the subject of a modern study, despite its immense renown. The map has been reproduced and cited in hundreds of books, but the most recent full study was in 1806: Placido Zurla's Il mappamondo di Fra Mauro. In 1956 a facsimile edition on 46 sheets, accompanied by the transcription of the whole corpus of inscriptions (about 3000), ...
Hardback. Price GB £106.00

European Cartographers and the Ottoman World, 1500-1750: Maps from the Collection of O.J. Sopranos
by Ian Manners
This lavishly illustrated catalogue of the exhibit European Cartographers and the Ottoman World, 1500-1750, explores how mapmakers sought to document a new geography of the Near East that reconciled classical ideas and theories with the information collected and brought back by travellers and voyagers. The text is accompanied by images of illuminated manuscript charts and atlases, the earliest printed maps of the Ottoman Empire, and ...
Hardback. Price GB £30.00

Pictura et scriptura: Textes, images et hermeneutique des mappae mundi (XIIIe-XVIe siecles)
by M. Hoogvliet
This study aims to show, while making use of several new approaches, that medieval ideas survived in the cartography of the sixteenth century. The analysis is not only based on the mediaeval genre of the mappae mundi, but also on descriptive geographical texts. Since many descriptiones orbis can be considered as world maps in written form, it is important to take into account their meaning within the textual context where they appear, and to ...
Hardback. Price GB £70.00

Maps in the Atlases of British Library: A Descriptive Catalogue c.850-1800
by Rodney W Shirley
`Although there are catalogues of individual maps in The British Library, up to now there has been no listing of the maps in the Library's collection of atlases. This massive study describes the map contents of over 3,300 pre-1800 atlases, including ...
Hardback. Price GB £195.00

Maps and History: Constructing Images of the Past
by Jeremy Black
A study of cartography which examines the development, role and character of maps as well as what they reveal about perceptions of the world. Beginning with the first world atlas published in the 16th century, Jeremy Black shows how maps reflected the ...
Paperback. Price GB £12.50
Hardback. Price GB £35.00

Mapping Time: The Calendar and its History
by E G Richards
Although the print is somewhat small and the format makes it look more like a novel than scholarly work, the book covers much ground and in some detail. Richards discusses time-keeping from prehistory to the modern period including those of Babylon and ...
Paperback. Price GB £18.00