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The Genoese Cartographic Tradition and Christopher Columbus
by Gaetano Ferro, translated into English by Hann Heck, Luciano F. Farina
216p, 23 plates and illustrations (Istituto poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato 1997)
Hardback. Publisher's Price US$115.00, Our Price US$24.98
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 US$50.00
Mapping Jordan through Two Millennia
by John Bartlett
This book shows how travellers and scholars since Roman times have put together their maps of the land east of the River Jordan. It traces the contribution of Roman armies and early Christian pilgrims and medieval European travellers, Crusading armies, learned scholars like Jacob Ziegler, sixteenth-century mapmakers like Mercator and Ortelius, eighteenth-century travellers and savants, and nineteenth-century biblical scholars and explorers like ...
Hardback. Price US$96.00
Alte Landkarten: Von der Antike bis zum Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts. Ein Handbuch zur Geschichte der Kartographie
by Ivan Kupcik
English summary: Cartography is one of the oldest visual artforms. Historical maps allow for direct insight into earth's constantly changing natural and residential areas. In addition, cultural and historical developments can also be found reflected within them, since they always follow contemporary artistic, religious, or technological trends. In this manual, Ivan Kupcik outlined the history of cartography from antiquity to the present. ...
Paperback. Price US$81.00
European Cartographers and the Ottoman World, 1500-1750: Maps from the Collection of O.J. Sopranos
by Ian Manners
This lavishly illustrated catalog 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 travelers 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 US$44.95
La Sala delle Carte geografiche in Palazzo Vecchio: «Capriccio et invenzione nata dal Duca Cosimo»
edited by Alessandro Cecchi and Paola Pacetti
This luxurious, richly illustrated edition shows the world as it was known in the sixteenth century through the maps and images of the Map Room in the Florentine Palazzo Vecchio. Multidisciplinary studies examined in particular the 53 panels depicting various countries as well as the large central globe. The volume refers to various selections of marvelous or peculiar images included in the room's decorations, which together with the maps reflect ...
Hardback. Price US$53.00
Maps That Made History
by Lez Smart
Few people can resist the appeal of old maps, whether their interest is in history, geography, or beautiful cartography. Here we present 25 glorious examples, reproduced large-scale with magnified details. This thought-provoking collection features maps ...
Hardback. Publisher's Price US$50.00, Our Price US$14.98
The Mapping of America
by Seymour I. Schwartz and Ralph E. Ehrenberg
The authors of this book have combined a rich collection of American maps, from the first tentative chartings of a new land to contemporary satellite photographs, tracking the development of the nation as it has been explored, its boundaries established, ...
Hardback. Price US$70.00
Historic Maritime Maps 1260-1699
by Donald Wigal
An illustrated survey of historic exploration which combines large colour reproductions of ocean-going charts with brief descriptive text. Sections present the charts which resulted from voyages aound the New and Old worlds and include short assessments ...
Hardback. Price US$55.00
Another America: Native American Maps and the History of Our Land
by Mark Warhus
The Europeans who conquered the Americas and their descendants were not the first to map the hemisphere, museum curator Mark Warhus writes in this fascinating, richly illustrated study of Native American cartography. Indian maps--made on buffalo skins, ...
Paperback. Price US$19.95
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