Landmarks Of Mapmaking An Illustrated Survey of Maps and Mapmaking

Beschreibung

Very minor rippling to the dust jacket otherwise a wonderful copy. A landmark history of cartography that features 14 luxurious full color, oversize fold-out maps by master cartographers. Text by Charles Bricker includes details of astronomical and mathematical advances, voyages of discovery, new printing techniques, carto-biographies, etc. Enhanced with 350 maps, portraits of explorers and mapmakers, sea charts, reproductions from contemporary publications, etc. Illustrated endpapers. Preface by Gerald Roe Crone. Bound in the original oatmeal color cloth, gilt-stamped over bright white accents. Big and beautiful and therefore requiring Extra Postage.

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Bibliografische Details

Titel

Landmarks Of Mapmaking An Illustrated Survey of Maps and Mapmaking

Verlag

Elsevier, Amsterdam

Veröffentlichungsdatum

1968

Bindung

Hardcover

Illustrator

Illustrated

Ausgabe

First Edition

Zustand

Near Fine

Zustand des Schutzumschlags

Near Fine