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Download or read book Antique Maps written by Carl Moreland and published by Phaidon Incorporated Limited. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A standard reference work and collector's guide to old maps. Antique Maps is now firmly established as a definitive reference work. With extensive information on the general historical background, details of all the major map-makers and practical advice on collecting old maps, it provides an excellent introduction for the beginner as well as a mass of precise and clearly organized information for the expert and the serious collector. A beautiful edition in itself, this timeless volume evokes the elegance of maps from the past and the charm of all the distant places they suggest, to show them not only as historical artefacts but also as works of art.
Book Synopsis Collecting Antique Maps by : Jonathan Potter
Download or read book Collecting Antique Maps written by Jonathan Potter and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Phantom Atlas by : Edward Brooke-Hitching
Download or read book The Phantom Atlas written by Edward Brooke-Hitching and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2018-04-03 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the mysteries within ancient maps — Where exploration and mythology meet This richly illustrated book collects and explores the colorful histories behind a striking range of real antique maps that are all in some way a little too good to be true. Mysteries within ancient maps: The Phantom Atlas is a guide to the world not as it is, but as it was imagined to be. It's a world of ghost islands, invisible mountain ranges, mythical civilizations, ship-wrecking beasts, and other fictitious features introduced on maps and atlases through mistakes, misunderstanding, fantasies, and outright lies. Where exploration and mythology meet: Author Edward Brooke-Hitching is a map collector, author, writer for the popular BBC Television program QI and a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. He lives in a dusty heap of old maps and books in London investigating the places where exploration and mythology meet. Cartography’s greatest phantoms: The Phantom Atlas uses gorgeous atlas images as springboards for tales of deranged buccaneers, seafaring monks, heroes, swindlers, and other amazing stories behind cartography's greatest phantoms. If you are a fan of this popular genre and a reader of books such as Prisoners of Geography, Atlas of Ancient Rome, Atlas Obscura, What If, Book of General Ignorance, or Thing Explainer, your will love The Phantom Atlas
Download or read book American Cities written by Paul E. Cohen and published by Editions Assouline. This book was released on 2005 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating way to explore cities is through historic maps and views. It is while deciphering its creation and development that one uncovers the true spirit of a city. 'American cities' features nine of this country’s metropolises; cities that are thriving urban centers with colorful histories rich in graphic representation - Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., New Orleans, St Louis, Chicago, Denver, and San Francisco. The maps and views reproduced for each city turn the book into a journey of both form and content.
Book Synopsis The Greatest Grid by : Hilary Ballon
Download or read book The Greatest Grid written by Hilary Ballon and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Published to coincide with an exhibition at the Museum of the City of New York celebrating the bicentennial of the 1811 Commissioners' Plan of Manhattan, this volume does more than memorialize such a visionary effort, it serves as an enduring reference full of rare images and information."--P. [4] of cover.
Book Synopsis Historical Maps of the Napoleonic Wars by : Simon Forty
Download or read book Historical Maps of the Napoleonic Wars written by Simon Forty and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of over 100 maps that provide a fascinating insight into the organization of some of the greatest military campaigns in history, including the battles of Trafalgar and Waterloo. The accompanying narrative charts the history, and detailed captions explain the significance of each map.
Book Synopsis You Are Here by : Katharine A. Harmon
Download or read book You Are Here written by Katharine A. Harmon and published by Princeton Architectural Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mapmaking fulfills one of our most ancient and deepseated desires: understanding the world around us and our place in it. But maps need not just show continents and oceans: there are maps to heaven and hell; to happiness and despair; maps of moods, matrimony, and mythological places. There are maps to popular culture, from Gulliver's Island to Gilligan's Island. There are speculative maps of the world before it was known, and maps to secret places known only to the mapmaker. Artists' maps show another kind of uncharted realm: the imagination. What all these maps have in common is their creators' willingness to venture beyond the boundaries of geography or convention. You Are Here is a wide-ranging collection of such superbly inventive maps. These are charts of places you're not expected to find, but a voyage you take in your mind: an exploration of the ideal country estate from a dog's perspective; a guide to buried treasure on Skeleton Island; a trip down the road to success; or the world as imagined by an inmate of a mental institution. With over 100 maps from artists, cartographers, and explorers, You are Here gives the reader a breath-taking view of worlds, both real and imaginary.
Download or read book Isles of Gold written by Hugh Cortazzi and published by Weatherhill, Incorporated. This book was released on 1983 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A selection of over 90 historically significant maps of Japan. The book tells the story of the encounter between the West and Japan through the gradual process of mapping the island empire.
Book Synopsis Historic Maritime Maps by : Donald Wigal
Download or read book Historic Maritime Maps written by Donald Wigal and published by Parkstone Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a selection of ocean-going charts dating from the 13th century to the 17th century. While they may be rudimentary, they bear excellent witness to the achievements of early European navigators, and to their determination to explore the
Book Synopsis Secret Maps of the Ancient World by : Charlotte Harris Rees
Download or read book Secret Maps of the Ancient World written by Charlotte Harris Rees and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2008 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who are The Coalition? Many wonder but few know the truth. The Coalition represents an amalgamation of single and married ultra-successful males who have combined their years of knowledge interacting with the opposite sex into a 12-month guide. A how-to manual which will take an individual from being "a man" to "the man" in 12 short months, step by step. July Jones and Monty Sharpe, two members of The Coalition, have chosen to shed the cloak of anonymity and chronicle the thoughts and philosophies of the single members of the organization. To date, other Coalition members have chosen to remain anonymous.
Book Synopsis Historical Maps of North America by : Michael Swift
Download or read book Historical Maps of North America written by Michael Swift and published by PRC Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring more than 100 beautifully crafted antique maps and charts, previously available only to researchers, this engrossing volume celebrates the art of cartography. Chronologically arranged form the early 1600s to the turn of the 19th century. Extended captions put each map in context and provide fascinating insights into American history, including details about early New York, Boston, and Pennsylvania, and about military engagements of the Revolutionary and Civil Wars. "Provides insight into the historic pageant that is the evolution North America....All levels/collections."--"Choice."
Book Synopsis Collecting Old Maps by : Francis J. Manasek
Download or read book Collecting Old Maps written by Francis J. Manasek and published by . This book was released on 2015-02-15 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The highly anticipated second edition of Collecting Old Maps is completely revised and expanded with over 400 color illustrations. While maintaining the original approach to the nuts and bolts of map collecting, there is new information on collecting in the digital age, building and disposing of a collection, papermaking history, and the mythological figures, symbols and allegory used in cartography. The most significant change to this new edition is the Map Gallery, which is more comprehensive and profusely illustrated in full color. Nearly 200 maps were assembled to illustrate the five-century evolution of printed maps and how they changed both artistically and technically in response to various cultural and market influences. They illustrate the progression from the simple woodcuts of the incunabula period to the elegant copperplate engravings of Renaissance Italy, then to the Baroque Dutch compositions, the refined style of scientific cartographers, and finally the technically advanced, but sometimes whimsical, approach of 20th-century mapmakers. These maps represent a broad range of geographic regions, cartographic importance, and prices. Rather than focusing on the rare and obscure, these are maps that can be collected today.
Book Synopsis Antique Maps Celestial Planisphere Address Book by : Paperblanks Book Company Staff
Download or read book Antique Maps Celestial Planisphere Address Book written by Paperblanks Book Company Staff and published by . This book was released on 2007-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Michigan, Southern Peninsula by : Rand McNally and Company
Download or read book Michigan, Southern Peninsula written by Rand McNally and Company and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Summary, Historical and Political, of the First Planting, Progressive Improvements, and Present State of the British Settlements in North-America by : William Douglass
Download or read book A Summary, Historical and Political, of the First Planting, Progressive Improvements, and Present State of the British Settlements in North-America written by William Douglass and published by . This book was released on 1760 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Bowen's Picture of Boston, Or The Citizen's and Stranger's Guide to the Metropolis of Massachusetts, and Its Environs ... by : Abel Bowen
Download or read book Bowen's Picture of Boston, Or The Citizen's and Stranger's Guide to the Metropolis of Massachusetts, and Its Environs ... written by Abel Bowen and published by . This book was released on 1829 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Historic Maps of Armenia by : Rouben Galichian
Download or read book Historic Maps of Armenia written by Rouben Galichian and published by I.B. Tauris. This book was released on 2004-05-07 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Armenia as a cultural and political entity has existed for over 3000 years. Buffeted for the last 1000 years between Russians, Turks, Persians and the various peoples of the Caucasus, Armenians have survived the looming presence of much more powerful neighbours. The existence of the country has been recorded by mapmakers since the beginnings of cartography - including the various configurations of borders of the Armenian homeland which have shifted back and forth with the political fortunes of the peoples. This book brings together a collection of the most important maps of Armenia, from the oldest known version - a Babylonian clay tablet of the 6th century BC - to the renderings of Greek and Alexandrian cartographers, early Christian maps as well as versions from Ottoman and other Islamic centres. The text includes works by some of the greatest mapmakers, including Mercator and Ortelius. The cartographic treasures in this book include maps from the most important collections in Europe and America. With his detailed descriptions of 125 and his introductory text, the author has produced a work of reference and artistic distinction, which should prove a valuable tool to all who follow the history of Armenia, the Caucasus, the Ottoman and Iranian worlds, as well as to collectors and enthusiasts of cartography.
