Author: Carl Moreland
Publisher: Phaidon Incorporated Limited
ISBN: 9780714829548
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
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.
Antique Maps
Author: Carl Moreland
Publisher: Phaidon Incorporated Limited
ISBN: 9780714829548
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Phaidon Incorporated Limited
ISBN: 9780714829548
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
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.
Antique Map Price Record & Handbook for ...
Author: Jon K. Rosenthal
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Early maps
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Early maps
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Collecting Old Maps
Author: Francis J. Manasek
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780692259368
Category : Early maps
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
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.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780692259368
Category : Early maps
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
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.
Atlas Maior of 1665
Author: Joan Blaeu
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783836538039
Category : Atlases
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
Superlatives flounder in the face of Joan Blaeu's Atlas Maior, one of the most extravagant feats in the history of mapmaking. This stunning edition is based on the Austrian National Library's complete colored and gold-heightened copy and reprints its 594 maps covering all then-known continents to the highest reproduction standard, rendering...
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783836538039
Category : Atlases
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
Superlatives flounder in the face of Joan Blaeu's Atlas Maior, one of the most extravagant feats in the history of mapmaking. This stunning edition is based on the Austrian National Library's complete colored and gold-heightened copy and reprints its 594 maps covering all then-known continents to the highest reproduction standard, rendering...
Placing History
Author: Anne Kelly Knowles
Publisher: ESRI, Inc.
ISBN: 1589480139
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
CD-ROM contains: Four Microsoft PowerPoint presentations and interactive mapping exercises, some of which extend the scholarly material and addresses new issues related to historical GIS.
Publisher: ESRI, Inc.
ISBN: 1589480139
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
CD-ROM contains: Four Microsoft PowerPoint presentations and interactive mapping exercises, some of which extend the scholarly material and addresses new issues related to historical GIS.
Bibliographic Guide to Maps and Atlases
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Maps
Languages : en
Pages : 858
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Maps
Languages : en
Pages : 858
Book Description
Adams' Synchronological Chart Or Map of History
Author: Sebastian Adams
Publisher: New Leaf Publishing Group
ISBN: 0890515050
Category : Chronology, Historical
Languages : en
Pages : 1
Book Description
This is a time line that follows the Annals of the World time line by James Ussher.
Publisher: New Leaf Publishing Group
ISBN: 0890515050
Category : Chronology, Historical
Languages : en
Pages : 1
Book Description
This is a time line that follows the Annals of the World time line by James Ussher.
The Phantom Atlas
Author: Edward Brooke-Hitching
Publisher: Chronicle Books
ISBN: 145216844X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
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
Publisher: Chronicle Books
ISBN: 145216844X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
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
Antique Map Price Record & Handbook for ...
Author: Jon K. Rosenthal
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Early maps
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Early maps
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
The Handbook of Texas
Author: Walter Prescott Webb
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Texas
Languages : en
Pages : 1176
Book Description
Vol. 3: A supplement, edited by Eldon Stephen Branda. Includes bibliographical references.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Texas
Languages : en
Pages : 1176
Book Description
Vol. 3: A supplement, edited by Eldon Stephen Branda. Includes bibliographical references.