Art of the map, the: an illustrated history of map elements and embellishments
Auteur :
Reinhartz, Dennis
Éditeur :
Sterling Publishing Co Inc
ISBN :
9781402765926
Date de publication :
22 nov. 2012
Dimensions :
25,4 x 25,4 x 2,7 cm
Poids :
1152 g
Format :
With printed dust jacket
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
An illustrated history of the golden age of cartography, from the sixteenth through to the nineteenth centuries, that explores not only the embellishments on maps but also what they reveal about the world in which they were created. It includes monsters real and imagined; ships actual and archetypical; and fauna ranging from buffalo to unicorns.