Map Exploring the World
by Clarke, Victoria
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- near fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0714869449
- ISBN 13
- 9780714869445
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About This Item
Phaidon, London, 2016. hardcover. Condition: Near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. Profusely illustrated (illustrator). 2nd prt. edition.. 4to, 352 pp.
Map: Exploring the World brings together more than 300 fascinating maps from the birth of cartography to cutting-edge digital maps of the twenty-first century. The book's unique arrangement, with the maps organized in complimentary or contrasting pairs, reveals how the history of our attempts to make flat representations of the world has been full of beauty, ingenuity and innovation. Selected by an international panel of curators, academics and collectors, the maps reflect the many reasons people make maps, such as to find their way, to assert ownership, to record human activity, to establish control, to encourage settlement, to plan military campaigns or to show political power. The selection includes the greatest names in cartography, such as James Cook, Gerard Mercator, Matthew Fontaine, Maury and Phyllis Pearsall, as well as maps from indigenous cultures around the world, rarely seen maps from lesser known cartographers, and maps of outstanding beauty and surprising individuality from the current generation of map makers.
Map: Exploring the World brings together more than 300 fascinating maps from the birth of cartography to cutting-edge digital maps of the twenty-first century. The book's unique arrangement, with the maps organized in complimentary or contrasting pairs, reveals how the history of our attempts to make flat representations of the world has been full of beauty, ingenuity and innovation. Selected by an international panel of curators, academics and collectors, the maps reflect the many reasons people make maps, such as to find their way, to assert ownership, to record human activity, to establish control, to encourage settlement, to plan military campaigns or to show political power. The selection includes the greatest names in cartography, such as James Cook, Gerard Mercator, Matthew Fontaine, Maury and Phyllis Pearsall, as well as maps from indigenous cultures around the world, rarely seen maps from lesser known cartographers, and maps of outstanding beauty and surprising individuality from the current generation of map makers.
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- Camphor Bookstore (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- Map Exploring the World
- Author
- Clarke, Victoria
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0714869449
- ISBN 13
- 9780714869445
- Publisher
- Phaidon Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2016
- Keywords
- maps, cartography, history, exploration, information, data, design, color, lithography,
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