New Worlds; Maps from the Age of Discovery
London: Quercus, 2008. Octavo, 30 x 24.6cm, 224pp, lavishly illustrated with maps from 1475-1899, white boards, illustrated dustjacket. More about New Worlds; Maps from the Age of Discovery
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Norwich’s Maps of Africa
Vermont: Terra Nova Press, 1997. Second Edition. Octavo, 29 x 22cm, xxxvii +448pp, colophon; photographs and description of 345 maps; orange boards, illustrated dustjacket with red and green title. The illustrations are for the most part taken directly from Dr Norwich’s photographs and digitised by G.B. Manasek Inc., with Jared... More about Norwich’s Maps of Africa
Nineteenth Century Notebook
[?]: [c.1850]. Paper covered boards. A notebook with marbled boards and ruled pages, all edges marbled, in which Henry William Parkinson has taken lecture notes, copied passages and summarized chapters and lectures read. Pages have been hand numbered. Pp 1-6 are missing. P. 7 is titled "History of Greece" but... More about Nineteenth Century Notebook
Imagined Corners. Exploring the World’s First Atlas
London: Review, 2003. First Edition. Octavo, 25.3 x 19.5cm, 314pp, lavishly illustrated in colour and black and white, map endpapers : Typus Orbis Terrarum, or World Map, from the 1570 Theatrum, blue boards, gilt titling on spine, gilt accented illustrated dustjacket. Brings vividly to life the Antwerp that produced Abraham... More about Imagined Corners. Exploring the World’s First Atlas
The LONDON DIRECTORY, or a New & Improved PLAN of LONDON, WESTMINSTER & SOUTHWARK, 1783; With the adjacent County, the New Buildings, the New Roads, and the late alterations by Opening of New Streets & Widening of others.
EXTENT: Islington – Shadewell – Newington Butts – Tyburn. Margin Marked off in half miles and lettered for reference. Imprint and table of references to churches and public buildings below map. Howgego 138 (7). This linen-backed copy is very fragile with separation along some of the folds most notably the vertical... More about The LONDON DIRECTORY, or a New & Improved PLAN of LONDON, WESTMINSTER & SOUTHWARK, 1783;...
Proceedings of the Vinland Map Conference
University of Chicago Press, 1971. Octavo, 28.4 x 22cm, 185pp including bibliography and list of participants. Previous owner stamp on front pastedown and front free endpaper, minor foxing to the first and last gatherings and to the edges of the leaves. Occasional pencil notation. Includes the papers presented at the conference... More about Proceedings of the Vinland Map Conference
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