Maps, Land and Society: A History, with a Carto-Bibliography, of Cambridgeshire Estate Maps, C. 1600-1836 Tapa dura - 1992

Cambridge University Press, 1992. A few illustrations, large thick octavo, pp xxiv, 404, top edge slightly foxed, otherwise very clean internally, brown cloth very good, in a very slightly scuffed dustwrapper. ["This book investigates maps and their reflection of and influence on the contemporary society of early modern Britain. It is concerned with rural estate maps, which were primarily drawn to show landownership, and with the surveyors who drew them and the landowners who commissioned them. The links between different aspects of maps and their relation to society are exemplified by a study of the historic county of Cambridgeshire. The work is based on a carto-bibliography of the estate maps of Cambridgeshire which were drawn by 1836. The first section of the book examines three main areas: the maps and how map-making grew and changed from 1600 to 1836, the surveyors and the development of the surveying profession, and the landowners and how they used the maps. The second part is a… Leer más

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. Hardcover. Octavo; G+/G+; Hardcover with DJ; DJ spine, brown with white print; DJ has light edgewear, else clean and bright; Boards in tan cloth, light wear to spine caps, else clean and strong; Text block clean and tight; xxiv, 404 pages, frontispiece (color), illustrated (b&w). 1345389. FP New Rockville Stock.