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Italy: White Star, 2017. (ITL) Uncommon 1st printing. Small owenrship label to the endpaper, a couple of tiny edge bumps to cover, Very Good; no dust jacket perhaps as published. Hardcover,207pp, beautiful reproductions of old maps in colour. This is a well illustrated history of the world through maps, from the first maps to propaganda maps of the 20th century. Printed in Italy. (4.2 JM HOZ 403/b3. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall.
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A JOURNEY BACK IN TIME THROUGH MAPS
de Brown, Kevin J.
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A journey back in time through maps
de Kevin J. Brown
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Milan, Italy, : White Star Publishers, 2017. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. pictorial covers,207 pages : illustrations (principalement en couleur), cartes; n our modern day and age, when satellite imagery and GPS services like Google Maps, offer strikingly accurate images of the world, we can easily forget that for most of human history the world was an unknown tabula rasa on which cartographers, scientists, men of god, and kings imprinted their own dreams and ideals. This book explores changing perceptions of the world map through the centuries and across multiple vastly different cultures. We will juxtapose 18th century Buddhist cartography in Japan with European mercantile maps of the same period. We will travel with speculative cartographers and they argue in the scientific academies of Paris, London, and St. Petersburg over theories about what 'must' fill the great unknown. We will observe the emergence of the modern world view through the…
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