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Atlas of Columbus and the Great Discoveries
de Nebenzahl, Kenneth
- Usado
- near fine
- Tapa dura
- Estado
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- Librería
-
Whitby, Ontario, Canada
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Sobre este artículo
Chicago: Rand McNally, 1990. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 4to. Blue cloth boards with gold lettering to front board and spine. 168 p.p. Over 100 illustrations depicting maps by Ptolemy, Pizzigano, Martellus, Columbus, de La Cosa, Contarini, Waldseemuller, Re'is, Cortes, Vespucci, Munster, Cabot, Homem, Mercator, Hondius, Baozio, and Wright as well as many other famous mapmakers of the time. Pictorial dust jacket is price clipped, sunned at head, bumped at edges, lightly worn to fore edges at flaps, dents and scuffs to rear joint. The Atlas of Columbus and the Great Discoveries brings to us on the eve of the 500th Anniversay of Christopher Columbus's discovery of America, a treasury of maps from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, the Age of Discovery. From a wealth of manuscript maps, portolan sea charts, woodcuts, and copperplate engravings, the author selected the most significant materials of the period. The text conveys concisely, authoritatively, and absorbingly each one's importance, idiosyncrasies, detail and beauty.
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- Librería
- Minotavros Books
(CA)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 003482
- Título
- Atlas of Columbus and the Great Discoveries
- Autor
- Nebenzahl, Kenneth
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Near Fine
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Near Fine
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Editorial
- Rand McNally
- Lugar de publicación
- Chicago
- Fecha de publicación
- 1990
- Palabras clave
- Columbus, American History, Explorers, Travel, History, Maps, Geography, Age of Discovery, Christopher Columbus, Kenneth Nebenzahl, Ptolemy, Pizzigano, Martellus, Columbus, de La Cosa, Contarini, Waldseemuller, Re'is, Cortes, Vespucci, Munster, Cabot
- Catálogos del vendedor
- History; Travel;
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- Sunned
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- Fine
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- Edges
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