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Worldly Consumers The Demand for Maps in Renaissance Italy
ISBN: HB: 9780226255316, University of Chicago Press, June 2015
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 19 halftones, 4 line drawings
Though the practical value of maps during the sixteenth century is well documented, their personal and cultural importance has been relatively underexamined. In "Worldly Consumers", Genevieve Carlton explores the growing availability of maps to priva...
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£36,00
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Sovereign Map Theoretical Approaches in Cartography throughout History
ISBN: HB: 9780226389530, University of Chicago Press, October 2006
464 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 colour plates, 45 halftones, 15 line drawings
A novel work in the history of cartography, "The Sovereign Map" argues that maps are as much about thinking as seeing, as much about the art of persuasion as the science of geography. As a classicist, Christian Jacob brings a fresh eye to his subject...
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£65,00
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