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Eternal City A History of Rome in Maps
ISBN: HB: 9780226591452, University of Chicago Press, October 2020
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 64 colour plates
One of the most visited places in the world, Rome attracts millions of tourists each year to walk its storied streets and see famous sites like the Colosseum, St. Peter's Basilica, and the Trevi Fountain. Yet this ancient city's allure is due as much...
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£30,00
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How to Lie with Maps Third Edition
ISBN: PB: 9780226435923, University of Chicago Press, April 2018
256 pp., 20.3x15.2 cm, 16 colour plates, 110 halftones
An instant classic when first published in 1991, "How to Lie with Maps" revealed how the choices mapmakers make – consciously or unconsciously – mean that every map inevitably presents only one of many possible stories about the places it depicts. Th...
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£17,00
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Captain Cook and the Pacific Art, Exploration and Empire
ISBN: HB: 9780300207248, Yale University Press, September 2017
256 pp., 25.4x19 cm, 200 colour illus., 20 black&white illus.
British Royal Navy Captain James Cook's voyages of exploration across and around the Pacific Ocean were a marvel of maritime achievement, and provided the first accurate map of the Pacific. The expeditions answered key scientific, economic, and geogr...
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£35,00
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Rome Measured and Imagined Early Modern Maps of the Eternal City
ISBN: HB: 9780226127637, University of Chicago Press, June 2015
264 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 12 colour plates, 84 halftones
At the turn of the fifteenth century, Rome was in the midst of a dramatic transformation from what the fourteenth-century poet Petrarch had termed a "crumbling city" populated by "broken ruins" into a prosperous Christian capital. Scholars, artists,...
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£40,00
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History of Cartography, Volume 6 Cartography in the Twentieth Century
ISBN: HB: 9780226534695, University of Chicago Press, April 2015
1728 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm, 805 colour plates, 119 halftones, 242 line drawings, 61 tables
For more than thirty years, the "History of Cartography Project" has charted the course for scholarship on cartography, bringing together research from a variety of disciplines on the creation, dissemination, and use of maps".Volume 6, Cartography in...
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£400,00
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Towards a New Cultural Cartography
ISBN: PB: 9789948207825, DAP, Sharjah Art Foundation, November 2014
275 pp., 20.3x13.3 cm, illustrated throughout
Not for sale in Estonia! In this volume, curators, theorists, artists and writers argue for methods of map-making that go beyond geographic representation. The artist emerges as a new cartographer, who intervenes in existing maps to reveal the know...
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£17,50
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Painting a Map of Sixteenth-Century Mexico City Land, Writing, and Native Rule
ISBN: HB: 9780300180718, Yale University Press, November 2012
304 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 277 colour images, 10 black&white illus.
In 1975, the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library of Yale University acquired an exceptional mid-16th-century map of Mexico City, which, until 1521, had been the capital of the Aztecs, the Nahua-speaking people who dominated the Valley of Mexico...
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£55,00
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No Dig, No Fly, No Go How Maps Restrict and Control
ISBN: PB: 9780226534688, ISBN: HB: 9780226534671, University of Chicago Press, May 2010
242 pp., 23x15 cm, 19 line drawings, 63 halftones
Some maps help us find our way; others restrict where we go and what we do. These maps control behavior, regulating activities from flying to fishing, prohibiting students from one part of town from being schooled on the other, and banishing certain...
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£15,00
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£61,00
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Coast Lines How Mapmakers Frame the World and Chart Environmental Change
ISBN: HB: 9780226534039, University of Chicago Press, May 2008
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 85 halftones
In the next century, sea levels are predicted to rise at unprecedented rates, causing flooding around the world, from the islands of Malaysia and the canals of Venice to the coasts of Florida and California. These rising water levels pose serious cha...
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£19,00
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From Squaw Tit to Whorehouse Meadow How Maps Name, Claim, and Inflame
ISBN: PB: 9780226534664, ISBN: HB: 9780226534657, University of Chicago Press, September 2007
230 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 25 halftones, 17 line drawings
Brassiere Hills, Alaska. Mollys Nipple, Utah. Outhouse Draw, Nevada. In the early twentieth century, it was common for towns and geographical features to have salacious, bawdy, and even derogatory names. In the age before political correctness, mapma...
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£23,00
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