Download or read book Catalogue of the Manuscript Maps Charts and Plans and of the Topographical Drawings in the British Museum written by British Museum. Department of Manuscripts and published by . This book was released on 1844 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Catalogue of the Manuscript Maps Charts and Plans and of the Topographical Drawings in the British Museum written by British Museum. Dept. of Manuscripts and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Catalogue of an Important Collection of Books Manuscripts Maps Charts and Engravings From the Libraries of William Penn and of His Descendants with Autographs Bookplates Etc Which Will be Sold by Auction by Messrs Puttick and Simpson on Thursday February 29 1872 Etc written by William Penn and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book List of Manuscript Maps in the Edward E Ayer Collection written by Edward E. Ayer Collection (Newberry Library) and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Catalogue of the Manuscript Maps Charts and Plans and of the Topographical Drawings in the British Museum written by British Museum. Department of Manuscripts and published by . This book was released on 1844 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Islamic Manuscript Tradition written by Christiane J. Gruber and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rich and varied traditions of Islamic book art
Download or read book The Vinland Map and the Tartar Relation written by Raleigh Ashlin Skelton and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Vinland Map, dated to about 1440 AD, before Columbus landed in the Americas, is a world map that shows the north-east American coast. This new edition reprints unaltered the original text and discusses the map's authenticity, provenance and compositional and structural aspects.
Download or read book The Map Thief written by Michael Blanding and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-06-02 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of an infamous crime, a revered map dealer with an unsavory secret, and the ruthless subculture that consumed him Maps have long exerted a special fascination on viewers—both as beautiful works of art and as practical tools to navigate the world. But to those who collect them, the map trade can be a cutthroat business, inhabited by quirky and sometimes disreputable characters in search of a finite number of extremely rare objects. Once considered a respectable antiquarian map dealer, E. Forbes Smiley spent years doubling as a map thief —until he was finally arrested slipping maps out of books in the Yale University library. The Map Thief delves into the untold history of this fascinating high-stakes criminal and the inside story of the industry that consumed him. Acclaimed reporter Michael Blanding has interviewed all the key players in this stranger-than-fiction story, and shares the fascinating histories of maps that charted the New World, and how they went from being practical instruments to quirky heirlooms to highly coveted objects. Though pieces of the map theft story have been written before, Blanding is the first reporter to explore the story in full—and had the rare privilege of having access to Smiley himself after he’d gone silent in the wake of his crimes. Moreover, although Smiley swears he has admitted to all of the maps he stole, libraries claim he stole hundreds more—and offer intriguing clues to prove it. Now, through a series of exclusive interviews with Smiley and other key individuals, Blanding teases out an astonishing tale of destruction and redemption. The Map Thief interweaves Smiley’s escapades with the stories of the explorers and mapmakers he knew better than anyone. Tracking a series of thefts as brazen as the art heists in Provenance and a subculture as obsessive as the oenophiles in The Billionaire’s Vinegar, Blanding has pieced together an unforgettable story of high-stakes crime.
Download or read book Noteworthy Maps written by and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cartography written by Matthew H. Edney and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2019-04-12 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past four decades, the volumes published in the landmark History of Cartography series have both chronicled and encouraged scholarship about maps and mapping practices across time and space. As the current director of the project that has produced these volumes, Matthew H. Edney has a unique vantage point for understanding what “cartography” has come to mean and include. In this book Edney disavows the term cartography, rejecting the notion that maps represent an undifferentiated category of objects for study. Rather than treating maps as a single, unified group, he argues, scholars need to take a processual approach that examines specific types of maps—sea charts versus thematic maps, for example—in the context of the unique circumstances of their production, circulation, and consumption. To illuminate this bold argument, Edney chronicles precisely how the ideal of cartography that has developed in the West since 1800 has gone astray. By exposing the flaws in this ideal, his book challenges everyone who studies maps and mapping practices to reexamine their approach to the topic. The study of cartography will never be the same.
Download or read book Maps Relating to Virginia in the Virginia State Library and Other Departments of the Commonwealth written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Description of the State Geologic Map of 1901 written by Frederick James Hamilton Merrill and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Early Maps of Ohio and the West written by Charles Candee Baldwin and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book British Headquarters Maps and Sketches Used by Sir Henry Clinton While in Command of the British Forces Operating in North America During the War for Independence 1775 1782 written by William L. Clements Library and published by Ann Arbor, Mich. : W.L. Clements Library. This book was released on 1928 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Australia in Maps written by National Library of Australia and published by National Library Australia. This book was released on 2007 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richly illustrated with exquisite manuscript maps and editions from celebrated European cartographic publishers of 17th century to familiar contemporary products such as tourist maps. Discover the stories behind these maps, the technological changes in map making and changes in human knowledge and representation of the world.
