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The curious map book /

"With The Curious Map Book, Ashley Baynton-Williams gathers an amazing, chronologically ordered variety of cartographic gems mainly from the vast collection of the British Library. He has unearthed a wide array of the whimsical and fantastic, from maps of board games to political ones, maps of...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Baynton-Williams, Ashley (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2015.
Subjects:
Maps > Miscellanea.
Cartography > History > Miscellanea.
British Library > Map collections.
British Library.
Cartography.
Map collections.
Maps.
Miscellanea.
Table of Contents:
  • The curious maps
  • The dawn of mapmaking (to 1594)
  • Early published maps (1598-1760)
  • Commercial cartography and education (1760-1850)
  • The Victorian era and growth of the mass market (1850)
  • Cartobibliographical details.