Atlas : a world of maps from the British Library /

From the publication in 1595 of the first 'atlas' by Flemish cartographer Gerhard Mercator, the term has become a universally adopted title for books containing accurate, uniform, and evenly spread maps of all or some of the world. This is an atlas with a difference. Few of the maps in thi...

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Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Harper, Tom, 1978- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	London : British Library, 2018.
Subjects:	British Library > Map collections. Cartography. British Library. Map collections. Atlases.