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Antique maps /

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Moreland, Carl, 1910- (Author), Bannister, David, 1938- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Phaidon Christie's Limited, 1986.
Edition:Second edition.
Series:Christie's collectors guides.
Subjects:
Early maps > Collectors and collecting.
Cartography > History.
Cartographers > Biography.
Cartographie > Histoire.
Cartographes > Biographies.
Cartes anciennes > Collectionneurs et collections.
Map collecting. > Literature.
History of cartography. > Literature.
Cartography.
Cartographers.
Geschichte
Historische Karte
Kartografie
Antique maps - Collectors' guides
History.
Biographies.
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword to the second edition
  • Preface
  • Part I: Map making. A brief historical survey ; The printing of old maps ; Hereford world map ; Nuremberg Chronicle ; Road maps, atlases and road books ; Sea charts and atlases ; Town plans ; Ordnance survey ; Playing cards ; 'Here be dragons . . .' : myths and legends on old maps
  • Part II: Map makers. Introduction ; Italy ; Germany and Austria ; Holland and Belgium ; France ; England and Wales ; Scotland ; Ireland ; Maps of the British Isles ; Portugal, Spain, Scandinavia, Switzerland, Russia and Poland ; Maps of the world and the continents: The world, The Americas, Africa, Asia, Australasia, Europe
  • Part III: Map collecting. Buying maps and forming a collection
  • Appendix A: Editions of Ptolemy's Geographia
  • Appendix B: Blaeu/Jansson maps of the English and Welsh counties
  • Appendix C: Historical chart-map making 600 BC-AD 1800.