New Worlds: Maps From The Age of Discovery
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| Rating | : | 4.63 (825 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1848660189 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 224 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-07-31 |
| Language | : | English |
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This collection of maps from 'the Age of Discovery' is staggeringly beautiful.' Good Book Guide . ' as much as a labour of love as a book
Five Stars edward camina Cool. "The beauty of maps" according to S. Smith-Peter. This book isn't just a coffee table book. It is the coffee table. This elephant folio style helps to present the details of these beautiful maps. The quality of color reproduction is quite high. I particularly enjoyed the maps of English counties produced as a pack of cards.As the maps are presented in chronological order, it is easy to get a sense of how cartographers moved from here be dragons and people with heads under their arms to a more detailed and realistic view of the world. The beauty of maps is the beauty of place, abstracted just enough so that we can see it.Note: make sure you are getting the oversize version. From thes. Eye popping Folio !!!! This is an excellent edition of Antique Maps reprinted in large format, most of them double page, within a folio(coffee table) size book to begin with. Reproduction quality is very good, all in color, the content informative and not long winded dribble because- most people buy a book such as this for the maps-images.I would grab a copy now while the price is low, books like this seem to live a quite life on the shelf, then disappear and then later only available in the used marketplace at a premium.
Presenting an illustrated history of the Age of Discovery, New Worlds displays our finest maps and tells the stories of the explorers, rulers, scientists, artists and charlatans who created them.. Take a journey into the past, to a world where exotic beasts and even stranger locals stalk cartographic voids, where sea monsters and floating islands lurk beyond uncertain shores, where the borders between myth and reality are blurred. Taken together, they chart our discovery of the world as science, legend, politics and art are blended together by the cartographer's craft. Here, gathered from five centuries of exploration, are over 200 maps of oceans and continents, mountains and forests, cities and shires. Presented in chronological order, these maps record the adventures and discoveries - not to mention fantasies and outright lies - of explorers, merchants and travelers
In 1999, they founded MapForum.Com, an internet and print magazine for antique map collectors. . Ashley & Miles Baynton-Williams are the third generation of their family to work in the field of antiquarian maps