
The Art of the Map
An Illustrated History of Map Elements and Embellishments
Dennis Reinhartz(Author)
Sterling (Publisher)
Published on 6. November 2012
Book
Hardback
240 pages
978-1-4027-6592-6 (ISBN)
Description
This lavishly illustrated history of the golden age of cartography, from the sixteenth through to the nineteenth centuries, explores not only the embellishments on maps but also what they reveal about the world in which they were created. Here there be monsters real and imagined; ships actual and archetypical; newly discovered flora such as corn and tobacco; fauna ranging from buffalo to unicorns; godlike beings and fantasy-like depictions of native peoples. The stunningly rendered images illuminate an entire world.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Union Square & Co.
Product notice
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
all in color
Dimensions
Height: 254 mm
Width: 232 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-4027-6592-6 (9781402765926)
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Persons
Dennis Reinhartz is professor emeritus of the University of Texas at Arlington, where he spent 35 five years as a professor of history and Russian. He has edited and contributed chapters to numerous academic books, including Mapping of Empire: Soldier-Engineers on the Southwest Frontier and The Mapping of the American Southwest.