This illustrated work is intended to acquaint readers with the early maps produced in both Europe and the rest of the world, and to tell us something of their development, their makers and printers, their varieties and characteristics. The authors' chief concern is with the appearance of maps: they exclude any examination of their content, or of scientific methods of mapmaking. This book ends in the second half of the eighteenth century, when craftsmanship was superseded by specialized science and the machine. As a history ...
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This illustrated work is intended to acquaint readers with the early maps produced in both Europe and the rest of the world, and to tell us something of their development, their makers and printers, their varieties and characteristics. The authors' chief concern is with the appearance of maps: they exclude any examination of their content, or of scientific methods of mapmaking. This book ends in the second half of the eighteenth century, when craftsmanship was superseded by specialized science and the machine. As a history of the evolution of the early map, it is a stunning work of art and science. This expanded second edition of Bagrow and Skelton's History of Cartography marks the reappearance of this seminal work after a hiatus of nearly a half century. As a reprint project undertaken many years after the book last appeared, finding suitable materials to work from proved to be no easy task. Because of the wealth of monochrome and color plates, the book could only be properly reproduced using the original materials. Ultimately the authors were able to obtain materials from the original printer Scotchprints or contact films made directly from original plates, thus allowing the work to preserve the beauty and clarity of the illustrations. Old maps, collated with other materials, help us to elucidate the course of human history. It was not until the eighteenth century, however, that maps were gradually stripped of their artistic decoration and transformed into plain, specialist sources of information based upon measurement. Maps are objects of historical, artistic, and cultural significance, and thus collecting them seems to need no justification, simply enjoyment.
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Good in Fair jacket. 4to. Jacket heavily chipped, tanned, with tears and some loss. Some dampspotting to boards and foxing to closed edges, owner inscription to fly title, otherwise content clean and solid.
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Good. No Jacket. Ex-Library. 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall. Minor edge and corner wear; no dj; lightly scuffed and scratched; corners are lightly bumped and rubbed; some light shelf wear; ex-library with the usual library markings; overall a nice used copy! Blue cloth with gilt lettering and illustration on the spine and front board. 312 informative and historical pages of text and over 70 pages of historic black and white photographs and illustrations! "This illustrated work is intended to acquaint readers with the early maps produced in both Europe and the rest of the world, and to tell us something of their development, their makers and printers, their varieties and characteristics. The authors chief concern is with the appearance of maps: they exclude any examination of their content, or of scientific methods of mapmaking. This book ends in the second half of the eighteenth century, when craftsmanship was superseded by specialized science and the machine. As a history of the evolution of the early map, it is a stunning work of art and science. This expanded second edition of Bagrow and Skelton s History of Cartography marks the reappearance of this seminal work after a hiatus of nearly a half century. As a reprint project undertaken many years after the book last appeared, finding suitable materials to work from proved to be no easy task. Because of the wealth of monochrome and color plates, the book could only be properly reproduced using the original materials. Ultimately the authors were able to obtain materials from the original printer Scotchprints or contact films made directly from original plates, thus allowing the work to preserve the beauty and clarity of the illustrations. Old maps, collated with other materials, help us to elucidate the course of human history. It was not until the eighteenth century, however, that maps were gradually stripped of their artistic decoration and transformed into plain, specialist sources of information based upon measurement. Maps are objects of historical, artistic, and cultural significance, and thus collecting them seems to need no justification, simply enjoyment.........."
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Very Good+ in Very Good jacket. Hardcover with cream cloth boards in dust jacket, 1964, quarto, 312pp., illustrated in color and b&w, some of which fold out. Book VG+ with mild shelfwear to boards, gilt decoration and title to spine and front board, binding tight, mild foxing to endpapers, mild soil to edges of text block. DJ VG with edgewear that includes some chipping to spine ends and corners, toning and rubbing, in protective mylar wrap.
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Near Fine in Very Good jacket. 1985, Second Edition. Hardcover. 312 pp. Illustrated. Near Fine in a Very Good dust jacket. Previous owner's gift inscription on the fly leaf; otherwise a tight, clean copy. The DJ with mild rubbing and edgewear.
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Fine in Very Good jacket. Revised and enlarged edition. Revised and enlarged by R.A. Skelton. Quarto. Illustrated from black and white photographs. Edges and endleaves faintly foxed, crown gently bumped and boards very slightly bowed, about near fine in a heavily toned (particularly to the spine) and moderately worn, very good dust jacket.
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Very Good. 1964. Decorated cloth. 4to. 312 pp. 76 illustrations, 116 monochrome plates, 22 color plates (including frontpiece). Mild shelf wear and slight soiling to boards. Binding is solid. Text is clean, bright, and unmarked. Altogether a copy in Very Good condition. (Subject: Cartography. )
