Display maps have had a significant impact throughout history, yet since extremely few have survived this has not always been fully appreciated. These often magnificent maps, expressing an enormous variety of differing world views, used size and beauty to convey messages of status and power. This book takes the best surviving examples to re-establish manuscript, painted and mural maps as a major cultural medium particularly in early modern Europe by illustrating the settings in which they were displayed and discussing the ...
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Display maps have had a significant impact throughout history, yet since extremely few have survived this has not always been fully appreciated. These often magnificent maps, expressing an enormous variety of differing world views, used size and beauty to convey messages of status and power. This book takes the best surviving examples to re-establish manuscript, painted and mural maps as a major cultural medium particularly in early modern Europe by illustrating the settings in which they were displayed and discussing the background and purpose of individual examples. Sourced from one of the greatest map collections in the world, many of these visual delights will be completely new even to experts.
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Fine in fine jacket. Full color maps and images, 176 pages, 4to, blue buckram boards, d.w. London; The British Library (2010). A very fine copy. dust wrapper unfold into one map.
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New. 0712350926. *** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request ***-*** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT-Flawless copy, brand new, pristine, never opened--176 pages; 187 illus. --with a bonus offer--
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Very Good-in Very Good-dust jacket. 0712350926. Slight shelf wear to the spine edges and corners. The dust jacket has slight edge-wear.; 11.2 X 9.3 X 0.9 inches; 176 pages.
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