2008 "CARTOGRAPHIA - MAPPING CIVILIZATIONS" USA HEAVY 2.2kg HB BOOK (P12)

2008 "CARTOGRAPHIA - MAPPING CIVILIZATIONS" USA HEAVY 2.2kg HB BOOK (P12)

Great LARGE HEAVY 2.2kg hardback book from 2008 on 200 of the most important maps in existence.  Contains illustrations throughout. Published in the USA. Binding and pages inside are in great condition especially as the book is 16 years old.

CARTOGRAPHIA offers a stunning array of 200 of the most beautiful, important and fascinating maps in existence, from the world's largest cartographic collection, at the Library of Congress. These maps show how our idea of the world has shifted and grown over time, and each map tells its own unique story about nations, politics and ambitions. The chosen images, with their accompanying stories, introduce the reader to an exciting new way of 'reading' maps as travelogues - living history from the earliest of man's imaginings about planet earth to our current attempts at charting cyberspace.
Among the rare gems included in the book are the Waldseemuller Map of the World from 1507, the first to include the designation 'America'; pages from the Ortelius's Theatrum Orbis Terrarum of 1570, considered the first modern atlas; rare maps from Africa, Asia, and Oceania that challenge traditional Western perspectives; William Faulkner's hand-drawn 1936 map of the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi; and even a map of the Human Genome.

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(P12) - Ignore this, it is my International Shipping weight code.

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