History of Cartography: Enlarged Second Edition

by Leo Bagrow

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0913750336
• ISBN13: 9780913750339
• Release Date: January 1985
• Publisher: Transaction Publishers
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 3.70 lbs.