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Treasures from the Map Room: A Journey through the Bodleian Collections
Debbie Hall
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Description for Treasures from the Map Room: A Journey through the Bodleian Collections
Hardcover. This book explores the stories behind seventy-five extraordinary maps. Drawing on the unique collection in the Bodleian Library, these stunning maps range from single cities to the solar system, span the thirteenth to the twenty-first century and cover most of the world. Editor(s): Hall, Debbie. Num Pages: 224 pages, 120 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: HBTP1; RGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 270 x 270. .
This book explores the stories behind seventy-five extraordinary maps. It includes unique treasures such as the fourteenth-century Gough Map of Great Britain, exquisite portolan charts made in the fifteenth century, the Selden Map of China – the earliest example of Chinese merchant cartography – and an early world map from the medieval Islamic Book of Curiosities, together with more recent examples of fictional places drawn in the twentieth century, such as C.S. Lewis’s own map of Narnia and J.R.R. Tolkien’s map of Middle Earth. As well as the works of famous mapmakers Mercator, Ortelius, Blaeu, Saxton and Speed, the ... Read more
This book explores the stories behind seventy-five extraordinary maps. It includes unique treasures such as the fourteenth-century Gough Map of Great Britain, exquisite portolan charts made in the fifteenth century, the Selden Map of China – the earliest example of Chinese merchant cartography – and an early world map from the medieval Islamic Book of Curiosities, together with more recent examples of fictional places drawn in the twentieth century, such as C.S. Lewis’s own map of Narnia and J.R.R. Tolkien’s map of Middle Earth. As well as the works of famous mapmakers Mercator, Ortelius, Blaeu, Saxton and Speed, the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bodleian Library, University of Oxford
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781851242504
SKU
V9781851242504
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Ref
99-50
About Debbie Hall
Debbie Hall is a Senior Library Assistant in the Map Room of the Bodleian Library.
Reviews for Treasures from the Map Room: A Journey through the Bodleian Collections
'The Bodleian Library holds one of the great collections of maps in the world, and 'Treasures from the Map Room' is a superb achievement in bringing together the library’s greatest cartographic masterpieces in one beautifully illustrated and compellingly written book. It is a wonderful account of the power of maps to move us in all walks of life, from their ... Read more