Cartographia : mapping civilizations / Vincent Virga and the Library of Congress ; introduction by Ronald E. Grim ; afterword by James H. Billington.
- Virga, Vincent.
- Date:
- 2007
- Books
About this work
Description
A collection of over two hundred maps, including pages from "Theatrum Orbis Terrarum" and the human genome map, which provides information on the history of cartography as well as background information about the cultural, social, and economic conditions of the time in which the maps were drawn.
Publication/Creation
New York, N.Y. : Little, Brown and Co., 2007.
Physical description
266 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 35 cm
Contributors
Edition
1st ed.
Notes
Maps on lining papers.
Ill. on frontispiece.
Bibliographic information
Includes cartobibliographical references (p. 255-258) and index.
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Where to find it
Location Status FoliosZDF.ALOpen shelves
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ISBN
- 9780316997669
- 0316997668
- 0821257579
- 9780821257579