Author: Rodney W. ShirleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Printed Maps of the British Isles 1650-1750
Author: Rodney W. ShirleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Atlas Maior of 1665: Germania
Author: Joan BlaeuPublisher:
ISBN: 9783822851074
Category : Atlases
Languages : de
Pages : 208
Book Description
The Atlas Maior, the cartographical masterpiece of the Baroque period, was brought out between 1662 and 1665 by the Amsterdam publisher Joan Blaeu, one of Holland’s leading cartographers. Originally appearing in Latin, the atlas comprised 594 maps in 11 volumes, which depicted the whole of the world as known to early modern Europe. It was the largest and most expensive book published during the 17th century. For more than 100 years it remained the definitive atlas of the world, and today is among the most sought-after and valuable antiquarian rarities. This reprinted edition in six volumes is based on the hand-colored, gold-heightened copy in the Österreichische Nationalbibliothek in Vienna, thus ensuring the best possible detail and quality. Alongside Joan Blaeu’s original commentaries on the individual maps, a new text by Peter van der Krogt explains the historical and cultural associations and introduces the reader to the fascinating world of early modern cartography. This volume features all 60 maps of Italy and the text is in Italian, English, and German.
Atlas Maior of 1665
Author: Joan BlaeuPublisher:
ISBN: 9783836538039
Category : Atlases
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
Superlatives flounder in the face of Joan Blaeu's Atlas Maior, one of the most extravagant feats in the history of mapmaking. This stunning edition is based on the Austrian National Library's complete colored and gold-heightened copy and reprints its 594 maps covering all then-known continents to the highest reproduction standard, rendering...
The World of a Seventeenth-century Collector
Author: Erlend Petrus Jacobus Maria de GrootPublisher: Brill
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
A descriptive and illustrated catalogue of one of the largest and finest atlases ever assembled. This 46-volume atlas is an expanded edition of Joan Blaeus Atlas Major or Great Atlas published in Amsterdam between 1660 and 1663. Includes all sheets in the atlases reproduced in black-and-white, with approximately 16 color illustrations.
The Map Collector
Author: Book Auction Records
Author: Frank KarslakePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Autographs
Languages : en
Pages : 568
Book Description
A priced and annotated annual record of international book auctions.
Catalogues of Sale
Author: Sotheby & Co. (London, England)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
The Atlas Blaeu - Van Der Hem of the Austrian National Library
Author: Acta cartographica
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cartography
Languages : de
Pages : 524
Book Description
A series of monographs and studies on the history of cartography, reprinted from periodicals since 1800.
Edward the Second
Author: Christopher MarlowePublisher: Broadview Press
ISBN: 1551119102
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
Depicting with shocking openness the sexual and political violence of its central characters’ fates, Edward the Second broke new dramatic ground in English theatre. The play charts the tragic rise and fall of the medieval English monarch Edward the Second, his favourite Piers Gaveston, and their ambitious opponents Queen Isabella and Mortimer Jr., and is an important cultural, as well as dramatic, document of the early modern period. This modernized and fully annotated Broadview Edition is prefaced by a critical but student-oriented introduction and followed by ample appendix material, including extended selections from Marlowe’s historical sources, texts bearing on the play’s complex sexual and political dynamics, and excerpts from contemporary poet Michael Drayton’s epic rendition of Edward the Second’s reign.