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History of Cartography (Hardcover, 2nd edition)
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History of Cartography (Hardcover, 2nd edition)
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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century, when craftsmanship was superseded by specialized science
and the machine. As a history of the evolution of the early map, it
is a stunning work of art and science. This expanded second edition
of Bagrow and Skelton's History of Cartography marks the
reappearance of this seminal work after a hiatus of nearly a half
century. As a reprint project undertaken many years after the book
last appeared, finding suitable materials to work from proved to be
no easy task. Because of the wealth of monochrome and color plates,
the book could only be properly reproduced using the original
materials. Ultimately the authors were able to obtain materials
from the original printer Scotchprints or contact films made
directly from original plates, thus allowing the work to preserve
the beauty and clarity of the illustrations. Old maps, collated
with other materials, help us to elucidate the course of human
history. It was not until the eighteenth century, however, that
maps were gradually stripped of their artistic decoration and
transformed into plain, specialist sources of information based
upon measurement. Maps are objects of historical, artistic, and
cultural significance, and thus collecting them seems to need no
justification, simply enjoyment.
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