The story of maps : putting the world in perspective / Anne Rooney
2015, 1st edition. London: Arcturus. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #237438
Physical description; 192 pages: illustrations (colour), maps (colour); decorated endpapers; 29 cm. Notes; Includes index. Summary; The number of people who love maps is growing. They are now very popular with the book-buying public. Among many other bits of information, this book reveals how the rules of cartography were drawn up and how people worked out the dimensions of the world. Subjects; Cartography - History. Popular Science. Popular Science and Mathematics.
Price: €16.95