Atanas Orachev (6 results)

Condition: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Sehr gut. 143 p., num coloured ill., 17 cm. Very good. Minimal wear. With dust jacket. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 330.

Paperback. Condition: VG+. VG+ oversize wraps with small scrape to front cover/spine, else minor wear, clean, no spine crease; internally fine -- beright, clean and unmarked. 91 pages, profusely illustrated. Experienced full-time bookseller since 1994. Images may be added by request. Questions welcome.…

Hardback. Condition: Good.

Hardback. Condition: Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Oversized hardcover, 143 pages, glossy paper, copiously illustrated with colour images and maps, NOT ex-library. Weight: 844g. Clean and bright throughout with unmarked text, free of inscriptions and stamps, firmly bound. Glossy boards show small indentations to edges. Bright, untorn, gently edgeworn dust jacket. -- A historical study that tracks the evolution of European geographical ideas about Bulgaria from the 4th to the 19th century. The book demonstrates that despite shifting political borders and periods of lost independence, Bulgaria remained a constant presence in European cartography. Core Themes and Content: - The volume uses both text and extensive visual aids to illustrate the "logic" behind a millennium of European concepts of the Balkan region; - Historical Presence [the book highlights that Bulgaria was consistently outlined in maps produced by leading Italian, Dutch, German, and French studios, even during the five centuries of Ottoman rule (15th-19th century)]; - Evolution of Names [it traces the preservation of ancient names like "Mysia" and the eventual transition to "Bulgaria" in the European cartographic tradition]; - Balkan Context [the text provides synthesized information on historical benchmarks to help readers understand the geopolitical processes that formed the modern Balkan map]; - Visual Documentation [it contains over 80 colour illustrations, including maps, miniatures, and mast-heads from various eras]. -- "Old European maps possess an important but not yet properly assessed value: through them one can grasp the logic in the thousand-year old development of the European concepts of Bulgaria set in a Balkan perspective. These concepts are many-layered, often ambiguous, and raising disputable issues. In them, one can find - as in everything that is a product of the human mind - irrationalities; mistakes are not very infrequent, too. But above all a single fact prevails; on these maps and charts, though of varying borders, it was Bulgaria that was drawn and outlined. Even for those periods of time when she had happened to lose her political independence." -- Contents: Preface by Prof. Margarita Tacheva; The Logic in the European Cartographic Concepts of Bulgaria; Bulgaria and the Balkans in the European Cartography Until 15th Century; Bulgaria and the Black Sea Coast in the Sea Cartography; Bulgaria in the European Cartography of 16th-19th Century; Chronological Points of Reference / Benchmarks; Typology of the Medieval Maps and Charts (Mappae mundi); List of published maps; Bibliography.…