255 x 200mm. pp. 314. English text. Volume exploring the watershed publication of the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum. Colour and black and white illustrations. Bound in original pictorial boards. Housed in like dust jacket. Lightly cocked with a little light wear, otherwise clean. Binding strong. No ownership inscription or underlining. 1.4kg. Extra postage overseas.

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Title

Imagined Corners: Exploring the World's First Atlas

Publisher

Review, London

Publication Date

2003

Language

English

ISBN 10

0747230404

ISBN 13

9780747230403

Binding

Hard Cover

Edition

First Hardback Edition.

Condition

Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition

Very Good

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Geography and Geology

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Synopsis

Published in Antwerp in 1570, the Theatrum orbis terrarum did something no previous book had done—it presented the world in all its component parts, offering the chance to see our planet as a place of staggering variety and ultimate unity. It was the world’s first atlas. Brainchild of Abraham Ortelius, the Theatrum reflected the enormous vitality of the era, the prevailing zest for exploration and discovery, and the linked activities of international commerce and mapmaking. Paul Binding has immersed himself in the Antwerp that produced Ortelius and his atlas, and he draws on a mass of letters, personal documents, maps, and pictures to bring it vividly to life. A masterly volume that stands as a tribute to the human need to impose order and reason on an all-too-turbulent world.

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Paul Binding is a novelist, critic, poet, cultural historian, and a Senior Associate Member of St Antony’s College, Oxford.

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