Presentable, clean, tight and sound copy. Dust jacket has a nick at one corner, not price clipped. No inscriptions. 314 pages, numerous colour and other plates, bibliography, index. Approx. size 10" by 7.5". Quantity Available: 1. Category: cartography; maps; ISBN: 0747230404. ISBN/EAN: 9780747230403. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 28518.

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Bibliographic Details

Title

Imagined Corners : Exploring the World's First Atlas

Publisher

Review

Publication Date

2003

Language

English

ISBN 10

0747230404

ISBN 13

9780747230403

Binding

Hardcover

Edition

First Edition.

Condition

Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition

Very Good

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cartography

About this title

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.

About the Author

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

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