Imagined Corners.Exploring the World's First Atlas.

Paul Binding

ISBN 10: 0755312945 / ISBN 13: 9780755312948

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Title:Imagined Corners.Exploring the World's First Atlas.Headline, 2003. Hardcover, in pictorial jacket.First edition, first printing. 309 pages, illustrated in full colour. Author: Paul Binding. Condition:FINE book, in a Near FINE unclipped jacket. Book is tightly bound, with pages which are crisp, clean and unmarked. Bright, glossy, unclipped jacket, very light shelfwear.About this book:This is more than just an introduction to the atlas - the author reviews the background to the creators of the atlas in religious, cultural and practical terms. An era which is of the greatest importance both it itself and for the understanding of the world today is brought to life. The writing is clear and enthusiastic and the illustrations are excellently chosen. The whole book is very well planned so that illustration and text fall together. It is hard to imagine this subject more eloquently treated. Very highly recommended. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Exploration; ISBN: 0755312945. ISBN/EAN: 9780755312948. Inventory No: 17-4CTB-0GAQ.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Imagined Corners.Exploring the World's First Atlas.
• ISBN 10: 0755312945
• ISBN 13: 9780755312948
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Exploration

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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.