Octavo, iv, v, xv, xvii, 197 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good dust jacket. Spine pictorial white/blue with blue lettering. Dust jacket shows very slight wear with minimal wear to the edges. Boards have extremely light wear. Text block has mild age toning to the edges. Previous owner's bookplate to the front end paper. Very small inked notation to the front end paper. Illustrated. First thus edition. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column D, ND-D. 1377613. FP New Rockville Stock.

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Title

MAPPING THE RENAISSANCE WORLD: THE GEOGRAPHICAL IMAGINATION IN THE AGE OF DISCOVERY

Publisher

Polity Press, Cambridge UK

Publication Date

1994

Language

English

ISBN 10

0745611478

ISBN 13

9780745611471

Binding

Hardcover

Edition

First Thus Edition.

Dust Jacket Condition

Dust Jacket Included

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Travel, Exploration, & Geography

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This book focuses on the work of the great sixteenth-century traveller and map-maker Andre Thevat and explores the interrelations between representation and power in the age of discovery.

About the Author

Frank Lestringant is a leading authority of humanism and on the age of discovery. His previous books include Andr� Thevet, Cosmographe des Derniers Valois (Droz, 1991) and Le Huguenot et le Sauvage (Klincksieck, 1990).

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