Images of the world : the atlas through history
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Images of the world : the atlas through history
Library of Congress , McGraw-Hill, 1997
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Bibliography: p. 443-448
Includes index
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Description
Using a chronological arrangement, this text traces the evolution of atlases - as books, as cartographic objects and as important social and economic forces. It focuses on early manuscripts, from the 16th to the 20th century, as well as the future of atlases.
Table of Contents
- Early manuscripts and printed atlases
- atlases of the 16th to 18th centuries
- atlases of the late 18th and early 19th centuries
- atlases of the 19th and 2th centuries
- the future of the atlas.
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