The art of the map : an illustrated history of map elements and embellishments

Title:

Author:

Reinhartz, Dennis.

ISBN:

9781402765926

Personal Author:

Reinhartz, Dennis.

Publication Information:

New York : Sterling, c2012.

Physical Description:

xix, 218 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 27 cm.

Contents:

Compass roses, wind faces, commentaries and other additions -- All the ships at sea -- Denizens of the deep -- The cartographic botanical garden -- The cartographic menagerie -- The peoples of the world -- Of human achievements ... conclusion.

Language:

English

Subject Term:

Cartography -- History.

Map drawing -- History.

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Summary

This lavishly illustrated history of the golden age of cartography, from the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries, explores not only the embellishments on maps but also what they reveal about the world in which they were created. Here there be monsters real and imagined; ships actual and archetypical; newly discovered flora such as corn and tobacco; fauna ranging from buffalo to unicorns; godlike beings and fantasy-like depictions of native peoples. The stunningly rendered images illuminate an entire world.