Historiske kart og atlas

Das "Handbuch der Geographie" des Klaudios Ptolemaios, das kurz nach 150 n. Chr. in Alexandria verfasst wurde, ist eines der bedeutendsten wissenschaftlichen Werke der antiken …

A comprehensive volume on historical mapping in Texas. The Texas General Land Office’s map collection contains over 45,000 maps, some dating from the sixteenth century, making it …

Hundreds of exceptional cartographic images are scattered throughout medieval and early modern Arabic, Persian, and Turkish manuscript collections. The plethora of copies created …

Secrets and maps are a match made in heaven. A Second World War military plan of a cave system covered with red stamps, a tatty hand-drawn treasure map marked with an 'X', or even …

Maps in newspapers generated many discussions among cartographers and geographers working from different approaches and theoretical backgrounds. This work examines these maps from …

What lies behind an island? Is an island just a piece of land surrounded by water? Or is it from a cultural, symbolic, and even geographical perspective much more than that? …

This folded map (890mm x 1000mm when unfolded) is an ideal souvenir for tourists to Lancashire and also a valuable reference resource for local and family history research. It …

This folded map (890mm x 1000mm when unfolded) is an ideal souvenir for tourists to Cornwall and also a valuable reference resource for local and family history research. It …

An old map does not only represent a geographical situation; it also embodies a veritable journey of discovery through world history. In this book, historian Anne-Rieke van Schaik …

In this publication, Peter van Druenen presents an innovative method by which - for the first time - all 226 city maps created by Jacob van Deventer between 1545 and 1575 have been …