Karten als Sinnbilder der Kulturbewegung: einführung in den Atlas Africanus und in das Verständnis der Kinematographischen Karte
München: C.H. Beck, 1922. Pamphlet. 33p. staplebound pamphlet, very good. More
Cat.No: 276285
München: C.H. Beck, 1922. Pamphlet. 33p. staplebound pamphlet, very good. More
Cat.No: 276285
Firenze: Tipolitografica "E. Ariani" e "L'Arte della Stampa" 1986. Pamphlet. pp221-232, stapled wraps, 6.75x9.5 inches, maps, touch of rust to staples else very good condition. More
Cat.No: 267409
Venezia: Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, 1954. Paperback. Unpaginated preliminaries, 95p., plates (tavoli) number 1-31, these printed on glazed inserted stock in b&w, one plate per leaf ergo relatively small reproductions, clear enough without being superb, softbound in 11.5x8 inch printed buff wraps with overlapping (yapp) edges, all overlaps are crimped and..... More
Cat.No: 279489
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Hardcover. xv, 383p., cloth-covered boards, illus., maps, plans, very good first edition in like dj. More
Cat.No: 265155
Bombay: Oxford University Press, 1990. Hardcover. xi, 251p., cloth-covered boards, 5.75x9 inches, map endpapers, very good condition in like dj. More
Cat.No: 265639
New Delhi: Jayaprints, 1983. Hardcover. 239p., sixty-five rare maps reproduced here, "some for the first time since they were printed centuries ago". Hardbound in textured brown boards gilt, spine titling is slightly askew, item enclosed in its dust jacket, which is slightly edgeworn. Clean, sound and unmarked, a very good..... More
Cat.No: 279334
London: KPI - Kegan Paul International, 1988. Hardcover. 60p., explanatory texts entirely in English, profuse color reproductions rendered recto facing b&w reproductions. Gentil employed local artists to illustrate his cartography, so find here local color shown by the locals, and place-names not known from any other source than these map..... More
Cat.No: 276710
Edinburgh: Charles Skilton Ltd, 1978. Hardcover. 126p., furnished with color and b&w reproductions (32 are called for) on coated inserted stock. Hardbound in bright orange cloth boards gilt and enclosed in the decorated dust jacket. Clean, sound and unmarked, a very good copy. More
Cat.No: 279333
Timisoara, Romania: Editura Facla, 1984. Hardcover. 336p., illustrated in-text with numerous period images and a large folded facsimile map bound in at rear (fuzzily reproduced), hardbound in 9.5x6.5 inch papered boards with a crisp grey backstrip lettered in dim red. Text is in Romanian, latin-based alphabet, with some cyrillic. Ex..... More
Cat.No: 301111
Nicosia: Bank of Cyprus, 1989. Paperback. 268p., illustrated with dozens of maps, about as many in color as b&w, fine production qualities, softbound in 10.5x7.5 inch dark blue wraps. Very nice copy, entirely sound, clean and unmarked. We are unsure, by the way, if "Part II" is aka "Volume II"..... More
Cat.No: 275782
Larkspur, CA: Tamal Vista Press, 2008. Paperback. x, 209p., wraps, 8x11.5 inches, new in publisher's shrink wrap. Edited by Alexander Akin. Thoroughly illustrated history of early Korean maps, most photos in color, particularly focusing on the 15th to 19th centuries, with contributions by three of Korea's foremost scholars in the..... More
Cat.No: 128281
London: Printed for the Hakluyt Society, 1925. Hardcover. xcv, 262p., illustrated with maps and two portraits, hardbound in Hakluyt format (blue cloth boards gilt) with map pocket, untrimmed edges opened with trifling roughness and a little toning, the three loose folded maps appear to be in untouched shape (we inspected..... More
Cat.No: 280592
New York: American Geographical Society, 1937. Hardcover. x, 141p., two illustrations, a line map and a diagram, small hardbound in grey cloth boards with gilt titling on printed black spine and cover labels, 8x5 inches, cloth somewhat grimed with handling, gilt remains bright, hinges are gapped and cracklindg but are..... More
Cat.No: 281402
Paris: CNRS Editions, 1999. Paperback. 183 pages, 10.5x7.5 inches, illustrated wraps, illustrated with maps and drawings of Shanghai, very good condition. More
Cat.No: 265661
Paris: Bibliotheque Nationale, 1982. Paperback. 133p., b&w facsimiles appended (as called for), presswork on coated alkaline paperstock throughout and softbound in 9.5x6 inch printed green wraps. Except for some crimping to cover and text-block, a too-tight fault created at the printer/binders, item is in as-new condition: sound, clean and unmarked..... More
Cat.No: 276257
Paris: Bibliotheque Nationale, 1974. Paperback. 88p., text consists in annotated entries for 86 important maps, plus additional listings for allied holdings. Professionally printed on alkaline paperstock and softbound in generic plain printed wraps, Nice copy: entirely sound, clean and unmarked. More
Cat.No: 276342
Washington DC: The Library of Congress, in association with D. Giles Limited, London, 2013. Hardcover. 176p., presswork on thick alkaline glazed stock, profuse facsimiles in color and a variety of sepias, hardbound, a small oblong volume in 8x9.5 inch black boards titled silver and enclosed in the dust jacket. A...... More
Cat.No: 263942
Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1961. Hardcover. xii, 287pp., illustrated with maps, good in a shelf & edge worn blue dj faded along the spine. From the dust jacket flap: "This study was prepared in an attempt to clarify seemingly contradictory interpretations of the early history of the discovery of..... More
Cat.No: 265976
London: Lund Humphries, 1969. Hardcover. 284p., profuse b&w illustrations immersed in the running text, mostly photographic (contemporary and exhibit) with an admixture of period images, hardbound in 8.5x8.5 inch black boards titled metallic red and enclosed in the dust jacket. Item bears a rubberstamp ownership and is very faintly "dished"..... More
Cat.No: 271903
London: The Hakluyt Society, 1980. Hardcover. xiv, 225p., illustrations & maps as called for, including not only ancient charts but a satellite photo of the Indus' delta, hardbound in Hakluyt fashion: skyblue cloth boards gilt & blind and the dust jacket. Textblock edges are lightly foxed with a touch of..... More
Cat.No: 281251
Edo: Sagamiya Tahē, 1703. Map. Approximately 67x34.25 inch folded map, fitted together from separate woodblock prints. The folded map is stored in a modern blue case. Examples of this map are often found colored by hand, but this example remains relatively unadorned, with only yellow coloration added to cartouches. Minor..... More
Cat.No: 297989
Mexico: Instituto de Investigaciones Sociales, 1968. 132p., wraps, includes 6 maps, book plate of previous owner, ex-library, spine cocked, else very good. Text in Spanish. More
Cat.No: 151975
Calgary: Glenbow Museum, 1983. Paperback. 75p., wraps, 12x9 inches, maps, a few small stains on front wrap and front blank, foreedge lightly foxed else good condition. More
Cat.No: 267433
London: Printed for the Hakluyt Society, 1886. Hardcover. clxii, 176., 177-496p., + 3 (Hakluyt matters). Two matched volumes in grey cloth boards gilt & blind, in similar condition, described below. Illustrations and maps (some in colors) as called for, one of which (facsimile on acidic stock, foldlines parted) will require..... More
Cat.No: 281453
Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1944. x, 260p., xxiii, very good paperback. Published as a supplement to vol. xxxix of T'oung Pao. Illustrations in black and white. More
Cat.No: 263982