Cartography, Map-making & Projections

''Fascinating...sumptuously produced with lots of full-colour images, is a kind of potted treasury of cartographical history that gleams with piece...

About a millennium ago, in Cairo, someone completed a large and richly illustrated book. In the course of thirty-five chapters, our unknown author ...

Trading Territories tells the compelling story of maps and geographical knowledge in the early modern world from the fifteenth to the early sevente...

Lauded for its accessibility and beautiful design, this text has given thousands of students and professionals the tools to create effective, compe...

This new volume, and its accompanying microsite, is the first scholarly publication and English translation of the Schoner Sammelband, a collection...

Literary production is increasingly shaped by globalization and the complex nature of cultural, political, and social interaction. As such, longsta...

A map is a snapshot of a place, a city, a nation or even the world at a given point in time - fascinating for what they tell us about the way our a...

The Second World War was a watershed in world history: the seizing of power by Hitler and the Nazis, the slowly building crescendo of annexations t...

A STUNNINGLY ILLUSTRATED BOOK REVEALING THE GREATEST MYTHS, LIES AND BLUNDERS ON MAPS 'Highly recommended' - Andrew Marr 'A spectacular, enjoyable ...

'The Naming of America' features a facsimile of the 1507 World Map by Martin Waldseemuller - the first map ever to display the name America - and t...

Maps can tell much about a place that traditional histories fail to communicate. This lavishly illustrated book features 70 maps which have been se...

Mapping has been one of the most fertile areas of exploration for architecture and landscape in the past few decades. While documenting this shift ...

In The Baron in the Grand Canyon, Steven Rowan presents the first comprehensive look at the life of Baron Friedrich Wilhelm von Egloffstein, mapmak...