Cartography, Map-making & Projections

A spectacular pictorial history of astronomical exploration, for anyone who has gazed at the sky and wondered what lies beyond From the beginning o...

An instant classic when first published in 1991, How to Lie with Maps revealed how the choices mapmakers make--consciously or unconsciously--mean t...

In 1540, in the wake of the tumult brought on by the Protestant Reformation, Saint Ignatius of Loyola founded the Society of Jesus, also known as t...

Newcastle has a long and distinguished history through two millennia: a Roman fortress at the eastern end of Hadrian's Wall; an important centre of...

What would the world be without maps? How would we orientate ourselves? How would we travel? How could we plan streets or entire cities? We encount...

Gerhard Mercator (1512-1594) was the most important cartographer and globemaker of the 16th century. He is particularly remembered for his publicat...

Few American cities possess a history as long, rich, and fascinating as Boston's. A site of momentous national political events from the Revolution...

''Beautiful ... endless, brilliant unforgettable stories'' Cerys Matthews,  BBC Radio 6Combining myth and science, this breathtaking book [is] pack...

Through official maps, this book looks at how government presentations of Paris and environs change over the course of the Third Republic (1889-193...

Dating from the seventeenth century at the height of the Ming Dynasty, the Selden Map of China reveals a country very different from popular concep...

Four hundred years ago, every barrister had to dance because dancing put them in harmony with the universe. John Ogilby's first job, in 1612, was t...

From the sixteenth through the mid-nineteenth centuries, Spain, then Mexico, and finally the United States took ownership of the land from the Gulf...

Winner of the Saltire Society Research Book of the Year Whilst documents and other written material are obvious resources that help shape our view...

Created for map lovers by map lovers, this book explores the intriguing stories behind maps across history and illuminates how the ancient art of c...

A superbly illustrated guide to 64 maps from all around the world! From examples of medieval Mappa Mundi and the first atlas to Google Earth and ma...

Maps take place in time as well as representing space. The Google map on your smartphone appears to fix the world, serving as a practical spatial t...

''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...