Tyranny of the Straight Line
Mapping Modern Paris
ISBN: HB: 9780300267648,
Yale University Press,
March 2024
208 pp., 27,9x21,6 cm, 42 colour illus., 101 black&white illus.
208 pp., 27,9x21,6 cm, 42 colour illus., 101 black&white illus.
A revolutionary study of nineteenth-century Parisian cartography and its role in shaping a modern conception of space.
Maps are rarely given the same attention as other print media or art forms in urban history. Author Min Kyung Lee shows their ric...
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£50.00
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Captain Cook and the Pacific
Art, Exploration and Empire
ISBN: HB: 9780300207248,
Yale University Press,
September 2017
256 pp., 25,4x19,0 cm, 200 colour illus., 20 black&white illus.
256 pp., 25,4x19,0 cm, 200 colour illus., 20 black&white illus.
British Royal Navy Captain James Cook's voyages of exploration across and around the Pacific Ocean were a marvel of maritime achievement, and provided the first accurate map of the Pacific. The expeditions answered key scientific, economic, and geogr...
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£40.00
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Art and Optics in the Hereford Map
An English Mappa Mundi, c. 1300
ISBN: HB: 9780300220339,
Yale University Press,
October 2016
240 pp., 28,0x21,6 cm, 50 colour illus., 50 black&white illus.
240 pp., 28,0x21,6 cm, 50 colour illus., 50 black&white illus.
A single, monumental mappa mundi (world map), made around 1300 for Hereford Cathedral, survives intact from the Middle Ages. As Marcia Kupfer reveals in her arresting new study, this celebrated testament to medieval learning has long been profoundly...
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£60.00
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