The city in maps : urban mapping to 1900 / James Elliot.

Main entry:

British Library.

Title & Author:

The city in maps : urban mapping to 1900 / James Elliot.

Publication:

London : British Library, 1987.

Description:

88 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm

Notes:
"Based on the exhibition of the same title which opened in the Map Gallery of the British Library in June 1986"--Page 4 of cover.
Includes bibliographical references (page 86).

Summary:

Introduction: the earliest town plans -- The medieval city -- Braun & Hogenberg and after: the towns of the seventeenth century -- Early plans in the British Isles -- The baroque city: the town plans of the eighteenth century -- Industry and Empire: the town plans of the nineteenth century -- Medical and social mapping -- 'Fire and sword'.

ISBN:

0712301348 (pbk.)
9780712301343 (pbk.)

Subject:

Cartography History Exhibitions.
Cities and towns Maps History Exhibitions.
Cartography History.
Cartographie Histoire.
Villes Cartes.
Cartographie Histoire Expositions.
Villes Cartes Histoire Expositions.
Cartography
Cities and towns Maps
Cartografie.
Steden.
Cartografia (historia)
Plans Histoire.
Great Britain Maps History.
Urban regions Mapping, to 1900.

Form/genre:

Maps
Exhibition catalogs
History
Cartes géographiques.

Added entries:

Elliot, James.

Holdings:

Location: Library study room 34671
Call No.: ID GA203 REF; ID:88-B6085
Status: Available

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