Main entry:

Moreland, Carl, 1910-

Title & Author:

Antique maps / Carl Moreland and David Bannister.

Edition:

3rd ed.

Publication:

Oxford : Phaidon-Christie's, 1989.

Description:

326 pages : illustrations, maps (some color) ; 26 cm

Series:

Christie's collectors guides

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 314-315) and index.
Foreword to the Third Edition -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- pt. I. Map Making -- Ch. 1. A Brief Historical Survey -- Ch. 2. The Printing of Old Maps -- Ch. 3. Hereford World Map -- Ch. 4. Nuremberg Chronicle -- Ch. 5. Road Maps, Atlases and Road Books -- Ch. 6. Sea Charts and Atlases -- Ch. 7. Town Plans -- Ch. 8. Topographical Maps and Surveys -- Ch. 9. Playing Cards -- Ch. 10. 'Here be Dragons.' Myths and Legends on Old Maps -- pt. II. Map Makers -- Introduction -- Ch. 11. Italy -- Ch. 12. Germany and Austria -- Ch. 13. Holland and Belgium -- Ch. 14. France -- Ch. 15. England and Wales -- Ch. 16. Scotland -- Ch. 17. Ireland -- Ch. 18. Maps of the British Isles -- Ch. 19. Portugal, Spain, Scandinavia, Switzerland, Russia and Poland -- Ch. 20. Maps of the World and the Continents -- The World -- The Americas -- Africa -- Asia -- Australasia -- Europe -- pt. III. Map Collecting -- Ch. 21. Buying Maps and Forming a Collection -- Biographical Supplement -- Appendix A Editions of Ptolemy's Geographia -- Appendix B Blaeu/Jansson Maps of the English and Welsh Counties -- Appendix C Historical Chart -- Map Making 600BC-AD1800 -- Bibliography -- Index.

ISBN:

0714880647
9780714880648
0714829544
9780714829548

Subject:

Early maps Collectors and collecting.
Cartes anciennes Collectionneurs et collections.
Historische Karte
Kartografie
Antique maps.

Added entries:

Bannister, David, 1938-
Christie's collectors guides.

Holdings:

Location: Library study room 55147
Call No.: ID GA197.3 REF; ID:90-B3656
Status: Available