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CONTENTS
Foreword to the Third Edition, Acknowledgements & Preface
Part I MAP MAKING
Chapter 1 A Brief Historical Survey
Chapter 2 The Printing of Old Maps
Chapter 3 Hereford World Map
Chapter 4 Nuremberg Chronicle
Chapter 5 Road Maps, Atlases and Road Books
Chapter 6 Sea Charts and Atlases
Chapter 7 Town Plans
Chapter 8 Topographical Maps and Surveys
Chapter 9 Playing Cards
Part II MAP MAKERS
Chapter 11 Italy
Chapter 12 Germany and Austria
Chapter 13 Holland and Belgium
Chapter 14 France
Chapter 15 England and Wales
Chapter 16 Scotland
Chapter 17 Ireland
Chapter 18 Maps of the British Isles
Chapter 19 Portugal, Spain, Scandinavia, Switzerland, Russia and Poland
Chapter 20 Maps of the World and the Continents - The World, The Americas, Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe
Part III MAP COLLECTING
Chapter 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 - Not included in the online edition to eliminate the logistics of referencing each key.
'The Work I have undertaken, is so difficult and obnoxious to Doubt and Error, so slippery and obscure, that it must be confessed, by any man of solid judgement, that I must have been bold, to make an Adventure upon such a Subject. .
WILLIAM TURNER: The complete History of the most Remarkable Providences. 1697.
Antique Maps
Carl Moreland and David Bannister
Phaidon Press Limited
140 Kensington Church Street
London W8 4BN
First paperback edition 1993
Third edition 1989
Originally published by Longman 1983
© Carl Moreland and David Bannister 1983 JSBN 07148 2954
A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library
All rights reserved. No Part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of Phaidon Press Limited
Printed in Singapore
FRONTISPIECE: Lucas Janzoon Waghenaer, Chart of Europe, Leyden, 1586. Chart from the first engraved sea atlas, the Spiegel der Zeevaerdt. Originally published in 1584 in Dutch, there were many editions of the atlas in different languages until 1615.
