Author: BINDING Paul :
Title: Imagined Corners. Exploring the World's First Atlas.
Description: .: London, Review, Headline Book Publishing, 2003, ISBN 0 7472 3040 4 , small in-4°, 24,5 cm, 314 pp, coloured illustrations, index, select bibliography, publisher's illustrated cased binding with a printed dustwrapper. The author describes the cultural and politico-economical situation of Antwerp where in 1570 the first world atlas was published by Ortelius. He tracks the conditions which caused this extremely important innovation in geography and world travel. .

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