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Imagined Corners. Exploring the World’s First Atlas
Review 2003 Livre en anglais. In-4 cartonnage éditeur sous jaquette 25,3 cm sur 195. 314 pages. Jaquette en bon état. Bon état d’occasion.
Bon état d’occasion
Imagined Corners. Exploring the World's First Atlas.
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.
Vues. Avec un dessin de l'auteur gravé sur bois par Gilbert Poillot.
(Paris, 1948). Bound uncut with the orig. wrappers in a very beautiful binding of brown morocco with title and year of printing in gold on back. Lowered hinges, flat capitals, upper edge gilt. In leather-edged slip-case of same marbled paper as that on the cover of the boards, leather-title on back. (Juul-Lassen).
The post-humously published first edition. This is nr. 49 of 100 copies ""sur velin pur Fil Johannot"".
