The United States in Old Maps and Prints (U.S. Old Maps Series) – Buch gebraucht kaufen

1561820156

(ISBN-13: 9781561820153)

leichte Gebrauchsspuren

38,6 x 30,5 x 2,3 cm

144

2159 g

Leinen

Englisch

Schlagwörter: Karten, Geographie, Kartographie, Kartografie
Condition: orig. dust jacket with 2 tears (1,4 + 0,2 cm), otherwise mint condition.

Flap text:
"The vast New World - an unknown, uncharted territory for the 15th Century. When the explorers set off from European shores it was like sailing into space... into infinity... Who knew where the ocean ended ?
Painstakingly, with enormous determination, the explorers and cartographers of the Old World built up a picture of the land they named America. Armed with those maps, the pioneers and adventurers of the colonies pressed inland from both oceans to discover and chart the country that was to become the United States.
To present the 78 color illustrations in this book, Belgian historian Eduard Van Ermen searched through medieval libraries and museum basements to find the most interesting and artistic works by European and U.S. cartographers. As the pages of maps and prints are turned, we see the history of the country unfold.
Here are maps of "Ameriga" that guided the Norwegian, Dutch, English, and Spanish ship crews, and the imaginary squiggles the Antwerp cartographer Ortelius drew to mark the western coast he knew had to exist somewhere.
Traced before us are the layouts of the first settlements on the east and west coasts, the routes the traders used along America's rivers and canals, and the paths ridden by the Pony Express. We see military maps used by army commanders in the colonial battles and the War of Independence, along with panoramic views of the old Southern towns drawn by soldiers in the Civil War.
Early American maps allow us to follow the tracks made by the wagon trains äs they pushed the country's borders westward, and by the railroad gangs who connected ocean to ocean across the land. An 1851 map even reveals the best claims of the California Gold Rush.
Philadelphia, Baltimore, St. Louis, New Orleans... äs the nation's cities came to life, printmakers and cartographers engraved their changing images. We see New York äs it developed from a few farm dwellings huddled below the Bowery to the rows and rows of sophisticated brownstones that used to line its perpendicular streets and avenues.
Van Ermen also takes us inside the characters of the mapmakers and their trade: the heated competition to chart the true course, the plagiarism that abounded. He explains the intricacies of the artwork on the old maps and teaches us how to read the maps of the different periods to discover the secrets of the New World that they disclosed."

Backside cover text:
"When Columbus set off for the vast, uncharted New World in 1492, it was like sailing into infinity. But slowly explorers and mapmakers built up a picture of the place they called
America. As the new land grew and prospered, and äs settlements and trade moved westward, so the geographical
knowledge expanded.
Early examples of the mapmakers' art, culled from medieval libraries and museum basements hy Belgian historian Eduard Van Ermen, show the uncharted void turning into territories,
states, cities.
In 78 color illustrations covering three centuries (1570-
1870), The United States in Old Maps and Prints unfolds
our country's history."

Contents:
"Preface 7
CHAPTER I
The Language of Maps 13
CHAPTER II
The Birth of Scientific Cartography 25
C H A P T E R III
Discovery 43
CHAPTER IV
Exploration for Glory and Gold 61
CHAPTER V
Colonization 81
CHAPTER VI
The Struggle for a Continent 113
C H A P T E R VII
The Expansion of a Nation 127
C H A P T E R VIII
New Trends in Cartography: 1700-1870 137
List of Maps 139
Bibliography 143
Acknowledgements 144"

1990

R20150823a-0840