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America : early maps of the new world

Title
America : early maps of the new world / edited by Hans Wolff on behalf of the Bavarian State Library ; [with contributions by Susi Colin and 4 others ; translated by Hugh Beyer and 5 others].
Publication
  • Munich : Prestel, [1992]
  • New York : Distributed in the USA and Canada by the Neues Publishing Company

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TextNo restrictions *R-Map Div. GA401 .A4313 1992Schwarzman Building - Map Division Reference Room 117

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Additional Authors
  • Wolff, Hans
  • Colin, Susi.
  • Bayerische Staatsbibliothek.
Description
192 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color); 29 x 30 cm
Uniform Title
Amerika. English.
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Exhibition catalogs.
  • Maps.
Note
  • "First published in German on the occasion of the exhibition "America-Early Maps of the New World" held at the Bavarian State Library in Munich, 10 April-27 June 1992"--Title page verso.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-189) and index.
Contents
  • The Acquisition of Martin Waldseemuller's 1507 Globe Gores by the Bavarian State Library / Franz Georg Kaltwasser -- The Conception of the World on the Eve of the Discovery of America -- Introduction / Hans Wolff -- America -- Early Images of the New World / Hans Wolff. The World in Books and Maps of the Fifteenth Century. Early Literature about America: "Zeytungen" (Broadsheets), Travel Reports, and Cosmographies. The Cosmography of Martin Waldseemuller. The Munich Portolan Charts. Famous Manuscript World Maps and Hand-Printed Globes of the Sixteenth Century. Sixteenth-Century Printed Maps of the World. Early Maps of America -- Newly Discovered Islands, Regions, and Peoples: The Letters of Christopher Columbus, Amerigo Vespucci, and Hernan Cortes / Hans-Joachim Konig.
  • The Fantastic and the Real: The Perception of the New World in the "Neue Zeytungen" / Hans-Joachim Konig -- Martin Waldseemuller: The Most Important Cosmographer in a Period of Dramatic Scientific Change / Hans Wolff -- The Munich Portolan Charts: Past and Present / Hans Wolff -- Trial and Error in the Mapping of America during the Early Modern Period / Uta Lindgren -- The Round Earth on a Flat Surface: World Map Projections before 1550 / Rudiger Finsterwalder -- Woodcutters and Cannibals: Brazilian Indians as Seen on Early Maps / Susi Colin -- Afterword / Hans Wolff.
Call Number
GA401
ISBN
  • 3791312324
  • 9783791312323
LCCN
93135484
OCLC
28067909
Title
America : early maps of the new world / edited by Hans Wolff on behalf of the Bavarian State Library ; [with contributions by Susi Colin and 4 others ; translated by Hugh Beyer and 5 others].
Publisher
Munich : Prestel, [1992]
Distributor
New York : Distributed in the USA and Canada by the Neues Publishing Company
Edition
English edition.
Type of Content
text
cartographic image
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-189) and index.
Alternate Script for Subject
展覧会カタログ.
Added Author
Wolff, Hans, editor.
Colin, Susi.
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek.
Other Form:
Online version: Amerika. English. America. Munich : Prestel ; New York : Distributed in the USA and Canada by the Neues Pub. Co., ©1992 (OCoLC)756425860
Research Call Number
*R-Map Div. GA401 .A4313 1992
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