This book focuses on the work of the great sixteenth-century traveller and map-maker Andre Thevat and explores the interrelations between representation and power in the age of discovery.

A completely revised and updated, illustrated guide to the grounds that host Europe?s prestigious Champions League.

This book focuses on the work of the great sixteenth-century traveller and map-maker Andre Thevat and explores the interrelations between representation and power in the age of discovery.

The third book in a series for the American Museum in Britain, produced by Scala, showcasing the finest private holding of pre-1600 printed world maps on this side of the Atlantic.

This well-illustrated study investigates the symbolic dimensions of painted maps as products of ambitious early modern European courts.

An eminent historian of cartography offers this Iavishly illustrated account of the mapmaking revolution in Renaissance Europe. 78 halftones. 12 color plates.

Renaissance map-makers produced ever more accurate descriptions of geography, which were also beautiful works of art. They filled the oceans Europeans were exploring with ships and to describe the real ships which were the newest and best products of technology. Above all the ships were there to show the European conquest of the seas of the world.