Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley door pickup 10am - 7pm 3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611

  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Portolan charts: their origin and characteristics, with a descriptive list of those belonging to the Hispanic society of America

Portolan charts: their origin and characteristics, with a descriptive list of those belonging to the Hispanic society of America

Luther Stevenson, Edward

Paperback

General ReferenceTravel GeneralHistoriography

ISBN10: 9353707277
ISBN13: 9789353707279
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Published: Jun 1 2019
Pages: 112
Weight: 0.39
Height: 0.27 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Before satellites, sailors trusted ink, vellum, and nerve. In these pages the Mediterranean is redrawn as its pilots once saw it. Lines of coast come alive. Edward Luther Stevenson traces portolan chart origins with a connoisseur's eye and a historian's discipline, explaining what makes medieval sea charts so precise: their rhumb-line webs, coastal soundings, and practical nautical mapmaking techniques. At the heart of the volume is a meticulous descriptive list of the Hispanic Society of America charts, turning institutional shelves into a navigable record of the hispanic society map holdings. Part study, part scholarly map catalog, it also reads as an illustrated map bibliography and a dependable cartographic reference book, guiding you from medieval Mediterranean cartography to early modern Iberian maps and their makers. For maritime history researchers it offers grounded terminology and comparative detail; for enthusiasts it provides the pleasure of recognising how trade routes, hazards, and harbours shaped the look of Europe and North Africa. First published in the early twentieth century, Stevenson's work helped set standards for describing and classifying charts, and it remains a touchstone for librarians, curators, and readers chasing the material story of navigation. A classic for shelf and desk. Republished by Alpha Editions in a careful modern edition, this volume preserves the spirit of the original while making it effortless to enjoy today - a heritage title prepared for readers and collectors alike.

Also in

Historiography

View All