New Found Lands. Maps in the History of Exploration. by WHITFIELD, Peter - 1998

British Library Publications. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1998. First Edition :. Hardcover. Quarto hardcover in fine black cloth, tight binding, fresh unmarked pages, looks unread, else quite FINE in bright illustrated DJ, showing S Africa, faint wear at tip, else NFINE+, in Clear Mylar jacket protector. A bright and solid copy, looks great on the shelf, containing a large number of colored maps, including, Cape of Good Hope, 1675, etc etc. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall .

the british library, 1998 hardback book and dust jacket in near fine condition. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

London: The British Library, 1998. In clean, tidy condition with a similar dust jacket. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

New York: Routledge, 1998. First American Edition. Brown Cloth. Near Fine/Fine. Quarto. Pp. 200. With 150 illustrations, 100 in colour. Very slight bumping to front and rear bottom corners, else a fine copy.

London: British Library, 1998. 1st edition. New book. large octavo. hardback with dust jacket viii + 200pp., col. & b/w pls., maps, index, ÔHow both the explorers & their patrons understood their expanding world and their place in it; what they were seeking and how they thought they could achieve it, & how they integrated new knowledge into their evolving world viewÕ

London, England: The British Library, 1998. In this book the author concentrates on the intellectual context of exploration. How did the explorers and their patrons understand their expanding world and their place in it? What were they really seeking, and how did they believe they could achieve it? How did they balance the known and the unknown in their minds? Historical maps are vitally important in answering these questions, and this book displays the geographical ideas of the explorers themselves, through the maps that they used or the new maps which they caused to be made. The power that came with increasing technical and geographical knowledge is made plain by the European empires that grew out of conquest, annexation and exploitation. Many maps are a potent symbol of that power. But equally there are maps - which to our eyes seem misleading, inaccurate and highly imaginative - which serve as evocative and poignant reminders of the gaps in peoples' knowledge. Up until very recent times, as… Read More

Routledge, USA, 1998. Hardcover. Good. Ex libris op achterzijde schutblad