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• Title:Ships on maps : pictures of power in Renaissance Europe / Richard W. Unger.
  
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• Author/Creator:Unger, Richard W.
  
• Published/Created:Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
  

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  • Location:RARE BOOKS & SPECIAL COLLECTIONS Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: GA231 .U54 2010
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    
  • Links:Donor bookplate
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Cartography--Europe--History--To 1500.
  Cartography--Europe--History--16th century.
  Early maps--Europe--History.
  Ships--Maps--Early works to 1800.
  Discoveries in geography.
  Humanism.
  
• Description:xxiii, 233 p., [8] p. of plates : maps (some col.) ; 25 cm.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9780230231641 (hardback)
  0230231640 (hardback)
  
• Contents:Chapter 1. Making Maps without Ships, with Ships
  Chapter 2. Mapping before the Renaissance
  Chapter 3. Portolans and the Late Medieval Transition
  Chapter 4. Classical Revival, Printing and Maps
  Chapter 5. New Routes and Portuguese Map Makers
  Chapter 6. Iberian Influence in Southern Europe
  Chapter 7. Northern Europe and Southern Practices
  Chapter 8. Ships, Geography, and Humanism.