Historian's Guide to Early British Maps
Subtitle: A Guide to the Location of Pre-1900 Maps of the British Isles Preserved in the United Kingdom and Ireland (Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks)
Contributors: Helen Wallis (Editor); Anita McConnell (Editor)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: April 28, 1995
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 475
ISBN-13: 9780521551526
Subjects: British & Irish history; Historical geography; History - General History; History; History: World; British Isles; Europe - Great Britain - General; Western Europe - General; History / Great Britain
First sentence: Although map making was one of the new crafts of the European Renaissance in the late 15th and early 16th centuries, surveying had its origins before 2000 BC in ancient Egypt and Babylon.