Four Maps of Great Britian Designed by Matthew Paris About A. D. 1250

Paris, Matthew; Gilson, J. P (editor)

Editore: Printed by Order of the Trustees 1928, London, 1928

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11 pp., 4 prints. Brown cloth spine with paper boards. Some marks to the boards and wear to the corners, with slight fraying to the spine ends. Internally clean with book plate excised from the top corner of the front endpaper. Four beautiful reproductions of maps from three manuscripts in the British Museum and one at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. Despite never travelling far from his monastery in St Albans Matthew Paris was "known as the greatest English cartographer of his age, although his maps differ greatly from geographical reality" (BL). 41 by 29.5 cm. Atlas Folio Illustrated.

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• Titolo: Four Maps of Great Britian Designed by Matthew Paris About A. D. 1250
• Editore: Printed by Order of the Trustees 1928, London
• Data di pubblicazione: 1928
• Rilegatura: Cloth Spine Card Boards
• Condizione: Very Good
• Cataloghi dei venditori:
  • British Topography and Local History
  • History
  • Maps and Atlases