Krieger cobb turner (37 risultati)

Paperback. Condizione: Very good +. Stated First printing. Foreword by Norman B. Leventhal. Oblong 4to. Illustrated wrappers. 278 pages, with Appendix. Illustrated throughout with color and b/w maps, photographic images, and drawings. No names or marks. Due to size and weight, international shipping at cost.…

Paperback. Condizione: VG+ or better. First Paperback Printing. Oversize paperback with only light wear, clean and well bound with no spine creasing, clean and unmarked text. A very nice copy. Ships media mail only, unless contacted for airmail shipping. Ships in a box.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. 1st Edition. This former library book is intact and quite clean. It has the usual library markings and stamps. The dust cover has a mylar covering over it.

PB. Condizione: good, wraps (softcover). 278pp ISBN 0262611732 Includes both historical maps of the city and maps showing the gradual emergence of the New England region from the imaginations of explorers to a form that we would recognize today. B&W and color illustrations (illustratore).

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. First Edition Second Printing. Minor shelf wear to binding. Foxing on edges of text block & endpapers. Text and images unmarked. Dj lightly handled with small stains on top edge & small abrasions at bottom in a mylar cover. **Please note: book is oversized and heavy, and will require substantial additional shipping fees to international or expedited addresses.**.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Light turquoise cloth, lettered in gold foil. A few slight surface marks to cover cloth, nearly as issued. Lacking dust jacket. xiv,278 pp. 2nd ptg. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Book.

Paperback. Condizione: New.

Paperback. Condizione: New. New oversized softcover in matte printed wraps. Pages are clean and free of marks or underlining. (11.77 x 1.02 x 12.07 inches) Includes an index, glossary, chronology, photos, and illustrations. 272 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. An informative-and beautiful-exploration of the life and history of a city through its maps. To the attentive user even the simplest map can reveal not only where things are but how people perceive and imagine the spaces they occupy. Mapping Boston is an exemplar of such creative attentiveness-bringing the history of one of America's oldest and most beautiful cities alive through the maps that have depicted it over the centuries.The book includes both historical maps of the city and maps showing the gradual emergence of the New England region from the imaginations of explorers to a form that we would recognize today. Each map is accompanied by a full description and by a short essay offering an insight into its context. The topics of these essays by Anne Mackin include people both familiar and unknown, landmarks, and events that were significant in shaping the landscape or life of the city. A highlight of the book is a series of new maps detailing Boston's growth. The book also contains seven essays that explore the intertwining of maps and history. Urban historian Sam Bass Warner, Jr., starts with a capsule history of Boston. Barbara McCorkle, David Bosse, and David Cobb discuss the making and trading of maps from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century. Historian Nancy S. Seasholes reviews the city's remarkable topographic history as reflected in maps, and planner Alex Krieger explores the relation between maps and the physical reality of the city as experienced by residents and visitors. In an epilogue, novelist James Carroll ponders the place of Boston in contemporary culture and the interior maps we carry of a city.…

Condizione: New. pp. 292 1st edition.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. ### Near Fine book is clean, tight, unclipped and unmarked. Second printing. Dust jacket is Near Fine with some shelf and edge wear, a small closed tear on the spine. Turquoise cloth covers with gilt lettering on spine. Small tear in spine. Illustrated with unique color and B&W photographs, drawings, and maps. Gift inscription on half title page. Pages have slight wave and are beginning to tone from edges. No marks in or on book except as noted. NOT A REMAINDER. Not ex library. Size: c. 12 1/4 by 11 3/4 inches. 278 pages. Heavy. Index. Dust jacket protected in a new crystal clear MYLAR cover. Bubble wrapped and custom boxed for standard shipping. The book is a wonder even for jaded Bostonians like myself. Near Fine.…

Hardcover. Condizione: New. MIT, Cambridge, 2001/, pp. 261, Color illust., text. (Oversized: dj/hc-new). Spendid history of old Boston in maps. ISBN 9780262611732.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition. Light turquoise cloth, lettered in gold foil. As issued. Color illus. dust jacket as issued, now in mylar. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Book.

Paperback. Condizione: New. still in publisher shrink wrap.

hardcover. Condizione: Very GOOD. Condizione sovraccoperta: VERY GOOD. 2nd printing. vERY LARGE unmarked hardcover in unclipped jacket. 12 1/4 x 11 3/4 x 7/8 inches. No wear to DJ or boards -bumped corners. Impressive in size and content of maps and portraits.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. Second printing. The book is square and unmarked; corners and spine ends unbumped. The dust jacket is not priced; minor edgewear at spine ends; Brodart protected.

Soft Cover. Condizione: Very Good. First Edition. 1st edition in soft cover format, large square 4to, 278pp, colour and b/w photo illustrations; various contributors; card covers; lower edges of a few pages has been bumped/rucked up a little, nothing much, and one corner suffering from a similar problem, o/w VG+ Copy; NB This is a large heavy book well outside the preset postage tariffs; however for simplicity this item has been priced accordingly and no extra postage will be required unless buyer wants overseas sending. Overseas, which includes Europe and the Republic of Ireland and all global destinations, both Economy and Air would involve extra postage and could be expensive proportionate to the price of the book Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.…

Condizione: Very Good. Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. An informative and beautiful exploration of the life and history of a city through its maps. The book includes both historical maps of the city and maps showing the gradual emergence of the New England region from the imaginations of explorers to a form that we would recognize today. Each map is accompanied by a full description and by a short essay offering an insight into its context. The topics of these essays by Anne Mackin include people both familiar and unknown, landmarks, and events that were significant in shaping the landscape or life of the city. Clean copy. This is a heavy and oversized book and will require extra shipping. International customers please ask for a shipping quote before purchasing. Record # 472242.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. The MIT Press; Cambridge, 2001. Hardcover. Very Good, turquoise cloth binding with gilt lettering on spine, binding firm, interior and extremities tidy, trace handling marks/shelf wear, bit of moisture/humidity warping along top and bottom page edges, in a Very Good, some handling/scuff marks to panels, some edge/corner wear, Dust wrapper. A nice, clean and unmarked copy. Oblong 4to[quarto or approx. 11.5 x 13.5 inches], 278pp., indexed, color and b&w illustrations. We pack securely and ship daily with delivery confirmation on every book. The picture on the listing page is of the actual book for sale. Additional Scan(s) are available for any item, please inquire.Please note: Oversized books/sets MAY require additional postage then what is quoted for 2.2lb book.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. New, unread copy. Paperback. Ships from Massachusetts, USA.

Hardcover. xiv, 278p., 12x11.75 inches, foreword, introduction, appendixes including timeline, glossary, chronology, indexes, illustrated throughout with maps in colors, photos and vignettes, very good second printing in cloth and unclipped dj.

Condizione: As New. 1999. Hardcover. Fine in fine dust wrapper. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Condizione: As New. 1999. Hardcover. Fine in fine dust wrapper. . . . .

hardcover. Condizione: fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: fine. Illustrated. 278 pages, large oblong 4to., gray cloth boards, d.w., in shrinkwrap. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, (2001). New, sealed in original shrink wrap.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Near Fine. First Edition; First Printing. Tight square unmarked book in clean green cloth; in crisp dust jacket; 12 X 11.70 X 1 inches; 292 pages.

Paperback. Condizione: Brand New. 1st edition. 292 pages. 12.00x11.75x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Wraps. Condizione: Very good. The format is approximately 12 inches by 11.5 inches. xiv, 278 pages. Illustrations (some in color). Maps (some in color). Timeline of Boston's Land Making. A Boston chronology. A Glossary of Map Terms. For Further Reading. An Index of the Maps Illustrations. Index. Cover has slight wear and lower corner curling. Illustrated covers. Contributing essays by David Bosse, James Carroll, Dvid Cobb, Alex Krieger, Barbara McCorkle, Nancy S. Seasholes, and Sam Bass Warner, Jr. Vignettes accompanying the plates by Anne Macklin. Alex Krieger, FAIA, has combined a career of teaching and practice. Mr. Krieger is Professor in Practice of Urban Design, Emeritus at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. He served as Chair of the Department of Urban Planning and Design (1998-2004, 2006-2007, 2019-2020), Director of the Urban Design Program (1990-2001), and as Associate Chair of the Department of Architecture (1984-1989). Since 1984, he has provided architecture, urban design, and urban planning services to clients in numerous cities worldwide, focusing primarily on educational, institutional, healthcare, and public projects. He is a board member for the Boston Public Library's Norman B. Leventhal Map and Education Center. Mr. Krieger received a Master of City Planning in Urban Design from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. Major publications include: City on a Hill: Urban Idealism in America from the Puritans to the Present (Harvard University Press, 2019); and Mapping Boston (with David Cobb and Amy Turner, MIT Press, 1999). An informative, and beautiful, exploration of the life and history of a city through its maps. To the attentive user even the simplest map can reveal not only where things are but how people perceive and imagine the spaces they occupy. Mapping Boston is an exemplar of such creative attentiveness, bringing the history of one of America's oldest and most beautiful cities alive through the maps that have depicted it over the centuries. The book includes both historical maps of the city and maps showing the gradual emergence of the New England region from the imaginations of explorers to a form that we would recognize today. Each map is accompanied by a full description and by a short essay offering an insight into its context. The topics of these essays by Anne Mackin include people both familiar and unknown, landmarks, and events that were significant in shaping the landscape or life of the city. A highlight of the book is a series of new maps detailing Boston's growth. The book also contains seven essays that explore the intertwining of maps and history. Urban historian Sam Bass Warner, Jr., starts with a capsule history of Boston. Barbara McCorkle, David Bosse, and David Cobb discuss the making and trading of maps from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century. Historian Nancy S. Seasholes reviews the city's remarkable topographic history as reflected in maps, and planner Alex Krieger explores the relation between maps and the physical reality of the city as experienced by residents and visitors. In an epilogue, novelist James Carroll ponders the place of Boston in contemporary culture and the interior maps we carry of a city. First MIT Press Paperback Edition [stated]. Presumed first printing thus. Nancy S. Seasholes [map descriptions] and David Co (illustratore). …

Cloth. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Light general wear. Overall a nice clean copy with a lovely collection of illustrations of old maps as well as contemporary photographs of the city.

Condizione: New. pp. 292.

Paperback. Condizione: Brand New. 1st edition. 292 pages. 12.00x11.75x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Condizione: Very good. Paperback Quarto. wraps, 277 pp.