Editore: Holt Paperbacks, 2004
ISBN 10: 080506625X ISBN 13: 9780805066258
Da: SecondSale, Montgomery, IL, U.S.A.
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Editore: Henry Holt and Co., 2003
ISBN 10: 0805066241 ISBN 13: 9780805066241
Da: Half Price Books Inc., Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!.
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Editore: Phoenix/Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2003
ISBN 10: 075381692X ISBN 13: 9780753816929
Da: SecondSale, Montgomery, IL, U.S.A.
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Editore: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 2002
ISBN 10: 0297646656 ISBN 13: 9780297646655
Da: Terra Firma Books, San Diego, CA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. Like New!.
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Editore: Henry Holt (2002) New York, 2002
ISBN 10: 0805066241 ISBN 13: 9780805066241
Prima edizione
Very Good in Very Good Dust Jacket First Printing hardbound Sm label removal scar on back jacket over bar code.
Editore: Henry Holt & Co, New York, New York, U.S.A., 2003
ISBN 10: 0805066241 ISBN 13: 9780805066241
Da: Jay W. Nelson, Bookseller, IOBA, Austin, MN, U.S.A.
Membro dell'associazione: IOBA
Prima edizione
Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Short tear to jacket.
Editore: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 2002
ISBN 10: 0297646656 ISBN 13: 9780297646655
Da: Ainsworth Books ( IOBA), Chilliwack, BC, Canada
Membro dell'associazione: IOBA
Prima edizione
Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good+. First Edition. Light wear to top edge of dust jacket ; A bright, solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped, map endpapers ; B&W and color plates; 9.29 X 6.46 X 1.42 inches; 348 pages; "Gerhard Mercator (1512-1594) was born at the dawn of the Age of Discovery, when the world was beginning to be discovered and carved up by navigators, geographers and cartographers. Mercator was the greatest and most ingenious cartographer of them all: it was he who coined the word 'atlas' and solved the riddle of converting the three-dimensional globe into a two-dimensional map while retaining true compass bearings. It is Mercator's Projection that NASA is using today to map Mars. How did Mercator reconcile his religious beliefs with a science that would make Christian maps obsolete? How did a man whose imagination roamed continents endure imprisonment by the Inquisition? Crane brings this great man vividly to life, underlying it with the maps themselves: maps that brought to a rapt public wonders as remarkable as today's cyber-world. Nick Crane's new book is a scintillating account of the climax of the map-makers' century (and of Mercator's life) - the miraculous compression of the planet which revolutionised navigation and has become the most common worldview we have.".
Editore: London Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 2002
Da: Librairie du Levant, Bayonne, Francia
Couverture souple. Condizione: Très bon. 348 pages. Sixteen colour plates. Seize plats couleur. A book in really fine condition. Très bon état.
Editore: Henry Holt,, NY:, 2003
ISBN 10: 0805066241 ISBN 13: 9780805066241
Da: Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB, Springfield, MA, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. First American printing. About fine in like dust jacket.
Editore: Henry Holt and Company, New York, 2003
Da: Monroe Street Books, Middlebury, VT, U.S.A.
Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 348 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. A portrait of the genius cartographer. Very faint foxing to top text block. Mild rubbing to dust jacket, corners lightly bumped. Bright and clean; a tight copy. Record # 951349.
Editore: Henry Holt & Co
Da: WeBuyBooks, Rossendale, LANCS, Regno Unito
Condizione: VeryGood. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day.
Editore: London. Weidenfeld & Nicolson. 2002, 2002
Da: J. Patrick McGahern Books Inc. (ABAC), Ottawa, ON, Canada
8vo. 23cm, first edition, xiii,348p., with 16 colour plates, 22 text illustrations, notes bibliography, index, mapped endpapers, blue cloth, gilt spine titles, fine in fine jacket. ~ A biography of the great cartographer and geographer, Gerard Mercator (1512-1594) best known for introducing the map projection (1569) which has been used in nautical navigation ever since and still known as Mercator Projection. He was the first to use the word "atlas" to describe a book of maps. A very readable and well illustrated biography.
Editore: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, Uk, 2002
Da: Book Express (NZ), Wellington, Nuova Zelanda
Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. 348 pages. clean tidy copy map.
Henry Holt and Company, New York 2003. xiii, 348 pp. Hardcover with d/w. Fine condition.
Editore: Henry Holt, 2003
Da: Arader Galleries of Philadelphia, PA, Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condizione: New. Condizione sovraccoperta: new. Book and dust jacket are new fresh out of Shipping box.
Editore: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2002
ISBN 10: 0297646656 ISBN 13: 9780297646655
Da: Michael Moons Bookshop, PBFA, Whitehaven, CUMBR, Regno Unito
Membro dell'associazione: PBFA
Prima edizione
Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: As New. 1st Edition. 1st edition, 2002. Original pictorial dustjacket as new. Blue cloth slightly rubbed on upper cover. Pages very clean & tight. No inscriptions. Illustrated. 348 pages. A heavy book, extra postage costs may apply.
Editore: Weidenfeld & Nicholson, London, 2002
Da: MJC Books, Macclesfield, Regno Unito
Prima edizione
Hard Cover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First Edition. (9.5 by 6.5 inches). 348 pages including index. Informative biography of the man who created the first modern map of the world. With colour and black & white illustrations throughout. Blue boards with gilt titling to spine. Pictorial dust jacket in clear protective cover. Previous owner has reinforced the hinges with clear tape for no real reason, otherwise a fine clean sound copy. Dust jacket not price clipped. A very nice copy. Size: 8vo.
Editore: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 2002
Da: Roger Collicott Books, Widecombe in the Moor, DEVON, Regno Unito
Prima edizione
Hardcover. Condizione: As New. First Edition. 348 pages. 16 colour plates. Fine copy in complete dust wrapper.
Editore: Henry Holt and Company, New York, 2002
Da: T. W. Palmer Books, Eugene, OR, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condizione: As New. Condizione sovraccoperta: As New. 23.5 x 15 cm., xiii,348 pp., As new, maps, illustrations, notes, bibliography, index, yellow cover, quarter brown, gilt printing on spine, jacket as new, unclipped, pictorial, in mylar, clean copy no markings.
London 2002. 348 pages + plates. Original cloth. Dust jacket. Very fine.[#208784].
Editore: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 2002
ISBN 10: 0297646656 ISBN 13: 9780297646655
Da: Amnesty Bookshop, Malvern, Great Malvern, Regno Unito
Prima edizione Copia autografata
Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. The story of Gerard Mercator, the C16 geographer who solved the vexed question of how the 3-dimensional globe could be converted into a 2-dimensional map while retaining the compass bearings. Beautifully illustrated in colour. Blue boards with gilt. Top front corner of book and jacket bumped else Fine. Crane has signed the title page without dedication. 16 x 24cms with 348pp. Signed by Author(s).
Editore: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 2002
ISBN 10: 0297646656 ISBN 13: 9780297646655
Da: Amnesty Bookshop, Malvern, Great Malvern, Regno Unito
Prima edizione Copia autografata
Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition. The story of Gerard Mercator, the C16 geographer who solved the vexed question of how the 3-dimensional globe could be converted into a 2-dimensional map while retaining the compass bearings. Beautifully illustrated in colour. Blue boards with gilt. Crane has signed the title page without dedication. 16 x 24cms with 348pp. Signed by Author(s).
2002 New York, gebonden met papieromslag 348 blz., met illustraties.
Editore: Weidenfeld & Nicolson London 2002, 2002
Da: Andrew Barnes Books / Military Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Prima edizione
1st edition dust jacket Fine octavo xiii + 348pp., col. & b/w pls., text ills., maps, bibliog., index,
Editore: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 2002
Da: Neil Holliday, Dymock, Regno Unito
Copia autografata
Hardcover. Condizione: Generally Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Generally Very Good. Blue cloth with gilt titles. Maps as eps. Tiny spot to lower rear . No inscriptions. Jacket is not price clipped. Colour illustrations. Signed by author on title page wothout any dedication. A generally very good copy. By Author on Half Title.
Editore: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, UK, 2002
Da: Eaglestones, Oudtshoorn, Sudafrica
Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. A tightly bound book. Colour and B/W photos. Book as new, however there is Pink highlighting on a number of pages.
Editore: London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2002. 242 x 170mm (9½ x 6¾ inches)., 2002
Da: Tooley, Adams & Co., Wallingford, OXON, Regno Unito
8vo, with illus. d/w, used, overall good condition, pp. 348, illustrated. Gerard Mercator (1512-1594) was born at the dawn of the Age of Discovery, when the world was beginning to be discovered and carved up by navigators, geographers and cartographers. Mercator was the greatest and most ingenious cartographer of them all: it was he who coined the word 'atlas' and solved the riddle of converting the three-dimensional globe into a two-dimensional map while retaining true compass bearings. It is Mercator's Projection that NASA are using today to map Mars. How did Mercator reconcile his religious beliefs with a science that would make Christian maps obsolete? How did a man whose imagination roamed continents endure imprisonment by the Inquisition? Crane brings this great man vividly to life, underlying it with colour illustrations of the maps themselves: maps that brought to a rapt public wonders as remarkable as today's cyber-world.
Da: Antiquariaat Wim de Goeij, Kalmthout, ANTW, Belgio
Membro dell'associazione: ILAB
London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2002, in-8°, XIII+348 pp, 22 b/w ills, 16 pp coloured plates h.t., bibliographies, index, publ.board, dustwrapper, mint copy.