Sea Monsters on Medieval and Renaissance Maps
By: Chet Van Duzer
Date: Published 2013
The sea monsters on medieval and Renaissance maps are one of the most visually engaging elements, and yet they have never before been carefully studied. The subject is important not only in the history of cartography, art, and zoological illustration, but also in the history of the geography of the marvelous and of Western conceptions of the ocean.
In this wonderfully illustrated book the author analyzes the most important examples of sea monsters on maps produced in Europe, beginning with the earliest mappaemundi on which they appear in the tenth century and continuing to the end of the sixteenth century. The book will be the standard work on the subject for years to come.
Condition: Very good, like new
Inventory #50001
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