THE EVOLUTION OF THE SEA CHART
by Terrell, Christopher
- Used
- near fine
- Paperback
- Condition
- Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 9963420729
- ISBN 13
- 9789963420728
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Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Nicosia: Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation. Near Fine. 1999. Softcover. 9963420729 . Very light shelfwear and creasing else fine. ; Lecture given in May 1997 by Commander Christopher Terrell, Head of the Department of Navigation at the National Maritime Museum at Greenwich until 1987, on the evolution of the sea chart from its origins to nowadays. In a long journey that began from the early thirteenth-century sea charts on vellum to reach the nineteenth-century sophisticated British hydrographical surveys, chart-making underwent a variety of phases ranging from the Mediterranean portolans to the great contribution of the French eighteenth-century school of organised hydrography. ; Cyprus Cartography Lectures No. 4. the Helen Wallis Memorial Lecture; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 46 pages .
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- Bookseller
- Ancient World Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 17950
- Title
- THE EVOLUTION OF THE SEA CHART
- Author
- Terrell, Christopher
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 9963420729
- ISBN 13
- 9789963420728
- Publisher
- Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation
- Place of Publication
- Nicosia
- Date Published
- 1999
- Keywords
- 9963420729, Greek History, Cyprus, Greece, Cartography, Classical Greek & Roman, Geographical History, Maps And Mapmaking
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