Treasures from the map room : a journey through the Bodleian collections
2016
Books, Manuscripts
The Bodleian Library is home to one of the world's largest and oldest collections of maps, with atlases, maps, and books on cartography dating back to the fourteenth century, including many that are among the most rare and historically significant. This book publishes 75 extraordinary examples from this collection, housed in the Map Room at the newly renovated Weston Library. The maps reproduced in treasures range from the fourteenth to the twenty-first century.
Main title:
Treasures from the map room : a journey through the Bodleian collections / general editor, Debbie Hall.
Author:
Hall, Debbie, editor
Imprint:
Oxford : Bodleian Library, 2016.
Collation:
224 pages ; 27 cm
ISBN:
9781851242504 (hbk)
Dewey class:
912.07442574
LC class:
Z6028
Local class:
912.074425
Language:
English
BRN:
1445348
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