Add to ORKGOnly on occasion will an author and publisher produce a work of remarkable beauty and excellence. John Blake’s il- lustrated history of nautical maps and navigational charts, now available in paperback, is one such delight. Commander Blake is a former Royal Navy officer and a fellow of the Royal Institute of Navigation. He not only knows what sea charts are about but has had privileged access to the treasure trove of British charting housed in the Hydrographic Office, which in journal- istic terms is a veritable scoop
The birth of the nautical chart in the late medieval period is seen as a watershed moment in the his...
For nearly two hundred years huge wooden warships called “ships of the line” dominated war at sea a...
For nearly two hundred years huge wooden warships called “ships of the line” dominated war at sea a...
[12], p., [40] leaves of plates : mapsBelow imprint: Cum privilegio.Title page is engraved and is co...
[37], 219, [3], 132, [6], 52, [52], 11, [3], [13] p., 11 leaves of plates (6 folded) : ill., port.Er...
Relief shown pictorially on some maps. Depths shown by soundings on some maps.Engraved title page.Ph...
The subtitle of Arthur Herman’s grand maritime history To Rule the Waves gives it all away: How the ...
FAULKNER Marcus War at sea : a naval atlas, 1939-1945 Annapolis : Naval institute press, 2012, XII-2...
John Lehman, former secretary of the Navy and author of Command of the Seas (1988), has with this bo...
In the world of shipping and maritime affairs the task of charting the oceans and waterways is one, ...
The atlas contains title, preface, World map by Cl.J. Visscher (1652), 17 charts with address of Hen...
The earliest surviving manuscript charts which include reasonably legible inscriptions around the mo...
Four manuscript charts of British ports, and notes on them, were made in the 1590s by an English Cat...
The Routledge Companion to Marine and Maritime Worlds, 1400‒1800 explores early modern maritime his...
Both copies lack pl. which should be bound facing p. 24, bk. V with fig. 98-105.Title, continued: "T...
The birth of the nautical chart in the late medieval period is seen as a watershed moment in the his...
For nearly two hundred years huge wooden warships called “ships of the line” dominated war at sea a...
For nearly two hundred years huge wooden warships called “ships of the line” dominated war at sea a...
[12], p., [40] leaves of plates : mapsBelow imprint: Cum privilegio.Title page is engraved and is co...
[37], 219, [3], 132, [6], 52, [52], 11, [3], [13] p., 11 leaves of plates (6 folded) : ill., port.Er...
Relief shown pictorially on some maps. Depths shown by soundings on some maps.Engraved title page.Ph...
The subtitle of Arthur Herman’s grand maritime history To Rule the Waves gives it all away: How the ...
FAULKNER Marcus War at sea : a naval atlas, 1939-1945 Annapolis : Naval institute press, 2012, XII-2...
John Lehman, former secretary of the Navy and author of Command of the Seas (1988), has with this bo...
In the world of shipping and maritime affairs the task of charting the oceans and waterways is one, ...
The atlas contains title, preface, World map by Cl.J. Visscher (1652), 17 charts with address of Hen...
The earliest surviving manuscript charts which include reasonably legible inscriptions around the mo...
Four manuscript charts of British ports, and notes on them, were made in the 1590s by an English Cat...
The Routledge Companion to Marine and Maritime Worlds, 1400‒1800 explores early modern maritime his...
Both copies lack pl. which should be bound facing p. 24, bk. V with fig. 98-105.Title, continued: "T...
The birth of the nautical chart in the late medieval period is seen as a watershed moment in the his...
For nearly two hundred years huge wooden warships called “ships of the line” dominated war at sea a...
For nearly two hundred years huge wooden warships called “ships of the line” dominated war at sea a...