MAPS AND MAP - MAKERS

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Autor: TOOLEY, RONAL VERE
Edição: First Published
Descrição: by B.T. Batsford, London ,1949. Capa dura, tipo linho, com falta de sobrecapa; VIII+ 128 págs.+ 95 ilust.s; 26 cm. Muito ilustrado no texto e em extratexto, com estampas a cores e a p/ b. "(...) It is in maps of greater or lesser antiquity that it is possible to trace with the greatest economy of effort the growth and spread of towns or their decline, the vicissitudes of agriculture, industry, of great estates and common land, the survival or development of lines of communication, varying types of roads, rights of way, and later of canals and railways. It is fairly generally known that place- names have changed during the course of centuries, but not many know the particular variation or time of change in their own district. Small villages that to- day are unimportant in many cases go back for hundreds of years, and in early maps showtheir Anglo- Saxon, Danish or Norman forms and their importance then. (...)" In- Introduction.