Imago Mundi Bibliography

 

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Imago Mundi bibliography

A Guide to historical cartography. A selected Annotated List of references on the history of Maps and Map making. Compiled by W. W. Ristow and C. E. LeGear. The Library of Congress, Reference Department, Map Division. Washington 1954. 18ff. Mimeogr.

Ancient science and modern civilisation. George Sarton. Published by the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, 1954. 111 p.

Carlo F. Capello. Studi sulla cartografia Piemon‐tese. I. Il Piemonte nella cartografia pre moderna (con particolare riguardo alla cartografia Tolemaica). Università degli studi di Torino, facoltà di magistero Scritti vari: vol. III. Facs. 1. Torino 1952. 157 p. + 90 Tav.

The Madaba Mosaic Map with introduction and commentary. By Michael Avi‐Yonah. Jerusalem. 1954. 80 p., with the Madaba map 1–10 plates. Colour reprod. 4°, Jerusalem 1953.

Travel and Discovery in the Renaissance. 1420–1620. By Boies Penrose. Cambridge, Massachus. 1952. IX + 369. Illustr.

Amerigo Vespucci nel V centenario della nascita. Numero speciale della Revista geographica Italiana. A cura della Società di studi Geografici. Firenze 1954, 95 p.

Carte geografiche cinquecentesche a stampa della Biblioteca Marciana e della biblioteca del Museo Correr di Venezia. Istituto Veneto di scienza lettere ed arti Venezia, Venezia 1954. 63 p.

Alte Europäische Städte‐Bilder. 24 farbige Blätter nach Georg Braun und Franz Hogenberg. Eingeleitet von Ruthardt Oehme.— Ein farbiges Tauchnitz‐Buch. 1954. Haarlem. 1954. 120 pp.

B. van't Hoff. Jacob van Deventer, Keizerlijk‐Koninklijk Geograf. ’s‐Gravenhage 1953. 89 p. 3 Reproductions.

Kodama, Sakuzaemon; Takakura, Shinichiro; Kudo, Chôhei: Ezo ni kansuru Yasokaishi no hôkoku: Jesuit Reports on Yezo. Separate print from: Reports on the Study of Civilisation in Northern Japan, University of Hokkaido, Vol. IX, Sapporo, March 1954, 95 pages, 13 reproductions.

Ayusawa, Shintaro: Mateo Ritchi no sekaizu ni kansuru shiteki kenkyu—Kinsei Nippon ni okeru sekai chiri chishiki no shuryu—A Historical Study of Matteo Ricci's World Map—On the Main Current of the Knowledge of World Geography in the Age of Tokugawa. In: The Journal of Yokohama Municipal University, August 15th, 1953 No. 18; 239+14 pages, 31 reproductions.