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James Cowan.
A Mapmaker's Dream: The Meditations of Fra Mauro, Cartographer to the Court of Venice.
Published London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1997 (previous U.S. edn. was 1996).
ISBN 0340695439;
ISBN-13: 9780340695432.
Binding: hardback, perfect bound.
Size: 134x203x18mm.
Page count: xviii,152pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition fair to good: signed by the author on the title page; a little wear to the dustjacket, pages edges slightly grubby and starting to yellow with age.


This item £12.00
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within the UK
(delivery outside the UK not currently available)

Weight without packaging: 286g.

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Signed by the author on the title page. A novel about a 16th-century monk’s attempt to create a map representing all of creation, and its consequences.


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