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(0)Edward Brooke-Hitching
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"THE SKY ATLAS assembles some of the most beautiful maps and charts ever created to understand the skies above us. This richly illustrated treasury showcases the finest examples of celestial cartography-a glorious art often overlooked by modern map books-as well as medieval manuscripts, masterpiece paintings, ancient star catalogues, antique instruments, and other curiosities. This is the sky as it has never been presented before: the realm of stars...
2) The madman's library: the strangest books, manuscripts and other literary curiosities from history
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English
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"The Madman's Library reveals the fascinating stories behind some of the strangest and most beautiful books ever created in a highly illustrated tour through an eccentric "library" of literary curiosities and wonders"--
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English
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Discover the mysteries within ancient maps - Where exploration and mythology meet
This richly illustrated book collects and explores the colorful histories behind a striking range of real antique maps that are all in some way a little too good to be true.
Mysteries within ancient maps: The Phantom Atlas is a guide to the world not as it is, but as it was imagined to be. It's a world of ghost islands, invisible mountain ranges, mythical civilizations,...
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"The Devil's Atlas is an illustrated guide to the heavens, hells and lands of the dead as imagined throughout history by cultures and religions around the world. Packed with colourful maps, paintings and captivating stories, the reader is taken on a compelling tour of the geography, history and supernatural populations of the afterworlds of cultures around the globe. Whether it's the thirteen heavens of the Aztecs, the Chinese Taoist netherworld of...
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Español
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- Guía ilustrada de los cielos, los infiernos y las tierras de los muertos que han imaginado a lo largo de la historia las distintas culturas y religiones de todo el mundo: mapas, pinturas y relatos para realizar un fascinante recorrido por la geografía, la historia y los seres sobrenaturales que pueblan los distintos mundos del más allá.
- Ya se trate de los trece cielos aztecas, del inframundo taoísta chino de los "fantasmas hambrientos" o...
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Español
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El cosmos de cristal de los antiguos griegos, el mar sobre el cielo de la Edad Media, los mensajes secretos ocultos en la luz de las estrellas.
- Con historias emocionantes e ilustraciones espectaculares, este extraordinario atlas explora la fascinación que la humanidad siempre ha sentido por los cielos a través del tiempo y las culturas.
- Una extraordinaria crónica de imaginación y descubrimiento cósmicos.
Con multitud de datos e imágenes...
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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"Enter The Madman's Gallery and discover an extraordinary, illustrated exhibition of the greatest curiosities from the global history of art, featuring one hundred magnificently eccentric antique paintings, engravings, illustrations, and sculptures, eachwith a fascinatingly bizarre story to tell"--
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Pub. Date
2015.
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First Touchstone hardcover edition.
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English
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"In the spirit of Schott's Miscellany and The Dangerous Book for Boys, a quirky collection of history's most bizarre sports and stories of mankind's most daring and ridiculous recreational pursuits--from baby boxing, to octopus wrestling, and ice tennis,"--Amazon.com.
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