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Tauris re-prints An Atlas of Ancient Geography, Biblical and Classical: Maps of the Ancient World by William Smith

March 28, 2013 in Interest, News, Publication

81ZsbKDSKsL._SL1500_Publisher I. B. Tauris has re-printed William Smith’s landmark nineteenth century work An Atlas of Ancient Geography, Biblical and Classical: Maps of the Ancient World. The new edition includes an introduction written by Richard Talbert. See Tauris’ website for ordering information. The publisher’s description, in part, states “Published to complement his Greek and Roman dictionaries, “An Atlas of Ancient Geography, Biblical and Classical” by Sir William Smith is the rarest and most visually compelling of the volumes. Produced to the highest standard by the leading mapmaker of the day, the maps – large-scale, small-scale, historical, topographical, multiple city plans and other insets – are clear, detailed, intricately colored works of art. “The Atlas” provides the first complete set of maps of the ancient world, both classical and biblical. A full index of names and places, both ancient and modern, accompanies each of the larger maps. For each map there is also an accompanying text, giving sources and authorities for them.”

Hardback

ISBN: 9781848853522
Publication Date: 28 Feb 2013
Number of Pages: 240
Height: 495
Width: 319

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New title of interest: Geography and the Classical World: Unearthing Historical Geography’s Forgotten Past

January 25, 2013 in Interest, Publication

Geography and the Classical World: Unearthing Historical Geography's Forgotten Past (Tauris Historical Geography Series)

Geography and the Classical World: Unearthing Historical Geography’s Forgotten Past (Tauris Historical Geography Series); William A. Koelsch. 2012; ISBN-13: 978-1780760643.

A recent publication of interest has appeared from I.B. Tauris – Geography and the Classical World: Unearthing Historical Geography’s Forgotten Past (Tauris Historical Geography Series) by William A. Koelsch. From the publisher’s blurb: “Geography and the Classical World is the first full-length study to explore the emergence of classical geography – the geographical study of the ancient Mediterranean, in particular the worlds of ancient Greece and Rome. With adventurous beginnings in the Society of Dilettanti, the subject flourished in both Britain and America, as geographers, explorers, classicists and historians all contributed to its rise. But in the 1920s it went into decline, and an important part of the geographical and classical tradition was lost. In recovering this field of inquiry that once lay at the heart of both geography and the classical tradition, Professor Koelsch has written a pioneering work of outstanding scholarship that will be of interest to historical geographers, classicists, historians and students of the classical tradition.”

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New Item of Interest: Reprint of William Smith’s An Atlas of Ancient Geography, Biblical and Classical: Maps of the Ancient World

December 13, 2010 in Publication

The reprint of William Smith’s famous 1874 An Atlas of Ancient Geography, Biblical and Classical: Maps of the Ancient World, complete with an Introduction by Richard Talbert, will be available from I.B.Tauris in 2012. Please click here to view details about the publication.

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