An Atlas of Rare City Maps: Comparative Urban Design, 1830-1842
by Melvin C. Branch

The map-plans in this collection of cities in Europe, Russia, the United States, and Asia were first published in the nineteenth century by England's Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. Commissioned and drawn within a period of thirteen years, the maps present a unique opportunity to compare urban development among many cities around the world at one moment in time. A feast for the eye, the hand-colored, hand-lettered steel engravings are artistic masterpieces representative of an era of exceptional artisanal skill.

"The varieties of city styles, shapes, pasts, and purposes is amazing: watery Amsterdam and Venice, say, compared to dry Madrid and Milan, or shrunken Rome beside sprawling Birmingham."
--The New Yorker

ZW0736    An Atlas of Rare City Maps: Comparative Urban Des     $70.00

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