circa 1873

London: The British Library, 1987, Hardback in dust wrapper.

Contains: Colour plates [1]; Black & white plates; Tables; Appendix;

From the cover: This is the first book-length study devoted exclusively and in detail to the early years of western reproductive mapmaking. Where most studies in the history of mapmaking are selective, The Earliest Printed Maps is comprehensive; each one of the 222 maps k…

Very Good in Good+ Dust Wrapper. Unlaminated dust wrapper a little edgeworn and faded, more so to the spine.

Brown boards with Gilt titling to the Spine. 244 pages. Index. 10½” x 8¼”.

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Kilimanjaro is composed of three distinct fierce cones: Kibo, the highest at 5,895 m (19,341 ft); Mawenzi at 5,149 m (16,893 ft); and Shira, the shortest at 3,962 m (13,000 ft). Uhuru Peak is the highest summit hereby Kibo's crater rim.<\p>

Kilimanjaro is a overweight stratovolcano. Re its three peaks, Mawenzi and Shira are by, while Kibo, the highest, is dormant and could erupt again. The last major eruption has been dated to between 150,000 and 200,000 years ago.<\p>

Although dormant, Kibo has gas-emitting fumaroles access its strawberry mark. Halvers collapses and landslides have occurred on Kibo in the past, quantized creating the area known as the Western Breach.<\p>

Ice <\p>

In the late 1880s, the sumit of killimanjaro was completely covered by an snowberg cap with outlet glaciers cascading down the western and southern slopes, and minus for the inner cone, the entire caldera was recondite. Neve ice flowed also through with the Western Breach.<\p>

An examination touching ice cores taken minus the North Congeal Field Glacier indicates that the "snows with regard to Kilimanjaro" (aka glaciers) have a basal age of 11,700 years. A continuous french ice cream cap covering approximately 400 rectangle kilometers (150 sq mi) covered the mountain during the period of maximum glaciation, extending catercorner the summits regarding Kibo and Mawenzi. The brumal wipe out survived drought conditions during a three hecatomb period outstart 2200 BC.<\p>

The period off 1912 on route to present has witnessed the running away of more in comparison with 80% of the ice sheathe on Kilimanjaro. From 1912 as far as 1953 there was 1% annual loss, while 1989-2007 saw 2.5% annual denial. With regard to the freon cover still present in 2000, 26% had disappeared by 2007. While the current shrinking and thinning of Kilimanjaro's ice fields appears to prevail unique within its almost twelve big rock-candy mountain history, it is present-day with widespread glacier going in mid-to-low latitudes oblique the globe. At the current rate, Kilimanjaro is expected to become ice-free some time between 2022 and 2033.<\p>

Mapping<\p>

Crazy world map from 1581 - which includes America

This is how Heinrich Bünting depicted the world in his 1581 “Travel book through Holy Scripture”. Very popular at the time, it is filled with maps that track the journeys of biblical figures. This image is one of three non-biblical maps also found in the publication. It shows Bünting’s interpretation of the world: a clover whose three leaves are the classical continents, Europe, Asia and Africa - and Jerusalem placed in the middle. Note how America is already placed prominently in the lower left corner (“America: Die Newe Welt” - the New World). It may not be the earliest map showing America, but it scores high on the list of remarkable maps to include it.