Sentence examples for book of maps from inspiring English sources

A popular pocket-size book of maps says there are 305 of them.

The first modern atlas, or book of maps, is considered that of Abraham Ortelius with his Theartrum Orbis Terrarum.

But this book of maps helps us visualize what Seth Robbins and Robert Neuwirth write in their introduction is a central fact about New York: "It is a maritime metropolis".

(This prompted Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan to remark: what about an atlas -a book of maps"?) The court may well uphold the loan of computers to parochial schools, because the law forbids the schools to use the computers for religious purposes, and there's no evidence they are violating this restriction.

Armed with a pack of CD's and a big book of maps and directions, we drove to a different city every day and slept in a different hotel every night.

This book of maps also gets at one of White's other ideas: the miracle that New York works at all, with its "subterranean system of telephone cables, power lines, steam pipes, gas mains and sewer pipes is reason enough to abandon the island to the gods and the weevils".

Books of maps rather than individual ones are the medium for Doug Beube.

There are town brochures and political pamphlets, stapled-together pages, articles from magazines, printed-up sermons, oversized books of maps and tiny paperbacks.

Notable is the enormous, marble-columned Leipziger Antiquariat (Ritterstrasse 16), which sells curios from sheet music to elegantly bound books of maps; www.leipziger antiquariat.de.

The name derives from a custom initiated by Gerardus Mercator in the 16th century—of using the figure of the Titan Atlas, holding the globe on his shoulders, as a frontispiece for books of maps.

As a boy, exploring the attic of the family home, Allan encountered a book of old maps and was captivated.