Bidspirit auction | Atlas Visconde Santarém

Atlas Visconde Santarém - SANTAREM (2.º Visconde de) Atlas composé de cartes des XIVe, XVe, XVIe et XVIIe siècles, pour la plupart inédites, et devant servir de preuves à l’ouvrage sur la priorité de la découverte de la Côte Occidentale d’Afrique au delà du Cap Bojador par les Portugais . Recueillies et gravées sous la direction du Vicomte de Santarém.. Paris: s.n., 1841-1855. Frontispício, 38 mapas: il.; 725 mm. Loose leaves; waterstained, some marginal losses; foxing. Manuel Francisco de Macedo Leitão e Carvalhosa, 2nd Viscount of Santarém (born in Lisbon in 1791 and died in Paris in 1856), was a prominent figure as a historian, politician, and diplomat in the turbulent 19th century in Portugal. His political career included positions such as Minister of the Navy and Overseas Territories (1827) and Minister of Foreign Affairs (1827 and 1828-1833), serving the absolutist regime. After the victory of the liberal forces, he went into exile in Paris in 1834, where he resumed a life of study that he had begun years earlier in Brazil. In Paris, he became a recognized authority in the field of historical and geographical scholarship, being a member of many of the most prestigious scientific and geographical institutions of his time (including the Academies of Lisbon, Madrid, Berlin, and the Geographical Societies of Paris, London, and Saint Petersburg). He is internationally remembered as one of the founders of the field of cartography . The publication of his Atlas —which began with the Atlas composé de cartes des XIV, XVe, XVIe et XVIIe siècles... in 1841 and culminated in the monumental Atlas composé de mappemondes, de portulans et de cartes... with 78 type maps (1849-1855)—is of fundamental importance, as it founded the discipline known as the history of cartography . The primary objective of the publication was polemical and political : to serve as proof for his work on the priority of the Portuguese discoveries. Specifically, the Atlas was intended to support the policy of ” proof and defense of rights ” of the Portuguese overseas empire against the advance of France and Great Britain in Africa and Asia. By compiling maps from the 9th to the 17th centuries, the Atlas aimed to demonstrate that, before the Portuguese navigations, the maritime nations of Europe had no knowledge of the African coast south of Cape Bojador . In contrast, maps published after 1434 showed the coastline and were covered with Portuguese names . The edition of the first Atlas was even published ”at the expense of the Government of His Most Faithful Majesty” . This copy consists of the following maps (the index published in the facsimile edition organized under the responsibility of Professor Martim de Albuquerque is used as a reference): 1 - Systèmes des Zones habitables et inhabitables dessinés au Moyen-âge pour serve de démonstration aux théories des Cosmographes de cette époque et diffé rentes Mappemondes. 2 - Roses-des-Vents en usage au Moyen-Age, antérieurement aux grandes navigations du XVe Siècle. 5 - No. 1. Mappenonde tirée d'un manuscritt du IXe Siècle de la Bibliothè- que de Strasbourg, etc. 7 - No. 1. Mappemonde qui se trouve dans un Manuscrit du Xe Siècle, etc. 11 - Mappemonde du XIle Siècle, dressée par Henri chanoine de Mayence dédiée à l'Empereur d'Allemagne Henri V. 16 - Mappemonde du XIIIe Siècle qui se trouve au Musée Britannique dans le Mss. Royale 14, C. IX. 22b - Facsimile: Mappemonde des Grandes Chroniques de S. Dénis du temps de Charles V. (1364 à 1372) manuscript de la Bibliothèque de S, e Geneviève. Facsimile. Globe by Nicolas d'Oresme was created in 1377. à la suite de son Traité de Sphère. 23b - Mappemonde de la fin du XVe Siècle qui se trouve dans l'ouvrage très rare de la Salle du XVe Siècle. Planisphère du XIVe Siècle plac# en tete d'un Manus crit latin de la Bibliothèque Royale de Paris N° 4126 25b - Facsimile. Mappemonde du pasta. du Pomponius Mela de la Bibliothè que de Reims, 1417. 26 - Planisphère qui se trouve dans un Manuscrit d'un poème géographique du XVe Siècle. - Mappemonde d'Andrea Bianco dressed in 1436. 28b - Mappemonde dressée in 1448, by Johanes Lcardus de Venise, preserved in Vicenza in the Trento bibliothee published for the première fois et donn#e in facsimile. 30 - No. 1. Carte de l'Empire d'Occident, taken from a Manuscrit de l'an 1119, etc. 35 and 36 - Carte Catalane de 1375, donnée in Facsimile copy d'après l'original conserved at the Bibliothèque Nationale de Paris. 37 to 39a - Portulan of the 40a - Portulan de la fin du XIV Siècle qui se conserve à la Bibliothèque Impériale de Paris et qu'on dit avoir appartenu à la Bibliothèque du Cardinal de Richelieu. 42 - Facsimile of Cartes marginales et figures renfermées dans le Manus crit du Traité de la Sphère de Leonardo Dati de Florence, du commencement du XVe Siècle. 43 a, d - No. 1. Carte de Andrea Bianco from 1436. No. 2. Planisphère de Andrea Bianco. No. 3. Mappemonde deF. Mauro (1460).