Bidspirit auction | TABVLARVM Geographicarvm Lvsitanorvm Specimen. Olisipone.

TABVLARVM Geographicarvm Lvsitanorvm Specimen. Olisipone. 1960. - TABVLARVM Geographicarvm Lvsitanorvm Specimen . Edirerunt Armandus Cortesão et Avellinvs Teixeira da Mota. Olisipone: Imprensa de Coimbra, 1960. 66-[2] pp., XXIX est.: il.; 610 mm. This introductory volume to the monumental work Portugaliae Monumenta Cartographica was published simultaneously with the six volumes that make up this collection, as part of the commemorations of the 500th anniversary of the death of Prince Henry the Navigator. The Specimen brings together in its 29 plates a representative selection of the cartographic pieces reproduced in the main work, intended to showcase the scope and quality of the undertaking before its distribution. Portugaliae Monumenta Cartographica is the most complete collection of Portuguese cartography ever assembled: the six volumes published in 1960 bring together exhaustive documentation of maps, atlases, nautical charts and portolan charts produced by Portuguese cartographers or relating to Portugal's maritime expansion, from the first sixteenth-century attempts to the great eighteenth-century syntheses. Rare. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate