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FREITAS (Jordão A. de). O 2.ª Visconde de Santarém e os seus Atlas Geographicos. Lisboa. 1909. - FREITAS (Jordão A. de) O 2.ª Visconde de Santarém e os seus Atlas Geographicos . Lisboa: Officina Typographica, 1909. 202 pp.: il.; 290 mm. A fundamental study on the 2nd Viscount of Santarém, Manuel Francisco de Barros e Sousa (1791-1856), historian, diplomat and one of the founders of the modern history of cartography, to whom tradition attributes the creation, in a letter of 1839 to Francisco Adolfo de Varnhagen, of the very term ”cartography”. Based on documentary research, this work reconstructs the genesis and vicissitudes of the great cartographic atlases compiled by the Viscount of Santarém during his exile in Paris, among them the celebrated Atlas composé de mappemondes, de portulans et de cartes hydrographiques et historiques , a monumental work on the history of ancient cartography interrupted by the author's death, and whose originals of the fourth volume were lost. It constitutes the first systematic and detailed analysis of the Viscount's life and cartographic work, and remains today one of the essential references on the subject. Rare. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate