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AILLAUD (J.P). NOTICE sur l’État Actuel de la Publication de l’Atlas de M. le Vte de Santarem. Paris. 1846. - AILLAUD (J.P) NOTICE sur l’État Actuel de la Publication de l’Atlas de M. le Vte de Santarem . Paris: Imprimerie Maulde et Renou, 1846. 56 pp.; 230 mm. Bibliographical note published by the Parisian bookseller JP Aillaud on the publication status of the celebrated Atlas Composé de Mappemondes, de Portulans, et de Cartes Hydrographiques et Historiques by the Viscount of Santarém, a large-scale cartobibliographical undertaking, bringing together facsimiles of world maps, portolan charts and historical maps from the 11th to the 17th centuries, intended to serve as documentary evidence for the Viscount's thesis on Portuguese priority in the discovery of the west coast of Africa. The publication of the Atlas, funded by the Portuguese Government and lasting almost a decade (1841-1849), proceeded irregularly and through successive installments, generating early bibliographical confusion about the exact content of each stage of the work. This 1846 Notice, situated midway through this process, is therefore a reference document for reconstructing the complex editorial history of the Atlas. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate