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HISTORY OF PORTUGUESE CARTOGRAPHY
Cortesão, Armando
2 volumes.

- Lisboa : Junta De Investigacoes Do Ultramar 1969 - 4to. - paper-covered boards - (xxiii),327; (xvii),473 pages - Order Nr. 104011 - Price: $ 600.00

Limited to one thousand copies, this two-volume set is a history of Portuguese cartography. Volume one covers cartography and its historians, as well as early and medieval cartography. Volume two covers the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, astronomical navigation and instruments. Both volumes contain color frontispieces and black-and-white illustrations throughout, with bibliography, index and errata. Corners and spine ends are bumped with minor wear to covers.

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