Fernão Vaz Dourado, atlas universal, 1571 [cartographic material]
- Bib ID:
- 5750800
- Format:
- Map
- Author:
- Dourado, Fernando Vaz, 16th century
- Scale:
- Scales differ.
- Description:
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- Barcelona : M. Moleiro Editor, S.A., ©2012
- 1 atlas ( v.) : 18 col. maps ; each 41 x 54 cm., in slipcase 45 x 57 cm. + commentary (195 p. : col. ill., maps ; 36 cm.)
- ISBN:
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- 8496400832
- 8496400816
- 9788496400849
- 9788496400856
- Full contents:
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- Facsimile
- Commentary.
- 1. North-west of Europe, with Scandinavia, Iceland and the British Isles
- 2. Coasts of Western Europe and North-West Africa with the western Mediterranean and the Antarctic archipelagos
- 3. Western coast of Africa, north of the equator
- 4. Africa, south of the equator
- 5. Indian Ocean south-western archipelago
- 6. The Red Sea, Arabia and India
- 7. Eastern Asia from Ceylon to Japan
- 8. Eastern Archipelago [Southeast Asia and New Guinea]
- 9. Part of the Central Pacific, and the north coast of New Guinea
- 10. Terra Nova and neighbouring regions
- 11. West Indies and Central America
- 12. Eastern coast of South America from the Amazon to the River Plate
- 13. South part of South America, from the mouth of the River Plate to the Strait of Magellan
- 14. Part of the western coast of South America [including Peru]
- 15. Gulf of California with part of the coast to the north and to the south [including coast of Mexico]
- 16. Cosmographic data
- 17 and 18. Solar declination tables.
- Notes:
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- Facsimile edition of original.
- Issued in slipcase.
- Original atlas contained 20 parchment sheets. Folios 1 (frontispiece) and 8 (Eastern part of the Mediterranean) were stolen in 1851 from the atlas housed in Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo, Lisbon.
- Facsimiles have original stain marks replicated on verso.
- Facsimile maps in Latin. Accompanying facsimile of notes in Portuguese and Latin.
- National Library of Australia's copy is 236 of 987 numbered copies.
- National Library of Australia's copy has loose certificate of authenticity and facsimile of one page of notes providing the title (in Portuguese and Latin) on the missing frontispiece and the date the folios were discovered missing from the original (10 October, 1851)
- Cited In:
- Portugaliae monumenta cartographica, v. 3, p. 17-22
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
- M. Moleiro Editor, S.A
- Also Titled:
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- Atlas universal, 1571, Fernão Vaz Dourado
- [Atlas universal de Fernão Vaz Dourado]
- [Universal atlas of Fernão Vaz Dourado]
- Copyright:
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- Material type:
- Artistic
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1571
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