RECENT PORTUGUESE PUBLICATIONS
BULLETIN 48
September
2005
PART
VII:
Cartography
54.
NOWELL, Charles E. The
Rose-Colored Map. Portugal's Attempt to Build an African
Empire from the Atlantic to the Indian Ocean.
Lisbon: Junta
de Investigações Científicas do Ultramar, 1982. Estudos de
Cartografia Antiga, 21. Folio (28.7 x 21.3 cm.), publ. bds.
with d.j. xvi, 273 pp., (1 l.), illus., 3 folding maps.
ISBN: none. $35.00
Interesting
and important work.
55.
PINHEIRO MARQUES, Alfredo. A
cartografia Portuguesa do Japão (séculos XVI-XVII):
catálogo das cartas portuguesas. / The Portuguese
Cartography of Japan (XVI-XVII Centuries): A Catalogue of
Portuguese Charts. Lisbon:
Fundação Oriente / CNCDP / Imprensa Nacional, 1996. Oblong
folio (27.6 x 36.6 cm.), publ. buckram with d.j. 254 pp.,
94 full-page color reproductions (4 folding). Text in
Portuguese and English. One of 1,000 copies. ISBN:
972-27-0815-5. $150.00
Out-of-print;
we have several copies in stock. On the whole the quality
of the color reproductions of the maps and charts is high,
although it varies somewhat according to the condition of
the originals and the ability of the several institutional
owners to provide top-grade transparencies. The English
translation, by Martin A. Kayman, is first rate.