RECENT PORTUGUESE PUBLICATIONS BULLETIN 64
November
2008
PART
VII:
Cartography
See also
items 1, 6, 10 & 218.
31.
CASTRO, D. João de. Roteiro do
Mar Roxo . . . Ms. Cott. Tib. D.IX da British
Library. Introdução de
Luís de Albuquerque. Lisbon: INAPA, 1991. Folio, publ.
cloth in slipcase. (2 ll.), 91 pp., (1 l. map, 17 ll.
full-color facsimiles, 2 ll.). ISBN: 972-9019-39-8. $130.00
Full-color
facsimile of an important manuscript of the best known of
D. João de Castro’s works: in the seventeenth and
eighteenth centuries, it was circulating in English, Latin,
Dutch and French translations. This particular manuscript
was in the hands of Sir Walter Raleigh by 1618. The
introduction describes other known copies of the manuscript
and lists the sites shown in the Roteiro.
It is followed (pp. 7-91) by a transcription of D. João’s
text.
32.
COSTA, Melba Ferreira da, ed. Roteiro de
todos os sinais, conhecimentos, fundos, baixos, alturas, e
derrotas que há na costa do Brasil desde o Cabo de Santo
Agostinho até ao estreito de Fernão de
Magalhães. Lisbon: Tagol,
1988. 8°, publ. gilt-stamped leatherette. (7 ll.), 33 ll.,
1 fldg. map, (19 ll.). ISBN: none. $75.00
Full-color
facsimile of the original manuscript in the Biblioteca da
Ajuda. In addition to the lovely large folding facsimile
map, the manuscript contains 11 maps and plans in its text,
some full-page, all in color. The date of the original
manuscript is ca. 1582-5. It is attributed to the
Portuguese cartographer Luís Teixeira.
33.
NASCIMENTO, Augusto. Atlas da
lusofonia: São Tomé e Príncipe. Pedro Cardoso
and Francisco Proença Garcia, eds. Photographs by Augusto
Nascimento. Lisbon: Prefácio, 2008. Sm. folio (27.2 x 20
cm.), orig. illus. wrps. 106 pp., numerous maps, some in
color, many other illus., tables in text, footnotes,
bibliography. ISBN: 978-989-8022-78-3.
$45.00
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