Research Catalog

Title

Fernão Vaz Dourado, atlas universal, 1571 [cartographic material].

Author

Dourado, Fernando Vaz, active 16th century.

Publication

Barcelona : M. Moleiro Editor, S.A., ©2012.

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Additional Authors

M. Moleiro Editor, S.A.

Description

1 atlas ( v.) : 18 col. maps; each 41 x 54 cm., in slipcase 45 x 57 cm.

Alternative Title

• Atlas universal, 1571, Fernão Vaz Dourado
• [Atlas universal de Fernão Vaz Dourado]
• [Universal atlas of Fernão Vaz Dourado]

Subjects

• Atlases
• Nautical charts > Early works to 1800 > Facsimiles
• World maps > Early works to 1800 > Facsimiles
• Early maps > Facsimiles
• Atlases > Portugal > Early works to 1800 > Facsimiles

Genre/Form

Atlases.

Note

• 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.

Indexed In (note)

• Portugaliae monumenta cartographica

Language (note)

• Facsimile maps in Latin. Accompanying facsimile of notes in Portuguese and Latin.

Contents

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.

Call Number

Map Div.+++ 12-4970

ISBN

• 8496400832 (obra completa)
• 9788496400832 (obra completa)
• 8496400816 (facsimile)
• 9788496400818 (facsimile)

OCLC

786193280

Author

Dourado, Fernando Vaz, active 16th century.

Title

Fernão Vaz Dourado, atlas universal, 1571 [cartographic material].

Imprint

Barcelona : M. Moleiro Editor, S.A., ©2012.

Cartographic Data

Scales differ.

Indexed In:

Portugaliae monumenta cartographica, v. 3, p. 17-22

Original Version

Original version 1571. 1 atlas. Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo, Lisbon.

Language

Facsimile maps in Latin. Accompanying facsimile of notes in Portuguese and Latin.

Added Author

M. Moleiro Editor, S.A.

Related To

Universal atlas of Fernão Vaz Dourado : 1571 (OCoLC)857650788

Research Call Number

Map Div.+++ 12-4970