Felipe Pereda and Fernando Marías, eds.
El Atlas del Rey Planeta: La “Descripción de España y de las costas y puertos de sus reinos” de Pedro Texeira (1634)
Madrid:
Nerea,
2001.
398 pp.; 309 color ills.; 8 b/w ills.
Cloth
(848956986X)
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January 23, 2006
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One of the joys of archival research is making a discovery. Would that everyone’s could be as significant as the recovery by Felipe Pereda and Fernando Marías of a manuscript atlas of maps and bird’s-eye views of the entire coast of Spain assembled between 1622 and 1634 by the Portuguese cartographer, Pedro Teixeira (alternately, Texeira as used in the volume under review). The atlas survives at the Österreichische Nationalbibliothek in Vienna, home also to the...