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 impressive collection of views of Spanish cities made for Philip II between 1562 and 1570 by another foreign subject of the Spanish court, the Flemish painter Anton van den Wyngaerde (see Richard Kagan, ed., Spanish Cities of the Golden Age, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992; Spanish edition, Madrid: El Viso, 1991). The publication of Wyngaerde’s views in the early 1990s served as a jolt to Spanish architectural history, inspiring new research on cities as diverse as Córdoba, Medina del Campo, and Madrid. The volume under review here—equally stunning in its completeness and resulting visual impact—may do the same for the history of Spanish cartography. El Atlas del Rey Planeta includes an introductory essay and four chapters, followed by a beautiful color facsimile of the...