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MUNTANER, Joseph and Antonio DESPUIG Y DAMETO. Mapa de la Isla de Mallorca. Mallorca: 1785.
Hand-coloured engraved map of the island of Majorca on 8 sheets, joined, overall 1210 x 1600mm, a detailed survey of the island, showing principal towns, villages, smaller settlements and farms, gradings of roads, hierarchies of the churches and their orders, ports and their anchorage facilities, marshes, hills, vine and olive groves, all marked by symbols, coastlines around Palma Bay and Formentor marked with depth soundings, inset explanation key to the numerous symbols inset in a cartouche of a rural scene, title set below dedicatory oval portrait of Queen Maria Luisa de Borbon, inset detail at the same scale of the adjoining islands of Cabrera and Los Conejos, the borders decorated with 36 views of towns and villages on the island, each with arms and descriptions. (The map laid down on linen, upper right corner comprising most of the first sheet very skilfully restored in manuscript, other minor restoration to margins.)
THE FIRST MAJOR SURVEY OF THE ISLAND OF MALLORCA, very rare, not in British Library Map Room. A copy in the Museo Navale in Madrid,cf. Catalogo de Cartografica Historia de Espana del Museo Navale, 381, is on four larger sheets and the description makes no mention of Muntaner's signature and date of 1785. Despuig y Dameto's important map of the island engraved by Muntaner includes a detailed breakdown of the hierarchies of the towns and the churches throughout the island, as well as the best ports, and most passable roads. The detailed vignette views around the border, include some of the earliest views of many of the villages on the island. These views include Palma, Polensa, Manacor, Andraix, Deya, Valdemusa, Lluch, Lluchmajor, Seva, Soller, Alcudia, Arta, Campos and Santani. This map fits into an intersting and productive period in the history of the mapping of the island: although many single sheet maps of the island had been published by Bertelli, Duchet, Mercator, Seutter and others in the 16th to mid 18th-centuries, the first Spanish maps of the island were issued by Don Tomas Lopez de Vargas Machuca in 1772 and 1773. A further map of the island was published by Torfino de San Miguel in 1786.
Hand-coloured engraved map of the island of Majorca on 8 sheets, joined, overall 1210 x 1600mm, a detailed survey of the island, showing principal towns, villages, smaller settlements and farms, gradings of roads, hierarchies of the churches and their orders, ports and their anchorage facilities, marshes, hills, vine and olive groves, all marked by symbols, coastlines around Palma Bay and Formentor marked with depth soundings, inset explanation key to the numerous symbols inset in a cartouche of a rural scene, title set below dedicatory oval portrait of Queen Maria Luisa de Borbon, inset detail at the same scale of the adjoining islands of Cabrera and Los Conejos, the borders decorated with 36 views of towns and villages on the island, each with arms and descriptions. (The map laid down on linen, upper right corner comprising most of the first sheet very skilfully restored in manuscript, other minor restoration to margins.)
THE FIRST MAJOR SURVEY OF THE ISLAND OF MALLORCA, very rare, not in British Library Map Room. A copy in the Museo Navale in Madrid,cf. Catalogo de Cartografica Historia de Espana del Museo Navale, 381, is on four larger sheets and the description makes no mention of Muntaner's signature and date of 1785. Despuig y Dameto's important map of the island engraved by Muntaner includes a detailed breakdown of the hierarchies of the towns and the churches throughout the island, as well as the best ports, and most passable roads. The detailed vignette views around the border, include some of the earliest views of many of the villages on the island. These views include Palma, Polensa, Manacor, Andraix, Deya, Valdemusa, Lluch, Lluchmajor, Seva, Soller, Alcudia, Arta, Campos and Santani. This map fits into an intersting and productive period in the history of the mapping of the island: although many single sheet maps of the island had been published by Bertelli, Duchet, Mercator, Seutter and others in the 16th to mid 18th-centuries, the first Spanish maps of the island were issued by Don Tomas Lopez de Vargas Machuca in 1772 and 1773. A further map of the island was published by Torfino de San Miguel in 1786.