CORTESAO, Armando and Avelino TEIXEIRA DA MOTA. Portugaliae Monumenta Cartographia. Lisbon, 1960.

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CORTESAO, Armando and Avelino TEIXEIRA DA MOTA. Portugaliae Monumenta Cartographia. Lisbon, 1960.

5 volumes plus index, 2o (610 x 465 mm), index 4o (300 x 235 mm). Colored frontispieces, half-titles, titles in red and black, facsimile maps and charts, some colored (library stamps to preliminary leaves and fore-edges). Original vellum gilt (edges rubbed, some splitting to joints of index). Provenance: Lessing and Edith Rosenwald (bookplate).

Monumental work on Portuguese cartography published in commemoration of the Fifth Centenary of Prince Henry the Navigator. (6)

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