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[TOFIÑO DE SAN MIGUEL, Vicente (1723-1795)]. Manuscript title: Coleccion de cartas de America publicadas por la direction de trabajos hidrograficos. Madrid, 1800.
Broadsheets (626 x 494 mm). Manuscript title. 16 engraved maps (10 double-page). Contemporary Spanish mottled calf, covers and spine gilt-ruled (light wear to joints). Provenance: S. Alfonso Aguirre y Gadea, Conde de Yoldi (1764-1852), Spanish count, chamberlain at the court of King Kristian VIII of Denmark (signature on front free endpaper).
A very fine collection of maps taken from the extremely rare Spanish Atlas Maritimo Español (Madrid, 1789-1814). Vicente Tofiño de San Miguel was commissioned by the King to produce the first hydrographic atlas of the Spanish coast during the years 1783-1788. The Atlas Maritimo de España was the first great atlas of European waters published by the Spanish government. In 1789 the same cartographers began the huge Atlas Maritimo Español which included maps of the Western Hemisphere, sixteen of which are included here. The Dirección de Hidrografia oversaw this monumental project and continued to promote it even while the Peninsular Wars were being waged.
The sixteen maps of Atlantic and American subjects included here comprise: "Carta general del Oceano Atlantico," "Carta esferica que comprehende una parte de las Islas Antillas," "Carta esferica de una parte del Canal Viejo de Bahama," "Carte esferica que comprehende las costas del Seno Mexicano," "Plano geometrico del Puerto, capital de la isla de Puerto Rico," "Plano del Puerto y ciudad della Havana," "Carta esferica del Rio de la Plata," "Carta esferica de las coastas de la America meridional," "Carta esferica de las costas del Reyno de Chile," "Carta esferica de una parte de la costa del Peru," "Plano del Puerto del Sta. Elena en la cost Patagonica," "Plano del Puerto del Sn. Carlos," "Plano del Puerto del Valdivia," and "Carta esferica de los reconocimientos hechos en 1782 en la costa N.O. de America" (2). According to American Book Prices Current, no copies of the complete atlas have sold in at least 30 years. Based on the composition of other sets of the maps, the atlases were apparently assembled especially for presentation. The present set comes from the collection of the Conde de Yoldi, Alfonso Aguirre y Gadea, the Spanish chamberlain who served in the court of the Danish King Kristian VIII. See Phillips Atlases 4155.
Broadsheets (626 x 494 mm). Manuscript title. 16 engraved maps (10 double-page). Contemporary Spanish mottled calf, covers and spine gilt-ruled (light wear to joints). Provenance: S. Alfonso Aguirre y Gadea, Conde de Yoldi (1764-1852), Spanish count, chamberlain at the court of King Kristian VIII of Denmark (signature on front free endpaper).
A very fine collection of maps taken from the extremely rare Spanish Atlas Maritimo Español (Madrid, 1789-1814). Vicente Tofiño de San Miguel was commissioned by the King to produce the first hydrographic atlas of the Spanish coast during the years 1783-1788. The Atlas Maritimo de España was the first great atlas of European waters published by the Spanish government. In 1789 the same cartographers began the huge Atlas Maritimo Español which included maps of the Western Hemisphere, sixteen of which are included here. The Dirección de Hidrografia oversaw this monumental project and continued to promote it even while the Peninsular Wars were being waged.
The sixteen maps of Atlantic and American subjects included here comprise: "Carta general del Oceano Atlantico," "Carta esferica que comprehende una parte de las Islas Antillas," "Carta esferica de una parte del Canal Viejo de Bahama," "Carte esferica que comprehende las costas del Seno Mexicano," "Plano geometrico del Puerto, capital de la isla de Puerto Rico," "Plano del Puerto y ciudad della Havana," "Carta esferica del Rio de la Plata," "Carta esferica de las coastas de la America meridional," "Carta esferica de las costas del Reyno de Chile," "Carta esferica de una parte de la costa del Peru," "Plano del Puerto del Sta. Elena en la cost Patagonica," "Plano del Puerto del Sn. Carlos," "Plano del Puerto del Valdivia," and "Carta esferica de los reconocimientos hechos en 1782 en la costa N.O. de America" (2). According to American Book Prices Current, no copies of the complete atlas have sold in at least 30 years. Based on the composition of other sets of the maps, the atlases were apparently assembled especially for presentation. The present set comes from the collection of the Conde de Yoldi, Alfonso Aguirre y Gadea, the Spanish chamberlain who served in the court of the Danish King Kristian VIII. See Phillips Atlases 4155.