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[Maps from an atlas of Napoleon's campaigns] [cartographic material]
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The atlas also known as "The Great South Sea of America," as well as the "South Sea waggoner" contains a description of the sea coasts in the South Sea of America from the port of Acapulco to the Le Maire Straits. The atlas depicts ports, harbors, anchoring islands, sands, rock and other navigational dangers. The 132 charts are of a pictorial nature; the coast-line is laid down as in a plane map, but back from the water's edge the country is rendered as seen from the sea. The mountains and hills are given in their natural colors; towns, churches, bridges, and even isolated houses, with all other landmarks of use to navigators, have been inserted by the mapmaker, and voluminous directions are given for the entering of harbors, the avoidances of shoals and rocks, distances, together with notices of where ships were wrecked, where Sawkins (one of Sharpe's colleagues) was killed, and other historical landmarks. Charts 52 and 53 are on the same sheet. The large chart of the west coasts of Central and South America which was originally bound at the beginning of the volume was removed in December 1948 and placed in a separate portfolio.
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Portolan atlas, Italian : [cartographic material] : [manuscript]
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ff. 1-14v. [Francesco Ghisolfi] Latin. Contains 11 maps, etc.: 1, Blank except for decorated border and "Phillipps MS 22796" inscribed in center; 2, Western Mediterranean; 3, Table of declinations and armillary sphere; 4, the 2 hemispheres (showing western America linked to Asia); 5, Oval map of the world; 6, Planisphere with signs of zodiac and figures representing seasons; 7, Indian Ocean, Africa, Arabia, India, and part of Asia; 8, Central Mediterranean and Italy; 9, Pacific Ocean with portions of North and South America, East Indies, part of China; 10, Eastern Mediterranean and Aegean Sea; 11, Western Mediterranean, Iberian peninsula, Northwest Africa; 12, Eastern coast of North America, South America, Atlantic Ocean, Europe (including Scandinavia), Africa, Near East; 13, World in 5 gores (decorated at top and bottom with signs of the zodiac and other figures); 14, Black Sea.
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Portolan atlas, Italian : [cartographic material] : [manuscript]
Manuscripts
ff. 2v-20. [Battista Agnese] Latin. Contains 16 maps, etc.: f. 2v, Table of declinations; f. 3, Armillary sphere; ff. 3v-4, Zodiac; ff. 4v-5, Pacific Ocean with portions of North America, South America, Asia, and East Indies; ff. 5v-6, Atlantic Ocean with portions of North America, South America, Europe, and Africa; ff. 6v-7, Indian Ocean, Africa, southern Asia, portion of East Indies; ff. 7v-8, Europe, including British Isles, Russia, and part of Scandinavia; ff. 8v-9, Western Mediterranean with Iberian peninsula and northwest Africa; ff. 9v-10, Central Mediterranean and Italy; ff. 10v-11, Eastern Mediterranean and Aegean Sea; ff. 11v-12, Black Sea; ff. 12v-13, Italy and Dalmatian coast: colored map, with inland cities and geographical features (not by Agnese); ff. 13v-14, Aegean Sea; ff. 14v-15, Palestine: colored map, with inland cities and geographical features (not by Agnese); ff. 15v-16, Oval map of the world (showing 2 routes: from Spain to Peru, and around the world via the Moluccas); ff. 16v-17, Western Mediterranean and Iberian peninsula: colored map, with inland cities and geographical features (not by Agnese); ff. 17v-18, Russia: colored map, with inland cities and geographical features (not by Agnese); ff. 18v-19, Scandinavian peninsula, Iceland, part of British Isles: colored map, with inland cities and geographical features (not by Agnese); ff. 19v-20, Eastern hemisphere (unfinished).
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