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Atlas of Columbus and the Great Discoveries
Edited by Kenneth Nebenzahl
Chicago 1990
Stron VIII+168
DUŻY format: 29x37 cm
UŻYWANA: podniszczona obwoluta, i niewielki ubytek w górnej części grzbietu
/zdjęcie defektu na życzenie/
The Atlas of Columbus and The Great Discoveries brings to us on the eve of the 500th anniversary of Christopher Columbus's discovery of America, a treasury of maps from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, the Age of Discovery. Never before have such important maps of the early explorers been assembled in one volume. Here they may be seen together for the combined effect of their profound beauty and historical perspective they bring to our lives.
From a wealth of manuscript maps, portolan sea charts, woodcuts, and copperplate engravings, the author selected the most significant materials of the period. Beginning with the world as known to Europeans before Columbus's first voyage, the maps record the new knowledge assembled during the period of the discovery and exploration of America. They were gathered from the world's great museums, libraries, and private collections, where new film of the original artifacts was made especially for this book. The text conveys concisely, authoritatively, and absorbingly each one's importance, idiosyncracies, detail, and beauty. From the introduction through to the final page, the design of this richly illustrated work serves as a handsome and inviting visual reference for the layman and scholar alike.
The maps are organized into four sections: Part I:
The Cartographic Tradition Inherited by Columbus Includes maps that illustrate the classical geography, portolan charts, and medieval world maps that set the stage for Columbus.
Part II:
Columbus and His Contemporaries Change the Map
Presents maps that show the early changes and confusion brought about by Columbus and explorers following him.
Part III:
Filling in the Features of the Earth
Covers the continuum of the cartographic record as more information about the New World reached Europe.
Part IV:
Europe's Colonial Era Begins Brings the cartography through to the late 1500's as increasingly accurate maps begin to portray the lands and seas in a form more familiar to us today. There are over 100 illustrations depicting maps by Ptolemy, Pizzigano, Martellus, Columbus, de La Cosa, Contarini, Waldseemuller, Re'is, Cortes, Vespucci, Mun-ster, Cabot, Homem, Mercator, Hondius, Boazio, and Wright as well as many other famous mapmakers of the time. Fifty maps are shown in their entirety, usually as two full pages, with an additional fifty enlarged images displaying the details. Rand McNally has used the latest lithographic scanning techniques to ensure the most faithful and authentic reproductions possible. The maps have been printed on high quality paper and run on presses designed to preserve the beauty and detail of the original.
The atlas stands as an authoritative, handsome volume that not only celebrates the quincentennial of the discovery of America, but also marks the close of the century that saw the dynamic development of Renaissance Europe's contact with the rest of the world. This unique selection of the most important original maps is especially rich because it bears the stamp of the author, Mr. Nebenzahl, who has lived his life with rare maps and documents and who brings into perspective the great cartographic masterpieces of Columbus and his time. It also bears the stamp of Rand McNally, a map making company that for over 133 years has carried on the tradition inherited from the early cartographers.
The Atlas of Columbus and The Great Discoveries-its concept, authorship, organization, design, and production-draws strength, energy, and beauty from the explorers who discovered the lands and seas and from the early craftsmen who worked their artistry and science in creating the maps. It is a once-in-a-century volume that provides an authoritative historical and cartographic link to our past, and is a work of art to be admired now and in generations to come.
Introduction vi
PART I:
The Cartographic Tradition Inherited by
Columbus 2
Claudius Ptolemy, World Map, Florence, 1474 4
Abraham Cresques, The Catalan Atlas, Majorca, ca.
1375 6
Zuane Pizzigano, Nautical Chart, Venice, 1424 9
Fra Mauro, World Map, Murano, 1459 12
Henricus Martellus Germanus, World Map, Florence,
ca. 1489 15
Martin Behaim, Terrestrial Globe, Nuremburg, 1492 18
Donnus Nicolaus Germanus, Hispania, Ulm, 1482 20
"The Christopher Columbus Chart," Portolan Sea
Chart, ca. 1[zasłonięte]492-15 23
PART II:
Columbus and His Contemporaries Change
the Map 26
Map of the Discoveries of Columbus, Basel, 1493 28
Juan de la Cosa, World Chart, Santa Maria (Cadiz),
1500 30
The "Cantino" Planisphere, Lisbon, 1502 34
Bartolommeo Columbus & Alessandro Zorzi, Map
of the Equatorial Belt, Italy, ca.
1[zasłonięte]503-15/1[zasłonięte]516-15 38
Nicolo Caveri, World Chart, Genoa, ca. 1504-05 40
Giovanni Matteo Contarini, World Map, Florence,
1506 44
Johannes Ruysch, World Map, Rome, 1507 50
Martin Waldseemuller, World Map, Strassburg, 1507 52
Francesco Rosselli, Marine Chart & World Map,
Florence, ca. 1508 56
Vesconte de Maggiolo, World Map, Naples, 1511 60
Pietro Martyr d'Anghiera, Map of the Indies, Seville,
1511 60
Piri Re'is, Chart of the Ocean Sea, Gallipoli, 1513 62
Martin Waldseemuller, Terre Nove, Strassburg, 1513 64
Lopo Homem with Pedro Reinel, Northern Indian
Ocean, Portugal, ca. 1519 66
Lopo Homem with Pedro Reinel, East Indies,
Portugal, ca. 1519 67
PART III:
Filling in the Features of the Earth 72
Hernando Cortes, Gulf of Mexico Map & Mexico
City Plan, Nuremburg, 1524 76
Juan Vespucci, World Map, Italy, 1524 77
Antonio Pigafetta, Maps from Magellan's Great
Voyage, Place of Origin Unknown, ca. 1525 80
Juan Vespucci, World Map, Seville, 1526 84
Gerolamo da Verrazzano, World Map, Place of
Origin Unknown, 1529 88
Diego Ribero, World Map, Seville, 1529 92
Diego Ribero & Giovanni Battista Ramusio, The
New World, Venice, 1534 96
Sebastian Miinster, The New Islands, Basel, 1546 98
Battista Agnese, World Map, Venice, 1542 100
Battista Agnese, Oval World Map, Venice, 1542 102
Sebastian Cabot, World Map, Antwerp, 1544 104
The "Vallard" Chart, Dieppe, before 1547 108
Pierre Desceliers, World Map, Arques
(Dieppe), 1550 112
Guillaume Le Testu, East Coast of North America,
Florida, & the Greater Antilles, Le Havre, 1556 116
Diogo Homem, The North Atlantic, London, 1558 120
Abraham Ortelius, World Map, Antwerp, 1564 121
PART IV:
Europe's Colonial Era Begins 124
Gerardus Mercator, World Map on Mercator's
Projection, Duisburg, 1569 126
Georg Braun & Frans Hogenberg, Plan of Cuzco,
Cologne, 1572 130
Jodocus Hondius, World Map, London, ca. 1589 132
John White, La Virginea Pars & La Virgenia Pars,
London, 1[zasłonięte]585-15 136
Baptista Boazio, The Famouse West Indian
Voyadge..., Leiden, 1588 140
Baptista Boazio, Hispaniola. Leiden, 1588 144
Baptista Boazio, Cartagena, Leiden, 1588 144
Baptista Boazio, St. Augustine, Leiden, 1588 145
Cornelis de Jode, Quiviriae Regnum & Americae
Pars Borealis, Antwerp, 1593 152
Edward Wright, World Chart on Mercator
Projection, London, 1599 156
Bibliography 161
Index 165
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