Map showing voyages of Portuguese explorers, emphasizing the importance of Portuguese discoveries from 1482-1606. All names are given in Portuguese, and Portuguese navigators are credited with the discovery of both the North West and the North East passages. The fine world map shows the route of ortugese explorers: Pedro Fernandes de Queiroz 1606; Joao Rodrigues Cabrilho 1542; Fernao de Magalhaes 1520; Pedro Alvares Cabral 1500; Vasco da Gama 1497-1498; Diogo Cao 1482-85; Bartolomeu Dias 1487-88; Volta da Mina; Estavo Gomes 1525; Alvares Fagundes 1500; Gaspar Corte-Real 1500-01; Joao Fernandes Lavrador 1492-95 or 1495-98; Alfonsode Albuquerque 1507; David Melgueiro 1660; Antonio de Abreau & Francisco Serrao 1511; Gomes de Sequera 1525-?; M. Godinho Eredia 1601; Joao Vaz de Torres 1606; Fernao Mendes Pinto 1541; Jorge Alvares 1513; Antonio de Mota 1542; Cristovao de Mendonca 1522. Published in Porto, 1940 at Litografia Nacional.
Cfr.
National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London G201:1/61
Braga Special map Collection Col./55
National Library of Australia 229837107
Portugal – The country that has contributed most to Geographic Knowledge of the Globe.
Portolan-style world map printed in red, green, blue, and gold, showing the voyage tracks of over twenty sixteenth-and-seventeenth-century Portuguese explorers. Less than 10 institutional examples located.
- Dimension: 43 x 63 cm
- Place of publication: Porto
- Year: 1940
€ 450,00
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