Cortesão, Armando; da Mota, Avelino Teixeira

PORTUGALIAE MONUMENTA CARTOGRAPHICA [Five Volumes, plus Index Volume]

Lisboa [Lisbon]: [n.p.], 1960. First Edition. Folios, Five Volumes (plus Quarto Index Volume). In Good plus condition. Bound in full publisher's vellum, with gilt lettering and design to spines and front boards. Boards show light plus wear and scuffing overall (especially to corners and edges), and light bumping to heads and tails of spines (moderate plus bumping and minor tearing to head and tail of Vol. II spine). Text blocks are clean, with all edges dyed red on Vols. I - V, and very light age-toning to non-dyed edges of Vol. VI index volume. Profusely illustrated with both color and monochrome plates reproducing early maps and charts. Contains over 1000 map facsimiles, of which 427 are in color. Text in Portuguese and English. Shelved in M Office.

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Massive set issued to commemorate the quincentenary of the death of Prince Henry the Navigator. Includes essays on 16th and 17th-century Portuguese cartography. Compiled Avelino Teixeira da Mota (Portuguese naval officer and historian) and historian and cartographer Armando Cortesão. In his introduction to the 1987 reprint, historian Alfredo Marques commented "Portugaliae Monumenta Cartographica is without a shadow of doubt one of the greatest - if not the greatest - cultural achievement yet seen in Portuguese historiography - and even in the international historiography of the field".