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Subject:        Facsimile of 1557 Italian MS navigation manual (with vellum
chart)
Date:   Mon, 31 Mar 2008 21:59:30 +0100
From:   Francis Herbert <[log in to unmask]>
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Dear List Watchers,

I am led to believe by, i.a., the man chiefly responsible, that the 2007
facsimile of the RGS Library’s /unicum/ 1557 Italian MS navigation
manual by Battista Testarossa (with a MS chart on vellum) is finally in
production and commercially available. A ‘Technical commentary’ has been
kindly provided by Richard Pflederer FRGS, who has – amongst other
things - previously compiled four invaluable and detailed listings of
portolan charts and atlases in collections in Europe and USA [see, e.g.,
the ‘Imago Mundi Bibliography’ over a half-dozen years].

Details: www.rediscoverybooks.com <http://www.rediscoverybooks.com/>
<http://www.rediscoverybooks.comv/> [Or, to the Testarossa page:
http://www.rediscoverybooks.com/FMPro?-db=nmp_Orders.fp5&-format=nmpweb_rb/frameset.htm&Co=RDB&ReqID=RDB&-new
<http://www.rediscoverybooks.com/FMPro?-db=nmp_Orders.fp5&-format=nmpweb_rb/frameset.htm&Co=RDB&ReqID=RDB&-new>
<http://www.rediscoverybooks.com/FMPro?-db=nmp_Orders.fp5&amp;-format=nmpweb_rb/frameset.htm&amp;Co=RDB&amp;ReqID=RDB&amp;-new>
<http://www.rediscoverybooks.com/FMPro?-db=nmp_Orders.fp5&-format=nmpweb_rb/frameset.htm&Co=RDB&ReqID=RDB&-new>
]. The hardback price is £58.00 (possibly not mentioned on the web-site).
!
Francis Herbert (former Curator of Maps, RGS-IBG ; scribbler of the
‘Foreword’ to the Testarossa facsimile) Hon.FRGS
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