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Subject: new book on portolan charts
Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 17:21:49 +0100
From: Montaner, Carme <[log in to unmask]>
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A new book on portolan charts as been published. It contains a new
approach to the origin and evolution of the nautical medieval mapping
before 1470. The study analyzes almost the whole existing charts of that
period, preserved in institutions and private collections over the
world. A new and interesting text of 526 pages in Catalan language with
translation into English, with a lot of illustrations is complemented
with a DVD which contains 330 images at high resolution reproducing 70
portolan charts as well as 40 atlases dated until the end of the 15th
century. The foreword is signed by Tony Campbell. The citation is:
Pujades, Ramon: /Portolan Charts: The Medieval Representation of a
Ploughed Sea/. Barcelona: Institut CartogrĂ fic de Catalunya; Institut
d’Estudis Catalans, Institut d’Estudis de la Mediterrà nia, 2007.
ISBN: 978-84-393-7576-0
For more information you can contact the ICC sales departament:
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Carme Montaner
Cap de la Unitat de la Cartoteca de Catalunya
Institut CartogrĂ fic de Catalunya
Parc de MontjuĂŻc 08038 - Barcelona
www.icc.cat
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