-------- Original Message -------- Subject: new book on portolan charts Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 17:21:49 +0100 From: Montaner, Carme <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> 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 Cartogrà 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: [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> Carme Montaner Cap de la Unitat de la Cartoteca de Catalunya Institut Cartogrà fic de Catalunya Parc de Montjuïc 08038 - Barcelona www.icc.cat