Atlas Maritimo de España.

£12,000 · Offered by Maggs Bros Ltd

Despite its long maritime heritage, Spain (and Portugal) lagged behind the rest of Europe in terms of chart publishing. Vicente Tofiño De San Miguel (1732-1795) was a Spanish mariner and chart-maker, who published the first printed Spanish sea-atlas, the ‘Atlas maritimo de Espana’, 1787 [-1789]. This volume is one part of the ‘Atlas maritimo de Espana’, containing only those charts of the Atlantic coasts of Spain and north-western Africa, with a series of charts of the major harbours, including Vigo Bay, Bilbao and Cadiz. This was the most important sea-atlas of Spanish coastal waters and facing coast of Africa of the period, rendered particularly important by the naval operations during the war between Britain and Spain.

• Year: 1789

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