[Untitled: 'Atlas maritimo de Espana': volume 2: the Mediterranean coasts]

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Don 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 contains part of the ‘Atlas maritimo de Espana’, containing only those charts of Spain’s Mediterranean coasts and the Balearics with harbour charts of Gibraltar and Port Mahon. This was the most important sea-atlas of the region of the period. The eleven double-page maps are: 1. Costa de Espana en el Mediterraneo y de su correspondiente de Africa. 2. Del Estrecho de Gibralter. 3. De la Bahia de Algeciras y Gibralter. 4. Desde Punta de Europa a Cabo de Gata en la Costa de Europa y desde Ceuta hasta Cabo Hone en la de Africa. 5. Desde Cabo de Gata hasta Cabo de Oropesa. 6. Desde Cabo de Oropesa a Cabo de Creux. 7. De las Islas Baleares y Pithyusas. 8. De las Islas de Iuiza y Formentera. 9. De la Isla de Mallorca. 10. De la Isla de Menorca. 11 El Puerto de Mahon. The four double-page plates incorporate 45 images of the coastlines.

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