This portolan or atlas consists of three tables and nine large ornamented maps, executed by the Portuguese cartographer Diogo Homem (b. 1521, d. 1576) between 1555 and 1559. The manuscript is thought to have been made for King Philip II of Spain (r. 1556–98), possibly as a gift from Queen Mary I...
[Draught of Scheldt River, Antwerp, a prospect of the city and port of Alicante, Spain, unfinished maps of parts of Sweden, French Plan of the fortifications of Palamos, Catalonia, and an Italian manuscript in reference to former Constantinople]
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Draught of Scheldt River, Antwerp, a prospect of the city and port of Alicante, Spain, unfinished maps of parts of Sweden, French Plan of the fortifications of Palamos, Catalonia, and an Italian manuscript in reference to former Constantinople [Istanbul]
Map of the bay, towns and moldes of Gibraltar, with the Straits mouth and part of the Barbary shore [previously Northern African coastal regions], authored by Carlile, Charles
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3. A map of the Bay, Townes, and Moldes of Gibraltar, w[i]th the Straites mouth, & part of the Barbarie [Barbary] shore. By Cha[rles] Carlile.