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Map representing Southern African physical and political geography. Shows political boundaries, topography, cities, roads, bodies of water, drainage, coastlines, islands, and water depths. Relief shown with hachures and color coding. Includes descriptive text, a legend, latitudinal and longitudinal lines, a bar scale given in kilometers, as well as a scale statement: 1:20,000,000. With two ancillary maps: Delta del Nilo. -- Canale di Suez. Color lithograph. Map is 36 x 23 cm, on sheet 40 x 27 cm. Appears in Volume I., Grande atlante geografico : 102 tavole di geografia fisica, politica ed economica con 250 carte e cartine ed indice dei nomi by Mario Baratta and Luigi Visintin. Published by Istituto Geografico de Agostini in Novara, Italy, 1922. Title translates to: Large geographical atlas: 102 tables of physical, political and economic geography with 250 charts and maps and an index of names. In two volumes. The first volume includes a brown paper jacket with the title printed in blue on the cover and spine, with a maroon leather cover and matching fabric overlay and spine, gilt title and spine title. The second volume includes a maroon fabric cover, gilt title and spine title. Each volume include a title page, table of contents, and extensive index. Atlas covers the world and includes 304 maps across both volumes. Maps show political boundaries, cities, railways, roads, deserts, bodies of water, drainage, coastlines, and islands. Founded in Rome in 1901 by Giovanni De Agostini with the name "Primo Istituto Italiano di Cartografia", the primary title of the newly founded publishing house was the Atlante De Agostini Calendar. The idea was an immediately success. In 1908 the company moved to Novara, Italy, both because it was closer to Germany, from which De Agostini took his cartography equipment, and because the area had rapid industrial development. In 1919 the company was acquired by Marco Boroli and Cesare Rossi and began its climb to success. In 1922 the Great Geographical Atlas was released - the first great Italian atlas. From 1927, with the installation in Novara of the first rotogravure printing plant in Italy, the De Agostini Institute began to diversify its publishing activities: it inaugurated a series of illustrated books, entered the sector of school textbooks, and published a series of art books. In 1946, the company was taken over entirely by the Boroli family. In the 1950s, the company produced art editions, children's books and large encyclopedia volumes. From 1959 to 1970 sixteen large encyclopedias were produced and accompanied by the adoption of installment sales, an absolute novelty for the time. Starting in 1983, the company began to lead the industry with large, multi-volume works and school textbooks, gaining a leading position at a national level. It then began to acquire publishing houses operating in major European markets. Today, De Agostini Editore is currently one of the most well-known and important Italian publishing houses, operating in over thirty countries around the world in thirteen different languages. Its activities are focused on the promotion and dissemination of knowledge in all its forms. Historical notes courtesy Fondazione Fiera, Milan: https://archiviostorico.fondazionefiera.it/entita/1463-istituto-geografico-de-agostini

"A Complete Example of Alexander Dalrymple's First Commercial "Atlas." A Prized Rarity of 18th-Century Navigation and Exploration. Note: The following catalog entry deals with a compilation of charts by the famed hydrographer Alexander Dalrymple, whose published works are extremely rare and, in many cases, bibliographically complex. We are indebted to Andrew S. Cook and his 1993 University of St. Andrews Ph.D. thesis, which, in five volumes, comprehensively catalogs Dalrymple's printed output. We make shorthand references to Cook catalog numbers in this catalog entry, and his input on this item was invaluable. This remarkable bound volume of 202 maps, prepared in London in 1783, is a cartographic gem representing the entirety of Alexander Dalrymple's first commercial list of maps for sale. Dalrymple, a preeminent figure in the field of hydrography, created these charts in a period marked by significant contributions to the mapping of the world's seas and coasts. This volume, which might be termed Dalrymple's first commercial atlas, provides an exceptional treatment of various ports on the route from Europe to India, Southeast Asia, and China, with substantial content in Africa and the Middle East. Alexander Dalrymple is, without question, the most important and influential British hydrographer of the 18th century. Originally employed as a civil servant in Madras, India, in the 1750s, Dalrymple began his career as an explorer in 1759, when he went east to chart and look for trading opportunities in the Philippines, Borneo, and Sulu. His career at this time and later was inextricably tied to the East India Company. The EIC, as it is often called, was a British trading company, chartered in 1600, that played a pivotal role in trade between Britain and Asia and eventually became a de facto colonial ruler in India before being dissolved in 1874. Dalrymple had a complicated relationship with the EIC, as he did with many people and organizations throughout his life. Dalrymple's first charts were published between October 1769 and the end of 1771, primarily derived from his own observations in the East. He remained involved in chart compilation and publication in various capacities until 1779. It was in that year that the EIC assigned him to "examining the Ship Journals" and granted him an allowance of £500 a year for the expenses of publishing charts and nautical memoirs, and that became his primary focus. Between 1779 and 1783, Dalrymple focused on preparing charts and views with a special focus on areas of importance during the American Revolution and Britain's consequent war with the Dutch and French. These were intended to help British ships avoid interception by the French and Dutch along the usual trade routes in the East. During this period Dalrymple was prolific in his output of coastal profiles and views of land, producing some 171 plates of this type between 1779 and 1783. The Emergence of Dalrymple as a Commercial Map Publisher in 1783 This compilation of charts was assembled in May of 1783 (the last-dated chart bears an imprint of May 11, 1783), just after Dalrymple produced his first commercial catalog of maps the preceding month. That catalog, List of Plans of Ports, &c. 1783 (Catalogue A79), lists 202 charts, all of which are included in this volume. Cook (Vol. I, pages 117-118) describes the context of these publications: By the terms of Dalrymple's contract [with the EIC] each chart, view or plan plate became his property after he had delivered 100 impressions to the Company. In 1783 he began consciously to exploit this developing asset by assembling sets of his publications for commercial sale... [Lenghty discussion of small-scale works offered for sale in preceding years.] But in 1783 he included with Collection of Charts, Views of Land and Plans of Ports a separate price list for all his engraved plates, complete to April 1783, and incorporating plates from his 1772 and 1775 collections. The prices were by the set or individually: 202 plates of plans at 6d., 1s. or 2s. each or 3 guineas a set; 37 plates of views of land at 29. each or 1½ guineas a set; 10 small-format charts from 1s. to 4s. each or at 19s. a set; and 19 large-format charts from 2s. 6d. to 5s. each or at 3 guineas a set. Greater discounts were available on combined sets, the complete collection being offered at 7 guineas. Dalrymple also offered three maps he had had engraved, of Broach, the Madras lands, and Itchapour, and the five views Henry had drawn in south India in 1776, at set prices of 1½ guineas and 10s.6d. respectively. Dalrymple had revised the text of the 1775 Collection of Plans of Ports in 1782, and improved, modified or replaced eighty-one of the 83 plates during 1781 and 1782 for reprinting in 1783 together with his East India Company plates as part of this venture. This set of maps was produced before Dalrymple indexed his charts into eighteen classes, a practice he started in 1786. The Maps The atlas includes charts derived from diverse sources, including contemporary and near-contemporary ship journals, famed explorers of preceding decades and centuries, and the published output of famous Dutch and French hydrographers, such as those of the Van Keulen family and Jacques-Nicolas Bellin. The set includes 10 maps related to Atlantic Islands; 49 maps related to Africa; 13 related to Arabia and the Persian Gulf; 25 related to Pakistan, India, and Sri Lanka; 6 to Burma; 9 to Malaysia; 4 to Vietnam; 7 to China; 23 to the Philippines; 1 to Brunei; 51 to Indonesia; 3 to New Guinea; 1 to New Zealand; 1 to the Solomon Islands; 1 to Guam; 2 to Australia (including the Swan River); and 1 to Saint Paul Island in the southern Indian Ocean. A complete list of maps is available upon request. This Work in Context The maps in this series are noteworthy in that they serve as an excellent supplement, or complement, to the larger-format chart books of the so-called East India Navigation that were being produced in London in the 1780s, namely Robert Sayer & John Bennett's The East India Pilot and The Oriental Pilot; Or, East-India Directory; as well as William Herbert's A New Directory for the East Indies... The lack of substantial overlap between Dalrymple's maps and those in 1782 Sayer & Bennett atlas (see Philips 9486) invites a question about the consciousness of Dalrymple's decision to avoid duplication. Whereas the larger-format works were heavy on general and regional charts and treatments of the most important ports, Dalrymple focuses on the smaller and less well-known locales along the routes to and from the East Indies. Thus, an owner of Sayer & Bennett's atlas would still find substantial utility in Dalrymple's set; however, Dalrymple's charts would probably not be sufficient in themselves to navigate to the East Indies. This is undoubtedly partially related to the requirements of the EIC, which was Dalrymple's first and primary audience. Rarity This book's made-to-order nature and lack of a title page or accompanying text contribute to its extreme rarity a general difficulty in tracing it in institutional collections. The last substantial collection of Dalrymple charts to appear on the market was sold a decade ago in the September 2014 Sotheby's sale, The Library of Franklin Brooke-Hitching Part 2, D-J, Lot 363. That lot constituted a later collection of 454 charts assembled in 1789. It made £302,500 including premium (approximately $493,000)." (Ruderman, 2024), Andrew S. Cook, "Alexander Dalrymple (1737-1808), Hydrographer to the East India Company and the Admiralty as Publisher: A Catalogue of Books and Charts." 1993. https://research-repository.st-andrews.ac.uk/handle/10023/2634

Supplementary Pl. 3, from Atlas de l'Afrique ". Engraved uncolored map of coast of Africa., Physical and political atlas of the world, by Adrien Hubert Brue, containing maps of ancient and modern geography. Published in Paris, by J. Goujon, Geographer-Editor. Unusual edition of Brue's Atlas, complete with its 36 maps on heavy paper, dated between 1762 and 1825 and supplementary 8 maps, in addition to the 36 plates. including: Comparative and figurative table of the height of the main mountains … 1829; La Palestine 1767; 3 plates from an atlas of Africa (nos. 1, 3 and 2); Plate no. 59 United States of Mexico, 1830, and plates nos. 64-65, South America, 1828-1830. Maps are engraved hand color in outline. Most maps double page, with title cartouche, some on multiple plates. Showing political and administrative boundaries, cities, towns, roads, exploration routes, rovers, canals and mountains. Relief shown by hachures and pictorially. Depth shown by soundings. Prime meridian: Ferro and Paris.

Map of southern Africa, featuring railways and air lines of Angola and Mozambique, with their main connections to the neighboring nations. Also shows political boundaries, cities, bodies of water, drainage, coastlines and islands. Includes latitudinal and longitudinal lines, as well as a legend and bar scale. Colored lithograph. Map is 36 x 52 cm, on double sheet 48 x 69 cm., Atlas de Portugal ultramarino e das grandes viagens Portuguesas de descobrimento e expansão, by the Ministério das Colónias of Portugal; published in Lisbon by the Instituto Geográfico e Cadastral, 1948. Title translates to: Atlas of overseas Portugal and the great Portuguese voyages of discovery and expansion. Bound in original brown cloth with calf spine. Title and imprint gilt debossed on front cover and spine. Collation: 2° : [10] pages, [101] leaves of plates (including some double), [4] pages. Volume includes a preface, table of contents, list of citations and colophon. Plates comprised of 110 maps, which represent Portuguese colonies across the globe, through systemic cartographic portraits of each place. Maps show political boundaries, cities, air routes, railways, roads, topography, bodies of water, drainage, coastlines and islands. Maps feature elevation, geology, climate, phytogeography, historical exploration, population, ethnicity, languages spoken, and economics, such as export and import values. Atlas was an intellectual production of the state colonial research agency, the Junta das Missões Geográficas e de Investigações Colonials, under the oppressive "Estado Novo" regime, which was led by the dictator António de Oliveira Salazar (1889 – 1970), an economics professor who promoted science, statistics, mapping and data visualization. The atlas was intended to be an expanded successor to the Comissão de Cartografia’s Atlas Colonial Português (Lisbon: [Imprensa Nacional], 1914), which showcased Portugal’s colonies but only included conventional topographic maps. "An unusually fine example of the most comprehensive and sophisticated atlas of Portugal’s colonial possessions ever made, and one of the greatest intellectual products of the ‘Estado Novo’ regime, that while oppressive, valued science, statistics and mapping; made by the state colonial research agency, the Junta das MissoÞes Geograìficas e de InvestigaçoÞes Colonials, the colossal work features 110 colour maps, including advanced topographical maps and thematic cartography (recording historical exploration, as well as geological, economic, hypsometric, demographic, ethnographic, climate, transport and communication maps) for each of the Portuguese colonies, custom made for the atlas by the Instituto Geográfico e Cadastral. This attractive and technically advanced atlas showcases Portugal’s overseas empire which then included Mozambique; Angola; Macau, China; Goa, India, along with its dependencies DamaÞo, Diu and Dadra & Nagar Haveli; Cabo Verde; São Tomé & Principe; Guiné (today Guinea-Bissau); and Timor-Leste (East Timor, in the Indonesian Archipelago). It was made by the Junta das MissoÞes Geograìficas e de InvestigaçoÞes Colonials, Portugal’s special state colonial research agency, which succeeded the former Comissão de Cartografia. The atlas commences with 11 maps charting the amazing historical achievements of Portuguese explorers, who were often the first Europeans to encounter parts of the world beyond their own continent, accomplishments which gave Portugal the world’s first global empire. Following that is an intriguing map shown the airline connections between Lisbon and its African colonies. The main body of the work is comprised of a systematic cartographic showcasing of each colony, including fine topographic maps, as well as thematic works such as geological, economic, hypsometric (elevation), demographic (population), ethnographic, linguistic, climate, and transport and communication maps. On the topographic side, the atlas incudes a monumental 6-sheet map of Angola and a 3-sheeet map of Mozambique. All the maps were custom made for the atlas by the state cartographic agency, the Instituto Geográfico e Cadastral. The atlas was intended to be the tremendously expanded successor to the Comissão de Cartografia’s Atlas Colonial Português (Lisbon: [Imprensa Nacional], 1914), that showcased Portugal’s colonies but that only included conventional topographic maps (albeit of very high quality). The present atlas is one of the greatest intellectual products of the Estado Novo regime (1926-74) that ruled Portugal and its overseas territories, led most of the time by the dictator António de Oliveira Salazar (1889 – 1970), an economics professor. While he presided over a conservative autocracy with a lamentable human rights record (especially in the African colonies), he revolutionized and modernized Portugal’s imperial bureaucracy, valuing science, statistics, mapping and data visualization. This, combined with the prevailing international movements of Art Deco and Mid-Century design, produced graphic works throughout the Portuguese lands that feature bright colour schemes, while imparting technical or scientific information in a precise, but visually crisp manner. While the atlas is not all that rare, it is very uncommon to encounter an example is such fine condition as the present offering. Due to the book’s immense size and weight, it is very prone to damage, and almost all the examples of which we aware have condition issues, whereas the present example is preserved in a lovely state. The present example of the atlas bears the ex libris of Professor Dr. Fernando de Mello Mendes, a prominent Portuguese mining engineer who did important work in Africa. Portugal’s ‘Ultramar’: The First European Overseas Empire Portugal established the first and one of the longest lasting European colonial empires, commenced by the amazingly audacious maritime projects of Prince Henry the Navigator (1394 – 1460). By the early 16th century Portugal’s empire, including both held colonial territories and trading posts, extended from South America all the way around Africa and thorough the Indian Ocean to the Asia Pacific, as far as Japan. Portugal’s disastrous union with Spain (1580 - 1640) severely weakened the empire, causing it to lose many of its colonies and trading posts to the Netherlands and England. However, in the aftermath, Portugal still retained a massive colonial empire that included (with dates of their establishment as colonies): Cabo Verde (1462); São Tomé & Principe (1486); Mozambique (1506); Goa, India (1510), along with its dependencies DamaÞo, Diu and Dadra & Nagar Haveli; Brazil (1532), the gem of the empire; Macao, China (1557); Angola (1571); Guiné (1588), today Guinea-Bissau; and Timor-Leste (1769), or East Timor, in the Indonesian Archipelago.  While Brazil became an independent mega-state, ruled by a branch of the Portuguese royal family, in 1822 (albeit maintaining close ties the Lisbon), Portugal retained its remaining colonies for a longer time that most other European powers. In fact, in modern times, these lands were classified as ‘overseas provinces’, or integral parts of Portugal proper, and not as colonies (the residents of those lands were even given full Portuguese citizenship); for example, Angola was legally just as much part of Portugal as Lisbon. Over the generations, hundreds of thousands of ethic Portuguese people had also migrated to the overseas provinces, with generations of their stock born there. While many (but not all) of the indigenous peoples had different notions, the Portuguese national psyche held the overseas domains as an inalienable part of the country’s identity. During World War I, when Portugal, in alliance with Britain, had to defend Mozambique from a surprisingly effective German invasion launched by the master-guerrilla leader, General Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck. While the Anglo-Portuguese side eventually prevailed, this came after only many shocking trials and tribulations. Under the ‘Estado Novo’ regime (1926-74), ruled most of the time by the dictator António de Oliveira Salazar, Portugal stubbornly resisted the anti-colonialism movements that were sweeping the world. Portugal sent in the army to suppress rebellions in Angola and Mozambique and were for a time successful. However, in 1961, India seized Goa in a lightening military strike, ‘Operation Vijay’, hailing the beginning of the end of the Portuguese overseas empire. Portugal’s ‘Carnation Revolution’ of 1974 saw the collapse of the Estado Nova regime, which was replaced with a liberal democratic government. Portugal then allowed all the remaining colonies to gain their independence (although Timor Leste was soon invaded and conquered by Indonesia; it attained its independence in 2002), except for Macao, which was retained until 1999, when it was voluntarily handed back to China. While Portugal no longer possesses any colonies, it retains very strong social and economic ties with its former overseas realms. Well over a million of Portugal’s residents are of colonial decent (either ethnic Portuguese or from ingenious stock, or mixed), such that the colonial legacy is still very much part of the modern Portuguese identity." (Alexander Johnson and Dasa Pahor, 2022), British Library: Cartographic Items Maps Ref.G.5.(EUR).(6).; OCLC: 65363869, 83588368.

Map of Angola, featuring annual rainfall averages. Shows political boundaries, cities, railways, topography, bodies of water, drainage, coastline and islands. Relief shown with contour lines. Includes latitudinal and longitudinal lines, as well as a legend and scale statement. Colored lithograph. Map is 28 x 25 cm, on sheet 48 x 34 cm., Atlas de Portugal ultramarino e das grandes viagens Portuguesas de descobrimento e expansão, by the Ministério das Colónias of Portugal; published in Lisbon by the Instituto Geográfico e Cadastral, 1948. Title translates to: Atlas of overseas Portugal and the great Portuguese voyages of discovery and expansion. Bound in original brown cloth with calf spine. Title and imprint gilt debossed on front cover and spine. Collation: 2° : [10] pages, [101] leaves of plates (including some double), [4] pages. Volume includes a preface, table of contents, list of citations and colophon. Plates comprised of 110 maps, which represent Portuguese colonies across the globe, through systemic cartographic portraits of each place. Maps show political boundaries, cities, air routes, railways, roads, topography, bodies of water, drainage, coastlines and islands. Maps feature elevation, geology, climate, phytogeography, historical exploration, population, ethnicity, languages spoken, and economics, such as export and import values. Atlas was an intellectual production of the state colonial research agency, the Junta das Missões Geográficas e de Investigações Colonials, under the oppressive "Estado Novo" regime, which was led by the dictator António de Oliveira Salazar (1889 – 1970), an economics professor who promoted science, statistics, mapping and data visualization. The atlas was intended to be an expanded successor to the Comissão de Cartografia’s Atlas Colonial Português (Lisbon: [Imprensa Nacional], 1914), which showcased Portugal’s colonies but only included conventional topographic maps. "An unusually fine example of the most comprehensive and sophisticated atlas of Portugal’s colonial possessions ever made, and one of the greatest intellectual products of the ‘Estado Novo’ regime, that while oppressive, valued science, statistics and mapping; made by the state colonial research agency, the Junta das MissoÞes Geograìficas e de InvestigaçoÞes Colonials, the colossal work features 110 colour maps, including advanced topographical maps and thematic cartography (recording historical exploration, as well as geological, economic, hypsometric, demographic, ethnographic, climate, transport and communication maps) for each of the Portuguese colonies, custom made for the atlas by the Instituto Geográfico e Cadastral. This attractive and technically advanced atlas showcases Portugal’s overseas empire which then included Mozambique; Angola; Macau, China; Goa, India, along with its dependencies DamaÞo, Diu and Dadra & Nagar Haveli; Cabo Verde; São Tomé & Principe; Guiné (today Guinea-Bissau); and Timor-Leste (East Timor, in the Indonesian Archipelago). It was made by the Junta das MissoÞes Geograìficas e de InvestigaçoÞes Colonials, Portugal’s special state colonial research agency, which succeeded the former Comissão de Cartografia. The atlas commences with 11 maps charting the amazing historical achievements of Portuguese explorers, who were often the first Europeans to encounter parts of the world beyond their own continent, accomplishments which gave Portugal the world’s first global empire. Following that is an intriguing map shown the airline connections between Lisbon and its African colonies. The main body of the work is comprised of a systematic cartographic showcasing of each colony, including fine topographic maps, as well as thematic works such as geological, economic, hypsometric (elevation), demographic (population), ethnographic, linguistic, climate, and transport and communication maps. On the topographic side, the atlas incudes a monumental 6-sheet map of Angola and a 3-sheeet map of Mozambique. All the maps were custom made for the atlas by the state cartographic agency, the Instituto Geográfico e Cadastral. The atlas was intended to be the tremendously expanded successor to the Comissão de Cartografia’s Atlas Colonial Português (Lisbon: [Imprensa Nacional], 1914), that showcased Portugal’s colonies but that only included conventional topographic maps (albeit of very high quality). The present atlas is one of the greatest intellectual products of the Estado Novo regime (1926-74) that ruled Portugal and its overseas territories, led most of the time by the dictator António de Oliveira Salazar (1889 – 1970), an economics professor. While he presided over a conservative autocracy with a lamentable human rights record (especially in the African colonies), he revolutionized and modernized Portugal’s imperial bureaucracy, valuing science, statistics, mapping and data visualization. This, combined with the prevailing international movements of Art Deco and Mid-Century design, produced graphic works throughout the Portuguese lands that feature bright colour schemes, while imparting technical or scientific information in a precise, but visually crisp manner. While the atlas is not all that rare, it is very uncommon to encounter an example is such fine condition as the present offering. Due to the book’s immense size and weight, it is very prone to damage, and almost all the examples of which we aware have condition issues, whereas the present example is preserved in a lovely state. The present example of the atlas bears the ex libris of Professor Dr. Fernando de Mello Mendes, a prominent Portuguese mining engineer who did important work in Africa. Portugal’s ‘Ultramar’: The First European Overseas Empire Portugal established the first and one of the longest lasting European colonial empires, commenced by the amazingly audacious maritime projects of Prince Henry the Navigator (1394 – 1460). By the early 16th century Portugal’s empire, including both held colonial territories and trading posts, extended from South America all the way around Africa and thorough the Indian Ocean to the Asia Pacific, as far as Japan. Portugal’s disastrous union with Spain (1580 - 1640) severely weakened the empire, causing it to lose many of its colonies and trading posts to the Netherlands and England. However, in the aftermath, Portugal still retained a massive colonial empire that included (with dates of their establishment as colonies): Cabo Verde (1462); São Tomé & Principe (1486); Mozambique (1506); Goa, India (1510), along with its dependencies DamaÞo, Diu and Dadra & Nagar Haveli; Brazil (1532), the gem of the empire; Macao, China (1557); Angola (1571); Guiné (1588), today Guinea-Bissau; and Timor-Leste (1769), or East Timor, in the Indonesian Archipelago.  While Brazil became an independent mega-state, ruled by a branch of the Portuguese royal family, in 1822 (albeit maintaining close ties the Lisbon), Portugal retained its remaining colonies for a longer time that most other European powers. In fact, in modern times, these lands were classified as ‘overseas provinces’, or integral parts of Portugal proper, and not as colonies (the residents of those lands were even given full Portuguese citizenship); for example, Angola was legally just as much part of Portugal as Lisbon. Over the generations, hundreds of thousands of ethic Portuguese people had also migrated to the overseas provinces, with generations of their stock born there. While many (but not all) of the indigenous peoples had different notions, the Portuguese national psyche held the overseas domains as an inalienable part of the country’s identity. During World War I, when Portugal, in alliance with Britain, had to defend Mozambique from a surprisingly effective German invasion launched by the master-guerrilla leader, General Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck. While the Anglo-Portuguese side eventually prevailed, this came after only many shocking trials and tribulations. Under the ‘Estado Novo’ regime (1926-74), ruled most of the time by the dictator António de Oliveira Salazar, Portugal stubbornly resisted the anti-colonialism movements that were sweeping the world. Portugal sent in the army to suppress rebellions in Angola and Mozambique and were for a time successful. However, in 1961, India seized Goa in a lightening military strike, ‘Operation Vijay’, hailing the beginning of the end of the Portuguese overseas empire. Portugal’s ‘Carnation Revolution’ of 1974 saw the collapse of the Estado Nova regime, which was replaced with a liberal democratic government. Portugal then allowed all the remaining colonies to gain their independence (although Timor Leste was soon invaded and conquered by Indonesia; it attained its independence in 2002), except for Macao, which was retained until 1999, when it was voluntarily handed back to China. While Portugal no longer possesses any colonies, it retains very strong social and economic ties with its former overseas realms. Well over a million of Portugal’s residents are of colonial decent (either ethnic Portuguese or from ingenious stock, or mixed), such that the colonial legacy is still very much part of the modern Portuguese identity." (Alexander Johnson and Dasa Pahor, 2022), British Library: Cartographic Items Maps Ref.G.5.(EUR).(6).; OCLC: 65363869, 83588368.

Map of Angola, featuring annual temperature averages. Shows political boundaries, cities, bodies of water, drainage, coastline and islands. Includes latitudinal and longitudinal lines, as well as a legend and scale statement. Colored lithograph. Map is 33 x 22 cm, on sheet 48 x 34 cm., Atlas de Portugal ultramarino e das grandes viagens Portuguesas de descobrimento e expansão, by the Ministério das Colónias of Portugal; published in Lisbon by the Instituto Geográfico e Cadastral, 1948. Title translates to: Atlas of overseas Portugal and the great Portuguese voyages of discovery and expansion. Bound in original brown cloth with calf spine. Title and imprint gilt debossed on front cover and spine. Collation: 2° : [10] pages, [101] leaves of plates (including some double), [4] pages. Volume includes a preface, table of contents, list of citations and colophon. Plates comprised of 110 maps, which represent Portuguese colonies across the globe, through systemic cartographic portraits of each place. Maps show political boundaries, cities, air routes, railways, roads, topography, bodies of water, drainage, coastlines and islands. Maps feature elevation, geology, climate, phytogeography, historical exploration, population, ethnicity, languages spoken, and economics, such as export and import values. Atlas was an intellectual production of the state colonial research agency, the Junta das Missões Geográficas e de Investigações Colonials, under the oppressive "Estado Novo" regime, which was led by the dictator António de Oliveira Salazar (1889 – 1970), an economics professor who promoted science, statistics, mapping and data visualization. The atlas was intended to be an expanded successor to the Comissão de Cartografia’s Atlas Colonial Português (Lisbon: [Imprensa Nacional], 1914), which showcased Portugal’s colonies but only included conventional topographic maps. "An unusually fine example of the most comprehensive and sophisticated atlas of Portugal’s colonial possessions ever made, and one of the greatest intellectual products of the ‘Estado Novo’ regime, that while oppressive, valued science, statistics and mapping; made by the state colonial research agency, the Junta das MissoÞes Geograìficas e de InvestigaçoÞes Colonials, the colossal work features 110 colour maps, including advanced topographical maps and thematic cartography (recording historical exploration, as well as geological, economic, hypsometric, demographic, ethnographic, climate, transport and communication maps) for each of the Portuguese colonies, custom made for the atlas by the Instituto Geográfico e Cadastral. This attractive and technically advanced atlas showcases Portugal’s overseas empire which then included Mozambique; Angola; Macau, China; Goa, India, along with its dependencies DamaÞo, Diu and Dadra & Nagar Haveli; Cabo Verde; São Tomé & Principe; Guiné (today Guinea-Bissau); and Timor-Leste (East Timor, in the Indonesian Archipelago). It was made by the Junta das MissoÞes Geograìficas e de InvestigaçoÞes Colonials, Portugal’s special state colonial research agency, which succeeded the former Comissão de Cartografia. The atlas commences with 11 maps charting the amazing historical achievements of Portuguese explorers, who were often the first Europeans to encounter parts of the world beyond their own continent, accomplishments which gave Portugal the world’s first global empire. Following that is an intriguing map shown the airline connections between Lisbon and its African colonies. The main body of the work is comprised of a systematic cartographic showcasing of each colony, including fine topographic maps, as well as thematic works such as geological, economic, hypsometric (elevation), demographic (population), ethnographic, linguistic, climate, and transport and communication maps. On the topographic side, the atlas incudes a monumental 6-sheet map of Angola and a 3-sheeet map of Mozambique. All the maps were custom made for the atlas by the state cartographic agency, the Instituto Geográfico e Cadastral. The atlas was intended to be the tremendously expanded successor to the Comissão de Cartografia’s Atlas Colonial Português (Lisbon: [Imprensa Nacional], 1914), that showcased Portugal’s colonies but that only included conventional topographic maps (albeit of very high quality). The present atlas is one of the greatest intellectual products of the Estado Novo regime (1926-74) that ruled Portugal and its overseas territories, led most of the time by the dictator António de Oliveira Salazar (1889 – 1970), an economics professor. While he presided over a conservative autocracy with a lamentable human rights record (especially in the African colonies), he revolutionized and modernized Portugal’s imperial bureaucracy, valuing science, statistics, mapping and data visualization. This, combined with the prevailing international movements of Art Deco and Mid-Century design, produced graphic works throughout the Portuguese lands that feature bright colour schemes, while imparting technical or scientific information in a precise, but visually crisp manner. While the atlas is not all that rare, it is very uncommon to encounter an example is such fine condition as the present offering. Due to the book’s immense size and weight, it is very prone to damage, and almost all the examples of which we aware have condition issues, whereas the present example is preserved in a lovely state. The present example of the atlas bears the ex libris of Professor Dr. Fernando de Mello Mendes, a prominent Portuguese mining engineer who did important work in Africa. Portugal’s ‘Ultramar’: The First European Overseas Empire Portugal established the first and one of the longest lasting European colonial empires, commenced by the amazingly audacious maritime projects of Prince Henry the Navigator (1394 – 1460). By the early 16th century Portugal’s empire, including both held colonial territories and trading posts, extended from South America all the way around Africa and thorough the Indian Ocean to the Asia Pacific, as far as Japan. Portugal’s disastrous union with Spain (1580 - 1640) severely weakened the empire, causing it to lose many of its colonies and trading posts to the Netherlands and England. However, in the aftermath, Portugal still retained a massive colonial empire that included (with dates of their establishment as colonies): Cabo Verde (1462); São Tomé & Principe (1486); Mozambique (1506); Goa, India (1510), along with its dependencies DamaÞo, Diu and Dadra & Nagar Haveli; Brazil (1532), the gem of the empire; Macao, China (1557); Angola (1571); Guiné (1588), today Guinea-Bissau; and Timor-Leste (1769), or East Timor, in the Indonesian Archipelago.  While Brazil became an independent mega-state, ruled by a branch of the Portuguese royal family, in 1822 (albeit maintaining close ties the Lisbon), Portugal retained its remaining colonies for a longer time that most other European powers. In fact, in modern times, these lands were classified as ‘overseas provinces’, or integral parts of Portugal proper, and not as colonies (the residents of those lands were even given full Portuguese citizenship); for example, Angola was legally just as much part of Portugal as Lisbon. Over the generations, hundreds of thousands of ethic Portuguese people had also migrated to the overseas provinces, with generations of their stock born there. While many (but not all) of the indigenous peoples had different notions, the Portuguese national psyche held the overseas domains as an inalienable part of the country’s identity. During World War I, when Portugal, in alliance with Britain, had to defend Mozambique from a surprisingly effective German invasion launched by the master-guerrilla leader, General Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck. While the Anglo-Portuguese side eventually prevailed, this came after only many shocking trials and tribulations. Under the ‘Estado Novo’ regime (1926-74), ruled most of the time by the dictator António de Oliveira Salazar, Portugal stubbornly resisted the anti-colonialism movements that were sweeping the world. Portugal sent in the army to suppress rebellions in Angola and Mozambique and were for a time successful. However, in 1961, India seized Goa in a lightening military strike, ‘Operation Vijay’, hailing the beginning of the end of the Portuguese overseas empire. Portugal’s ‘Carnation Revolution’ of 1974 saw the collapse of the Estado Nova regime, which was replaced with a liberal democratic government. Portugal then allowed all the remaining colonies to gain their independence (although Timor Leste was soon invaded and conquered by Indonesia; it attained its independence in 2002), except for Macao, which was retained until 1999, when it was voluntarily handed back to China. While Portugal no longer possesses any colonies, it retains very strong social and economic ties with its former overseas realms. Well over a million of Portugal’s residents are of colonial decent (either ethnic Portuguese or from ingenious stock, or mixed), such that the colonial legacy is still very much part of the modern Portuguese identity." (Alexander Johnson and Dasa Pahor, 2022), British Library: Cartographic Items Maps Ref.G.5.(EUR).(6).; OCLC: 65363869, 83588368.

Map of Angola, featuring economic activities. Shows political boundaries, cities, railways, bodies of water, drainage, coastline and islands. Includes latitudinal and longitudinal lines, as well as a legend and scale statement. Colored lithograph. Map is 27 x 25 cm, on sheet 48 x 34 cm., Atlas de Portugal ultramarino e das grandes viagens Portuguesas de descobrimento e expansão, by the Ministério das Colónias of Portugal; published in Lisbon by the Instituto Geográfico e Cadastral, 1948. Title translates to: Atlas of overseas Portugal and the great Portuguese voyages of discovery and expansion. Bound in original brown cloth with calf spine. Title and imprint gilt debossed on front cover and spine. Collation: 2° : [10] pages, [101] leaves of plates (including some double), [4] pages. Volume includes a preface, table of contents, list of citations and colophon. Plates comprised of 110 maps, which represent Portuguese colonies across the globe, through systemic cartographic portraits of each place. Maps show political boundaries, cities, air routes, railways, roads, topography, bodies of water, drainage, coastlines and islands. Maps feature elevation, geology, climate, phytogeography, historical exploration, population, ethnicity, languages spoken, and economics, such as export and import values. Atlas was an intellectual production of the state colonial research agency, the Junta das Missões Geográficas e de Investigações Colonials, under the oppressive "Estado Novo" regime, which was led by the dictator António de Oliveira Salazar (1889 – 1970), an economics professor who promoted science, statistics, mapping and data visualization. The atlas was intended to be an expanded successor to the Comissão de Cartografia’s Atlas Colonial Português (Lisbon: [Imprensa Nacional], 1914), which showcased Portugal’s colonies but only included conventional topographic maps. "An unusually fine example of the most comprehensive and sophisticated atlas of Portugal’s colonial possessions ever made, and one of the greatest intellectual products of the ‘Estado Novo’ regime, that while oppressive, valued science, statistics and mapping; made by the state colonial research agency, the Junta das MissoÞes Geograìficas e de InvestigaçoÞes Colonials, the colossal work features 110 colour maps, including advanced topographical maps and thematic cartography (recording historical exploration, as well as geological, economic, hypsometric, demographic, ethnographic, climate, transport and communication maps) for each of the Portuguese colonies, custom made for the atlas by the Instituto Geográfico e Cadastral. This attractive and technically advanced atlas showcases Portugal’s overseas empire which then included Mozambique; Angola; Macau, China; Goa, India, along with its dependencies DamaÞo, Diu and Dadra & Nagar Haveli; Cabo Verde; São Tomé & Principe; Guiné (today Guinea-Bissau); and Timor-Leste (East Timor, in the Indonesian Archipelago). It was made by the Junta das MissoÞes Geograìficas e de InvestigaçoÞes Colonials, Portugal’s special state colonial research agency, which succeeded the former Comissão de Cartografia. The atlas commences with 11 maps charting the amazing historical achievements of Portuguese explorers, who were often the first Europeans to encounter parts of the world beyond their own continent, accomplishments which gave Portugal the world’s first global empire. Following that is an intriguing map shown the airline connections between Lisbon and its African colonies. The main body of the work is comprised of a systematic cartographic showcasing of each colony, including fine topographic maps, as well as thematic works such as geological, economic, hypsometric (elevation), demographic (population), ethnographic, linguistic, climate, and transport and communication maps. On the topographic side, the atlas incudes a monumental 6-sheet map of Angola and a 3-sheeet map of Mozambique. All the maps were custom made for the atlas by the state cartographic agency, the Instituto Geográfico e Cadastral. The atlas was intended to be the tremendously expanded successor to the Comissão de Cartografia’s Atlas Colonial Português (Lisbon: [Imprensa Nacional], 1914), that showcased Portugal’s colonies but that only included conventional topographic maps (albeit of very high quality). The present atlas is one of the greatest intellectual products of the Estado Novo regime (1926-74) that ruled Portugal and its overseas territories, led most of the time by the dictator António de Oliveira Salazar (1889 – 1970), an economics professor. While he presided over a conservative autocracy with a lamentable human rights record (especially in the African colonies), he revolutionized and modernized Portugal’s imperial bureaucracy, valuing science, statistics, mapping and data visualization. This, combined with the prevailing international movements of Art Deco and Mid-Century design, produced graphic works throughout the Portuguese lands that feature bright colour schemes, while imparting technical or scientific information in a precise, but visually crisp manner. While the atlas is not all that rare, it is very uncommon to encounter an example is such fine condition as the present offering. Due to the book’s immense size and weight, it is very prone to damage, and almost all the examples of which we aware have condition issues, whereas the present example is preserved in a lovely state. The present example of the atlas bears the ex libris of Professor Dr. Fernando de Mello Mendes, a prominent Portuguese mining engineer who did important work in Africa. Portugal’s ‘Ultramar’: The First European Overseas Empire Portugal established the first and one of the longest lasting European colonial empires, commenced by the amazingly audacious maritime projects of Prince Henry the Navigator (1394 – 1460). By the early 16th century Portugal’s empire, including both held colonial territories and trading posts, extended from South America all the way around Africa and thorough the Indian Ocean to the Asia Pacific, as far as Japan. Portugal’s disastrous union with Spain (1580 - 1640) severely weakened the empire, causing it to lose many of its colonies and trading posts to the Netherlands and England. However, in the aftermath, Portugal still retained a massive colonial empire that included (with dates of their establishment as colonies): Cabo Verde (1462); São Tomé & Principe (1486); Mozambique (1506); Goa, India (1510), along with its dependencies DamaÞo, Diu and Dadra & Nagar Haveli; Brazil (1532), the gem of the empire; Macao, China (1557); Angola (1571); Guiné (1588), today Guinea-Bissau; and Timor-Leste (1769), or East Timor, in the Indonesian Archipelago.  While Brazil became an independent mega-state, ruled by a branch of the Portuguese royal family, in 1822 (albeit maintaining close ties the Lisbon), Portugal retained its remaining colonies for a longer time that most other European powers. In fact, in modern times, these lands were classified as ‘overseas provinces’, or integral parts of Portugal proper, and not as colonies (the residents of those lands were even given full Portuguese citizenship); for example, Angola was legally just as much part of Portugal as Lisbon. Over the generations, hundreds of thousands of ethic Portuguese people had also migrated to the overseas provinces, with generations of their stock born there. While many (but not all) of the indigenous peoples had different notions, the Portuguese national psyche held the overseas domains as an inalienable part of the country’s identity. During World War I, when Portugal, in alliance with Britain, had to defend Mozambique from a surprisingly effective German invasion launched by the master-guerrilla leader, General Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck. While the Anglo-Portuguese side eventually prevailed, this came after only many shocking trials and tribulations. Under the ‘Estado Novo’ regime (1926-74), ruled most of the time by the dictator António de Oliveira Salazar, Portugal stubbornly resisted the anti-colonialism movements that were sweeping the world. Portugal sent in the army to suppress rebellions in Angola and Mozambique and were for a time successful. However, in 1961, India seized Goa in a lightening military strike, ‘Operation Vijay’, hailing the beginning of the end of the Portuguese overseas empire. Portugal’s ‘Carnation Revolution’ of 1974 saw the collapse of the Estado Nova regime, which was replaced with a liberal democratic government. Portugal then allowed all the remaining colonies to gain their independence (although Timor Leste was soon invaded and conquered by Indonesia; it attained its independence in 2002), except for Macao, which was retained until 1999, when it was voluntarily handed back to China. While Portugal no longer possesses any colonies, it retains very strong social and economic ties with its former overseas realms. Well over a million of Portugal’s residents are of colonial decent (either ethnic Portuguese or from ingenious stock, or mixed), such that the colonial legacy is still very much part of the modern Portuguese identity." (Alexander Johnson and Dasa Pahor, 2022), British Library: Cartographic Items Maps Ref.G.5.(EUR).(6).; OCLC: 65363869, 83588368.

Map of Angola, featuring vegetation. Shows political boundaries, cities, railways, bodies of water, drainage, coastline and islands. Includes latitudinal and longitudinal lines, as well as a legend and scale statement. Colored lithograph. Map is 27 x 25 cm, on sheet 48 x 34 cm., Atlas de Portugal ultramarino e das grandes viagens Portuguesas de descobrimento e expansão, by the Ministério das Colónias of Portugal; published in Lisbon by the Instituto Geográfico e Cadastral, 1948. Title translates to: Atlas of overseas Portugal and the great Portuguese voyages of discovery and expansion. Bound in original brown cloth with calf spine. Title and imprint gilt debossed on front cover and spine. Collation: 2° : [10] pages, [101] leaves of plates (including some double), [4] pages. Volume includes a preface, table of contents, list of citations and colophon. Plates comprised of 110 maps, which represent Portuguese colonies across the globe, through systemic cartographic portraits of each place. Maps show political boundaries, cities, air routes, railways, roads, topography, bodies of water, drainage, coastlines and islands. Maps feature elevation, geology, climate, phytogeography, historical exploration, population, ethnicity, languages spoken, and economics, such as export and import values. Atlas was an intellectual production of the state colonial research agency, the Junta das Missões Geográficas e de Investigações Colonials, under the oppressive "Estado Novo" regime, which was led by the dictator António de Oliveira Salazar (1889 – 1970), an economics professor who promoted science, statistics, mapping and data visualization. The atlas was intended to be an expanded successor to the Comissão de Cartografia’s Atlas Colonial Português (Lisbon: [Imprensa Nacional], 1914), which showcased Portugal’s colonies but only included conventional topographic maps. "An unusually fine example of the most comprehensive and sophisticated atlas of Portugal’s colonial possessions ever made, and one of the greatest intellectual products of the ‘Estado Novo’ regime, that while oppressive, valued science, statistics and mapping; made by the state colonial research agency, the Junta das MissoÞes Geograìficas e de InvestigaçoÞes Colonials, the colossal work features 110 colour maps, including advanced topographical maps and thematic cartography (recording historical exploration, as well as geological, economic, hypsometric, demographic, ethnographic, climate, transport and communication maps) for each of the Portuguese colonies, custom made for the atlas by the Instituto Geográfico e Cadastral. This attractive and technically advanced atlas showcases Portugal’s overseas empire which then included Mozambique; Angola; Macau, China; Goa, India, along with its dependencies DamaÞo, Diu and Dadra & Nagar Haveli; Cabo Verde; São Tomé & Principe; Guiné (today Guinea-Bissau); and Timor-Leste (East Timor, in the Indonesian Archipelago). It was made by the Junta das MissoÞes Geograìficas e de InvestigaçoÞes Colonials, Portugal’s special state colonial research agency, which succeeded the former Comissão de Cartografia. The atlas commences with 11 maps charting the amazing historical achievements of Portuguese explorers, who were often the first Europeans to encounter parts of the world beyond their own continent, accomplishments which gave Portugal the world’s first global empire. Following that is an intriguing map shown the airline connections between Lisbon and its African colonies. The main body of the work is comprised of a systematic cartographic showcasing of each colony, including fine topographic maps, as well as thematic works such as geological, economic, hypsometric (elevation), demographic (population), ethnographic, linguistic, climate, and transport and communication maps. On the topographic side, the atlas incudes a monumental 6-sheet map of Angola and a 3-sheeet map of Mozambique. All the maps were custom made for the atlas by the state cartographic agency, the Instituto Geográfico e Cadastral. The atlas was intended to be the tremendously expanded successor to the Comissão de Cartografia’s Atlas Colonial Português (Lisbon: [Imprensa Nacional], 1914), that showcased Portugal’s colonies but that only included conventional topographic maps (albeit of very high quality). The present atlas is one of the greatest intellectual products of the Estado Novo regime (1926-74) that ruled Portugal and its overseas territories, led most of the time by the dictator António de Oliveira Salazar (1889 – 1970), an economics professor. While he presided over a conservative autocracy with a lamentable human rights record (especially in the African colonies), he revolutionized and modernized Portugal’s imperial bureaucracy, valuing science, statistics, mapping and data visualization. This, combined with the prevailing international movements of Art Deco and Mid-Century design, produced graphic works throughout the Portuguese lands that feature bright colour schemes, while imparting technical or scientific information in a precise, but visually crisp manner. While the atlas is not all that rare, it is very uncommon to encounter an example is such fine condition as the present offering. Due to the book’s immense size and weight, it is very prone to damage, and almost all the examples of which we aware have condition issues, whereas the present example is preserved in a lovely state. The present example of the atlas bears the ex libris of Professor Dr. Fernando de Mello Mendes, a prominent Portuguese mining engineer who did important work in Africa. Portugal’s ‘Ultramar’: The First European Overseas Empire Portugal established the first and one of the longest lasting European colonial empires, commenced by the amazingly audacious maritime projects of Prince Henry the Navigator (1394 – 1460). By the early 16th century Portugal’s empire, including both held colonial territories and trading posts, extended from South America all the way around Africa and thorough the Indian Ocean to the Asia Pacific, as far as Japan. Portugal’s disastrous union with Spain (1580 - 1640) severely weakened the empire, causing it to lose many of its colonies and trading posts to the Netherlands and England. However, in the aftermath, Portugal still retained a massive colonial empire that included (with dates of their establishment as colonies): Cabo Verde (1462); São Tomé & Principe (1486); Mozambique (1506); Goa, India (1510), along with its dependencies DamaÞo, Diu and Dadra & Nagar Haveli; Brazil (1532), the gem of the empire; Macao, China (1557); Angola (1571); Guiné (1588), today Guinea-Bissau; and Timor-Leste (1769), or East Timor, in the Indonesian Archipelago.  While Brazil became an independent mega-state, ruled by a branch of the Portuguese royal family, in 1822 (albeit maintaining close ties the Lisbon), Portugal retained its remaining colonies for a longer time that most other European powers. In fact, in modern times, these lands were classified as ‘overseas provinces’, or integral parts of Portugal proper, and not as colonies (the residents of those lands were even given full Portuguese citizenship); for example, Angola was legally just as much part of Portugal as Lisbon. Over the generations, hundreds of thousands of ethic Portuguese people had also migrated to the overseas provinces, with generations of their stock born there. While many (but not all) of the indigenous peoples had different notions, the Portuguese national psyche held the overseas domains as an inalienable part of the country’s identity. During World War I, when Portugal, in alliance with Britain, had to defend Mozambique from a surprisingly effective German invasion launched by the master-guerrilla leader, General Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck. While the Anglo-Portuguese side eventually prevailed, this came after only many shocking trials and tribulations. Under the ‘Estado Novo’ regime (1926-74), ruled most of the time by the dictator António de Oliveira Salazar, Portugal stubbornly resisted the anti-colonialism movements that were sweeping the world. Portugal sent in the army to suppress rebellions in Angola and Mozambique and were for a time successful. However, in 1961, India seized Goa in a lightening military strike, ‘Operation Vijay’, hailing the beginning of the end of the Portuguese overseas empire. Portugal’s ‘Carnation Revolution’ of 1974 saw the collapse of the Estado Nova regime, which was replaced with a liberal democratic government. Portugal then allowed all the remaining colonies to gain their independence (although Timor Leste was soon invaded and conquered by Indonesia; it attained its independence in 2002), except for Macao, which was retained until 1999, when it was voluntarily handed back to China. While Portugal no longer possesses any colonies, it retains very strong social and economic ties with its former overseas realms. Well over a million of Portugal’s residents are of colonial decent (either ethnic Portuguese or from ingenious stock, or mixed), such that the colonial legacy is still very much part of the modern Portuguese identity." (Alexander Johnson and Dasa Pahor, 2022), British Library: Cartographic Items Maps Ref.G.5.(EUR).(6).; OCLC: 65363869, 83588368.

Map of Angola, featuring ethnicity and languages. Shows political boundaries, cities, railways, bodies of water, drainage, coastline and islands. Includes latitudinal and longitudinal lines, as well as a legend and scale statement. Indexed to indicate languages spoken in different areas. Colored lithograph. Map is 27 x 25 cm, on sheet 48 x 34 cm., Atlas de Portugal ultramarino e das grandes viagens Portuguesas de descobrimento e expansão, by the Ministério das Colónias of Portugal; published in Lisbon by the Instituto Geográfico e Cadastral, 1948. Title translates to: Atlas of overseas Portugal and the great Portuguese voyages of discovery and expansion. Bound in original brown cloth with calf spine. Title and imprint gilt debossed on front cover and spine. Collation: 2° : [10] pages, [101] leaves of plates (including some double), [4] pages. Volume includes a preface, table of contents, list of citations and colophon. Plates comprised of 110 maps, which represent Portuguese colonies across the globe, through systemic cartographic portraits of each place. Maps show political boundaries, cities, air routes, railways, roads, topography, bodies of water, drainage, coastlines and islands. Maps feature elevation, geology, climate, phytogeography, historical exploration, population, ethnicity, languages spoken, and economics, such as export and import values. Atlas was an intellectual production of the state colonial research agency, the Junta das Missões Geográficas e de Investigações Colonials, under the oppressive "Estado Novo" regime, which was led by the dictator António de Oliveira Salazar (1889 – 1970), an economics professor who promoted science, statistics, mapping and data visualization. The atlas was intended to be an expanded successor to the Comissão de Cartografia’s Atlas Colonial Português (Lisbon: [Imprensa Nacional], 1914), which showcased Portugal’s colonies but only included conventional topographic maps. "An unusually fine example of the most comprehensive and sophisticated atlas of Portugal’s colonial possessions ever made, and one of the greatest intellectual products of the ‘Estado Novo’ regime, that while oppressive, valued science, statistics and mapping; made by the state colonial research agency, the Junta das MissoÞes Geograìficas e de InvestigaçoÞes Colonials, the colossal work features 110 colour maps, including advanced topographical maps and thematic cartography (recording historical exploration, as well as geological, economic, hypsometric, demographic, ethnographic, climate, transport and communication maps) for each of the Portuguese colonies, custom made for the atlas by the Instituto Geográfico e Cadastral. This attractive and technically advanced atlas showcases Portugal’s overseas empire which then included Mozambique; Angola; Macau, China; Goa, India, along with its dependencies DamaÞo, Diu and Dadra & Nagar Haveli; Cabo Verde; São Tomé & Principe; Guiné (today Guinea-Bissau); and Timor-Leste (East Timor, in the Indonesian Archipelago). It was made by the Junta das MissoÞes Geograìficas e de InvestigaçoÞes Colonials, Portugal’s special state colonial research agency, which succeeded the former Comissão de Cartografia. The atlas commences with 11 maps charting the amazing historical achievements of Portuguese explorers, who were often the first Europeans to encounter parts of the world beyond their own continent, accomplishments which gave Portugal the world’s first global empire. Following that is an intriguing map shown the airline connections between Lisbon and its African colonies. The main body of the work is comprised of a systematic cartographic showcasing of each colony, including fine topographic maps, as well as thematic works such as geological, economic, hypsometric (elevation), demographic (population), ethnographic, linguistic, climate, and transport and communication maps. On the topographic side, the atlas incudes a monumental 6-sheet map of Angola and a 3-sheeet map of Mozambique. All the maps were custom made for the atlas by the state cartographic agency, the Instituto Geográfico e Cadastral. The atlas was intended to be the tremendously expanded successor to the Comissão de Cartografia’s Atlas Colonial Português (Lisbon: [Imprensa Nacional], 1914), that showcased Portugal’s colonies but that only included conventional topographic maps (albeit of very high quality). The present atlas is one of the greatest intellectual products of the Estado Novo regime (1926-74) that ruled Portugal and its overseas territories, led most of the time by the dictator António de Oliveira Salazar (1889 – 1970), an economics professor. While he presided over a conservative autocracy with a lamentable human rights record (especially in the African colonies), he revolutionized and modernized Portugal’s imperial bureaucracy, valuing science, statistics, mapping and data visualization. This, combined with the prevailing international movements of Art Deco and Mid-Century design, produced graphic works throughout the Portuguese lands that feature bright colour schemes, while imparting technical or scientific information in a precise, but visually crisp manner. While the atlas is not all that rare, it is very uncommon to encounter an example is such fine condition as the present offering. Due to the book’s immense size and weight, it is very prone to damage, and almost all the examples of which we aware have condition issues, whereas the present example is preserved in a lovely state. The present example of the atlas bears the ex libris of Professor Dr. Fernando de Mello Mendes, a prominent Portuguese mining engineer who did important work in Africa. Portugal’s ‘Ultramar’: The First European Overseas Empire Portugal established the first and one of the longest lasting European colonial empires, commenced by the amazingly audacious maritime projects of Prince Henry the Navigator (1394 – 1460). By the early 16th century Portugal’s empire, including both held colonial territories and trading posts, extended from South America all the way around Africa and thorough the Indian Ocean to the Asia Pacific, as far as Japan. Portugal’s disastrous union with Spain (1580 - 1640) severely weakened the empire, causing it to lose many of its colonies and trading posts to the Netherlands and England. However, in the aftermath, Portugal still retained a massive colonial empire that included (with dates of their establishment as colonies): Cabo Verde (1462); São Tomé & Principe (1486); Mozambique (1506); Goa, India (1510), along with its dependencies DamaÞo, Diu and Dadra & Nagar Haveli; Brazil (1532), the gem of the empire; Macao, China (1557); Angola (1571); Guiné (1588), today Guinea-Bissau; and Timor-Leste (1769), or East Timor, in the Indonesian Archipelago.  While Brazil became an independent mega-state, ruled by a branch of the Portuguese royal family, in 1822 (albeit maintaining close ties the Lisbon), Portugal retained its remaining colonies for a longer time that most other European powers. In fact, in modern times, these lands were classified as ‘overseas provinces’, or integral parts of Portugal proper, and not as colonies (the residents of those lands were even given full Portuguese citizenship); for example, Angola was legally just as much part of Portugal as Lisbon. Over the generations, hundreds of thousands of ethic Portuguese people had also migrated to the overseas provinces, with generations of their stock born there. While many (but not all) of the indigenous peoples had different notions, the Portuguese national psyche held the overseas domains as an inalienable part of the country’s identity. During World War I, when Portugal, in alliance with Britain, had to defend Mozambique from a surprisingly effective German invasion launched by the master-guerrilla leader, General Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck. While the Anglo-Portuguese side eventually prevailed, this came after only many shocking trials and tribulations. Under the ‘Estado Novo’ regime (1926-74), ruled most of the time by the dictator António de Oliveira Salazar, Portugal stubbornly resisted the anti-colonialism movements that were sweeping the world. Portugal sent in the army to suppress rebellions in Angola and Mozambique and were for a time successful. However, in 1961, India seized Goa in a lightening military strike, ‘Operation Vijay’, hailing the beginning of the end of the Portuguese overseas empire. Portugal’s ‘Carnation Revolution’ of 1974 saw the collapse of the Estado Nova regime, which was replaced with a liberal democratic government. Portugal then allowed all the remaining colonies to gain their independence (although Timor Leste was soon invaded and conquered by Indonesia; it attained its independence in 2002), except for Macao, which was retained until 1999, when it was voluntarily handed back to China. While Portugal no longer possesses any colonies, it retains very strong social and economic ties with its former overseas realms. Well over a million of Portugal’s residents are of colonial decent (either ethnic Portuguese or from ingenious stock, or mixed), such that the colonial legacy is still very much part of the modern Portuguese identity." (Alexander Johnson and Dasa Pahor, 2022), British Library: Cartographic Items Maps Ref.G.5.(EUR).(6).; OCLC: 65363869, 83588368.

Map of Angola, featuring population. Shows political boundaries, cities, bodies of water, drainage, coastline and islands. Includes latitudinal and longitudinal lines, as well as a legend and scale statement. Colored lithograph. Map is 27 x 25 cm, on sheet 48 x 34 cm., Atlas de Portugal ultramarino e das grandes viagens Portuguesas de descobrimento e expansão, by the Ministério das Colónias of Portugal; published in Lisbon by the Instituto Geográfico e Cadastral, 1948. Title translates to: Atlas of overseas Portugal and the great Portuguese voyages of discovery and expansion. Bound in original brown cloth with calf spine. Title and imprint gilt debossed on front cover and spine. Collation: 2° : [10] pages, [101] leaves of plates (including some double), [4] pages. Volume includes a preface, table of contents, list of citations and colophon. Plates comprised of 110 maps, which represent Portuguese colonies across the globe, through systemic cartographic portraits of each place. Maps show political boundaries, cities, air routes, railways, roads, topography, bodies of water, drainage, coastlines and islands. Maps feature elevation, geology, climate, phytogeography, historical exploration, population, ethnicity, languages spoken, and economics, such as export and import values. Atlas was an intellectual production of the state colonial research agency, the Junta das Missões Geográficas e de Investigações Colonials, under the oppressive "Estado Novo" regime, which was led by the dictator António de Oliveira Salazar (1889 – 1970), an economics professor who promoted science, statistics, mapping and data visualization. The atlas was intended to be an expanded successor to the Comissão de Cartografia’s Atlas Colonial Português (Lisbon: [Imprensa Nacional], 1914), which showcased Portugal’s colonies but only included conventional topographic maps. "An unusually fine example of the most comprehensive and sophisticated atlas of Portugal’s colonial possessions ever made, and one of the greatest intellectual products of the ‘Estado Novo’ regime, that while oppressive, valued science, statistics and mapping; made by the state colonial research agency, the Junta das MissoÞes Geograìficas e de InvestigaçoÞes Colonials, the colossal work features 110 colour maps, including advanced topographical maps and thematic cartography (recording historical exploration, as well as geological, economic, hypsometric, demographic, ethnographic, climate, transport and communication maps) for each of the Portuguese colonies, custom made for the atlas by the Instituto Geográfico e Cadastral. This attractive and technically advanced atlas showcases Portugal’s overseas empire which then included Mozambique; Angola; Macau, China; Goa, India, along with its dependencies DamaÞo, Diu and Dadra & Nagar Haveli; Cabo Verde; São Tomé & Principe; Guiné (today Guinea-Bissau); and Timor-Leste (East Timor, in the Indonesian Archipelago). It was made by the Junta das MissoÞes Geograìficas e de InvestigaçoÞes Colonials, Portugal’s special state colonial research agency, which succeeded the former Comissão de Cartografia. The atlas commences with 11 maps charting the amazing historical achievements of Portuguese explorers, who were often the first Europeans to encounter parts of the world beyond their own continent, accomplishments which gave Portugal the world’s first global empire. Following that is an intriguing map shown the airline connections between Lisbon and its African colonies. The main body of the work is comprised of a systematic cartographic showcasing of each colony, including fine topographic maps, as well as thematic works such as geological, economic, hypsometric (elevation), demographic (population), ethnographic, linguistic, climate, and transport and communication maps. On the topographic side, the atlas incudes a monumental 6-sheet map of Angola and a 3-sheeet map of Mozambique. All the maps were custom made for the atlas by the state cartographic agency, the Instituto Geográfico e Cadastral. The atlas was intended to be the tremendously expanded successor to the Comissão de Cartografia’s Atlas Colonial Português (Lisbon: [Imprensa Nacional], 1914), that showcased Portugal’s colonies but that only included conventional topographic maps (albeit of very high quality). The present atlas is one of the greatest intellectual products of the Estado Novo regime (1926-74) that ruled Portugal and its overseas territories, led most of the time by the dictator António de Oliveira Salazar (1889 – 1970), an economics professor. While he presided over a conservative autocracy with a lamentable human rights record (especially in the African colonies), he revolutionized and modernized Portugal’s imperial bureaucracy, valuing science, statistics, mapping and data visualization. This, combined with the prevailing international movements of Art Deco and Mid-Century design, produced graphic works throughout the Portuguese lands that feature bright colour schemes, while imparting technical or scientific information in a precise, but visually crisp manner. While the atlas is not all that rare, it is very uncommon to encounter an example is such fine condition as the present offering. Due to the book’s immense size and weight, it is very prone to damage, and almost all the examples of which we aware have condition issues, whereas the present example is preserved in a lovely state. The present example of the atlas bears the ex libris of Professor Dr. Fernando de Mello Mendes, a prominent Portuguese mining engineer who did important work in Africa. Portugal’s ‘Ultramar’: The First European Overseas Empire Portugal established the first and one of the longest lasting European colonial empires, commenced by the amazingly audacious maritime projects of Prince Henry the Navigator (1394 – 1460). By the early 16th century Portugal’s empire, including both held colonial territories and trading posts, extended from South America all the way around Africa and thorough the Indian Ocean to the Asia Pacific, as far as Japan. Portugal’s disastrous union with Spain (1580 - 1640) severely weakened the empire, causing it to lose many of its colonies and trading posts to the Netherlands and England. However, in the aftermath, Portugal still retained a massive colonial empire that included (with dates of their establishment as colonies): Cabo Verde (1462); São Tomé & Principe (1486); Mozambique (1506); Goa, India (1510), along with its dependencies DamaÞo, Diu and Dadra & Nagar Haveli; Brazil (1532), the gem of the empire; Macao, China (1557); Angola (1571); Guiné (1588), today Guinea-Bissau; and Timor-Leste (1769), or East Timor, in the Indonesian Archipelago.  While Brazil became an independent mega-state, ruled by a branch of the Portuguese royal family, in 1822 (albeit maintaining close ties the Lisbon), Portugal retained its remaining colonies for a longer time that most other European powers. In fact, in modern times, these lands were classified as ‘overseas provinces’, or integral parts of Portugal proper, and not as colonies (the residents of those lands were even given full Portuguese citizenship); for example, Angola was legally just as much part of Portugal as Lisbon. Over the generations, hundreds of thousands of ethic Portuguese people had also migrated to the overseas provinces, with generations of their stock born there. While many (but not all) of the indigenous peoples had different notions, the Portuguese national psyche held the overseas domains as an inalienable part of the country’s identity. During World War I, when Portugal, in alliance with Britain, had to defend Mozambique from a surprisingly effective German invasion launched by the master-guerrilla leader, General Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck. While the Anglo-Portuguese side eventually prevailed, this came after only many shocking trials and tribulations. Under the ‘Estado Novo’ regime (1926-74), ruled most of the time by the dictator António de Oliveira Salazar, Portugal stubbornly resisted the anti-colonialism movements that were sweeping the world. Portugal sent in the army to suppress rebellions in Angola and Mozambique and were for a time successful. However, in 1961, India seized Goa in a lightening military strike, ‘Operation Vijay’, hailing the beginning of the end of the Portuguese overseas empire. Portugal’s ‘Carnation Revolution’ of 1974 saw the collapse of the Estado Nova regime, which was replaced with a liberal democratic government. Portugal then allowed all the remaining colonies to gain their independence (although Timor Leste was soon invaded and conquered by Indonesia; it attained its independence in 2002), except for Macao, which was retained until 1999, when it was voluntarily handed back to China. While Portugal no longer possesses any colonies, it retains very strong social and economic ties with its former overseas realms. Well over a million of Portugal’s residents are of colonial decent (either ethnic Portuguese or from ingenious stock, or mixed), such that the colonial legacy is still very much part of the modern Portuguese identity." (Alexander Johnson and Dasa Pahor, 2022), British Library: Cartographic Items Maps Ref.G.5.(EUR).(6).; OCLC: 65363869, 83588368.

Map of Angola, featuring geology and mining. Shows political boundaries, cities, bodies of water, drainage, coastline and islands. Includes latitudinal and longitudinal lines, as well as a legend and scale statement. Indexed to indicate mineral resources. Colored lithograph. Map is 27 x 25 cm, on sheet 48 x 34 cm., Atlas de Portugal ultramarino e das grandes viagens Portuguesas de descobrimento e expansão, by the Ministério das Colónias of Portugal; published in Lisbon by the Instituto Geográfico e Cadastral, 1948. Title translates to: Atlas of overseas Portugal and the great Portuguese voyages of discovery and expansion. Bound in original brown cloth with calf spine. Title and imprint gilt debossed on front cover and spine. Collation: 2° : [10] pages, [101] leaves of plates (including some double), [4] pages. Volume includes a preface, table of contents, list of citations and colophon. Plates comprised of 110 maps, which represent Portuguese colonies across the globe, through systemic cartographic portraits of each place. Maps show political boundaries, cities, air routes, railways, roads, topography, bodies of water, drainage, coastlines and islands. Maps feature elevation, geology, climate, phytogeography, historical exploration, population, ethnicity, languages spoken, and economics, such as export and import values. Atlas was an intellectual production of the state colonial research agency, the Junta das Missões Geográficas e de Investigações Colonials, under the oppressive "Estado Novo" regime, which was led by the dictator António de Oliveira Salazar (1889 – 1970), an economics professor who promoted science, statistics, mapping and data visualization. The atlas was intended to be an expanded successor to the Comissão de Cartografia’s Atlas Colonial Português (Lisbon: [Imprensa Nacional], 1914), which showcased Portugal’s colonies but only included conventional topographic maps. "An unusually fine example of the most comprehensive and sophisticated atlas of Portugal’s colonial possessions ever made, and one of the greatest intellectual products of the ‘Estado Novo’ regime, that while oppressive, valued science, statistics and mapping; made by the state colonial research agency, the Junta das MissoÞes Geograìficas e de InvestigaçoÞes Colonials, the colossal work features 110 colour maps, including advanced topographical maps and thematic cartography (recording historical exploration, as well as geological, economic, hypsometric, demographic, ethnographic, climate, transport and communication maps) for each of the Portuguese colonies, custom made for the atlas by the Instituto Geográfico e Cadastral. This attractive and technically advanced atlas showcases Portugal’s overseas empire which then included Mozambique; Angola; Macau, China; Goa, India, along with its dependencies DamaÞo, Diu and Dadra & Nagar Haveli; Cabo Verde; São Tomé & Principe; Guiné (today Guinea-Bissau); and Timor-Leste (East Timor, in the Indonesian Archipelago). It was made by the Junta das MissoÞes Geograìficas e de InvestigaçoÞes Colonials, Portugal’s special state colonial research agency, which succeeded the former Comissão de Cartografia. The atlas commences with 11 maps charting the amazing historical achievements of Portuguese explorers, who were often the first Europeans to encounter parts of the world beyond their own continent, accomplishments which gave Portugal the world’s first global empire. Following that is an intriguing map shown the airline connections between Lisbon and its African colonies. The main body of the work is comprised of a systematic cartographic showcasing of each colony, including fine topographic maps, as well as thematic works such as geological, economic, hypsometric (elevation), demographic (population), ethnographic, linguistic, climate, and transport and communication maps. On the topographic side, the atlas incudes a monumental 6-sheet map of Angola and a 3-sheeet map of Mozambique. All the maps were custom made for the atlas by the state cartographic agency, the Instituto Geográfico e Cadastral. The atlas was intended to be the tremendously expanded successor to the Comissão de Cartografia’s Atlas Colonial Português (Lisbon: [Imprensa Nacional], 1914), that showcased Portugal’s colonies but that only included conventional topographic maps (albeit of very high quality). The present atlas is one of the greatest intellectual products of the Estado Novo regime (1926-74) that ruled Portugal and its overseas territories, led most of the time by the dictator António de Oliveira Salazar (1889 – 1970), an economics professor. While he presided over a conservative autocracy with a lamentable human rights record (especially in the African colonies), he revolutionized and modernized Portugal’s imperial bureaucracy, valuing science, statistics, mapping and data visualization. This, combined with the prevailing international movements of Art Deco and Mid-Century design, produced graphic works throughout the Portuguese lands that feature bright colour schemes, while imparting technical or scientific information in a precise, but visually crisp manner. While the atlas is not all that rare, it is very uncommon to encounter an example is such fine condition as the present offering. Due to the book’s immense size and weight, it is very prone to damage, and almost all the examples of which we aware have condition issues, whereas the present example is preserved in a lovely state. The present example of the atlas bears the ex libris of Professor Dr. Fernando de Mello Mendes, a prominent Portuguese mining engineer who did important work in Africa. Portugal’s ‘Ultramar’: The First European Overseas Empire Portugal established the first and one of the longest lasting European colonial empires, commenced by the amazingly audacious maritime projects of Prince Henry the Navigator (1394 – 1460). By the early 16th century Portugal’s empire, including both held colonial territories and trading posts, extended from South America all the way around Africa and thorough the Indian Ocean to the Asia Pacific, as far as Japan. Portugal’s disastrous union with Spain (1580 - 1640) severely weakened the empire, causing it to lose many of its colonies and trading posts to the Netherlands and England. However, in the aftermath, Portugal still retained a massive colonial empire that included (with dates of their establishment as colonies): Cabo Verde (1462); São Tomé & Principe (1486); Mozambique (1506); Goa, India (1510), along with its dependencies DamaÞo, Diu and Dadra & Nagar Haveli; Brazil (1532), the gem of the empire; Macao, China (1557); Angola (1571); Guiné (1588), today Guinea-Bissau; and Timor-Leste (1769), or East Timor, in the Indonesian Archipelago.  While Brazil became an independent mega-state, ruled by a branch of the Portuguese royal family, in 1822 (albeit maintaining close ties the Lisbon), Portugal retained its remaining colonies for a longer time that most other European powers. In fact, in modern times, these lands were classified as ‘overseas provinces’, or integral parts of Portugal proper, and not as colonies (the residents of those lands were even given full Portuguese citizenship); for example, Angola was legally just as much part of Portugal as Lisbon. Over the generations, hundreds of thousands of ethic Portuguese people had also migrated to the overseas provinces, with generations of their stock born there. While many (but not all) of the indigenous peoples had different notions, the Portuguese national psyche held the overseas domains as an inalienable part of the country’s identity. During World War I, when Portugal, in alliance with Britain, had to defend Mozambique from a surprisingly effective German invasion launched by the master-guerrilla leader, General Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck. While the Anglo-Portuguese side eventually prevailed, this came after only many shocking trials and tribulations. Under the ‘Estado Novo’ regime (1926-74), ruled most of the time by the dictator António de Oliveira Salazar, Portugal stubbornly resisted the anti-colonialism movements that were sweeping the world. Portugal sent in the army to suppress rebellions in Angola and Mozambique and were for a time successful. However, in 1961, India seized Goa in a lightening military strike, ‘Operation Vijay’, hailing the beginning of the end of the Portuguese overseas empire. Portugal’s ‘Carnation Revolution’ of 1974 saw the collapse of the Estado Nova regime, which was replaced with a liberal democratic government. Portugal then allowed all the remaining colonies to gain their independence (although Timor Leste was soon invaded and conquered by Indonesia; it attained its independence in 2002), except for Macao, which was retained until 1999, when it was voluntarily handed back to China. While Portugal no longer possesses any colonies, it retains very strong social and economic ties with its former overseas realms. Well over a million of Portugal’s residents are of colonial decent (either ethnic Portuguese or from ingenious stock, or mixed), such that the colonial legacy is still very much part of the modern Portuguese identity." (Alexander Johnson and Dasa Pahor, 2022), British Library: Cartographic Items Maps Ref.G.5.(EUR).(6).; OCLC: 65363869, 83588368.

Map of Angola, featuring elevation. Shows political boundaries, cities, railways, topography, bodies of water, drainage, coastline and islands. Relief shown with color coding. Includes latitudinal and longitudinal lines, as well as a legend and scale statement. Colored lithograph. Map is 28 x 25 cm, on sheet 48 x 34 cm., Atlas de Portugal ultramarino e das grandes viagens Portuguesas de descobrimento e expansão, by the Ministério das Colónias of Portugal; published in Lisbon by the Instituto Geográfico e Cadastral, 1948. Title translates to: Atlas of overseas Portugal and the great Portuguese voyages of discovery and expansion. Bound in original brown cloth with calf spine. Title and imprint gilt debossed on front cover and spine. Collation: 2° : [10] pages, [101] leaves of plates (including some double), [4] pages. Volume includes a preface, table of contents, list of citations and colophon. Plates comprised of 110 maps, which represent Portuguese colonies across the globe, through systemic cartographic portraits of each place. Maps show political boundaries, cities, air routes, railways, roads, topography, bodies of water, drainage, coastlines and islands. Maps feature elevation, geology, climate, phytogeography, historical exploration, population, ethnicity, languages spoken, and economics, such as export and import values. Atlas was an intellectual production of the state colonial research agency, the Junta das Missões Geográficas e de Investigações Colonials, under the oppressive "Estado Novo" regime, which was led by the dictator António de Oliveira Salazar (1889 – 1970), an economics professor who promoted science, statistics, mapping and data visualization. The atlas was intended to be an expanded successor to the Comissão de Cartografia’s Atlas Colonial Português (Lisbon: [Imprensa Nacional], 1914), which showcased Portugal’s colonies but only included conventional topographic maps. "An unusually fine example of the most comprehensive and sophisticated atlas of Portugal’s colonial possessions ever made, and one of the greatest intellectual products of the ‘Estado Novo’ regime, that while oppressive, valued science, statistics and mapping; made by the state colonial research agency, the Junta das MissoÞes Geograìficas e de InvestigaçoÞes Colonials, the colossal work features 110 colour maps, including advanced topographical maps and thematic cartography (recording historical exploration, as well as geological, economic, hypsometric, demographic, ethnographic, climate, transport and communication maps) for each of the Portuguese colonies, custom made for the atlas by the Instituto Geográfico e Cadastral. This attractive and technically advanced atlas showcases Portugal’s overseas empire which then included Mozambique; Angola; Macau, China; Goa, India, along with its dependencies DamaÞo, Diu and Dadra & Nagar Haveli; Cabo Verde; São Tomé & Principe; Guiné (today Guinea-Bissau); and Timor-Leste (East Timor, in the Indonesian Archipelago). It was made by the Junta das MissoÞes Geograìficas e de InvestigaçoÞes Colonials, Portugal’s special state colonial research agency, which succeeded the former Comissão de Cartografia. The atlas commences with 11 maps charting the amazing historical achievements of Portuguese explorers, who were often the first Europeans to encounter parts of the world beyond their own continent, accomplishments which gave Portugal the world’s first global empire. Following that is an intriguing map shown the airline connections between Lisbon and its African colonies. The main body of the work is comprised of a systematic cartographic showcasing of each colony, including fine topographic maps, as well as thematic works such as geological, economic, hypsometric (elevation), demographic (population), ethnographic, linguistic, climate, and transport and communication maps. On the topographic side, the atlas incudes a monumental 6-sheet map of Angola and a 3-sheeet map of Mozambique. All the maps were custom made for the atlas by the state cartographic agency, the Instituto Geográfico e Cadastral. The atlas was intended to be the tremendously expanded successor to the Comissão de Cartografia’s Atlas Colonial Português (Lisbon: [Imprensa Nacional], 1914), that showcased Portugal’s colonies but that only included conventional topographic maps (albeit of very high quality). The present atlas is one of the greatest intellectual products of the Estado Novo regime (1926-74) that ruled Portugal and its overseas territories, led most of the time by the dictator António de Oliveira Salazar (1889 – 1970), an economics professor. While he presided over a conservative autocracy with a lamentable human rights record (especially in the African colonies), he revolutionized and modernized Portugal’s imperial bureaucracy, valuing science, statistics, mapping and data visualization. This, combined with the prevailing international movements of Art Deco and Mid-Century design, produced graphic works throughout the Portuguese lands that feature bright colour schemes, while imparting technical or scientific information in a precise, but visually crisp manner. While the atlas is not all that rare, it is very uncommon to encounter an example is such fine condition as the present offering. Due to the book’s immense size and weight, it is very prone to damage, and almost all the examples of which we aware have condition issues, whereas the present example is preserved in a lovely state. The present example of the atlas bears the ex libris of Professor Dr. Fernando de Mello Mendes, a prominent Portuguese mining engineer who did important work in Africa. Portugal’s ‘Ultramar’: The First European Overseas Empire Portugal established the first and one of the longest lasting European colonial empires, commenced by the amazingly audacious maritime projects of Prince Henry the Navigator (1394 – 1460). By the early 16th century Portugal’s empire, including both held colonial territories and trading posts, extended from South America all the way around Africa and thorough the Indian Ocean to the Asia Pacific, as far as Japan. Portugal’s disastrous union with Spain (1580 - 1640) severely weakened the empire, causing it to lose many of its colonies and trading posts to the Netherlands and England. However, in the aftermath, Portugal still retained a massive colonial empire that included (with dates of their establishment as colonies): Cabo Verde (1462); São Tomé & Principe (1486); Mozambique (1506); Goa, India (1510), along with its dependencies DamaÞo, Diu and Dadra & Nagar Haveli; Brazil (1532), the gem of the empire; Macao, China (1557); Angola (1571); Guiné (1588), today Guinea-Bissau; and Timor-Leste (1769), or East Timor, in the Indonesian Archipelago.  While Brazil became an independent mega-state, ruled by a branch of the Portuguese royal family, in 1822 (albeit maintaining close ties the Lisbon), Portugal retained its remaining colonies for a longer time that most other European powers. In fact, in modern times, these lands were classified as ‘overseas provinces’, or integral parts of Portugal proper, and not as colonies (the residents of those lands were even given full Portuguese citizenship); for example, Angola was legally just as much part of Portugal as Lisbon. Over the generations, hundreds of thousands of ethic Portuguese people had also migrated to the overseas provinces, with generations of their stock born there. While many (but not all) of the indigenous peoples had different notions, the Portuguese national psyche held the overseas domains as an inalienable part of the country’s identity. During World War I, when Portugal, in alliance with Britain, had to defend Mozambique from a surprisingly effective German invasion launched by the master-guerrilla leader, General Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck. While the Anglo-Portuguese side eventually prevailed, this came after only many shocking trials and tribulations. Under the ‘Estado Novo’ regime (1926-74), ruled most of the time by the dictator António de Oliveira Salazar, Portugal stubbornly resisted the anti-colonialism movements that were sweeping the world. Portugal sent in the army to suppress rebellions in Angola and Mozambique and were for a time successful. However, in 1961, India seized Goa in a lightening military strike, ‘Operation Vijay’, hailing the beginning of the end of the Portuguese overseas empire. Portugal’s ‘Carnation Revolution’ of 1974 saw the collapse of the Estado Nova regime, which was replaced with a liberal democratic government. Portugal then allowed all the remaining colonies to gain their independence (although Timor Leste was soon invaded and conquered by Indonesia; it attained its independence in 2002), except for Macao, which was retained until 1999, when it was voluntarily handed back to China. While Portugal no longer possesses any colonies, it retains very strong social and economic ties with its former overseas realms. Well over a million of Portugal’s residents are of colonial decent (either ethnic Portuguese or from ingenious stock, or mixed), such that the colonial legacy is still very much part of the modern Portuguese identity." (Alexander Johnson and Dasa Pahor, 2022), British Library: Cartographic Items Maps Ref.G.5.(EUR).(6).; OCLC: 65363869, 83588368.

Composite map of Angola, as a Portuguese colony. Shows political boundaries, cities, railways, roads, topography, bodies of water, drainage, coastline and islands. Relief shown with contour lines. Includes latitudinal and longitudinal lines, as well as a legend and scale statement. Colored lithograph. Map is 56 x 111 cm, on six sheets, together 69 x 144 cm. Composed of six sheets., Atlas de Portugal ultramarino e das grandes viagens Portuguesas de descobrimento e expansão, by the Ministério das Colónias of Portugal; published in Lisbon by the Instituto Geográfico e Cadastral, 1948. Title translates to: Atlas of overseas Portugal and the great Portuguese voyages of discovery and expansion. Bound in original brown cloth with calf spine. Title and imprint gilt debossed on front cover and spine. Collation: 2° : [10] pages, [101] leaves of plates (including some double), [4] pages. Volume includes a preface, table of contents, list of citations and colophon. Plates comprised of 110 maps, which represent Portuguese colonies across the globe, through systemic cartographic portraits of each place. Maps show political boundaries, cities, air routes, railways, roads, topography, bodies of water, drainage, coastlines and islands. Maps feature elevation, geology, climate, phytogeography, historical exploration, population, ethnicity, languages spoken, and economics, such as export and import values. Atlas was an intellectual production of the state colonial research agency, the Junta das Missões Geográficas e de Investigações Colonials, under the oppressive "Estado Novo" regime, which was led by the dictator António de Oliveira Salazar (1889 – 1970), an economics professor who promoted science, statistics, mapping and data visualization. The atlas was intended to be an expanded successor to the Comissão de Cartografia’s Atlas Colonial Português (Lisbon: [Imprensa Nacional], 1914), which showcased Portugal’s colonies but only included conventional topographic maps. "An unusually fine example of the most comprehensive and sophisticated atlas of Portugal’s colonial possessions ever made, and one of the greatest intellectual products of the ‘Estado Novo’ regime, that while oppressive, valued science, statistics and mapping; made by the state colonial research agency, the Junta das MissoÞes Geograìficas e de InvestigaçoÞes Colonials, the colossal work features 110 colour maps, including advanced topographical maps and thematic cartography (recording historical exploration, as well as geological, economic, hypsometric, demographic, ethnographic, climate, transport and communication maps) for each of the Portuguese colonies, custom made for the atlas by the Instituto Geográfico e Cadastral. This attractive and technically advanced atlas showcases Portugal’s overseas empire which then included Mozambique; Angola; Macau, China; Goa, India, along with its dependencies DamaÞo, Diu and Dadra & Nagar Haveli; Cabo Verde; São Tomé & Principe; Guiné (today Guinea-Bissau); and Timor-Leste (East Timor, in the Indonesian Archipelago). It was made by the Junta das MissoÞes Geograìficas e de InvestigaçoÞes Colonials, Portugal’s special state colonial research agency, which succeeded the former Comissão de Cartografia. The atlas commences with 11 maps charting the amazing historical achievements of Portuguese explorers, who were often the first Europeans to encounter parts of the world beyond their own continent, accomplishments which gave Portugal the world’s first global empire. Following that is an intriguing map shown the airline connections between Lisbon and its African colonies. The main body of the work is comprised of a systematic cartographic showcasing of each colony, including fine topographic maps, as well as thematic works such as geological, economic, hypsometric (elevation), demographic (population), ethnographic, linguistic, climate, and transport and communication maps. On the topographic side, the atlas incudes a monumental 6-sheet map of Angola and a 3-sheeet map of Mozambique. All the maps were custom made for the atlas by the state cartographic agency, the Instituto Geográfico e Cadastral. The atlas was intended to be the tremendously expanded successor to the Comissão de Cartografia’s Atlas Colonial Português (Lisbon: [Imprensa Nacional], 1914), that showcased Portugal’s colonies but that only included conventional topographic maps (albeit of very high quality). The present atlas is one of the greatest intellectual products of the Estado Novo regime (1926-74) that ruled Portugal and its overseas territories, led most of the time by the dictator António de Oliveira Salazar (1889 – 1970), an economics professor. While he presided over a conservative autocracy with a lamentable human rights record (especially in the African colonies), he revolutionized and modernized Portugal’s imperial bureaucracy, valuing science, statistics, mapping and data visualization. This, combined with the prevailing international movements of Art Deco and Mid-Century design, produced graphic works throughout the Portuguese lands that feature bright colour schemes, while imparting technical or scientific information in a precise, but visually crisp manner. While the atlas is not all that rare, it is very uncommon to encounter an example is such fine condition as the present offering. Due to the book’s immense size and weight, it is very prone to damage, and almost all the examples of which we aware have condition issues, whereas the present example is preserved in a lovely state. The present example of the atlas bears the ex libris of Professor Dr. Fernando de Mello Mendes, a prominent Portuguese mining engineer who did important work in Africa. Portugal’s ‘Ultramar’: The First European Overseas Empire Portugal established the first and one of the longest lasting European colonial empires, commenced by the amazingly audacious maritime projects of Prince Henry the Navigator (1394 – 1460). By the early 16th century Portugal’s empire, including both held colonial territories and trading posts, extended from South America all the way around Africa and thorough the Indian Ocean to the Asia Pacific, as far as Japan. Portugal’s disastrous union with Spain (1580 - 1640) severely weakened the empire, causing it to lose many of its colonies and trading posts to the Netherlands and England. However, in the aftermath, Portugal still retained a massive colonial empire that included (with dates of their establishment as colonies): Cabo Verde (1462); São Tomé & Principe (1486); Mozambique (1506); Goa, India (1510), along with its dependencies DamaÞo, Diu and Dadra & Nagar Haveli; Brazil (1532), the gem of the empire; Macao, China (1557); Angola (1571); Guiné (1588), today Guinea-Bissau; and Timor-Leste (1769), or East Timor, in the Indonesian Archipelago.  While Brazil became an independent mega-state, ruled by a branch of the Portuguese royal family, in 1822 (albeit maintaining close ties the Lisbon), Portugal retained its remaining colonies for a longer time that most other European powers. In fact, in modern times, these lands were classified as ‘overseas provinces’, or integral parts of Portugal proper, and not as colonies (the residents of those lands were even given full Portuguese citizenship); for example, Angola was legally just as much part of Portugal as Lisbon. Over the generations, hundreds of thousands of ethic Portuguese people had also migrated to the overseas provinces, with generations of their stock born there. While many (but not all) of the indigenous peoples had different notions, the Portuguese national psyche held the overseas domains as an inalienable part of the country’s identity. During World War I, when Portugal, in alliance with Britain, had to defend Mozambique from a surprisingly effective German invasion launched by the master-guerrilla leader, General Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck. While the Anglo-Portuguese side eventually prevailed, this came after only many shocking trials and tribulations. Under the ‘Estado Novo’ regime (1926-74), ruled most of the time by the dictator António de Oliveira Salazar, Portugal stubbornly resisted the anti-colonialism movements that were sweeping the world. Portugal sent in the army to suppress rebellions in Angola and Mozambique and were for a time successful. However, in 1961, India seized Goa in a lightening military strike, ‘Operation Vijay’, hailing the beginning of the end of the Portuguese overseas empire. Portugal’s ‘Carnation Revolution’ of 1974 saw the collapse of the Estado Nova regime, which was replaced with a liberal democratic government. Portugal then allowed all the remaining colonies to gain their independence (although Timor Leste was soon invaded and conquered by Indonesia; it attained its independence in 2002), except for Macao, which was retained until 1999, when it was voluntarily handed back to China. While Portugal no longer possesses any colonies, it retains very strong social and economic ties with its former overseas realms. Well over a million of Portugal’s residents are of colonial decent (either ethnic Portuguese or from ingenious stock, or mixed), such that the colonial legacy is still very much part of the modern Portuguese identity." (Alexander Johnson and Dasa Pahor, 2022), British Library: Cartographic Items Maps Ref.G.5.(EUR).(6).; OCLC: 65363869, 83588368.

Map of Angola, featuring administrative divisions. Shows political boundaries, cities, railways, roads, topography, bodies of water, drainage, coastline and islands. Relief shown with contour lines. Includes latitudinal and longitudinal lines, as well as a legend, explanatory notes and scale statement. Colored lithograph. Map is 41 x 36 cm, on double sheet 69 x 48 cm., Atlas de Portugal ultramarino e das grandes viagens Portuguesas de descobrimento e expansão, by the Ministério das Colónias of Portugal; published in Lisbon by the Instituto Geográfico e Cadastral, 1948. Title translates to: Atlas of overseas Portugal and the great Portuguese voyages of discovery and expansion. Bound in original brown cloth with calf spine. Title and imprint gilt debossed on front cover and spine. Collation: 2° : [10] pages, [101] leaves of plates (including some double), [4] pages. Volume includes a preface, table of contents, list of citations and colophon. Plates comprised of 110 maps, which represent Portuguese colonies across the globe, through systemic cartographic portraits of each place. Maps show political boundaries, cities, air routes, railways, roads, topography, bodies of water, drainage, coastlines and islands. Maps feature elevation, geology, climate, phytogeography, historical exploration, population, ethnicity, languages spoken, and economics, such as export and import values. Atlas was an intellectual production of the state colonial research agency, the Junta das Missões Geográficas e de Investigações Colonials, under the oppressive "Estado Novo" regime, which was led by the dictator António de Oliveira Salazar (1889 – 1970), an economics professor who promoted science, statistics, mapping and data visualization. The atlas was intended to be an expanded successor to the Comissão de Cartografia’s Atlas Colonial Português (Lisbon: [Imprensa Nacional], 1914), which showcased Portugal’s colonies but only included conventional topographic maps. "An unusually fine example of the most comprehensive and sophisticated atlas of Portugal’s colonial possessions ever made, and one of the greatest intellectual products of the ‘Estado Novo’ regime, that while oppressive, valued science, statistics and mapping; made by the state colonial research agency, the Junta das MissoÞes Geograìficas e de InvestigaçoÞes Colonials, the colossal work features 110 colour maps, including advanced topographical maps and thematic cartography (recording historical exploration, as well as geological, economic, hypsometric, demographic, ethnographic, climate, transport and communication maps) for each of the Portuguese colonies, custom made for the atlas by the Instituto Geográfico e Cadastral. This attractive and technically advanced atlas showcases Portugal’s overseas empire which then included Mozambique; Angola; Macau, China; Goa, India, along with its dependencies DamaÞo, Diu and Dadra & Nagar Haveli; Cabo Verde; São Tomé & Principe; Guiné (today Guinea-Bissau); and Timor-Leste (East Timor, in the Indonesian Archipelago). It was made by the Junta das MissoÞes Geograìficas e de InvestigaçoÞes Colonials, Portugal’s special state colonial research agency, which succeeded the former Comissão de Cartografia. The atlas commences with 11 maps charting the amazing historical achievements of Portuguese explorers, who were often the first Europeans to encounter parts of the world beyond their own continent, accomplishments which gave Portugal the world’s first global empire. Following that is an intriguing map shown the airline connections between Lisbon and its African colonies. The main body of the work is comprised of a systematic cartographic showcasing of each colony, including fine topographic maps, as well as thematic works such as geological, economic, hypsometric (elevation), demographic (population), ethnographic, linguistic, climate, and transport and communication maps. On the topographic side, the atlas incudes a monumental 6-sheet map of Angola and a 3-sheeet map of Mozambique. All the maps were custom made for the atlas by the state cartographic agency, the Instituto Geográfico e Cadastral. The atlas was intended to be the tremendously expanded successor to the Comissão de Cartografia’s Atlas Colonial Português (Lisbon: [Imprensa Nacional], 1914), that showcased Portugal’s colonies but that only included conventional topographic maps (albeit of very high quality). The present atlas is one of the greatest intellectual products of the Estado Novo regime (1926-74) that ruled Portugal and its overseas territories, led most of the time by the dictator António de Oliveira Salazar (1889 – 1970), an economics professor. While he presided over a conservative autocracy with a lamentable human rights record (especially in the African colonies), he revolutionized and modernized Portugal’s imperial bureaucracy, valuing science, statistics, mapping and data visualization. This, combined with the prevailing international movements of Art Deco and Mid-Century design, produced graphic works throughout the Portuguese lands that feature bright colour schemes, while imparting technical or scientific information in a precise, but visually crisp manner. While the atlas is not all that rare, it is very uncommon to encounter an example is such fine condition as the present offering. Due to the book’s immense size and weight, it is very prone to damage, and almost all the examples of which we aware have condition issues, whereas the present example is preserved in a lovely state. The present example of the atlas bears the ex libris of Professor Dr. Fernando de Mello Mendes, a prominent Portuguese mining engineer who did important work in Africa. Portugal’s ‘Ultramar’: The First European Overseas Empire Portugal established the first and one of the longest lasting European colonial empires, commenced by the amazingly audacious maritime projects of Prince Henry the Navigator (1394 – 1460). By the early 16th century Portugal’s empire, including both held colonial territories and trading posts, extended from South America all the way around Africa and thorough the Indian Ocean to the Asia Pacific, as far as Japan. Portugal’s disastrous union with Spain (1580 - 1640) severely weakened the empire, causing it to lose many of its colonies and trading posts to the Netherlands and England. However, in the aftermath, Portugal still retained a massive colonial empire that included (with dates of their establishment as colonies): Cabo Verde (1462); São Tomé & Principe (1486); Mozambique (1506); Goa, India (1510), along with its dependencies DamaÞo, Diu and Dadra & Nagar Haveli; Brazil (1532), the gem of the empire; Macao, China (1557); Angola (1571); Guiné (1588), today Guinea-Bissau; and Timor-Leste (1769), or East Timor, in the Indonesian Archipelago.  While Brazil became an independent mega-state, ruled by a branch of the Portuguese royal family, in 1822 (albeit maintaining close ties the Lisbon), Portugal retained its remaining colonies for a longer time that most other European powers. In fact, in modern times, these lands were classified as ‘overseas provinces’, or integral parts of Portugal proper, and not as colonies (the residents of those lands were even given full Portuguese citizenship); for example, Angola was legally just as much part of Portugal as Lisbon. Over the generations, hundreds of thousands of ethic Portuguese people had also migrated to the overseas provinces, with generations of their stock born there. While many (but not all) of the indigenous peoples had different notions, the Portuguese national psyche held the overseas domains as an inalienable part of the country’s identity. During World War I, when Portugal, in alliance with Britain, had to defend Mozambique from a surprisingly effective German invasion launched by the master-guerrilla leader, General Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck. While the Anglo-Portuguese side eventually prevailed, this came after only many shocking trials and tribulations. Under the ‘Estado Novo’ regime (1926-74), ruled most of the time by the dictator António de Oliveira Salazar, Portugal stubbornly resisted the anti-colonialism movements that were sweeping the world. Portugal sent in the army to suppress rebellions in Angola and Mozambique and were for a time successful. However, in 1961, India seized Goa in a lightening military strike, ‘Operation Vijay’, hailing the beginning of the end of the Portuguese overseas empire. Portugal’s ‘Carnation Revolution’ of 1974 saw the collapse of the Estado Nova regime, which was replaced with a liberal democratic government. Portugal then allowed all the remaining colonies to gain their independence (although Timor Leste was soon invaded and conquered by Indonesia; it attained its independence in 2002), except for Macao, which was retained until 1999, when it was voluntarily handed back to China. While Portugal no longer possesses any colonies, it retains very strong social and economic ties with its former overseas realms. Well over a million of Portugal’s residents are of colonial decent (either ethnic Portuguese or from ingenious stock, or mixed), such that the colonial legacy is still very much part of the modern Portuguese identity." (Alexander Johnson and Dasa Pahor, 2022), British Library: Cartographic Items Maps Ref.G.5.(EUR).(6).; OCLC: 65363869, 83588368.

Map of Angola, as a Portuguese colony. Shows political boundaries, cities, railways, roads, topography, bodies of water, drainage, coastline and islands. Relief shown with contour lines. Includes latitudinal and longitudinal lines, as well as a legend and scale statement. Colored lithograph. Map is 28 x 37 cm, on sheet 34 x 48 cm. Sixth of six sheets., Atlas de Portugal ultramarino e das grandes viagens Portuguesas de descobrimento e expansão, by the Ministério das Colónias of Portugal; published in Lisbon by the Instituto Geográfico e Cadastral, 1948. Title translates to: Atlas of overseas Portugal and the great Portuguese voyages of discovery and expansion. Bound in original brown cloth with calf spine. Title and imprint gilt debossed on front cover and spine. Collation: 2° : [10] pages, [101] leaves of plates (including some double), [4] pages. Volume includes a preface, table of contents, list of citations and colophon. Plates comprised of 110 maps, which represent Portuguese colonies across the globe, through systemic cartographic portraits of each place. Maps show political boundaries, cities, air routes, railways, roads, topography, bodies of water, drainage, coastlines and islands. Maps feature elevation, geology, climate, phytogeography, historical exploration, population, ethnicity, languages spoken, and economics, such as export and import values. Atlas was an intellectual production of the state colonial research agency, the Junta das Missões Geográficas e de Investigações Colonials, under the oppressive "Estado Novo" regime, which was led by the dictator António de Oliveira Salazar (1889 – 1970), an economics professor who promoted science, statistics, mapping and data visualization. The atlas was intended to be an expanded successor to the Comissão de Cartografia’s Atlas Colonial Português (Lisbon: [Imprensa Nacional], 1914), which showcased Portugal’s colonies but only included conventional topographic maps. "An unusually fine example of the most comprehensive and sophisticated atlas of Portugal’s colonial possessions ever made, and one of the greatest intellectual products of the ‘Estado Novo’ regime, that while oppressive, valued science, statistics and mapping; made by the state colonial research agency, the Junta das MissoÞes Geograìficas e de InvestigaçoÞes Colonials, the colossal work features 110 colour maps, including advanced topographical maps and thematic cartography (recording historical exploration, as well as geological, economic, hypsometric, demographic, ethnographic, climate, transport and communication maps) for each of the Portuguese colonies, custom made for the atlas by the Instituto Geográfico e Cadastral. This attractive and technically advanced atlas showcases Portugal’s overseas empire which then included Mozambique; Angola; Macau, China; Goa, India, along with its dependencies DamaÞo, Diu and Dadra & Nagar Haveli; Cabo Verde; São Tomé & Principe; Guiné (today Guinea-Bissau); and Timor-Leste (East Timor, in the Indonesian Archipelago). It was made by the Junta das MissoÞes Geograìficas e de InvestigaçoÞes Colonials, Portugal’s special state colonial research agency, which succeeded the former Comissão de Cartografia. The atlas commences with 11 maps charting the amazing historical achievements of Portuguese explorers, who were often the first Europeans to encounter parts of the world beyond their own continent, accomplishments which gave Portugal the world’s first global empire. Following that is an intriguing map shown the airline connections between Lisbon and its African colonies. The main body of the work is comprised of a systematic cartographic showcasing of each colony, including fine topographic maps, as well as thematic works such as geological, economic, hypsometric (elevation), demographic (population), ethnographic, linguistic, climate, and transport and communication maps. On the topographic side, the atlas incudes a monumental 6-sheet map of Angola and a 3-sheeet map of Mozambique. All the maps were custom made for the atlas by the state cartographic agency, the Instituto Geográfico e Cadastral. The atlas was intended to be the tremendously expanded successor to the Comissão de Cartografia’s Atlas Colonial Português (Lisbon: [Imprensa Nacional], 1914), that showcased Portugal’s colonies but that only included conventional topographic maps (albeit of very high quality). The present atlas is one of the greatest intellectual products of the Estado Novo regime (1926-74) that ruled Portugal and its overseas territories, led most of the time by the dictator António de Oliveira Salazar (1889 – 1970), an economics professor. While he presided over a conservative autocracy with a lamentable human rights record (especially in the African colonies), he revolutionized and modernized Portugal’s imperial bureaucracy, valuing science, statistics, mapping and data visualization. This, combined with the prevailing international movements of Art Deco and Mid-Century design, produced graphic works throughout the Portuguese lands that feature bright colour schemes, while imparting technical or scientific information in a precise, but visually crisp manner. While the atlas is not all that rare, it is very uncommon to encounter an example is such fine condition as the present offering. Due to the book’s immense size and weight, it is very prone to damage, and almost all the examples of which we aware have condition issues, whereas the present example is preserved in a lovely state. The present example of the atlas bears the ex libris of Professor Dr. Fernando de Mello Mendes, a prominent Portuguese mining engineer who did important work in Africa. Portugal’s ‘Ultramar’: The First European Overseas Empire Portugal established the first and one of the longest lasting European colonial empires, commenced by the amazingly audacious maritime projects of Prince Henry the Navigator (1394 – 1460). By the early 16th century Portugal’s empire, including both held colonial territories and trading posts, extended from South America all the way around Africa and thorough the Indian Ocean to the Asia Pacific, as far as Japan. Portugal’s disastrous union with Spain (1580 - 1640) severely weakened the empire, causing it to lose many of its colonies and trading posts to the Netherlands and England. However, in the aftermath, Portugal still retained a massive colonial empire that included (with dates of their establishment as colonies): Cabo Verde (1462); São Tomé & Principe (1486); Mozambique (1506); Goa, India (1510), along with its dependencies DamaÞo, Diu and Dadra & Nagar Haveli; Brazil (1532), the gem of the empire; Macao, China (1557); Angola (1571); Guiné (1588), today Guinea-Bissau; and Timor-Leste (1769), or East Timor, in the Indonesian Archipelago.  While Brazil became an independent mega-state, ruled by a branch of the Portuguese royal family, in 1822 (albeit maintaining close ties the Lisbon), Portugal retained its remaining colonies for a longer time that most other European powers. In fact, in modern times, these lands were classified as ‘overseas provinces’, or integral parts of Portugal proper, and not as colonies (the residents of those lands were even given full Portuguese citizenship); for example, Angola was legally just as much part of Portugal as Lisbon. Over the generations, hundreds of thousands of ethic Portuguese people had also migrated to the overseas provinces, with generations of their stock born there. While many (but not all) of the indigenous peoples had different notions, the Portuguese national psyche held the overseas domains as an inalienable part of the country’s identity. During World War I, when Portugal, in alliance with Britain, had to defend Mozambique from a surprisingly effective German invasion launched by the master-guerrilla leader, General Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck. While the Anglo-Portuguese side eventually prevailed, this came after only many shocking trials and tribulations. Under the ‘Estado Novo’ regime (1926-74), ruled most of the time by the dictator António de Oliveira Salazar, Portugal stubbornly resisted the anti-colonialism movements that were sweeping the world. Portugal sent in the army to suppress rebellions in Angola and Mozambique and were for a time successful. However, in 1961, India seized Goa in a lightening military strike, ‘Operation Vijay’, hailing the beginning of the end of the Portuguese overseas empire. Portugal’s ‘Carnation Revolution’ of 1974 saw the collapse of the Estado Nova regime, which was replaced with a liberal democratic government. Portugal then allowed all the remaining colonies to gain their independence (although Timor Leste was soon invaded and conquered by Indonesia; it attained its independence in 2002), except for Macao, which was retained until 1999, when it was voluntarily handed back to China. While Portugal no longer possesses any colonies, it retains very strong social and economic ties with its former overseas realms. Well over a million of Portugal’s residents are of colonial decent (either ethnic Portuguese or from ingenious stock, or mixed), such that the colonial legacy is still very much part of the modern Portuguese identity." (Alexander Johnson and Dasa Pahor, 2022), British Library: Cartographic Items Maps Ref.G.5.(EUR).(6).; OCLC: 65363869, 83588368.

Map of Angola, as a Portuguese colony. Shows political boundaries, cities, railways, roads, topography, bodies of water, drainage, coastline and islands. Relief shown with contour lines. Includes latitudinal and longitudinal lines, as well as a scale statement. Colored lithograph. Map is 28 x 37 cm, on sheet 34 x 48 cm. Fifth of six sheets., Atlas de Portugal ultramarino e das grandes viagens Portuguesas de descobrimento e expansão, by the Ministério das Colónias of Portugal; published in Lisbon by the Instituto Geográfico e Cadastral, 1948. Title translates to: Atlas of overseas Portugal and the great Portuguese voyages of discovery and expansion. Bound in original brown cloth with calf spine. Title and imprint gilt debossed on front cover and spine. Collation: 2° : [10] pages, [101] leaves of plates (including some double), [4] pages. Volume includes a preface, table of contents, list of citations and colophon. Plates comprised of 110 maps, which represent Portuguese colonies across the globe, through systemic cartographic portraits of each place. Maps show political boundaries, cities, air routes, railways, roads, topography, bodies of water, drainage, coastlines and islands. Maps feature elevation, geology, climate, phytogeography, historical exploration, population, ethnicity, languages spoken, and economics, such as export and import values. Atlas was an intellectual production of the state colonial research agency, the Junta das Missões Geográficas e de Investigações Colonials, under the oppressive "Estado Novo" regime, which was led by the dictator António de Oliveira Salazar (1889 – 1970), an economics professor who promoted science, statistics, mapping and data visualization. The atlas was intended to be an expanded successor to the Comissão de Cartografia’s Atlas Colonial Português (Lisbon: [Imprensa Nacional], 1914), which showcased Portugal’s colonies but only included conventional topographic maps. "An unusually fine example of the most comprehensive and sophisticated atlas of Portugal’s colonial possessions ever made, and one of the greatest intellectual products of the ‘Estado Novo’ regime, that while oppressive, valued science, statistics and mapping; made by the state colonial research agency, the Junta das MissoÞes Geograìficas e de InvestigaçoÞes Colonials, the colossal work features 110 colour maps, including advanced topographical maps and thematic cartography (recording historical exploration, as well as geological, economic, hypsometric, demographic, ethnographic, climate, transport and communication maps) for each of the Portuguese colonies, custom made for the atlas by the Instituto Geográfico e Cadastral. This attractive and technically advanced atlas showcases Portugal’s overseas empire which then included Mozambique; Angola; Macau, China; Goa, India, along with its dependencies DamaÞo, Diu and Dadra & Nagar Haveli; Cabo Verde; São Tomé & Principe; Guiné (today Guinea-Bissau); and Timor-Leste (East Timor, in the Indonesian Archipelago). It was made by the Junta das MissoÞes Geograìficas e de InvestigaçoÞes Colonials, Portugal’s special state colonial research agency, which succeeded the former Comissão de Cartografia. The atlas commences with 11 maps charting the amazing historical achievements of Portuguese explorers, who were often the first Europeans to encounter parts of the world beyond their own continent, accomplishments which gave Portugal the world’s first global empire. Following that is an intriguing map shown the airline connections between Lisbon and its African colonies. The main body of the work is comprised of a systematic cartographic showcasing of each colony, including fine topographic maps, as well as thematic works such as geological, economic, hypsometric (elevation), demographic (population), ethnographic, linguistic, climate, and transport and communication maps. On the topographic side, the atlas incudes a monumental 6-sheet map of Angola and a 3-sheeet map of Mozambique. All the maps were custom made for the atlas by the state cartographic agency, the Instituto Geográfico e Cadastral. The atlas was intended to be the tremendously expanded successor to the Comissão de Cartografia’s Atlas Colonial Português (Lisbon: [Imprensa Nacional], 1914), that showcased Portugal’s colonies but that only included conventional topographic maps (albeit of very high quality). The present atlas is one of the greatest intellectual products of the Estado Novo regime (1926-74) that ruled Portugal and its overseas territories, led most of the time by the dictator António de Oliveira Salazar (1889 – 1970), an economics professor. While he presided over a conservative autocracy with a lamentable human rights record (especially in the African colonies), he revolutionized and modernized Portugal’s imperial bureaucracy, valuing science, statistics, mapping and data visualization. This, combined with the prevailing international movements of Art Deco and Mid-Century design, produced graphic works throughout the Portuguese lands that feature bright colour schemes, while imparting technical or scientific information in a precise, but visually crisp manner. While the atlas is not all that rare, it is very uncommon to encounter an example is such fine condition as the present offering. Due to the book’s immense size and weight, it is very prone to damage, and almost all the examples of which we aware have condition issues, whereas the present example is preserved in a lovely state. The present example of the atlas bears the ex libris of Professor Dr. Fernando de Mello Mendes, a prominent Portuguese mining engineer who did important work in Africa. Portugal’s ‘Ultramar’: The First European Overseas Empire Portugal established the first and one of the longest lasting European colonial empires, commenced by the amazingly audacious maritime projects of Prince Henry the Navigator (1394 – 1460). By the early 16th century Portugal’s empire, including both held colonial territories and trading posts, extended from South America all the way around Africa and thorough the Indian Ocean to the Asia Pacific, as far as Japan. Portugal’s disastrous union with Spain (1580 - 1640) severely weakened the empire, causing it to lose many of its colonies and trading posts to the Netherlands and England. However, in the aftermath, Portugal still retained a massive colonial empire that included (with dates of their establishment as colonies): Cabo Verde (1462); São Tomé & Principe (1486); Mozambique (1506); Goa, India (1510), along with its dependencies DamaÞo, Diu and Dadra & Nagar Haveli; Brazil (1532), the gem of the empire; Macao, China (1557); Angola (1571); Guiné (1588), today Guinea-Bissau; and Timor-Leste (1769), or East Timor, in the Indonesian Archipelago.  While Brazil became an independent mega-state, ruled by a branch of the Portuguese royal family, in 1822 (albeit maintaining close ties the Lisbon), Portugal retained its remaining colonies for a longer time that most other European powers. In fact, in modern times, these lands were classified as ‘overseas provinces’, or integral parts of Portugal proper, and not as colonies (the residents of those lands were even given full Portuguese citizenship); for example, Angola was legally just as much part of Portugal as Lisbon. Over the generations, hundreds of thousands of ethic Portuguese people had also migrated to the overseas provinces, with generations of their stock born there. While many (but not all) of the indigenous peoples had different notions, the Portuguese national psyche held the overseas domains as an inalienable part of the country’s identity. During World War I, when Portugal, in alliance with Britain, had to defend Mozambique from a surprisingly effective German invasion launched by the master-guerrilla leader, General Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck. While the Anglo-Portuguese side eventually prevailed, this came after only many shocking trials and tribulations. Under the ‘Estado Novo’ regime (1926-74), ruled most of the time by the dictator António de Oliveira Salazar, Portugal stubbornly resisted the anti-colonialism movements that were sweeping the world. Portugal sent in the army to suppress rebellions in Angola and Mozambique and were for a time successful. However, in 1961, India seized Goa in a lightening military strike, ‘Operation Vijay’, hailing the beginning of the end of the Portuguese overseas empire. Portugal’s ‘Carnation Revolution’ of 1974 saw the collapse of the Estado Nova regime, which was replaced with a liberal democratic government. Portugal then allowed all the remaining colonies to gain their independence (although Timor Leste was soon invaded and conquered by Indonesia; it attained its independence in 2002), except for Macao, which was retained until 1999, when it was voluntarily handed back to China. While Portugal no longer possesses any colonies, it retains very strong social and economic ties with its former overseas realms. Well over a million of Portugal’s residents are of colonial decent (either ethnic Portuguese or from ingenious stock, or mixed), such that the colonial legacy is still very much part of the modern Portuguese identity." (Alexander Johnson and Dasa Pahor, 2022), British Library: Cartographic Items Maps Ref.G.5.(EUR).(6).; OCLC: 65363869, 83588368.

Map of Angola, as a Portuguese colony. Shows political boundaries, cities, railways, roads, topography, bodies of water, drainage, coastline and islands. Relief shown with contour lines. Includes latitudinal and longitudinal lines, as well as a scale statement. Colored lithograph. Map is 28 x 37 cm, on sheet 34 x 48 cm. Fourth of six sheets., Atlas de Portugal ultramarino e das grandes viagens Portuguesas de descobrimento e expansão, by the Ministério das Colónias of Portugal; published in Lisbon by the Instituto Geográfico e Cadastral, 1948. Title translates to: Atlas of overseas Portugal and the great Portuguese voyages of discovery and expansion. Bound in original brown cloth with calf spine. Title and imprint gilt debossed on front cover and spine. Collation: 2° : [10] pages, [101] leaves of plates (including some double), [4] pages. Volume includes a preface, table of contents, list of citations and colophon. Plates comprised of 110 maps, which represent Portuguese colonies across the globe, through systemic cartographic portraits of each place. Maps show political boundaries, cities, air routes, railways, roads, topography, bodies of water, drainage, coastlines and islands. Maps feature elevation, geology, climate, phytogeography, historical exploration, population, ethnicity, languages spoken, and economics, such as export and import values. Atlas was an intellectual production of the state colonial research agency, the Junta das Missões Geográficas e de Investigações Colonials, under the oppressive "Estado Novo" regime, which was led by the dictator António de Oliveira Salazar (1889 – 1970), an economics professor who promoted science, statistics, mapping and data visualization. The atlas was intended to be an expanded successor to the Comissão de Cartografia’s Atlas Colonial Português (Lisbon: [Imprensa Nacional], 1914), which showcased Portugal’s colonies but only included conventional topographic maps. "An unusually fine example of the most comprehensive and sophisticated atlas of Portugal’s colonial possessions ever made, and one of the greatest intellectual products of the ‘Estado Novo’ regime, that while oppressive, valued science, statistics and mapping; made by the state colonial research agency, the Junta das MissoÞes Geograìficas e de InvestigaçoÞes Colonials, the colossal work features 110 colour maps, including advanced topographical maps and thematic cartography (recording historical exploration, as well as geological, economic, hypsometric, demographic, ethnographic, climate, transport and communication maps) for each of the Portuguese colonies, custom made for the atlas by the Instituto Geográfico e Cadastral. This attractive and technically advanced atlas showcases Portugal’s overseas empire which then included Mozambique; Angola; Macau, China; Goa, India, along with its dependencies DamaÞo, Diu and Dadra & Nagar Haveli; Cabo Verde; São Tomé & Principe; Guiné (today Guinea-Bissau); and Timor-Leste (East Timor, in the Indonesian Archipelago). It was made by the Junta das MissoÞes Geograìficas e de InvestigaçoÞes Colonials, Portugal’s special state colonial research agency, which succeeded the former Comissão de Cartografia. The atlas commences with 11 maps charting the amazing historical achievements of Portuguese explorers, who were often the first Europeans to encounter parts of the world beyond their own continent, accomplishments which gave Portugal the world’s first global empire. Following that is an intriguing map shown the airline connections between Lisbon and its African colonies. The main body of the work is comprised of a systematic cartographic showcasing of each colony, including fine topographic maps, as well as thematic works such as geological, economic, hypsometric (elevation), demographic (population), ethnographic, linguistic, climate, and transport and communication maps. On the topographic side, the atlas incudes a monumental 6-sheet map of Angola and a 3-sheeet map of Mozambique. All the maps were custom made for the atlas by the state cartographic agency, the Instituto Geográfico e Cadastral. The atlas was intended to be the tremendously expanded successor to the Comissão de Cartografia’s Atlas Colonial Português (Lisbon: [Imprensa Nacional], 1914), that showcased Portugal’s colonies but that only included conventional topographic maps (albeit of very high quality). The present atlas is one of the greatest intellectual products of the Estado Novo regime (1926-74) that ruled Portugal and its overseas territories, led most of the time by the dictator António de Oliveira Salazar (1889 – 1970), an economics professor. While he presided over a conservative autocracy with a lamentable human rights record (especially in the African colonies), he revolutionized and modernized Portugal’s imperial bureaucracy, valuing science, statistics, mapping and data visualization. This, combined with the prevailing international movements of Art Deco and Mid-Century design, produced graphic works throughout the Portuguese lands that feature bright colour schemes, while imparting technical or scientific information in a precise, but visually crisp manner. While the atlas is not all that rare, it is very uncommon to encounter an example is such fine condition as the present offering. Due to the book’s immense size and weight, it is very prone to damage, and almost all the examples of which we aware have condition issues, whereas the present example is preserved in a lovely state. The present example of the atlas bears the ex libris of Professor Dr. Fernando de Mello Mendes, a prominent Portuguese mining engineer who did important work in Africa. Portugal’s ‘Ultramar’: The First European Overseas Empire Portugal established the first and one of the longest lasting European colonial empires, commenced by the amazingly audacious maritime projects of Prince Henry the Navigator (1394 – 1460). By the early 16th century Portugal’s empire, including both held colonial territories and trading posts, extended from South America all the way around Africa and thorough the Indian Ocean to the Asia Pacific, as far as Japan. Portugal’s disastrous union with Spain (1580 - 1640) severely weakened the empire, causing it to lose many of its colonies and trading posts to the Netherlands and England. However, in the aftermath, Portugal still retained a massive colonial empire that included (with dates of their establishment as colonies): Cabo Verde (1462); São Tomé & Principe (1486); Mozambique (1506); Goa, India (1510), along with its dependencies DamaÞo, Diu and Dadra & Nagar Haveli; Brazil (1532), the gem of the empire; Macao, China (1557); Angola (1571); Guiné (1588), today Guinea-Bissau; and Timor-Leste (1769), or East Timor, in the Indonesian Archipelago.  While Brazil became an independent mega-state, ruled by a branch of the Portuguese royal family, in 1822 (albeit maintaining close ties the Lisbon), Portugal retained its remaining colonies for a longer time that most other European powers. In fact, in modern times, these lands were classified as ‘overseas provinces’, or integral parts of Portugal proper, and not as colonies (the residents of those lands were even given full Portuguese citizenship); for example, Angola was legally just as much part of Portugal as Lisbon. Over the generations, hundreds of thousands of ethic Portuguese people had also migrated to the overseas provinces, with generations of their stock born there. While many (but not all) of the indigenous peoples had different notions, the Portuguese national psyche held the overseas domains as an inalienable part of the country’s identity. During World War I, when Portugal, in alliance with Britain, had to defend Mozambique from a surprisingly effective German invasion launched by the master-guerrilla leader, General Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck. While the Anglo-Portuguese side eventually prevailed, this came after only many shocking trials and tribulations. Under the ‘Estado Novo’ regime (1926-74), ruled most of the time by the dictator António de Oliveira Salazar, Portugal stubbornly resisted the anti-colonialism movements that were sweeping the world. Portugal sent in the army to suppress rebellions in Angola and Mozambique and were for a time successful. However, in 1961, India seized Goa in a lightening military strike, ‘Operation Vijay’, hailing the beginning of the end of the Portuguese overseas empire. Portugal’s ‘Carnation Revolution’ of 1974 saw the collapse of the Estado Nova regime, which was replaced with a liberal democratic government. Portugal then allowed all the remaining colonies to gain their independence (although Timor Leste was soon invaded and conquered by Indonesia; it attained its independence in 2002), except for Macao, which was retained until 1999, when it was voluntarily handed back to China. While Portugal no longer possesses any colonies, it retains very strong social and economic ties with its former overseas realms. Well over a million of Portugal’s residents are of colonial decent (either ethnic Portuguese or from ingenious stock, or mixed), such that the colonial legacy is still very much part of the modern Portuguese identity." (Alexander Johnson and Dasa Pahor, 2022), British Library: Cartographic Items Maps Ref.G.5.(EUR).(6).; OCLC: 65363869, 83588368.

Map of Angola, as a Portuguese colony. Shows political boundaries, cities, railways, roads, topography, bodies of water, drainage, coastline and islands. Relief shown with contour lines. Includes latitudinal and longitudinal lines, as well as a scale statement. Colored lithograph. Map is 28 x 37 cm, on sheet 34 x 48 cm. Third of six sheets., Atlas de Portugal ultramarino e das grandes viagens Portuguesas de descobrimento e expansão, by the Ministério das Colónias of Portugal; published in Lisbon by the Instituto Geográfico e Cadastral, 1948. Title translates to: Atlas of overseas Portugal and the great Portuguese voyages of discovery and expansion. Bound in original brown cloth with calf spine. Title and imprint gilt debossed on front cover and spine. Collation: 2° : [10] pages, [101] leaves of plates (including some double), [4] pages. Volume includes a preface, table of contents, list of citations and colophon. Plates comprised of 110 maps, which represent Portuguese colonies across the globe, through systemic cartographic portraits of each place. Maps show political boundaries, cities, air routes, railways, roads, topography, bodies of water, drainage, coastlines and islands. Maps feature elevation, geology, climate, phytogeography, historical exploration, population, ethnicity, languages spoken, and economics, such as export and import values. Atlas was an intellectual production of the state colonial research agency, the Junta das Missões Geográficas e de Investigações Colonials, under the oppressive "Estado Novo" regime, which was led by the dictator António de Oliveira Salazar (1889 – 1970), an economics professor who promoted science, statistics, mapping and data visualization. The atlas was intended to be an expanded successor to the Comissão de Cartografia’s Atlas Colonial Português (Lisbon: [Imprensa Nacional], 1914), which showcased Portugal’s colonies but only included conventional topographic maps. "An unusually fine example of the most comprehensive and sophisticated atlas of Portugal’s colonial possessions ever made, and one of the greatest intellectual products of the ‘Estado Novo’ regime, that while oppressive, valued science, statistics and mapping; made by the state colonial research agency, the Junta das MissoÞes Geograìficas e de InvestigaçoÞes Colonials, the colossal work features 110 colour maps, including advanced topographical maps and thematic cartography (recording historical exploration, as well as geological, economic, hypsometric, demographic, ethnographic, climate, transport and communication maps) for each of the Portuguese colonies, custom made for the atlas by the Instituto Geográfico e Cadastral. This attractive and technically advanced atlas showcases Portugal’s overseas empire which then included Mozambique; Angola; Macau, China; Goa, India, along with its dependencies DamaÞo, Diu and Dadra & Nagar Haveli; Cabo Verde; São Tomé & Principe; Guiné (today Guinea-Bissau); and Timor-Leste (East Timor, in the Indonesian Archipelago). It was made by the Junta das MissoÞes Geograìficas e de InvestigaçoÞes Colonials, Portugal’s special state colonial research agency, which succeeded the former Comissão de Cartografia. The atlas commences with 11 maps charting the amazing historical achievements of Portuguese explorers, who were often the first Europeans to encounter parts of the world beyond their own continent, accomplishments which gave Portugal the world’s first global empire. Following that is an intriguing map shown the airline connections between Lisbon and its African colonies. The main body of the work is comprised of a systematic cartographic showcasing of each colony, including fine topographic maps, as well as thematic works such as geological, economic, hypsometric (elevation), demographic (population), ethnographic, linguistic, climate, and transport and communication maps. On the topographic side, the atlas incudes a monumental 6-sheet map of Angola and a 3-sheeet map of Mozambique. All the maps were custom made for the atlas by the state cartographic agency, the Instituto Geográfico e Cadastral. The atlas was intended to be the tremendously expanded successor to the Comissão de Cartografia’s Atlas Colonial Português (Lisbon: [Imprensa Nacional], 1914), that showcased Portugal’s colonies but that only included conventional topographic maps (albeit of very high quality). The present atlas is one of the greatest intellectual products of the Estado Novo regime (1926-74) that ruled Portugal and its overseas territories, led most of the time by the dictator António de Oliveira Salazar (1889 – 1970), an economics professor. While he presided over a conservative autocracy with a lamentable human rights record (especially in the African colonies), he revolutionized and modernized Portugal’s imperial bureaucracy, valuing science, statistics, mapping and data visualization. This, combined with the prevailing international movements of Art Deco and Mid-Century design, produced graphic works throughout the Portuguese lands that feature bright colour schemes, while imparting technical or scientific information in a precise, but visually crisp manner. While the atlas is not all that rare, it is very uncommon to encounter an example is such fine condition as the present offering. Due to the book’s immense size and weight, it is very prone to damage, and almost all the examples of which we aware have condition issues, whereas the present example is preserved in a lovely state. The present example of the atlas bears the ex libris of Professor Dr. Fernando de Mello Mendes, a prominent Portuguese mining engineer who did important work in Africa. Portugal’s ‘Ultramar’: The First European Overseas Empire Portugal established the first and one of the longest lasting European colonial empires, commenced by the amazingly audacious maritime projects of Prince Henry the Navigator (1394 – 1460). By the early 16th century Portugal’s empire, including both held colonial territories and trading posts, extended from South America all the way around Africa and thorough the Indian Ocean to the Asia Pacific, as far as Japan. Portugal’s disastrous union with Spain (1580 - 1640) severely weakened the empire, causing it to lose many of its colonies and trading posts to the Netherlands and England. However, in the aftermath, Portugal still retained a massive colonial empire that included (with dates of their establishment as colonies): Cabo Verde (1462); São Tomé & Principe (1486); Mozambique (1506); Goa, India (1510), along with its dependencies DamaÞo, Diu and Dadra & Nagar Haveli; Brazil (1532), the gem of the empire; Macao, China (1557); Angola (1571); Guiné (1588), today Guinea-Bissau; and Timor-Leste (1769), or East Timor, in the Indonesian Archipelago.  While Brazil became an independent mega-state, ruled by a branch of the Portuguese royal family, in 1822 (albeit maintaining close ties the Lisbon), Portugal retained its remaining colonies for a longer time that most other European powers. In fact, in modern times, these lands were classified as ‘overseas provinces’, or integral parts of Portugal proper, and not as colonies (the residents of those lands were even given full Portuguese citizenship); for example, Angola was legally just as much part of Portugal as Lisbon. Over the generations, hundreds of thousands of ethic Portuguese people had also migrated to the overseas provinces, with generations of their stock born there. While many (but not all) of the indigenous peoples had different notions, the Portuguese national psyche held the overseas domains as an inalienable part of the country’s identity. During World War I, when Portugal, in alliance with Britain, had to defend Mozambique from a surprisingly effective German invasion launched by the master-guerrilla leader, General Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck. While the Anglo-Portuguese side eventually prevailed, this came after only many shocking trials and tribulations. Under the ‘Estado Novo’ regime (1926-74), ruled most of the time by the dictator António de Oliveira Salazar, Portugal stubbornly resisted the anti-colonialism movements that were sweeping the world. Portugal sent in the army to suppress rebellions in Angola and Mozambique and were for a time successful. However, in 1961, India seized Goa in a lightening military strike, ‘Operation Vijay’, hailing the beginning of the end of the Portuguese overseas empire. Portugal’s ‘Carnation Revolution’ of 1974 saw the collapse of the Estado Nova regime, which was replaced with a liberal democratic government. Portugal then allowed all the remaining colonies to gain their independence (although Timor Leste was soon invaded and conquered by Indonesia; it attained its independence in 2002), except for Macao, which was retained until 1999, when it was voluntarily handed back to China. While Portugal no longer possesses any colonies, it retains very strong social and economic ties with its former overseas realms. Well over a million of Portugal’s residents are of colonial decent (either ethnic Portuguese or from ingenious stock, or mixed), such that the colonial legacy is still very much part of the modern Portuguese identity." (Alexander Johnson and Dasa Pahor, 2022), British Library: Cartographic Items Maps Ref.G.5.(EUR).(6).; OCLC: 65363869, 83588368.

Map of Angola, as a Portuguese colony. Shows political boundaries, cities, railways, roads, topography, bodies of water, drainage, coastline and islands. Relief shown with contour lines. Includes latitudinal and longitudinal lines, as well as a scale statement. Colored lithograph. Map is 28 x 37 cm, on sheet 34 x 48 cm. Second of six sheets., Atlas de Portugal ultramarino e das grandes viagens Portuguesas de descobrimento e expansão, by the Ministério das Colónias of Portugal; published in Lisbon by the Instituto Geográfico e Cadastral, 1948. Title translates to: Atlas of overseas Portugal and the great Portuguese voyages of discovery and expansion. Bound in original brown cloth with calf spine. Title and imprint gilt debossed on front cover and spine. Collation: 2° : [10] pages, [101] leaves of plates (including some double), [4] pages. Volume includes a preface, table of contents, list of citations and colophon. Plates comprised of 110 maps, which represent Portuguese colonies across the globe, through systemic cartographic portraits of each place. Maps show political boundaries, cities, air routes, railways, roads, topography, bodies of water, drainage, coastlines and islands. Maps feature elevation, geology, climate, phytogeography, historical exploration, population, ethnicity, languages spoken, and economics, such as export and import values. Atlas was an intellectual production of the state colonial research agency, the Junta das Missões Geográficas e de Investigações Colonials, under the oppressive "Estado Novo" regime, which was led by the dictator António de Oliveira Salazar (1889 – 1970), an economics professor who promoted science, statistics, mapping and data visualization. The atlas was intended to be an expanded successor to the Comissão de Cartografia’s Atlas Colonial Português (Lisbon: [Imprensa Nacional], 1914), which showcased Portugal’s colonies but only included conventional topographic maps. "An unusually fine example of the most comprehensive and sophisticated atlas of Portugal’s colonial possessions ever made, and one of the greatest intellectual products of the ‘Estado Novo’ regime, that while oppressive, valued science, statistics and mapping; made by the state colonial research agency, the Junta das MissoÞes Geograìficas e de InvestigaçoÞes Colonials, the colossal work features 110 colour maps, including advanced topographical maps and thematic cartography (recording historical exploration, as well as geological, economic, hypsometric, demographic, ethnographic, climate, transport and communication maps) for each of the Portuguese colonies, custom made for the atlas by the Instituto Geográfico e Cadastral. This attractive and technically advanced atlas showcases Portugal’s overseas empire which then included Mozambique; Angola; Macau, China; Goa, India, along with its dependencies DamaÞo, Diu and Dadra & Nagar Haveli; Cabo Verde; São Tomé & Principe; Guiné (today Guinea-Bissau); and Timor-Leste (East Timor, in the Indonesian Archipelago). It was made by the Junta das MissoÞes Geograìficas e de InvestigaçoÞes Colonials, Portugal’s special state colonial research agency, which succeeded the former Comissão de Cartografia. The atlas commences with 11 maps charting the amazing historical achievements of Portuguese explorers, who were often the first Europeans to encounter parts of the world beyond their own continent, accomplishments which gave Portugal the world’s first global empire. Following that is an intriguing map shown the airline connections between Lisbon and its African colonies. The main body of the work is comprised of a systematic cartographic showcasing of each colony, including fine topographic maps, as well as thematic works such as geological, economic, hypsometric (elevation), demographic (population), ethnographic, linguistic, climate, and transport and communication maps. On the topographic side, the atlas incudes a monumental 6-sheet map of Angola and a 3-sheeet map of Mozambique. All the maps were custom made for the atlas by the state cartographic agency, the Instituto Geográfico e Cadastral. The atlas was intended to be the tremendously expanded successor to the Comissão de Cartografia’s Atlas Colonial Português (Lisbon: [Imprensa Nacional], 1914), that showcased Portugal’s colonies but that only included conventional topographic maps (albeit of very high quality). The present atlas is one of the greatest intellectual products of the Estado Novo regime (1926-74) that ruled Portugal and its overseas territories, led most of the time by the dictator António de Oliveira Salazar (1889 – 1970), an economics professor. While he presided over a conservative autocracy with a lamentable human rights record (especially in the African colonies), he revolutionized and modernized Portugal’s imperial bureaucracy, valuing science, statistics, mapping and data visualization. This, combined with the prevailing international movements of Art Deco and Mid-Century design, produced graphic works throughout the Portuguese lands that feature bright colour schemes, while imparting technical or scientific information in a precise, but visually crisp manner. While the atlas is not all that rare, it is very uncommon to encounter an example is such fine condition as the present offering. Due to the book’s immense size and weight, it is very prone to damage, and almost all the examples of which we aware have condition issues, whereas the present example is preserved in a lovely state. The present example of the atlas bears the ex libris of Professor Dr. Fernando de Mello Mendes, a prominent Portuguese mining engineer who did important work in Africa. Portugal’s ‘Ultramar’: The First European Overseas Empire Portugal established the first and one of the longest lasting European colonial empires, commenced by the amazingly audacious maritime projects of Prince Henry the Navigator (1394 – 1460). By the early 16th century Portugal’s empire, including both held colonial territories and trading posts, extended from South America all the way around Africa and thorough the Indian Ocean to the Asia Pacific, as far as Japan. Portugal’s disastrous union with Spain (1580 - 1640) severely weakened the empire, causing it to lose many of its colonies and trading posts to the Netherlands and England. However, in the aftermath, Portugal still retained a massive colonial empire that included (with dates of their establishment as colonies): Cabo Verde (1462); São Tomé & Principe (1486); Mozambique (1506); Goa, India (1510), along with its dependencies DamaÞo, Diu and Dadra & Nagar Haveli; Brazil (1532), the gem of the empire; Macao, China (1557); Angola (1571); Guiné (1588), today Guinea-Bissau; and Timor-Leste (1769), or East Timor, in the Indonesian Archipelago.  While Brazil became an independent mega-state, ruled by a branch of the Portuguese royal family, in 1822 (albeit maintaining close ties the Lisbon), Portugal retained its remaining colonies for a longer time that most other European powers. In fact, in modern times, these lands were classified as ‘overseas provinces’, or integral parts of Portugal proper, and not as colonies (the residents of those lands were even given full Portuguese citizenship); for example, Angola was legally just as much part of Portugal as Lisbon. Over the generations, hundreds of thousands of ethic Portuguese people had also migrated to the overseas provinces, with generations of their stock born there. While many (but not all) of the indigenous peoples had different notions, the Portuguese national psyche held the overseas domains as an inalienable part of the country’s identity. During World War I, when Portugal, in alliance with Britain, had to defend Mozambique from a surprisingly effective German invasion launched by the master-guerrilla leader, General Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck. While the Anglo-Portuguese side eventually prevailed, this came after only many shocking trials and tribulations. Under the ‘Estado Novo’ regime (1926-74), ruled most of the time by the dictator António de Oliveira Salazar, Portugal stubbornly resisted the anti-colonialism movements that were sweeping the world. Portugal sent in the army to suppress rebellions in Angola and Mozambique and were for a time successful. However, in 1961, India seized Goa in a lightening military strike, ‘Operation Vijay’, hailing the beginning of the end of the Portuguese overseas empire. Portugal’s ‘Carnation Revolution’ of 1974 saw the collapse of the Estado Nova regime, which was replaced with a liberal democratic government. Portugal then allowed all the remaining colonies to gain their independence (although Timor Leste was soon invaded and conquered by Indonesia; it attained its independence in 2002), except for Macao, which was retained until 1999, when it was voluntarily handed back to China. While Portugal no longer possesses any colonies, it retains very strong social and economic ties with its former overseas realms. Well over a million of Portugal’s residents are of colonial decent (either ethnic Portuguese or from ingenious stock, or mixed), such that the colonial legacy is still very much part of the modern Portuguese identity." (Alexander Johnson and Dasa Pahor, 2022), British Library: Cartographic Items Maps Ref.G.5.(EUR).(6).; OCLC: 65363869, 83588368.

Map of Angola, as a Portuguese colony. Shows political boundaries, cities, railways, roads, topography, bodies of water, drainage, coastline and islands. Relief shown with contour lines. Includes latitudinal and longitudinal lines, as well as a scale statement. Colored lithograph. Map is 28 x 37 cm, on sheet 34 x 48 cm. First of six sheets., Atlas de Portugal ultramarino e das grandes viagens Portuguesas de descobrimento e expansão, by the Ministério das Colónias of Portugal; published in Lisbon by the Instituto Geográfico e Cadastral, 1948. Title translates to: Atlas of overseas Portugal and the great Portuguese voyages of discovery and expansion. Bound in original brown cloth with calf spine. Title and imprint gilt debossed on front cover and spine. Collation: 2° : [10] pages, [101] leaves of plates (including some double), [4] pages. Volume includes a preface, table of contents, list of citations and colophon. Plates comprised of 110 maps, which represent Portuguese colonies across the globe, through systemic cartographic portraits of each place. Maps show political boundaries, cities, air routes, railways, roads, topography, bodies of water, drainage, coastlines and islands. Maps feature elevation, geology, climate, phytogeography, historical exploration, population, ethnicity, languages spoken, and economics, such as export and import values. Atlas was an intellectual production of the state colonial research agency, the Junta das Missões Geográficas e de Investigações Colonials, under the oppressive "Estado Novo" regime, which was led by the dictator António de Oliveira Salazar (1889 – 1970), an economics professor who promoted science, statistics, mapping and data visualization. The atlas was intended to be an expanded successor to the Comissão de Cartografia’s Atlas Colonial Português (Lisbon: [Imprensa Nacional], 1914), which showcased Portugal’s colonies but only included conventional topographic maps. "An unusually fine example of the most comprehensive and sophisticated atlas of Portugal’s colonial possessions ever made, and one of the greatest intellectual products of the ‘Estado Novo’ regime, that while oppressive, valued science, statistics and mapping; made by the state colonial research agency, the Junta das MissoÞes Geograìficas e de InvestigaçoÞes Colonials, the colossal work features 110 colour maps, including advanced topographical maps and thematic cartography (recording historical exploration, as well as geological, economic, hypsometric, demographic, ethnographic, climate, transport and communication maps) for each of the Portuguese colonies, custom made for the atlas by the Instituto Geográfico e Cadastral. This attractive and technically advanced atlas showcases Portugal’s overseas empire which then included Mozambique; Angola; Macau, China; Goa, India, along with its dependencies DamaÞo, Diu and Dadra & Nagar Haveli; Cabo Verde; São Tomé & Principe; Guiné (today Guinea-Bissau); and Timor-Leste (East Timor, in the Indonesian Archipelago). It was made by the Junta das MissoÞes Geograìficas e de InvestigaçoÞes Colonials, Portugal’s special state colonial research agency, which succeeded the former Comissão de Cartografia. The atlas commences with 11 maps charting the amazing historical achievements of Portuguese explorers, who were often the first Europeans to encounter parts of the world beyond their own continent, accomplishments which gave Portugal the world’s first global empire. Following that is an intriguing map shown the airline connections between Lisbon and its African colonies. The main body of the work is comprised of a systematic cartographic showcasing of each colony, including fine topographic maps, as well as thematic works such as geological, economic, hypsometric (elevation), demographic (population), ethnographic, linguistic, climate, and transport and communication maps. On the topographic side, the atlas incudes a monumental 6-sheet map of Angola and a 3-sheeet map of Mozambique. All the maps were custom made for the atlas by the state cartographic agency, the Instituto Geográfico e Cadastral. The atlas was intended to be the tremendously expanded successor to the Comissão de Cartografia’s Atlas Colonial Português (Lisbon: [Imprensa Nacional], 1914), that showcased Portugal’s colonies but that only included conventional topographic maps (albeit of very high quality). The present atlas is one of the greatest intellectual products of the Estado Novo regime (1926-74) that ruled Portugal and its overseas territories, led most of the time by the dictator António de Oliveira Salazar (1889 – 1970), an economics professor. While he presided over a conservative autocracy with a lamentable human rights record (especially in the African colonies), he revolutionized and modernized Portugal’s imperial bureaucracy, valuing science, statistics, mapping and data visualization. This, combined with the prevailing international movements of Art Deco and Mid-Century design, produced graphic works throughout the Portuguese lands that feature bright colour schemes, while imparting technical or scientific information in a precise, but visually crisp manner. While the atlas is not all that rare, it is very uncommon to encounter an example is such fine condition as the present offering. Due to the book’s immense size and weight, it is very prone to damage, and almost all the examples of which we aware have condition issues, whereas the present example is preserved in a lovely state. The present example of the atlas bears the ex libris of Professor Dr. Fernando de Mello Mendes, a prominent Portuguese mining engineer who did important work in Africa. Portugal’s ‘Ultramar’: The First European Overseas Empire Portugal established the first and one of the longest lasting European colonial empires, commenced by the amazingly audacious maritime projects of Prince Henry the Navigator (1394 – 1460). By the early 16th century Portugal’s empire, including both held colonial territories and trading posts, extended from South America all the way around Africa and thorough the Indian Ocean to the Asia Pacific, as far as Japan. Portugal’s disastrous union with Spain (1580 - 1640) severely weakened the empire, causing it to lose many of its colonies and trading posts to the Netherlands and England. However, in the aftermath, Portugal still retained a massive colonial empire that included (with dates of their establishment as colonies): Cabo Verde (1462); São Tomé & Principe (1486); Mozambique (1506); Goa, India (1510), along with its dependencies DamaÞo, Diu and Dadra & Nagar Haveli; Brazil (1532), the gem of the empire; Macao, China (1557); Angola (1571); Guiné (1588), today Guinea-Bissau; and Timor-Leste (1769), or East Timor, in the Indonesian Archipelago.  While Brazil became an independent mega-state, ruled by a branch of the Portuguese royal family, in 1822 (albeit maintaining close ties the Lisbon), Portugal retained its remaining colonies for a longer time that most other European powers. In fact, in modern times, these lands were classified as ‘overseas provinces’, or integral parts of Portugal proper, and not as colonies (the residents of those lands were even given full Portuguese citizenship); for example, Angola was legally just as much part of Portugal as Lisbon. Over the generations, hundreds of thousands of ethic Portuguese people had also migrated to the overseas provinces, with generations of their stock born there. While many (but not all) of the indigenous peoples had different notions, the Portuguese national psyche held the overseas domains as an inalienable part of the country’s identity. During World War I, when Portugal, in alliance with Britain, had to defend Mozambique from a surprisingly effective German invasion launched by the master-guerrilla leader, General Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck. While the Anglo-Portuguese side eventually prevailed, this came after only many shocking trials and tribulations. Under the ‘Estado Novo’ regime (1926-74), ruled most of the time by the dictator António de Oliveira Salazar, Portugal stubbornly resisted the anti-colonialism movements that were sweeping the world. Portugal sent in the army to suppress rebellions in Angola and Mozambique and were for a time successful. However, in 1961, India seized Goa in a lightening military strike, ‘Operation Vijay’, hailing the beginning of the end of the Portuguese overseas empire. Portugal’s ‘Carnation Revolution’ of 1974 saw the collapse of the Estado Nova regime, which was replaced with a liberal democratic government. Portugal then allowed all the remaining colonies to gain their independence (although Timor Leste was soon invaded and conquered by Indonesia; it attained its independence in 2002), except for Macao, which was retained until 1999, when it was voluntarily handed back to China. While Portugal no longer possesses any colonies, it retains very strong social and economic ties with its former overseas realms. Well over a million of Portugal’s residents are of colonial decent (either ethnic Portuguese or from ingenious stock, or mixed), such that the colonial legacy is still very much part of the modern Portuguese identity." (Alexander Johnson and Dasa Pahor, 2022), British Library: Cartographic Items Maps Ref.G.5.(EUR).(6).; OCLC: 65363869, 83588368.

Nautical chart of the coast of Angola. Shows surrounding land, port cities, topography, vegetation, coastlines, islands, shoals, anchorage, and soundings. Relief shown pictorially. Includes rhumb lines, latitudinal and longitudinal lines, as well as three bar scales and a compass rose, with north oriented toward left of sheet. Descriptive notes throughout. Decorative cartouche. Black and white engraving. Chart is 41 x 53 cm, on double sheet 47 x 59 cm., The English pilot : Part V, published by John Mount and Thomas Page in London, 1766. The English pilot was a sea-chart atlas published in several editions from 1671 to 1803. This, fifth, edition focus on the coasts of Africa and the vicinity, from the English Channel to the Strait of Gibraltar and further to the Cape of Good Hope. Bound in brown leather, with gilded spine title. Ink inscription on first (blank) page indicates provenance, listing several names, beginning with Joseph Sowler. Collation: [1], 42 pages, with 19 double leaves of double plates, including several fold-out sheets. Plates comprised of 21 nautical charts (three together on plate following page 16). Charts show surrounding land, port cities, topography, vegetation, coastlines, islands, shoals, anchorage, and soundings. Relief shown pictorially. Charts include rhumb lines, latitudinal and longitudinal lines, as well as bar scales, compass roses and descriptive notes. Extended description appears in chapters I through XVI, illustrated by woodcut profile views of coastal topography. For the other parts of The English Pilot in the collection, see Pub List No 13301.000 (Part II), 13251.000 (Parts I and III, bound together) and 12434.000 (Part IV)., Phillips 3230.

Full color. Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Shows settlements, roads, railroads, submarine cables, etc., First issued in 1887, this atlas is the successor to John Arrowsmith's London Atlas of 1858 (Stanford acquired Arrowsmith's plates upon his death). The first issue of the second edition appeared in 1893, with updated second editions of 1896, 1898, and this 1901. The third edition was issued in 1904 (see our #949) and Phillips (mistakenly) shows the next and last edition as 1928--actually 1931 according to Herbert in Imago Mundi p. 120. This is a magnificent atlas, in full color lithography, certainly the premier atlas of its day. Relief shown by hachures., cf P1029 (1898 ed.), World (1894, 1904 eds.); Herbert, F. Imago Mundi 41 (1989), p. (98)-123 and Association of Canadian Map Libraries Bulletin no. 62 (March 1987), 1-16.

Full color. Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Shows settlements, military posts and forts, missionary stations, roads, railroads, submarine cables, etc., First issued in 1887, this atlas is the successor to John Arrowsmith's London Atlas of 1858 (Stanford acquired Arrowsmith's plates upon his death). The first issue of the second edition appeared in 1893, with updated second editions of 1896, 1898, and this 1901. The third edition was issued in 1904 (see our #949) and Phillips (mistakenly) shows the next and last edition as 1928--actually 1931 according to Herbert in Imago Mundi p. 120. This is a magnificent atlas, in full color lithography, certainly the premier atlas of its day. Relief shown by hachures., cf P1029 (1898 ed.), World (1894, 1904 eds.); Herbert, F. Imago Mundi 41 (1989), p. (98)-123 and Association of Canadian Map Libraries Bulletin no. 62 (March 1987), 1-16.

This edition of the Geographisches Institute atlas marks an important move away from the 18th century mode of mapmaking towards a style that reflects what we think of today as 19th century German mapmaking - the use of hachures instead of mountains drawn in profile, and a more uniform typography. Date based on newest maps in atlas. Relief shown in hachures., Espenhorst 1.1.2 (this copy is the 4th edition).

Date based on newest map in atlas. Outline color. Relief in hachures.

Langhans was a promoter of German settlement in all parts of the globe and this atlas delineates in a cartographically sophisticated manner the extent of those settlements. As a thematic atlas it is very important, although it is not in Robinson or Espenhorst. Quarter bound with dark maroon covers and gilt lettering, "Deutscher Kolonial-Atlas von Paul Langhans" with logo of eagle perched on globe. Gilt lettering on spine, "P. Langhans, Deutscher Kolonial-Atlas". Text sections include list of source maps.

2 outline color map on 1 page. Showing Portuguese colonies., Early topographical map of Europe, together with the colonies for businessmen, newspaper readers ... by German geographical author, Wilhelm August von Schlieben (1781-1839), published in parts from 1825, in 3 volumes, and 15 parts; volume 1: 1-5, Volume 2: 6-10, Volume 3: 11-15. Each volume includes outline hand colored maps, manuscript index, forward, table of content, extensive descriptive text and index. Bound in half leather green marbled paper covered boards measuring 26.5x34.5, with "Atlas von Europa ... Lieferung" embossed on the spine. (v.1) 1. lief. Konigreich Frankreich. I. Heft. 2. lief. Konigreich Frankreich. II. heft. und das Turkische (Osmanische) reich in Europa. 3. lief. Die Helvetische eldgenossenschaft oder die Schweiz und das konigreich Portugal. 4. lief. Das konigreich Spanien. 5. lief. Die konigreiche 1) der Niederlands 2) Danemark. und 3) Schweden mit Norwegen.--(v.2) 6. lief. Der deutsche staatebund und zwar die suddeutschen staaten. 7. lief. Der deutsche staatenbund, und zwar der nordwestliche theil der nordeutschen staaten. 8. lief. Der deutsche staatenbund. und zwar der nordostliche theil der norddeutschen staaten. 9.-10. lief. Der Preussische staat.--(v.3) 11-12. lief. Der Osterreichische staat oder das kaiserthum Oesterreich. 13. lief. Das Russische reich in Europa mit ausschiuss von Polen. 14. lief. Das konigreich Polen, die republik Krakau, die Italienischen staaten. 15. lief. Das Britische reich.

Two volume set in English. 10th edition and the Centenary edition. This edition was a very important revision and was issued in German, French, English, Spanish, and Italian. Each map preceded by index map, printed in blue, which is labeled, "Stielers Handatlas, Zehnte Auflage / Hundertjahr-Ausgabe. Gotha: Justus Perthes." Relief shown in hachures. Alphabetical Index of place names not scanned. Over 43 different draftsmen and engravers are listed on the various sheets., Espenhorst 2.1.1.1.10

First edition was in 1897. Color. Relief shown by hachures., P1078.

A set of five maps designed to accompany James Stanier Clark's The progress of maritime discovery, from the earliest period to the close of the eighteenth century, forming an extensive system of hydrography, originally published in London by Cadell and Davies in 1803. Maps engraved by S. J. Neele. No title page; title from printed label on front cover; imprint from plates., A set of five maps designed to accompany James Stanier Clark's The progress of maritime discovery, from the earliest period to the close of the eighteenth century, forming an extensive system of hydrography, originally published in London by Cadell and Davies in 1803. Maps engraved by S. J. Neele. No title page; title from printed label on front cover; imprint from plates. Relief shown by hachures. Maps show sections of African coast. Moderate foxing.

Decorative title cartouche. Relief shown pictorially. Depth shown by soundings. Shows settlements, the Bay of Benguela and the Cantonbelle River., Bellin was an important maker of charts for the French Depot de la Marine. He was born in Paris in 1703 and educated as an engineer. He produced many important charts and published them individually and in compilations. The Neptune Francais was published in 1753 and the Hydrographie Francaise in 1756. His largest and most comprehensive work is the Petit Atlas Maritime with 581 charts (our copy has 582, including the rare "Carte Reduite des Decouvertes des Russe Entre L'Asie et L'Amerique.") that cover the coasts and important port cities of the known world. The Petit Atlas Maritime is probably the best compilation of plans of maritime towns and harbors of its time. Bellin died in Versailles in 1772. According to Tooley, Bellin issued an earlier version of this atlas in 1763 titled Petit Atlas Francois. The Duc de Choiseul provided financial support for the publication of the atlas. J. Arrivet is listed as engraver on the chart index pages and may also have engraved the charts themselves., P638 and P3508; National Maritime Museum 211; Tooley Mapping America, p208-209.

Decorative title cartouche. Relief shown pictorially. Depth shown by soundings. Shows settlements. Includes notes., Bellin was an important maker of charts for the French Depot de la Marine. He was born in Paris in 1703 and educated as an engineer. He produced many important charts and published them individually and in compilations. The Neptune Francais was published in 1753 and the Hydrographie Francaise in 1756. His largest and most comprehensive work is the Petit Atlas Maritime with 581 charts (our copy has 582, including the rare "Carte Reduite des Decouvertes des Russe Entre L'Asie et L'Amerique.") that cover the coasts and important port cities of the known world. The Petit Atlas Maritime is probably the best compilation of plans of maritime towns and harbors of its time. Bellin died in Versailles in 1772. According to Tooley, Bellin issued an earlier version of this atlas in 1763 titled Petit Atlas Francois. The Duc de Choiseul provided financial support for the publication of the atlas. J. Arrivet is listed as engraver on the chart index pages and may also have engraved the charts themselves., P638 and P3508; National Maritime Museum 211; Tooley Mapping America, p208-209.

From J.F. Letenneur: "Exceptional onboard document of this rare and fabulous maritime atlas, a masterpiece by the greatest French hydrographer of the 18th century, with maps of all the coastlines known at the time. Bound with the coat of arms of the King of France, the atlas was taken by the English aboard the frigate la Nymphe, off the coasts of Ushant August 10, 1780, during one of the naval battles of the American War of Independence which took place on European waters. In the context of the war at the end of the 18th century, and of the rivalry between the French and British Navy, maritime atlases, were strategic tools, and this “Hydrographie Françoise” more so than any other, because its purpose was to provide the best maritime charts for the French ships that were fighting on the American side against the British. (The handwritten captions throughout most of the atlas are prices for individual maps and all include the same mention: “for sailors”). These atlases were not the kind to be kept in a library, but precious tools, based on the observations of the travelers and continuously improved upon, as reflect in the present copy. It was bound with the engraved title page of the edition of 1737-1765, but the index includes maps printed after 1765 (until 1772), and the copy was augmented by six maps that do not appear in the index (until 1776), as well as 14 pages of text from the Versailles edition of 1773. The later maps are signed by Verdun de la Crenne and were done during the campaigns of the Flore (1771-1772) and of the Isis led by Fleurieu in 1768-1769. The captions explain that the maps were created using the latest technology of the day that could measure longitude (maritime clocks)." (Continued in the Pub Note field)., Two volumes. Relief shown in hachures or sketches. In French. Title page has date 1765, used here as Pub Date and for the few undated sheets. Newest map sheet dated 1776. More from J.F. Letenneur: "The atlas was aboard the Nymphe, until then a French frigate, that cruised the English Chanel under the command of Chevalier du Rumain (1743-1780) who had come back from the Caribbean Sea, where he took part in the Battle of Martinique (1780) under La Motte Piquet’s command (cf. La France Maritime, vol. 2, p. 345). Monsieur de Kerneis, in his article of the “Bulletin de la société Academique de Brest” (1891-92), wrote that the Comte d’Estaing called Charles Marie de Trolong, chevalier du Rumain, the “Duguay-Trouin of his time” for his bravery. Du Rumain received the rank of Captain April 4, 1780 and commanded the Nymphe from May 8, 1780. He was killed when the English attacked his ship… The battle of the Nymphe against the Flora was deadly. The Flora, a new 36 gun frigate, carrying 18 pounders on her main deck, and an experimental addition of six 18 pound carronades, feel in with the Nymph that could carry 40 guns but was only mounted with 32. In the ensuing action the better armed Flora overpowered the larger French ship. Captain William Peere Williams (1742-1832), commander of the Flora, annotated the copy of the present atlas three times: at the beginning of each volume and the map of the English Channel and Ushant, showing the exact place of the battle… Beside the frigate, the English took what is certainly considered Bellin’s masterpiece. First hydrographer of the French Royal Navy, Jacques-Nicolas Bellin (1703-1772), spent 50 years of his life in the “Dépôt des Cartes et Plans”. His three major works are his version of the “Neptune François”, the “Petit Atlas Maritime”, and the present “Hydrographie Françoise”. This work is rarer than the other two, and was always being enhanced and updated. The maps, in large format print, are magnificent; the quality of the engraving exceptional. They were updated with the latest observations collected by Bellin, and show the mastery of the cartographer. Bellin indicated in the captions the history of the maps, their purpose and the routes taken by navigators that enabled their creation. The first volume is dedicated to Europe and Asia, the second to America and Africa. The copy includes three manuscript documents that relay positions and calculations of routes - two around Ushant, and the other is dated the very day of the battle.", Les Fregates "La Surveillante" (1778-1779) et "La Nymphe" (1780), by M. A. KERNEIS, Bulletin de la Societe academique de Brest 1891-1892, pp. 55 to 112; Relation des combats et des evenements de la Guerre Maritime de 1778 entre la France et l'Angleterre, melee de reflexions sur les Manoeuvres des Generaux... By Yves-Joseph de Kerguelen de Tremarec, Paris, 1796 (P. 154-155-156) ; Phillips, Atlases 587-590, 4288; NMM 210; Shirley, British Library M.BELL-1a.

2 Milliaria Germanica Communia = 7.2 cm, Blaeu's 11 volume Atlas Maior is considered by many to be the greatest atlas ever published, both in its own time and even today. It excels in comprehensiveness, engraving, color, and overall production. Each vol. has title page. with general title: Geographiæ Blavianæ volumen primum.... Each vol. has engraved special title page, hand colored. The first Latin edition was published in 1662. Subsequently published in French, Dutch, German, and Spanish; the Latin version was also sold with v. 1 dated 1665 and v. 2-11 dated 1662 (this copy). Bound as issued in vellum stamped in gilt with Blaeu device. Issued in 11 volumes. Contents: v. 1. Arctica --Europa, liber 1-2:. Norvegia. Dania. Sleswic -- v. 2. Europa, liber 3-7: Suecia. Russia. Polonia. Regiones orientales ultra Germaniam circa Danubium. Graecia -- v. 3. Europa, liber 8: Germania - -v. 4. Europa, liber 9-10: Belgica regia -- v. 5. Europa, liber 11: Anglia -- v. 6. Europa, liber 12-13: Scotia. Hibernia -- v. 7. Europa, liber 14-15: Gallia. Helvetia -- v. 8. Europa, liber 16: Italia -- v. 9. Europa, liber 17: Hispania. Africa -- v. 10. Asia -- v. 11. America. This copy is from the National Library of Scotland and we are grateful to them for providing scanned images of the atlas as part of a joint project under the guidance of Christopher Fleet, Senior Map Curator at the NLS. For more information on Joan Blaeu and the Atlas Maior, see the National Library of Scotland website, http://maps.nls.uk/pont/bio/blaeu.html, Koeman B1 56; van der Krogt 2:601-3 (first volume dated 1665, all others dated 1662)., van der Krogt 2:601 [-3].9 (37)

Outline color. Relief shown in hachures. Alphabetical Index not scanned.

Border of map has a list of cities and populations, keyed to map. Relief shown by hachures. Prime meridians Washington D.C. and Greenwich. Countries differentiated in full color., Some of Cram's best maps of the U.S. and world. Large number of U.S. cities mapped. Printed color., cf P3350 (1902).

Hand col. lithographed map. Relief shown by pictorially. Prime meridian: Paris. Covers parts of Angola and Zambia., A complete set of the six volume Atlas Universel in original bindings of half red leather teal cloth covered boards with title "Vandermaelen. Atlas Universel..." embossed in gold on the spine. This monumental work was the first atlas of the world with all maps on the same scale (and a large scale at that - about one inch to 26 miles) and the first lithographed world atlas. If all the maps were joined together they would form a globe of 7.75 meters in diameter (such a globe was made in Brussels). The maps were published originally in parts of ten maps each, beginning in 1825 and ending in 1827. Vandermaelen's maps are frequently misunderstood because each map is usually best comprehended in the context of its neighboring maps - the maps do not function well on their own, since they were all meant to be joined. Koeman states that "His atlases, although unique in concept and size did not possess that fine touch of cartographic style which make them attractive for a collector..." We strongly disagree - the graphic art of the maps must be appreciated in the context of lithography, a developing art at the time; as lithographs, they are very well done. For many of the areas depicted, these maps are the largest scale maps made at the time, and the most detailed (particularly in the American West). Maps are hand painted in outline color., Phillips, 749; Koeman Vdm 1; National Maritime Museum, 179; Wellens-De Donder, L. Philippe Vandermaelen 1795-1869, 4-5.

Hand col. lithographed map. Relief shown by pictorially. Prime meridian: Paris. Covers parts of Angola and Namibia. Includes geographic note., A complete set of the six volume Atlas Universel in original bindings of half red leather teal cloth covered boards with title "Vandermaelen. Atlas Universel..." embossed in gold on the spine. This monumental work was the first atlas of the world with all maps on the same scale (and a large scale at that - about one inch to 26 miles) and the first lithographed world atlas. If all the maps were joined together they would form a globe of 7.75 meters in diameter (such a globe was made in Brussels). The maps were published originally in parts of ten maps each, beginning in 1825 and ending in 1827. Vandermaelen's maps are frequently misunderstood because each map is usually best comprehended in the context of its neighboring maps - the maps do not function well on their own, since they were all meant to be joined. Koeman states that "His atlases, although unique in concept and size did not possess that fine touch of cartographic style which make them attractive for a collector..." We strongly disagree - the graphic art of the maps must be appreciated in the context of lithography, a developing art at the time; as lithographs, they are very well done. For many of the areas depicted, these maps are the largest scale maps made at the time, and the most detailed (particularly in the American West). Maps are hand painted in outline color., Phillips, 749; Koeman Vdm 1; National Maritime Museum, 179; Wellens-De Donder, L. Philippe Vandermaelen 1795-1869, 4-5.

Hand col. lithographed map. Prime meridian: Paris. Includes text: Note sur le Congo., A complete set of the six volume Atlas Universel in original bindings of half red leather teal cloth covered boards with title "Vandermaelen. Atlas Universel..." embossed in gold on the spine. This monumental work was the first atlas of the world with all maps on the same scale (and a large scale at that - about one inch to 26 miles) and the first lithographed world atlas. If all the maps were joined together they would form a globe of 7.75 meters in diameter (such a globe was made in Brussels). The maps were published originally in parts of ten maps each, beginning in 1825 and ending in 1827. Vandermaelen's maps are frequently misunderstood because each map is usually best comprehended in the context of its neighboring maps - the maps do not function well on their own, since they were all meant to be joined. Koeman states that "His atlases, although unique in concept and size did not possess that fine touch of cartographic style which make them attractive for a collector..." We strongly disagree - the graphic art of the maps must be appreciated in the context of lithography, a developing art at the time; as lithographs, they are very well done. For many of the areas depicted, these maps are the largest scale maps made at the time, and the most detailed (particularly in the American West). Maps are hand painted in outline color., Phillips, 749; Koeman Vdm 1; National Maritime Museum, 179; Wellens-De Donder, L. Philippe Vandermaelen 1795-1869, 4-5.

Hand col. lithographed map. Relief shown by pictorially. Prime meridian: Paris. Includes note., A complete set of the six volume Atlas Universel in original bindings of half red leather teal cloth covered boards with title "Vandermaelen. Atlas Universel..." embossed in gold on the spine. This monumental work was the first atlas of the world with all maps on the same scale (and a large scale at that - about one inch to 26 miles) and the first lithographed world atlas. If all the maps were joined together they would form a globe of 7.75 meters in diameter (such a globe was made in Brussels). The maps were published originally in parts of ten maps each, beginning in 1825 and ending in 1827. Vandermaelen's maps are frequently misunderstood because each map is usually best comprehended in the context of its neighboring maps - the maps do not function well on their own, since they were all meant to be joined. Koeman states that "His atlases, although unique in concept and size did not possess that fine touch of cartographic style which make them attractive for a collector..." We strongly disagree - the graphic art of the maps must be appreciated in the context of lithography, a developing art at the time; as lithographs, they are very well done. For many of the areas depicted, these maps are the largest scale maps made at the time, and the most detailed (particularly in the American West). Maps are hand painted in outline color., Phillips, 749; Koeman Vdm 1; National Maritime Museum, 179; Wellens-De Donder, L. Philippe Vandermaelen 1795-1869, 4-5.

Series of small maps and graphics showing crops, minerals, race, land cover, airline routes, and exports. Includes oblique view of Victoria Falls area., No title page; this may be a proof copy or intended to accompany an encyclopedia or text. Instituto di Agostini is known for the beautiful maps and atlases it produced. Full color.

Engraved map. Outline hand col. Prime meridians: Paris and Ferro., Maps by C.F. Weiland, H. Kiepert. All maps engraved, dated variously from 1846 to 1856. This is a marvelous atlas, full of interesting details - the U.S. maps refer to "Utah Territory - Deseret." Most maps with outline color. Covers are half leather marbled paper covered boards with "Hand Atlaas 70 Karten. Weimar Geographischen Institut" stamped in gilt on the spine., Espenhorst, J. Andree, Stieler, Meyer & Co., p. 26. Cf. Phillips, 6107. Cf. Espenhorst, J. Petermann's planet, v. 1, p. 134-135.

The color litho maps are by Edward Weller. Ten color litho plates illustrate the races of mankind. Extensive text. Relief shown in hachures. Full color. Gilt edging on pages.

Full color map. Inset: continuation of map on the same scale. Relief shown by gradient tints. Depth shown by gradient tints. Prime meridian is Greenwich. No. 1266 and Jul 55, marked on the lower corners of plate. The Times Atlas on the upper left corner., Published in 5 volumes, 1955-1959, with 122 colored double page map sheets, and a comprehensive index of over 200,000 names. Because of the long production times involved in the work of compiling the detailed maps. The volumes were arranged in continental groupings with volume III, North Europe, coming out first, followed by another volume each year. V.1. The World, Australasia & East Asia --V.2. South-West Asia & Russia --V.3. Northern Europe --V.4. Southern Europe & Africa --V.5. The Americas. with an Index-Gazetteer. Bound in red linen, with label stamped in real gold reading "The Times Atlas of the World, Mid-Century Edition."

Uncolored index map. Key to adjoining areas., Published in 5 volumes, 1955-1959, with 122 colored double page map sheets, and a comprehensive index of over 200,000 names. Because of the long production times involved in the work of compiling the detailed maps. The volumes were arranged in continental groupings with volume III, North Europe, coming out first, followed by another volume each year. V.1. The World, Australasia & East Asia --V.2. South-West Asia & Russia --V.3. Northern Europe --V.4. Southern Europe & Africa --V.5. The Americas. with an Index-Gazetteer. Bound in red linen, with label stamped in real gold reading "The Times Atlas of the World, Mid-Century Edition."

Outline color. Text/Index Map pages printed in blue ink. Relief shown by hachures. Editions of this atlas extended through the years of World War II. This edition is the last edition of the Stieler atlas. It is very rare and known only in a few copies. It was printed during the final months of World War II, probably in April or May of 1945.