Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Map of the World, 1542
Investigators of historical geography must especially deplore the loss of the great Spanish model map, cl Padron Real, the laying down of which was entrusted to chartograph ers belonging to the Council of Indian Affairs at Sevilla, who, on account of their position, had access to all the geographi cal material furnished by the discoveries constantly taking place in the New World. Special interest is therefore taken in the other chartographical productions which, not having been subject to the destruction caused by carelessness and vandalism, can more or less closely be traced to the work of the Sevillan school of chartography. These, as well as other maps from the period immediately following the dis covery of America, are now scattered throughout the different countries of Europe, but the praiseworthy zeal of the present age has made most of them, at least the most important ones, accessible by facsimile reproductions.
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