BAPTISTA AGNESE AND AMERICAN CARTOGRAPHY IN THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY, from the Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society
(Boston: Massachusetts Historical Society, 1897).
A transcription of an address on the work of Baptista Agnese, the sixteenth century s most prolific cartographer and atlas-maker. He is generally thought to have expended more care upon the appearance of his maps than upon securing correspondence in them to the latest views. These divergences are of course most apparent in the American parts of his atlases, as it was a period necessarily of constant change in the geographical conceptions of the New World. [p. 372]
This copy includes copious notes in Morison s hand. Item #14146
FROM THE PERSONAL LIBRARY OF SAMUEL ELIOT MORISON, with his notes. 8vo , journal extract, bound with metal clips, plain paper cover calligraphed Agnese/Atlasses/Winsor in Morison s hand. 372-386. Some expected edgewear; minor tears throughout, some repaired with tape.