A Brief Guide to an Exhibition of Maps of the Sixteenth Century

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Excerpt from A Brief Guide to an Exhibition of Maps of the Sixteenth Century: Illustrative of the Discovery of America It has been well said that if we wish to make ourselves thoroughly acquainted with the history of the discovery of the New World, we must not only follow the navigators on their ships, but we must look into the cabinets of princes and into the counting-houses of merchants, and likewise watch the scholars in their speculative studies. This, thanks to the enterprise of those who made the reproductions and to those who lent the maps on exhibition, we can do now in Jamaica. What grammar is to language, cartography is to travel and discovery: and the charts and maps which were compiled as the result of the enterprise of the early discoverers must ever prove of interest to those who concern themselves with the development of geographical knowledge. There has recently been issued in America a limited edition of reproductions (the actual size of the originals) of twelve early maps, dating from 1502 to 1529, One set (the only set outside the United States) has been lent to the Institute, and is at present on exhibition in the Art Gallery. To these twelve have been added facsimiles of the celebrated Waldseemüller maps of 1507 and 1516, and also a few later sixteenth century maps, lent by His Excellency the Governor, having reference to the frontiers of Guiana and Brazil and Venezuela - of which two are of special interest to Shakespearean students. The series of twelve maps, issued under the direction of Dr. E. L. Stevenson, professor of history in Rutger's College, New Brunswick, New Jersey, is "by far the most important contribution of its kind ever issued under American, auspices." They have been reproduced by photography in the sizes of the originals, and they are limited to eighteen sets. Some are reproduced in what is known as the artotype process, the others, somewhat to the detriment, of the series, have been reproduced simply by prints from the negatives, for the foreign depositaries of some of the maps made a condition that the negatives should not pass out of their jurisdiction. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.