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Rare and highly detailed chart of the area around Gijon, on the Coast of Asturias.
Tofiño de San Miguel's chart appeared in the monumental Atlas Maritimo de España. This two volume atlas was the most detailed survey of the Spanish Coastline ever conducted, which is highly prized among collectors (See e.g. Frank Streeter Sale (Christies Sale No. 1820 (New York), April 16, 2007), item #501.
Juan de la Cruz Cano y Olmedilla (1734-1790) was a Spanish cartographer and geographer. Initially trained in Madrid, he was sent to Paris with another promising student, Tomas Lopez de Vargas Machuca, to study under Jean Baptiste Bourguignon D'Anville. They worked together on a map of the Gulf of Mexico, published in 1755. Cano y Olmedilla is best known for his monumental eight-sheet map of South America (Mapa Geografico de America Meridional), published in Madrid in 1775 and made at the bequest of the Marquis de Grimaldi. Cruz Cano y Olmedilla's name appears on a number of other maps and charts published in eighteenth-century Spain, most notably on the maps in Torfino de San Miguel's Atlas Maritimo de Espana.
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