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Description

Rare book on Puerto Rico, with two extra maps bound in, which are not called for by Sabin or any other bibliographical reference.

"The best work on Puerto Rico"--Winsor VIII:289. Medina BHA 5282; Palau 514; Sabin 66594 

Condition Description
2 folding handcolored maps. [8], 402 pages. 4to, contemporary calf, minor wear; intermittent dampstaining, author's name is inked in manuscript on the title page; edges tinted yellow; ownership tag of Joaquín García Icazbalceta on front pastedown. Madrid, 1788.
Tomás López Biography

Tomás López de Vargas Machuca (1730-1802) was one of Spain’s most prominent cartographers in the eighteenth century. He was born in Toledo but studied at the Colegio Imperial in Madrid, where he focused on mathematics, grammar, and rhetoric. Along with a small group of colleagues, in 1752 the Spanish government sent López for training in Paris with the renowned geographer Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d’Anville. When he returned to Spain he was named Geógrafo de los dominios de Su Magestad and put in charge of the geographic collections of Charles III. He published many maps, including his fascinating maps of the Americas, and a variety of geography manuals. Some of his most famous maps are of the Iberian Peninsula, part of his large project to create a majestic atlas of Spain. Unfinished in his lifetime, López's children published the Atlas Geográfico de España (Geographical Atlas of Spain) in 1804. It was republished in 1810 and 1830.