London Topographical Record, Vol. XXXII

Spain in the atlases of the seventeenth century; fifth, the topographical surveys of Spain and its coasts in the eighteenth century based on a new network of scientific institutions created by the monarchy; and sixth, the geodetic works of the nineteenth century until the creation of the National Geographic Institute in 1870. The second volume is the catalogue, an excellent tool which in turn is divided into two long chapters. The first, devoted to the ‘Territories of the Monarchy of Spain’, contains the description of 274 records grouped on geographical and thematic axes: (1) maps of the Iberian Peninsula; (2) maps of Peninsular Spain; (3) territories of the monarchy of Spain in Europe (Portugal, Italy, the Netherlands and Franche-Comté), North Africa, Spanish America and the Pacific (the Philippines and other archipelagos); and (4) historical maps of wars and battles. The first axis is arranged in two groups. In one, we have maps of ancient and modern Spain in the editions of Ptolemy’s Geography and Sebastian Münster’s Cosmographia. In the other, the reader finds maps of Spain printed in the leading European schools of map making—Flemish, Dutch, Italian, French, British, German and Spanish. The second chapter is dedicated to the ‘world represented in spheres, mappaemundi, atlas frontispieces, continents, countries, nautical charts and some islands of the world’. To facilitate the search for information, the catalogue is accompanied by an index of authors and institutions, an index of titles and main authors, and a subject-geographical index. In short, this book offers new cartographical materials, properly ordered and described, to both the specialist and the general public. The high-quality images were digitized by the Imprenta Nacional de la Agencia Estatal Boletín Oficial del Estado (National Printing Office of the State Agency Official State Gazette). Interested readers can access these images and their files online through the RAH Digital Library; in the near future, they will also be able to download the electronic version of this book free of charge through the Biblioteca Jurídica Digital (Digital Legal Library) of the State Agency Official State Gazette.