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Dear List Watchers,
I am led to believe by, i.a., the man chiefly responsible, that the 2007 facsimile of the RGS Library’s unicum 1557 Italian MS navigation manual by Battista Testarossa (with a MS chart on vellum) is finally in production and commercially available. A ‘Technical commentary’ has been kindly provided by Richard Pflederer FRGS, who has – amongst other things - previously compiled four invaluable and detailed listings of portolan charts and atlases in collections in Europe and USA [see, e.g., the ‘Imago Mundi Bibliography’ over a half-dozen years].
Details: www.rediscoverybooks.comv <http://www.rediscoverybooks.comv/>
[Or, to the Testarossa page: http://www.rediscoverybooks.com/FMPro?-db=nmp_Orders.fp5&-format=nmpweb_rb/frameset.htm&Co=RDB&ReqID=RDB&-new
<http://www.rediscoverybooks.com/FMPro?-db=nmp_Orders.fp5&-format=nmpweb_rb/frameset.htm&Co=RDB&ReqID=RDB&-new>
]. The hardback price is £58.00 (possibly not mentioned on the web-site).
!
Francis Herbert (former Curator of Maps, RGS-IBG ; scribbler of the ‘Foreword’
to the Testarossa facsimile) Hon.FRGS
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