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Map Hand-Drawn Maps and Plans of Recife in Pernambuco, All Saints' Bay, and the Coast from Bahia to Gãmam.... Desenho e plantas iluminadas do Recife de Pernambuco, da Bahia de Todos os Stos., da Costa do mâr e Barra da Bahia athé a do Gãmam

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Title

  • Hand-Drawn Maps and Plans of Recife in Pernambuco, All Saints' Bay, and the Coast from Bahia to Gãmam....

Other Title

  • Desenho e plantas iluminadas do Recife de Pernambuco, da Bahia de Todos os Stos., da Costa do mâr e Barra da Bahia athé a do Gãmam

Summary

  • This six-leaved, hand-drawn atlas shows the coastal area of Brazil's Pernambuco and Bahia states as they appeared in the early 1630s. The maps include details of the city of Recife and All Saints' Bay, as well as details of the coastline. The area was first settled by the Portuguese in 1534, and Pernambuco was one of Portugal's only profitable Brazilian colonies during the early colonial period. The area benefitted from successful cotton and sugar cultivation. Pernambuco came under Dutch rule in 1630, around the time these maps were drawn, and remained a Dutch holding until 1654. The Dutch West India Company exported thousands of tons of Pernambuco sugar to the Netherlands. The maps are believed to be the work of Pedro Nunes Tinoco (?-1641), a Portuguese architect known primarily for his work on several major churches in Lisbon.

Names

  • Tinoco, Pedro Nunes, died 1641 Creator.

Created / Published

  • [place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [1631 to 1633]

Headings

  • -  Brazil--Bahia
  • -  Brazil--Pernambuco
  • -  1631 to 1633
  • -  Manuscript maps

Notes

  • -  Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
  • -  Original resource extent: 1 watercolor and pen-and ink manuscript atlas (6 leaves) ; 44 x 35 centimeters.
  • -  Original resource at: National Library of Brazil.
  • -  Content in Portuguese.
  • -  Description based on data extracted from World Digital Library, which may be extracted from partner institutions.

Medium

  • 1 online resource.

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021668315

Online Format

  • compressed data
  • pdf
  • image

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Chicago citation style:

Tinoco, Pedro Nunes, Died 1641 Creator. Hand-Drawn Maps and Plans of Recife in Pernambuco, All Saints' Bay, and the Coast from Bahia to Gãmam. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, to 1633, 1631] Map. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021668315/.

APA citation style:

Tinoco, P. N. (1631) Hand-Drawn Maps and Plans of Recife in Pernambuco, All Saints' Bay, and the Coast from Bahia to Gãmam. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, to 1633] [Map] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021668315/.

MLA citation style:

Tinoco, Pedro Nunes, Died 1641 Creator. Hand-Drawn Maps and Plans of Recife in Pernambuco, All Saints' Bay, and the Coast from Bahia to Gãmam. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, to 1633, 1631] Map. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021668315/>.