{"title":"Spain \u0026 Portugal Maps","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"spain-portugal-map-1831-atlas-print-madrid-lisbon-barcelona-seville-porto","title":"Spain \u0026 Portugal Map 1831 Atlas Print - Madrid, Lisbon, Barcelona, Seville, Porto","description":"\u003cp\u003eJohn Dower drew and engraved this Spain \u0026amp; Portugal for Henry Teesdale \u0026amp; Co. of London, and it was issued in 1831 in the first edition of A New General Atlas of the World, an atlas also known as Teesdale's Atlas. The catalog describes it as an outline hand-colored map at a scale of 1:3,700,000, showing administrative divisions, cities, towns, roads, rivers, lakes and canals, with relief drawn in hachures and the prime meridian at Greenwich. The sheet covers the whole Iberian Peninsula together with the Balearic Islands, and major regions such as Galicia, Andalusia and Catalonia are set apart by colored outlines. It shows Spain and Portugal in 1831, a year when both kingdoms were divided by dynastic quarrels.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Spain, King Ferdinand VII was in the last years of an absolute reign that would end with his death in 1833 and open the Carlist wars over the succession, while Portugal was in the middle of its own civil war between the supporters of Dom Miguel and those of Dom Pedro and his daughter Maria. Madrid was the Spanish capital and Lisbon the Portuguese one, and the Tagus, which flows through both countries, tied the two kingdoms together. Barcelona was the commercial center of Catalonia, Seville the old river port of Andalusia, and Porto the wine city of the north. Because the sheet was compiled for British readers, it shows a peninsula that London merchants and veterans of the Peninsular War knew well.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA student of the Peninsular War era, a family with roots in Catalonia, Galicia or the Algarve, or a collector of Georgian English atlas maps will find a handsome gift here. TheMapVault's Tanner sheet of 1836 and its Mitchell sheet of 1846 are the American views of the peninsula, whereas this Dower sheet is the London original, outlined in hand color and engraved in the first year of the atlas. 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The catalog lists it at a scale of 1:3,500,000 and calls it a somewhat updated version of the 1865 issue. It is hand colored, with Spain in pink and Portugal in green, and the catalog description notes the Pyrenees, the Sierra Nevada and the Cantabrian Mountains, the rivers Tagus and Ebro, and the Balearic Islands among its features. It shows the Iberian Peninsula in 1872, in the middle of the most turbulent decade in modern Spanish history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eQueen Isabella II had been driven from Spain in 1868, and by 1872 the country was ruled by an Italian king, Amadeo of Savoy, whose reign would end with his abdication in February 1873 and the proclamation of the First Republic. Madrid was the capital in which these changes played out, while Barcelona and Seville, both marked on the map, were the great cities of Catalonia and Andalusia. Portugal, to the west, was a quieter constitutional monarchy under King Luis I, with Lisbon as its capital on the Tagus. 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Tanner of Philadelphia published this Spain and Portugal, with an inset titled Environs of Madrid, in his New Universal Atlas, and the catalog dates the map to 1836 while the atlas copy on which it was cataloged is the 1842 edition, the last that Tanner published. The sheet is in full color, measures 40 by 32 centimeters at a scale of 1:3,100,000, and shows relief in hachures. Tanner's atlas was among the first American world atlases, and each of its pages carries the running header Tanner's Universal Atlas. The map presents the Iberian Peninsula as an American atlas buyer of the Jacksonian age would have seen it, with the Spanish capital enlarged in an inset of its own.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1836 Spain was deep in the First Carlist War, which pitted the supporters of the young Queen Isabella II against those of her uncle Don Carlos, and Madrid, the capital that the inset enlarges, was held by the queen's government. 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The map is dated 1964 in the catalog, and the atlas copy is the 1968 English edition of the Polish Atlas Swiata. It measures 55 by 40 centimeters at a scale of 1:2,500,000 and is described as a detailed political and physical map, with two insets enlarging Madrid and Lisbon. It is printed on beige paper in tinted colors, with shaded relief and color gradations for the land and varying blues for the sea, so that the Pyrenees and the Sierra Nevada stand out. It shows the Iberian Peninsula in the mid-1960s.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1964 Spain was ruled by General Franco and Portugal by Prime Minister Salazar, two long-lived authoritarian governments that shared the peninsula, and both capitals appear in their own insets. Barcelona and Seville, together with Madrid and Lisbon, were the cities through which the tourist boom of the 1960s was beginning to flow. The catalog says the map details major cities, roads and railways, with symbols for airports and ports, and the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea in shades of blue to indicate depth. The atlas is a massive Cold War production, weighing nearly 5.5 kilograms by the cataloger's count, in which Polish cartographers mapped the whole world for an English-speaking readership.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA reader of twentieth-century European history, a traveler with roots in Spain or Portugal, or a collector of modern atlas maps will find a striking gift here. TheMapVault's Times Atlas sheet of 1956 shows the same peninsula in a British mid-century style, whereas this Pergamon sheet of 1964 is the Polish version, with its beige paper and the insets of both capitals. 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Huber and Company in 1890, is the source of this Spain \u0026amp; Portugal, which carries a Bradley copyright of 1887. The map measures 39 by 30 centimeters at a scale of 1:3,200,000, is hand colored, and shows relief by hachures and spot heights together with settlements, railroads and rivers. The catalog description adds the Pyrenees, the rivers Tagus, Ebro and Douro, and the Bay of Biscay, together with an inset showing the peninsula's nearness to North Africa. It is a late nineteenth-century American view of Iberia, drawn when railroad building was changing travel across both countries and when American publishers were bringing the old European kingdoms to a growing reading public.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1890 Spain was governed under the regency of Queen Maria Cristina for the young Alfonso XIII, and Portugal had a new king, Carlos I, who came to the throne in October 1889, so that in January 1890 Britain sent his government an ultimatum over its African claims, a humiliation that shook the monarchy. The railroads that the map marks were the means by which Madrid, Lisbon and the Atlantic and Mediterranean ports were being joined together. The Tagus, which reaches the sea at Lisbon, and the Ebro, which flows to the Mediterranean, were the two great rivers that those lines had to cross. 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The catalog notes that Tanner had issued the atlas first in 1836 with engraved maps, that Carey and Hart converted it to lithography in 1845, and that Mitchell took it over in 1846. The sheet is in full color by region, measures 40 by 32 centimeters at a scale of 1:3,050,000, and carries a smaller inset of the environs of Madrid, the Spanish capital. The atlas has a place in American printing history as the first to move from engraved to lithographic maps, which lowered the cost enough to make it widely affordable to ordinary families.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1846 Isabella II had reigned for three years since her majority, with Madrid as her capital, and the Carlist war that had shaken the peninsula in the 1830s was over. In Portugal, Queen Maria II faced the Maria da Fonte uprising, which spread in the spring of that year. The map, which the catalog describes as colored by region, marks provinces, major cities, towns and transportation routes, with Madrid, Lisbon and Barcelona among them. Because the lithographic atlas was cheap, many American households owned maps of this kind, and Spain, the land of Columbus's sponsors, was among the Old World places they wished to see.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA collector of American printing history, a family with roots in Castile or the Portuguese provinces, or a lover of lithographed atlas maps will find a lively gift here. TheMapVault's Tanner sheet, dated 1836, belongs to the same atlas in its earlier engraved form, whereas this Mitchell sheet of 1846 is in the lithographic format that made the atlas popular. Its Colton sheet of 1856 and Johnson sheet of 1860 are the later American family-atlas versions of the peninsula. 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The map was engraved by Young \u0026amp; Delleker, is in full color, and measures 29 by 22 centimeters at a scale of 1:4,500,000, bordered by markers of longitude and latitude. The catalog description names Madrid, Lisbon and Barcelona, the Pyrenees and the Mediterranean coast among its features. The 1831 copy has the Atlas Classica, a set of ancient maps, bound at the back, a common feature of the later editions, so that one volume served for both modern and classical geography.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe catalog places the map in the years after the Napoleonic Wars and before the Carlist Wars, when the political divisions it shows were vital for trade, travel and governance. Ferdinand VII reigned in Madrid, and in Lisbon the Portuguese court had returned from Brazil in 1821 after more than a decade in Rio de Janeiro. 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The color lithograph measures 37 by 50 centimeters on a double sheet of 40 by 54, at a scale of 1:2,500,000, with a legend, lines of latitude and longitude and a bar scale in kilometers. It shows political boundaries, topography, cities, roads, bodies of water, drainage, coastlines and islands, with relief in hachures and color, and an inset map of the Strait of Gibraltar. The catalog lists Spain, Portugal and Andorra among its countries and the Rock of Gibraltar among its regions, so the sheet reaches beyond the two main kingdoms to the small principality in the Pyrenees. It shows the Iberian Peninsula in 1922.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1922 Alfonso XIII was king of Spain, a year before General Primo de Rivera seized power in 1923, and Portugal was a republic, having replaced its monarchy in 1910. The tiny principality of Andorra, with Andorra la Vella as its capital, sits in the Pyrenees between France and Spain, and its inclusion was a feature of this Italian edition. 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The sheet measures 62 by 46 centimeters at a scale of 1:2,075,000 and is hand colored, showing political and administrative boundaries, roads and railroads, with relief in hachures and a legend. The catalog credits Smith and Gerin as engravers, P. Rousset for the lettering and Mme. Fontaine for the water. It shows the peninsula in 1863 as a large French atlas page of the Second Empire, lettered in French and drawn on a generous scale.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1863 Spain was ruled by Isabella II, and Portugal by Luis I, who had come to the throne in 1861 after the death of his brother Pedro V. The railroads that the map marks were reaching across the peninsula, among them the lines radiating from Madrid, which had reached Alicante in 1858 and would reach the French frontier at Irun in 1864. France under Napoleon III took a close interest in its Pyrenean neighbor, and an atlas adopted for army libraries had a practical use for such maps. 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The map measures 31 by 24 centimeters at a scale of 1:4,300,000, in outline color by country, and shows cities and towns, with relief in hachures and with both Greenwich and Washington as prime meridians. It gives population and area in square miles. The catalog description names Madrid, Lisbon, Barcelona and Seville, the Bay of Biscay, the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean. The atlas itself is hardbound in brown cloth with an embossed gilt title on the front, and it was made as a keepsake of the fair as much as a work of reference.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Exposition of 1893 celebrated the four hundredth anniversary of Columbus's first voyage, which had sailed in 1492 under the Spanish crown, so a map of Spain and Portugal fitted naturally in an atlas published for the occasion. Spain sent replicas of Columbus's three ships across the Atlantic to the fair. Portugal, whose navigators had opened the sea routes to India and Brazil, belonged to the same age of discovery. 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The double-page sheet measures 62 by 49 centimeters at a scale of 1:2,500,000 and is in full color, with relief shown by gradient tints and spot heights, depth by gradient tints and soundings, and the prime meridian at Greenwich. The Times Atlas was issued in five volumes between 1955 and 1959, with 122 colored double-page sheets and an index of over 200,000 names. The catalog description names Madrid, Lisbon and Barcelona, the Balearic Islands, the Pyrenees, the Tagus and the Ebro.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1956 Spain was governed by General Franco and Portugal by Prime Minister Salazar, so that two long-lived dictatorships shared the peninsula in the years just after the Second World War. Madrid, Lisbon and Barcelona were its leading cities, and the Balearic Islands, where mass tourism would soon begin, appear in the Mediterranean. The Pyrenees separate the peninsula from France, while the Tagus and the Ebro are its two great rivers. 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The sheet is a double-page map measuring 66 by 50 centimeters at a scale of 1:1,930,000, printed in full color with relief shown by hachures and spot heights, and its margin carries the title Rand, McNally and Company's indexed atlas of the world. The catalog calls the atlas Rand McNally's highwater mark for its nineteenth-century atlases and notes that it is little changed from the 1896 edition. Cities are marked by dots of varying size according to their importance, and latitude and longitude are shown around the sheet, so that the map reads as a serious reference work.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1897 Spain was fighting the Cuban insurrection, a war that led to the Spanish-American War of 1898 and the loss of Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Philippines, so American readers of a Chicago atlas had a direct interest in the country. Queen Regent Maria Cristina governed for her son Alfonso XIII, while Portugal's King Carlos I reigned in Lisbon. 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Montgomery Martin's Illustrated Atlas. The Rare Maps catalog calls it a striking example of Tallis's marvelous map, showing the Iberian Peninsula with a number of cities, towns, rivers and other geographical features, with the regions delimited and named, among them Catalonia, Valencia, Castile and Aragon. It carries decorative vignettes of bullfighting, Belem Castle, Gibraltar, two coats of arms, and the cities of Madrid and Lisbon. Tallis was one of the last great decorative map makers, and his maps are prized for such vignettes of local scenes, which turn a geographical sheet into a small picture of national character.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe same Tallis atlas was published for the Great Exhibition of 1851 in London, and its maps were engraved by John Rapkin. In 1851 Isabella II reigned in Spain, with Madrid as the capital, while Portugal was ruled by Queen Maria II, and in Lisbon the Belem Castle stood by the Tagus as the old monument of the age of discovery. 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