August 2018
A fascinating sampling of maps depicting places in the Americas is available online in the British Library website.
Map of the principal Mining District of the Province of Minas Gerais in the Empire of Brazil, 1835.
Encompassing the continents of North and South America, as well as Central America and the Caribbean, this collection represents the Library’s vast store of British maps made of its colonies and other centres of interest and activity in the New World. See the curator’s choice.
Related article in Manguinhos:
Olshin, Benjamin B. A sixteenth century Portuguese report concerning an early Javanese world map. Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos, Feb 1996, vol.2, no.3, p.97-104.
