SANTAREM, VISCONDE DE. _Atlas Composé de Cartes des XIV^e XV^e XVI^e et XVII^e siècles_, Paris. 1841-53. This was published at the charge of the Portuguese Government, and is the most extensive of modern fac-similes. Copies, which are rarely found complete, owing to its irregular publication over a long period, are worth from $175 to $200. A list of the maps in it is given in Leclerc, _Bibliotheca Americana_, 1878, no. 529; and of them the following are of interest to students of American history:— 51. Mappemonde de Ruysch. This appeared in the Ptolemy of 1508 at Rome, the earliest engraved map of America. 52. Globe of Schoner, and the map in Camer’s edition of Solinus, each of 1520. 53. Mappemonde par F. Roselli, Florence, 1532, and the maps of Sebastian Munster, 1544, and Vadianus, 1546. The atlas should be accompanied by _Essai sur l’histoire de la Cosmographie et de la Cartographie pendant le Moyen Age, et sur les progrès de la Géographie après les grandes découvertes du XV^e siècle_. 3 vols. Paris. 1849-52. KUNSTMANN, F. _Entdeckung Amerikas nach den ältesten Quellen geschichtlich dargestellt._ Munich, 1859. This was published under the auspices of the Royal Bavarian Academy of Sciences, and is accompanied by a large atlas, giving fac-similes of the principal Spanish and Portuguese maps of the sixteenth century, including one of the California coast, and that of the east coast of North America, by Thomas Hood, 1592. Copies are worth from $15 to $20. LELEWEL, J. _Géographie du Moyen Age étudiée._ Bruxelles. 1852. 3 vols. 8º. With a small folio atlas, of thirty-five plates, containing fifty-two maps. The text is useful; but, as a rule, the maps are on too small a scale for easy study. A series of photographic reproductions of early maps is now appearing at Venice, under the title of _Raccolta di Mappamondi e Carte nautiche del XIII al XVI secolo_. There are two which have a particular interest in connection with the earliest explorations in America; namely,— 16. _Carta da navigare._ Attributed to ALBERTO CANTINO, supposed to be A.D. 1501-03, and to illustrate the third voyage of Columbus. The original is in the Bibl. Estense at Modena. [Not yet published.] 17. AGNESE, BATTISTA. _Fac-simile delle Carte nautiche dell’ anno 1554, illustrate da Teobaldo Fischer._ Venezia. 1881. The editor, Fischer, is Professor of Geography at Kiel. The original is in the Bibliotheca Marciana, at Venice. The sheets which throw light upon the historical geography of America are these:— XVII. 4. North America northward to the Penobscot and the Gulf of California; and the west coast of South America to 15° south; then blank, till the region of Magellan’s Straits is reached. XVII. 5. North America, east coast from Labrador south; Central America; South America, all of east coast, and west coast, as in XVII. 4. XVII. 33. The World,—the American continent much as in XVII. 4 and 5. We note the following other maps of Agnese:—