Islas Filipinas: Primera Hoja Central. inset 1: Bahia de Manila; inset 2: Puerto de Maribeles; inset 3: Puerto de Limbones; inset 4: Parte de Costa; inset 5: Puerto de Cavite; inset; 6: Manila y sus; inset 7: Puerto de San Miguel; inset 8: Puerto de San Jose; inset 9: Magnog; inset 10: Puerto de Sorsogon; inset 11: Puerto de Lanang; inset 12: Puerto de St Jacinto

Description

pale original outline-colour engraving.

“Single Sheet: Islas Filipinas. Primera Hoja Central (1849) – [Luzon and Mindoro, with 11 insets]

Francisco Coello de Portugal y Quesada (1822-1898), was one of the most important 19th C. Spanish cartographers. With geographer Antonio Morata, he created this most important and first accurate, modern, and complete topographical 19th C. map of the Philippines, based on scientific surveys by Bauzá and others from 1792 onwards. – A must in any serious Philippine map collection.

The work is part of Coello’s unfinished mapping project, the ‘Atlas de España y sus posesiones de Ultramar’ as part of the ‘Diccionario geográfico-estadístico-histórico’, published in Madrid.

Coello’s work was the basis for many other maps by several cartographers and voyagers and was extensively used by all protagonists during the Spanish-American War (1898) and the Philippine-American War (1899-1902).