Subasta Bidspirit | [MANUSCRITO]. LIÇÕES DE GEOGRAFIA. [Portugal].

[MANUSCRITO]. LIÇÕES DE GEOGRAFIA. [Portugal]. [meados do século XIX]. - [MANUSCRITO] LIÇÕES DE GEOGRAFIA . [Portugal], [meados do século XIX]. manuscrito sobre papel; 312 ff.; 215 mm. Brochado com capa de papel pintado à mão da época; acidez. A handwritten notebook of Geography lessons, for school use, written by several hands and organized into numbered lessons. It opens with Astronomical or Mathematical Geography (the armillary sphere, the great and small circles, the signs and constellations), continues with chorographic, topographic and hydrographic maps and the tracing of projections, and then moves on to descriptive geography. The Portuguese section covers the provinces of Entre Douro e Minho, Trás-os-Montes, Beira, Alentejo, and the Kingdom of the Algarve, as well as the Azores islands, with information on agricultural production, livestock, factories, and ports, and with reference to the town of Sagres and the Academy of Prince Henry the Navigator. Positions are given in longitude measured from the Lisbon meridian. The foreign section, written in a more flowing font, deals with the British Isles (Ireland, with its rivers, lakes, ports, and mountains, and the parliamentary union of 1801) and Scandinavia (Denmark, Sweden, and Norway, each with a historical summary), and includes charts of islands and capes with their respective coordinates and a synopsis of the hydrography of France. A testament to the teaching of Geography in Portugal, of interest to the history of school culture. Curious. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate