Unknown · 1954
The notice records that the first edition of Amorim Girão’s Atlas of Portugal, published in 1941 to commemorate the double centenary of Portugal’s foundation and restoration, had sold out. While introducing plans for a new edition, the author recalls that the first edition had sought to present a vivid, colourful image of the country.
Ena L. Yonge · 1957
In a survey of national atlases worldwide, Yonge treats Amorim Girão's 1941 Atlas de Portugal as the first comprehensive atlas of the country since Barros Gomes's Cartas elementares de Portugal of 1878, and summarizes its contents: plates on geology, relief, climate and forests; a four-map plate on olive, almond, fig and orange cultivation; a phytoclimatic sketch; maps of population (density, movement, agricultural, rural and industrial); agriculture on Plates 16–19; minerals on Plate 22; transport and commerce on Plates 23–25. Most maps are at 1:1,500,000, one to a page, with several statistical maps at 1:3,000,000 four to a page, and each plate has an explanatory page giving the sources used. Her reservation is the paper, whose poor quality she considers unfortunate for so careful a compilation. A bibliographic note records the 1941 volume as 25 plates, Coimbra, 17 × 11 inches, and reports a notice of a projected new and greatly expanded edition.
