D'anville Map of South America
D'Anville, Jean Baptiste Bourguignon (1697-1782).
Map of South America...
Engraved map.
Robert Sayer, 1775.
39 1/4" x 46 1/2" sheet.
containing Tierra-Firma, Guayana, New Grenada, Amazonia, Brasil, Peru, Paraguay, Chaco, Tucuman, Chili and Patagonia, from Mr. D'Anville with several improvements and additions from the latest discoveries." Dramatic two-sheet wall map of the continent with an extremely large title cartouche depicting an Indian viewing a distant landscape across a river. Used as map sheets 34 and 35 in Sayer & Bennett's Atlas of 1780. Some misfolding and margin tears.
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D'Anville, Jean Baptiste Bourguignon (1697-1782).
Map of South America...
Engraved map.
Robert Sayer, 1775.
39 1/4" x 46 1/2" sheet.
containing Tierra-Firma, Guayana, New Grenada, Amazonia, Brasil, Peru, Paraguay, Chaco, Tucuman, Chili and Patagonia, from Mr. D'Anville with several improvements and additions from the latest discoveries." Dramatic two-sheet wall map of the continent with an extremely large title cartouche depicting an Indian viewing a distant landscape across a river. Used as map sheets 34 and 35 in Sayer & Bennett's Atlas of 1780. Some misfolding and margin tears.
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