Striking Cartouche of Indian, Alligator & Village
D'Anville, Jean Baptiste Bourguignon (1697-1782).
A Map of South America, containing Tierra-Firma, Guayana, New Grenada, Amazonia, Brasil, Peru, Paraguay, Chaco, Tucuman, Chili and Patagonia, from Mr. D'Anville with several improvements and additions.
Engraved map.
Robert Sayer, 1787.
39 ¼" x 46 ½" sheet.
Dramatic four-sheet wall map of the continent with an extremely large title cartouche depicting an Indian, an alligator, a village and boats, in the lower right and with large inset of gazetteer information lower left on southern sheets. Detailed chart of the Falkland Islands upper right. Used as map sheets 34 and 35 in Sayer's Atlas of 1790. Sheets professionally joined.
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D'Anville, Jean Baptiste Bourguignon (1697-1782).
A Map of South America, containing Tierra-Firma, Guayana, New Grenada, Amazonia, Brasil, Peru, Paraguay, Chaco, Tucuman, Chili and Patagonia, from Mr. D'Anville with several improvements and additions.
Engraved map.
Robert Sayer, 1787.
39 ¼" x 46 ½" sheet.
Dramatic four-sheet wall map of the continent with an extremely large title cartouche depicting an Indian, an alligator, a village and boats, in the lower right and with large inset of gazetteer information lower left on southern sheets. Detailed chart of the Falkland Islands upper right. Used as map sheets 34 and 35 in Sayer's Atlas of 1790. Sheets professionally joined.
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