"Carte du Bresil, Prem. Partie Depuis la Riviere des Amazones jusqu'a la Baye de Tous les Saints", Bellin, Jacques Nicolas
Subject: Brazil
Period: 1770 (circa)
Publication: Prevost's Histoire Generale des Voyages
Color: Hand Color
Size:
12.8 x 9.5 inches
32.5 x 24.1 cm
This finely engraved map covers from the mouth of the Amazon to the Salvador. Only coastal detail is shown with regions divided into the Capitaineries or hereditary harbor offices. The interior region is noted as being unknown and the domain of the Tapuyas Indian nation. Decorated with a garland-draped title cartouche.
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Condition: A
Issued folding.