"An Accurate Map of Paraguay, Tucumania, Chaco, Rio de la Plata, &c. with Part of Brasil from 20 to 37 Degrees South Latitude...", Bowen, Emanuel

An interesting copper engraved map showing considerable detail throughout the region. It locates scores of rivers and numerous towns and villages. A long notation discusses the Jesuit settlements in Paraguay and notes that the native population of about 300,000 families has been reduced into a "State of absolute Subjection and Slavery to their present Tyrannical masters the Jesuits." The map features a decorative title cartouche and simple compass rose. This map appeared in both General Magazine of Arts and Sciences and Miscellaneous Correspondence, Containing a Variety of Subjects Relative to Natural and Civil History, Geography, Mathematics, Poetry, Memoirs of Monthly Occurrences..., both published by Benjamin Martin.

References: McCorkle (18th C. Geography Books) #255-3.

Condition: A

Issued folding with faint offsetting and minor toning primarily confined to the sheet's edges. Narrow margins at top and bottom, as issued.