"Chili Provincia Amplissima", Wytfliet, Cornelis
Subject: Chile
Period: 1597 (circa)
Publication:
Color: Black & White
Size:
11.4 x 9 inches
29 x 22.9 cm
This important early map covers Chile from Valdivia to Camana. The map details rivers, mountains, and numerous cities and villages west of the Andes. It is simply adorned with a strapwork cartouche in a stipple engraved sea. This was published in either Wytfliet's Descriptionis Ptolemaicae Augmentum or Histoire Universelle des Indes Occidentales et Orientales…
References: cf. Mickwitz & Miekkavaara #307-3.
Condition: A
On a watermarked sheet that has been backed in archival tissue. There is a faint dampstain that just crosses the neatline at bottom left and a tiny rust spot.
