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Tabula Geographica Peruae, Braziliae & Amazonum Regionis. - Carte de la Terre Ferme du Perou, du Bresil, et du Pays des Amazones. - Tabula Geographica Paragiae, Chilis, Freti a Magellanici & c. - Carte du Paraguay, Du Chili, du Detroit de Magellan & c.
Covens en Mortier
An extraordinary example of a c. 1730 two map set depicting South America. This is Covens and Mortier's c. 1730 reissue of Guillaume de L'Isle's magnificent c. 1708 map of this region. The northern sheet covers from Costa Rica and Barbados south roughly to the Tropic of Capricorn or more precisely 50 degrees south latitude. Southern sheet covers roughly from 18 degrees south latitude south to Tierra del Fuego. Both maps are notable for their extraordinary condition with a dark strong impression on clean white paper. Early 18th century maps rarely appear in this superb condition. The northern sheet of this set, like most early maps of the area, contrasts a detailed mapping of the coast with a speculative discussion of the interior, particularly the Amazon Basin. Offers a fairly accurate mapping of both the east and west coasts with exceptional detail in the populated Andean regions of Columbia, Ecuador (Labeled Quito), and Peru. Notes Cuzco, Lima, Quito, Valladolid, Arequipa, Trujillo and other important trading centers of the region. In Portuguese controlled Brazil, Rio de Janeiro, San Salvador and San Sebastian are noted. Lake Maracaibo, in modern day Venezuela, is slightly malformed and elongated. The interior is where this map gets interesting. De L’Isle was a cautious and scientific cartographer, who based his maps on the first hand reports from sailors, merchants and missionaries that, at the time, were flowing into Paris at an unprecedented rate. Consequently many of his maps offer significant cartographic advances over their predecessors. This map is no exception and De L'Isle credits the mappings and explorations of Alonzo de Herrera, Johannes de Laet, P.P. D Acuna and M. Rodriguez. Nonetheless, De L'Isle's mapping of South America's interior is full of inaccuracy, curiosities, and ample fodder for the gold hunting European. Our survey of this map begins with De L'Isle's impressively accurate mapping of the Amazon and Orinoco River systems - though he does e
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- 1730 in South AmericaCovens en MortierArtworks without Wikidata itemArtworks with known accession numberMap of Paraguay, Chile and Argentina by Guillaume de l'Isle (1703)Carte de la Terre-Ferme, Pérou, Brazil, Amazonas by Guillaume Delisle (1703)Maps of America by Guillaume Delisle (18th century)18th-century maps of the Spanish Empire