Praefectura De Ciriii, vel Seregippe Del Rey cum Itapuama - Antique map

Author: Blaeu, Joan

Publisher: Blaeu, Joan

Published: Amsterdam

Publishing year: 1662

Brazil. "Praefectura De Ciriii, vel Seregippe Del Rey cum Itapuama". Orig. copperplate engraving, J. Blaeu, Amsterdam, 1662 from the first edition of Atlas Maior. Original old colouring, highlighted with gold colour in several places. With ornamental title-cartouche, decorative border with tropical fruits, depiction of typical Brazilian animals, ships and a wind rose. 42:54 cm (16 1/2 x 21 1/4 inch.).

Koeman II, map 9850/1:2D, ed. 2:601 (1662ff. Latin). - A very decorative map of the east coast of Brazil (the southern part of the captaincy of Pernambuco and the captaincy of Bahia de Todos os Santos - the area between the present-day city of Salvador in the south and the mouth of the São Francisco River in the north - approximately the Brazilian state of Sergipe and the northwestern part of the state of Bahia). Oriented to the west.

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