L'Amerique Meridionale qui fait lautre partie des Indes Occidentales
by Chiquet, Jacques:
- Used
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Paris, 1719. Copper engraving, 17 x 22 cm, original hand colour in outline, slight spotting to right of cartouche, blank verso. Published in Chiquets Le nouveau et curieux atlas géographique et historique .... Map of South America featuring figures in indigenous costume and a vignette of a sea battle between a European galleon and local craft. Text at the foot of the map describes Magellan's discovery of the Magellan Straits in 1520. Chiquet (1673-1721) was a relatively successful Parisian engraver, print and mapseller. He published Antoine Menards Le nouveau et curieux atlas in 1711, and reprinted it with Menards name burnished from the plate and replaced with his own and a new date, 1719, as here. Map
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bryars and Bryars (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 9069
- Title
- L'Amerique Meridionale qui fait l’autre partie des Indes Occidentales
- Author
- Chiquet, Jacques:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Place of Publication
- Paris
- Date Published
- 1719
- Bookseller catalogs
- Americas: Central, South;
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- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.