COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Map Collection
Record
Accession Number:
11250
File Name:
11250-1
Call number:
B646 O96hs 1-SIZE (copy 1)
Map title:
Tabula Geographica Regni Chile
Place of Publication:
[Rome]
Publisher:
[Francesco Cavalli]
Publication date:
1646
Map size height:
57.4 cm.
Map size width:
116.3 cm.
Item description:
fold-out engraved map; at end
Geographical description:
Map of the coastline of Chile. Cartographic elements include sea banks or shoals, compass rose, location of rivers and settlements. Also includes the dividing line established between the Mapuche and Spanish at the Bio Bio River. Decorative elements include lion, llamas, parrot, penguin [?], rheas, armadillo, sea monsters, mermaid, ships, Patagonian giants, stag or deer, coat of arms of Innocent X and the royal Spanish coat of arms, men with tails, altar with cross, native Americans with bows and arrows, hunting birds, plowing. Inset of vignette showing the treaty between the Spanish and the native Chileans in 1641 between the marqués de Baides and the chief Antesignanus. Another inset shows vignette of warfare between the Spanish and native Americans with cannons, clubs, shields, and spears. Also includes two insets with plans of San Jacob and of Valdivia.
Source author:
Ovalle, Alonso de, 1601-1651
Source title:
[Historica relacion de reyno de Chile] Historica relacion del reyno de Chile
Source place:
En Roma, : por Francisco Cauallo., M.DC.XLVI.
References:
Wroth, L.C. "Alonso de Ovalle's large map of Chile, 1646" Imago Mundi XIV (1959), 90-95
Geographic Area:
South America
Historical notes:
This map is greatly enlarged from the version commonly found in this edition; this copy may be unique. See Lawrence C. Wroth's article in Imago Mundi.Francisco López de Zúñiga, marqués de Baides, governor of Chile from 1639 to 1646, was responsible for the Treaty of Quillín in 1641 which established the territory between the Mapuches and the Spanish at the Río Biobío in Chile and which briefly established peace after the Araucanian Wars. The treaty recognized the independence of the Mapuche Indians, but forced them to an area south of the Bio Bio River.This map contains extensive Latin commentary by Ovalle to explain native American ethnography and the history of the conquest.
Normalized date:
1646
Creator:
Joan. Fernandes
Tabula Geographica Regni Chile
