COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Map Collection
Record
Accession Number:
07667
File Name:
07667-2
Call number:
F624 R466b
Map title:
Magellanes Rio de la Plata Asumpcion
Place of Publication:
[Dordrecht?]
Publisher:
[Ian Canin]
Publication date:
[1624]
Map size height:
20.2 cm.
Map size width:
31.2 cm.
Item description:
fold-out engraved map; following leaf [3]
Geographical description:
Map of the area around Rio de la Plata including Magellan Strait and, in a vignette, view of the city of Acunción (in present-day Paraguay) and Santa Cruz de la Sierra (in present-day Bolivia). Details include a view of Iguazu Falls [?], two native Americans standing nearby, soldiers marching to Santa Cruz de la Sierra, an animal [panther?], Parana River, and fortifications.
Source title:
Reys-Boeck van het rijcke Brasilien, Rio de la Plata ende Magallanes
Source place:
[Dordrecht? : s.n.], Ghedruckt int jaer onses heeren, anno 1624. By Ian Canin
Cartobibliographic notes:
The book is signed N.V.G. [Nicolas van Geelkercken?]. The name "Ian Canin" has been stamped in type at the foot of the title on all copies seen, evidently after the book had been printed.
Geographic Area:
South America
Normalized date:
1624
Magellanes Rio de la Plata Asumpcion
