Detail View: JCB Map Collection: Tabla geographica del reyno de Chile

Accession Number: 
07376
File Name: 
07376-13
Call number: 
B728 H564h / 2-SIZE
Map title: 
Tabla geographica del reyno de Chile
Place of Publication: 
[Antwerp]
Publisher: 
[Juan Bautista Verdussen]
Publication date: 
[1728]
Map size height: 
30.5 cm.
Map size width: 
43.8 cm. [both pages]
Item description: 
etching, engraved map, vol.. 4, following p. 334
Geographical description: 
Map of the coastline of Chile. Cartographic elements include sea banks or shoals, compass rose, location of rivers and settlements. Decorative elements include lion, llamas or guanacos, parrot, penguin [?], rheas, armadillo, sea monsters, mermaid, ships, native American with a tail, a Patagonian giant, stag or deer chased by a dog, volcanoes, native Americans with bows and arrows, hunting birds, and settlements.
Source author: 
Herrera y Tordesillas, Antonio de, d. 1625
Source title: 
[Historia general de los hechos de los castellanos] Historia general de las Indias Ocidentales ... Tomo quarto
Source place: 
En Amberes : Por Juan Bautista Verdussen, mercader de libros. M.D.CC.XXVIII
Cartobibliographic notes: 
This image is derived from the map in Alonso de Ovalle, Historica relacion del reyno de Chile, Rome, 1646.
Geographic Area: 
South America
Normalized date: 
1728