Atlases & Maps South America Carta esferica que... Lot 656

[Atlases & Maps] [South America] Carta esferica que comprehende la costa occidental de America desde siete grados de latitud sur hasta nueve grados de latitud nortelevantada de orden del Rey N.S. en 1791. Por varios oficiales de su real armada (...) presentada (...) por Don Antionio Cornel (...). Engr. map on two attached sheets, total size 86.5 x 57 cm, engr. by Fernando Selma after Felipo Bauzá (1764-1834), printed by the Deposito Hydrografico, 1800. Folded, w. vague central waterst., a few sm. (repaired) tears, numbers verso and other sm. imperfections. A good copy for such a large map. Rare, detailed and important map of the South American coastline from the Piura region in present day Peru to the Gulf of Panama and beyond, drawn after information collected and mapped by Bauzá during the voyage of the ships of Malaspina.