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Title Plan de la riviere de Maranon ou riviere des Amazones tiré sur une carte espagnole faite par le Reuerend Pere Samuel Frits de la Compagnie de Jesus...

Creator Fritz, Samuel, 1654-1724?

Date 1710

Place Amazon River Region, South America

Language French

Subjects Manuscript maps

Description "[P]ris cette copie a Cartagene de l'Amerique le quinze Auril de lannée mil sept cens dix 1710."
Bottom margin contains 7 lines of text.
Pen-and-ink and watercolor (green, grey, yellow, brown, red); mounted on cloth.
Sheet 57 of 115 (i.e. 117; includes sheets 71A and 106A) numbered leaves in the Cartes Marines Manuscript Map Collection, detailing French colonial interests worldwide, ca. 1640-ca. 1726.
Reduced B&W photo published in Latorre, Octavio. Los mapas del Amazonas (1988) p. 159-160.

Summary Map of the Amazon River region by Jesuit missionary Samuel Fritz; copied in 1710 from another map in Cartagena, Columbia tentatively dated 1691 or earlier by Clara Smith. Varies significantly from other known maps of the Amazon by Fritz. Cf. Latorre, Octavio. Los mapas del Amazonas y el desarrollo de la cartografía ecuatoriana en el siglo XVIII (Guayaquil: Museos del Banco Central del Ecuador, 1988) p. 37-47 (text) and plates on p. 149-151, 155-156, 159-160, and 191-192; Brazil. Frontières entre le Brésil et la Guyane Française. Atlas contenant un choix de cartes... (Paris: A. Lahure, 1899) pl. 86 and 91; France. Mémoire contenant l'exposé des droits de la France dans la question des frontières de la Guyane Française et du Brésil... Atlas (Paris: Phototypie Berthaud, [1899]) pl. 20.

Extent 1 ms. map : hand col. ; 303 x 719 mm

Format Early works to 1800, Manuscript maps, Maps--Early works to 1800, Nautical charts

Archival Collection Title Cartes Marines Manuscript Map Collection, Edward E. Ayer Collection, Edward E. Ayer Manuscript Map Collection

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

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Call Number Ayer MS map 30 sheet 57

BibID 991660628805867

Size 8205px × 6112px 143.51 MB

IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Filename 991660628805867_ayer_ms_map_30_sheet_57.tif

Unique Identifier NL11KM6Q

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