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 qui a eté fort longtems missionnaire dans ces terrains, et qui a leué ce plan tres juste ... 1710.

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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 qui a eté fort longtems missionnaire dans ces terrains, et qui a leué ce plan tres juste ... 1710.

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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.

1 ms. map : hand col. ; 303 x 719 mm., folded to 564 x 373 mm.

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