Antique Map of the Bahia Todos Santos 'Brazil' by Tirion, circa 1750

Name: Antique Map of the Bahia Todos Santos 'Brazil' by Tirion, circa 1750
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-00642
Price: 615 USD
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Date: 1750
Kind: Maps
Size: 42 × 52 cm (16.5 × 20.5 in)
Condition: Good. Great original (contemporary) hand coloring, small tear on folding line. Please study image carefully.
Period: Colonial America
Places: Brazil
Reference: BG-00642

What the condition grades mean

Excellent: Bright and clean, with no faults worth mentioning.
Very good: Only light signs of age, such as faint toning.
Good: Normal signs of age for a sheet of this period: toning, some foxing, small marks or neat old repairs.
Fair: Clear faults such as staining, tears or repairs, priced to match.

Every fault we see is written in the condition note, and the whole sheet is shown uncropped in the photos.

Guaranteed original. This is an original of the period stated, not a later reproduction or print-on-demand copy. If it is ever shown to be otherwise, we refund you in full.

Shipping to the United States. Sent from our gallery in Langweer, the Netherlands, flat between boards or rolled in a tube, and fully insured. Delivery and import charges.

About this piece

Bahia de Todos os Santos in Brazil, an original map by the Amsterdam publisher Isaak Tirion, circa 1750, with a large inset plan of the city of San Salvador. The Dutch title, in a rococo cartouche at lower left, reads "Kaart van de Aller-Heiligen Baay waar aan de Hoofdstad legt van Brazil." It is an engraved sheet with hand color in pink, yellow and green outline.

The bay opens to the sea at the lower right, where the city of San Salvador (Bahia) stands on the point at the mouth. The lettered rivers feeding the bay and the many islands, among them Itaparica and Mare, are tinted in separate colors, and soundings and anchorages are marked across the water. A compass rose with radiating lines stands at the center. The inset at lower right, "Grondtekening van de Stad San Salvador," gives a ground plan of the city with its fortifications, streets and numbered key to the principal buildings.

San Salvador was the capital of colonial Brazil and its principal Atlantic port, and Dutch publishers of the eighteenth century issued such bay charts for readers following the South Atlantic trade.

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