circa 1760 · Maps
Antique Map of the Coast of Peru and Chile – Detailing Ports & Coastlines, c1760
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- Date
- circa 1760
- Kind
- Maps
- Size
- 30.6 × 20 cm (12 × 7.9 in)
- Places
- Chile, Peru
- Reference
- BG-14078-28
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.
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About this piece
The Pacific coast of Peru and Chile, an original copper engraving by Porlier, dated around 1760. The sheet is titled with the lettering "Côte du Pérou" and "Côte du Chili" set along the coast, and the engraver's credit "Porlier Sculp." appears at the lower left, with a volume number at the upper right.
The map is a narrow coastal strip with the shoreline drawn in fine shaded lines and latitude figures ruled along both edges. Towns and ports are lettered down the coast from Paita in the north: Truxillo, Lima (marked as the capital of Peru), Callao, Pisco, Arequipa, Arica, Iquique, Copiapó, Coquimbo (or La Serena), Santiago (the capital of Chile), Valparaiso, Concepción, Imperial, Valdivia and the island of Chiloé at the foot. Offshore islands such as the Lobos Islands are marked. The open sea at the left is lettered "Mer du Sud," with the Tropic of Capricorn ruled across it and a fleur-de-lis north arrow beneath. The Andes are shown only by a single hatched ridge near Iquique, and the scale is given as "Échelle de 100 Lieues" at the lower left.
The sheet gives the line of the coast that Pacific voyagers followed between the viceroyalty's chief ports.
