Chile from Peru to Cape Horn – Enlightenment Map by Rigobert Bonne, c.1780

Name: Chile from Peru to Cape Horn – Enlightenment Map by Rigobert Bonne, c.1780
Brand: Rigobert Bonne
SKU: BG-14105-34
Price: 515 USD
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Date: 1780
Maker: Rigobert Bonne
Kind: Maps
Size: 41 × 26 cm (16.1 × 10.2 in)
Condition: Good. Good antique condition. Light age toning and minor handling wear consistent with 18th-century copperplate engraving. Original centerfold as issued. Clean impression with strong legibility; margins ample for framing.
Period: The Early Republic
Places: Argentina, Chile, Peru
Reference: BG-14105-34

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.

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About this piece

Chile and the southern cone in a copper engraving by Rigobert Bonne, circa 1780, titled "Carte du Chili, depuis le Sud du Pérou jusqu'au Cap Horn, avec Partie des Régions qui en sont à l'Est," credited "Par Mr. Bonne, Ingénieur Hydrographe de la Marine." The sheet is printed in black without color.

The tall, narrow sheet follows the Pacific coast ("Mer du Sud") from southern Peru to the tip of the continent, with the island of Chiloé, the Juan Fernández islands and the Strait of Magellan engraved along the way. "Chili" is lettered in the center and Patagonia to the south. East of the Andes the map takes in the provinces of Tucumán and Buenos Aires and the "Pays des Pampas," and the Atlantic is lettered "Océan Méridional." Islands in the south Atlantic appear at the lower right, and scale bars for marine leagues, Spanish and Castilian leagues and common French leagues are placed at the foot.

Bonne was hydrographer to the French navy at the Dépôt de la Marine in Paris, succeeding Jacques-Nicolas Bellin, and this sheet is one of the regional South American maps of the Bonne series. It shows the Spanish colony of Chile, a narrow strip between the Andes and the Pacific, with the vast and still largely unmapped plains of the Pampas and Patagonia to the east.

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