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[SOUTH AMERICA]

Carte du Paraguay, du Chili, du Detroit de Magellan &c ... par Guillaume de l'Isle
€140 - €200

Engraved map (49.5 x 65 cm), hand-coloured outlines, Paris, chez l'auteur sur le Quai de l'Horloge, 1703

The following explorer's routes are shown: Ferdinand Magellan (Pacific portion of his circumnavigation, 1520). Pedro Sarmiento (in the Pacific, 1589. On several other occasions, Sarmiento was captured by English Pirates and had been taken as a captive to England.) Amerigo Vespucci (Atlantic, 1502. Vespucci's route is rarely shown on 18th Century maps.) ""Capt. Charp"" (a. k. a. Bartholomew Sharp, an English pirate, in 1681.) ""Icy Mr. Halley's trouve la Mer glacée,"" a reference to the icebergs Halley encountered on his voyage in 1700. Beauchesne (Brower, on the Atlantic side of Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia, noting his discovery of an island in 1701.) La Roche (noting his discovery of 2 islands in 1675.)