Historic Map : Sanson Map of Guiana, Venezuela, and El Dorado, 1656, Vintage Wall Art Size:32in x 24in A beautiful first edition example

A beautiful first edition example of A

Florida is labeled as the province of Tegesta

for it inundated the vast Parima flood plain creating a great inland sea

This seminal map series

The French Concession

Historic Map : Sanson Map of Guiana, Venezuela, and El Dorado, 1656, Vintage Wall Art Size:32in x 24in A beautiful first edition exampleThis is N. Sanson's remarkable 1656 map of the northwestern parts of South America , Lake Parima (Parime), and the route to El Dorado. Cartographically this map is loosely based upon cartographic conventions established by De Laet, however, Sanson introduced some interesting new ideas, including some of the first fixed political borders in this region. The map covers fro Isla Margarita and the Orinoco Delta eastward as far as Tampico and southwards as