Dec 07, 2023 - Sale 2655

Sale 2655 - Lot 159

Price Realized: $ 625
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
(SOUTH AMERICA.) Joseph Vasquez; and Manuel Sobreviela. Plan Del Curso de los Rios Huallaga y Ucayali, y de la Pampa del Sacramento. Engraved map of north central Peru with figural ornamentation, a dedication to Charles IV of Spain, and a key noting religious settlements. 16 1/4x11 3/4 inches sheet size, ample margins; conserved with areas of loss adequately reinstated. Lima, 1791

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One of the earliest maps published in Lima, this is a rare first edition of Father Sobreviela's important survey of Peru, one that was re-issued and proliferated in various publications into the mid-nineteenth century.