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United States and Brazil: Expanding Frontiers, Comparing Cultures

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Plano del puerto del Rio Janeiro situado en la latitud S. de 225410 longitud occidental de Cadiz 3631.

CREATED/PUBLISHED
[ca. 1780]

NOTES
Depths shown by soundings.

Prime meridian: Cadiz.

Oriented with north toward the upper left.

Pen-and-ink and watercolor.

Mounted on cloth backing.

Includes index and indexed inset showing view of fortified Culebras Island.

Printed label describing the map mounted on verso.

Annotated in brown ink in lower left corner: 13.

Maggs number annotated in pencil in lower right corner: 44.

LC Luso-Hispanic World, 186

Scale [ca. 1:44,000].

SUBJECTS
Guanabara Bay (Brazil)--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800.
Harbors--Brazil--Rio de Janeiro--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800.
Brazil--Rio de Janeiro--Guanabara Bay.

RELATED TITLES
[Maggs purchase map collection ; 34]

MEDIUM
1 map : ms., col. ; 53 x 73 cm.

CALL NUMBER
G5592.G8 1780 .P5 Vault

REPOSITORY
Library of Congress Geography and Map Division Washington, D.C. 20540-4650 USA

DIGITAL ID
g5592g br000104 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g5592g.br000104

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