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Plano del Rio Geneyro situado en la latd. S de 23 gs. en longd. 12 en el ste pureto se puede darfon do fuera de las fortale as entre las yslas ... / [copiado] por Antonio Gonzales de Castro, concurrente bajo la correcion de Dn. Jph. Franco. Badarraco, maestro delineador por su magestad en el mas exacto plano hasta [indecipherable] 1764.

Castro, Antonio Gonzales de.

CREATED/PUBLISHED
[1764]

NOTES
Shows Guanabara Bay, including Rio de Janeiro harbor area.

Depths shown by soundings.

Oriented with north toward the upper left.

Watermarks: IV and fleur-de-lis.

Pen-and-ink and watercolor.

Mounted on cloth backing.

In lower right corner: La Real Escuela de Navegacion en el Departamto. de Cadiz, 1764.

Indexed.

Annotated in black ink: N. 13 [indecipherable].

Maggs number annotated in pencil in lower right corner: 8.

LC Luso-Hispanic World, 188

Scale [ca. 1:91,500].

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

RELATED NAMES
Real Escuela de Navegacion (Cadiz, Spain)

RELATED TITLES
[Maggs purchase map collection ; 32]

MEDIUM
1 map : ms., col. ; 38 x 49 cm.

CALL NUMBER
G5592.G8 1764 .C3 Vault

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

DIGITAL ID
g5592g ct000051 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g5592g.ct000051

RELATED DIGITAL ITEMS
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