MAKE A MEME
View Large Image
| View Original: | 1762_Zannoni_Map_of_Central_America_and_the_West_Indies_(_Caribbean_)_-_Geographicus_-_WestIndies-zannoni-1762.jpg (4000x2834) | |||
| Download: | Original | Medium | Small | Thumb |
| Courtesy of: | commons.wikimedia.org | More Like This | ||
| Keywords: 1762 Zannoni Map of Central America and the West Indies ( Caribbean ) - Geographicus - WestIndies-zannoni-1762.jpg A beautiful example of Zannoni's 1762 map of the West Indies Florida and Central America Covers from the Gulf of Mexico to the lesser Antilles including all of the West Indies Florida and Central America with parts of Louisiana Mexico and northern South America In essence a nautical chart this map has little inland detail and is crisscrossed with both rhumb lines and lines of latitude and longitude Coastal cities rivers and ports are named throughout Also shows numerous shoal reefs and other offshore dangers Southern Florida is rendered as an archipelago in a primitive attempt at describing the Everglades Drawn by A Zannoni in 1762 for issue as plate no C 32 in Jean Lattre's 1776 issue of the Atlas Moderne 1762 undated Size in 18 12 5 object history credit line accession number WestIndies-zannoni-1762 Lattre Jean <i>Atlas Moderne ou Collection de Cartes sur Toutes les Parties du Globe Terrestre</i> c 1775 Geographicus-source PD-Art-100 Old maps of the Caribbean Giovanni Antonio Rizzi Zannoni 1762 maps Old maps of Central America Old nautical charts | ||||
_-_Geographicus_-_WestIndies-zannoni-1762.jpg){kind=link}
