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| Keywords: 1818 Pinkerton Map of Peru - Geographicus - Peru-pinkerton-1818.jpg This is John Pinkerton's stunning 1818 map of Peru Covers the western parts of South America from the Gulf of Guayaquil in modern Ecuador to Lake Titicaca modern Peru-Bolivia and inland well into the Amazon and what is today Brazil This beautifully rendered map is truly a masterpiece of engraving with mountain ranges lakes deserts and rivers excited with such precision that the result appears almost three dimensional Pinkerton injects astounding detail throughout with countless towns cities geographical features rivers islands and bodies of water noted This map offers a smorgasbord of speculative cartography - especially in the largely unexplored eastern regions and the Amazon basin Pinkerton names countless indigenous groups numerous speculative river systems questionable mountains and mountain ranges and a number of notes relating to the supposed discoveries of this or that explorer The lowlands to the west of the Andes are mapped with considerable precision contrasting sharply with the less known regions to the east and reflecting some of the challenges in administering Peru's easternmost provinces One of the finest British atlas maps of Peru to appear in the 19th century Drawn by L Herbert and engraved by Samuel Neele under the direction of John Pinkerton This map was issued in the scarce American edition of Pinkerton ™s Modern Atlas published by Thomas Dobson Co of Philadelphia in 1818 1818 undated Size in 21 28 object history credit line accession number Peru-pinkerton-1818 Pinkerton J <i>A Modern Atlas from the Lates and Best Authorities Exhibiting the Various Divisions of the World with its chief Empires Kingdoms and States; in Sixty Maps carefully reduced from the Larges and Most Authentic Sources </i> 1818 Philadelphia Thomas Dobson Edition Geographicus-source PD-old-100 Maps by John Pinkerton Maps of the history of Peru 1818 Old maps of the Viceroyalty of Peru 1818 maps Old maps of Peru Maps in English | ||||
