Engraving of Salvador da Bahia from 1770

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Engraving of Salvador da Bahia from 1770 - Salvador, former capital of Brazil, was a strategic port under Portuguese control. This beautiful copper engraving shows the walled city of Salvador with ships and boats filling the harbor in the foreground. A lettered key at the bottom identifies various locations. This anonymous Spanish view is a larger copy of Arnoldus Montanus's view of the city, published in 1671. "La Ciudadde S. Salvador Capital del Brasil", Anon. — Engraving of Salvador da Bahia from 1770 – Salvador, former capital of Brazil, was a strategic port under Portuguese control. This beautiful copper engraving shows the walled city of Salvador with ships and boats filling the harbor in the foreground. A lettered key at the bottom identifies various locations. This anonymous Spanish view is a larger copy of Arnoldus Montanus's view of the city, published in 1671. “La Ciudadde S. Salvador Capital del Brasil”, Anon.

Engraving of Salvador da Bahia from 1770

Salvador, former capital of Brazil, was a strategic port under Portuguese control.

This beautiful copper engraving shows the walled city of Salvador with ships and boats filling the harbor in the foreground.

A lettered key at the bottom identifies various locations. This anonymous Spanish view is a larger copy of Arnoldus Montanus's view of the city, published in 1671. “La Ciudadde S. Salvador Capital del Brasil”, Anon.

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