map of eastern Brazil 1664
This beautiful map of the Brazilian coast is richly decorated with a scene of natives with a watchtower and a huge fleet of ships.
With north oriented to the right, the map covers the coastal region from San Francisco to Recife. It was designed after real research by Georg Marcgraf, Elias Herckmanns and others and was among the first maps of Brazil based on non-Portuguese data.
Blaeu first issued this and its accompanying maps in 1647 to Gaspar Barleus' Rerum per octennium in Brasília.
They were also brought together in a large wall map, Brasilia qua parte paret Belgis.
Maps then appeared in the Atlas Maior from 1662 onwards. This example is the second state with the addition of a native on the watchtower. “Praefecturae Paranambucae Pars Meridionalis”, Blaeu, Johannes
Map of Eastern Brazil 1664 – Historical Map of Brazil
