Plan de la Baye du Port de Rio de Janeiro

A fine chart of the Bay of Rio de Janeiro or Guanabara Bay. The most accurate chart of the harbour published in the 18th century.


The map is credited to the scholarly French priest Jacques-Francois Dicquemare a lecturer and polymath whose main interest was natural science with a particular emphasis on what today would be marine biology. As can be read on the title, the original survey was made in 1730 with Dicquemare's revisions and additions in 1751.


This version of the map was issued by Jean Baptiste d'Après de Mannevillette a noted navigator who was also responsible for the Hydrographic Office of the French East India Company. This map appeared in his great work, the expanded version of the Neptune Oriental in 1775. [SAM3417]