Piano della Citta e Soborghi di Cartagena

Plan of Cartagena de las Indias Colombia, Spain's major port in South America at this time.

Marco Coltellini, the editor and compiler of the "Gazettiere Americano", differentiated his Italian edition from the earlier, English "American Gazetteer" by the addition of multiple illustrations and maps. For these he used mainly the foremost French geo-historical encyclopaedia of the time, the "Histoire Generale des Voyages" published in Paris over a decade approximately between 1740-50 although there were a few volumes issued slightly earlier and later than those dates. The maps were provided by the French cartographer, Jacques Nicholas Bellin. 

However, Coltellini also used other sources, mainly English. In this case, this map of Cartagena, with its orientation with north to the right, seems to have been taken from the map drawn by Capt. Philip Durrell who was present during the disastrous English Siege of Cartagena of 1741. Durrell's map was often used by other English and Dutch map makers throughout the 1760s. [SAM3606]