Piano della Citta e Contorni di S. Francesco di Quito

City plan of Quito showing significant churches, parishes, monastic establishments, and governmental buildings with a key. A cross on the left of the map indicates El Panecillo, the present site of the Madonna of Quito monument.

The original source for this map was the account of the French scientist, explorer and adventurer Charles Marie de la Condamine, who travelled widely through South America as part of the French Geodesic Mission. His travelogue was widely published and the maps within adapted by Jacques Nicholas Bellin for the "Histoires Generale des Voyages". 

This example was apart of the "Gazettiere Americano", an Italian edition of the "American Gazetteer". The "Gazettiere" focused particularly on the New World and Condamine's map of Quito was the most current map of the period. [SAM3603]

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