Giuseppe Maria Terreni
Cusco - Peru, 1763
9 x 7 in
23 x 18 cm
23 x 18 cm
SAM3568
Plan of the city of Cusco, the last citadel of Incas and now the gateway to the many remains of the Incan Empire in the Sacred Valley of the Andes....
Plan of the city of Cusco, the last citadel of Incas and now the gateway to the many remains of the Incan Empire in the Sacred Valley of the Andes.
The plan was based on a similar plan issued by Bellin in the "Histoire Generale des Voyages" a multi volume geo-historical encyclopaedia edited by the Abbe Prevost.
This map was included in the "Gazettiere Americano", a work issued at the end of the Seven Years War, focusing on the New World, particularly the West Indies and North America. It was edited by Marco Coltellini in Livorno and the maps are based on mixture of French and English maps. Jacques Nicholas Bellin was the main French source while the English maps seem to be sourced from several 18th century gazetteers including the Gentleman's Magazine, the London Magazine and the Universal Magazine. The cartographers usually associated with these publications were John Gibson, Emanuel Bowen and his apprentice Thomas Kitchin and Thomas Jefferys. [SAM3568]
The plan was based on a similar plan issued by Bellin in the "Histoire Generale des Voyages" a multi volume geo-historical encyclopaedia edited by the Abbe Prevost.
This map was included in the "Gazettiere Americano", a work issued at the end of the Seven Years War, focusing on the New World, particularly the West Indies and North America. It was edited by Marco Coltellini in Livorno and the maps are based on mixture of French and English maps. Jacques Nicholas Bellin was the main French source while the English maps seem to be sourced from several 18th century gazetteers including the Gentleman's Magazine, the London Magazine and the Universal Magazine. The cartographers usually associated with these publications were John Gibson, Emanuel Bowen and his apprentice Thomas Kitchin and Thomas Jefferys. [SAM3568]
