An unusual map of South America
Tabula qua Hydrophylacium Andium exhibetur, quo universa America Australis innumeris fluvius lacubusque irrigatur.
Amsterdam, c.1678. Coloured. 345 x 205mm.
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An early hydrographical map of the Southern American continent, marking rivers, the Andes with a huge underground lake and Walter Raleigh's 'Parime Lacus'.
The map was published in the 'Mundi Subterranei', by Athanasius Kircher, a Jesuit scholar who was one of the first compilers of knowledge of the physical features of the world.
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