Chili and La Plata

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Steel engraving, hand colored in outline and wash. The fine engraved map is showing Chili and La Plata with many details and the South Pacific and the South Atlantic Ocean. The map is decorated with five finely hand colored engraved vignettes: the travelling post, the governor, a rattlesnake, a water seller and the grand square of Buenos Ayres. The actual map was drawn and engraved by J. Rapkin. The illustrations were engraved by various artists: R. Radclyffe, W. Lacy, J. Rogers, J. H. Kernot, J. B. Allen, T. Fleming, H. Winkles, R. Baker after drawings by H. Warren, H. Winkles and H. Wray.