Peru. Various Boats, Barks &c. Middleton antique print c1778

$95.00

Water transport from Rivers and Coast of Peru in South America.

Original copperplate with beautiful decorative border, engraved for Charles Theodore Middleton's Complete System of Geography, – or if you prefer its complete title, A new and complete system of geography: containing a full, accurate, authentic and interesting account and description of Europe, Asia, Africa, and America, as consisting of continents, islands, oceans, seas, rivers, lakes, promontories, capes, bays, peninsulas, isthmusses, gulphs, &c. … with their strange ceremonies, customs, amusements, &c. &c. Published in London in 1777-1778 it was a marvellous publication with included some of the earliest circulated images of unusual ethnography, as well as architecture and topography – all presented within intricately engraved, decorative frames.

Page measures 23 x 36cm. (9 x 14 inches). Measurement to plate mark, 19 x 24cm (7.5 x 9.5 inches).