Plan de la Ville de Paita dans le Royaume de Santa fe. This was a strategic port in North Peru, which was attacked in a piratical raid by George Anson in 1741. It was first established by Jesuits in order to export the bark of the Chicona trees for their Quinine.
Jakobus van der Schley, Copperplate engraving, hand coloured, from Antoine Francois Prevost (1697-1763), Histoire General des Voyages,1747.
Size 37.5 x 25.5 cm. Condition Very Good.