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AMAZON - [ECKART, Anselm (1721-1809)]. Mappa V-Provinciae Maragonii Societatis Jesu cum adjacentibus quibusdam terris Hispanorum, Gallorum & Batavorum. [n.p.]: dated 1755.
Manuscript map of the Amazon river, sepia ink on thin paper, 380 x 465mm. The map covers the river Amazon from the River Javari, near the present day town of Leticia down to the sea including the northern tributaries of the Japura, Rio Negro, Rio Branco, and the extensive southern tributaries of Tocantins, Xingu, Tapajos, Madeira, Mamore, Purus and Tefe, numerous mission posts and settlements marked with various symbols denoting towns, villages, Jesuit and Carmelite Missions, elaborate title cartouche depicting shells surmounted by the Jesuit star, symbol key and scale bar, with grid and graticule border, verso with contemporary inscription 'Mappa presens ex Maragnon submissa fuit a R.P.Anselmo Echart..nuper missin nunc Vinchi Jesu Ch in Lusitania. R.P. Georgio Eckart...Patruo Suo No 159', the map with old fold creases.
A interesting early map of the missions in the Amazon produced by or for Father Anselm Eckart. Eckart came to the Amazon as a Jesuit missionary in 1753, working at the Abacaxis mission on the River Madeira from 1754-1755, then moved upstream to the Trocano Mision in July 1755. As part of the marquess of Pombal's expulsions of the Jesuits from Portuguese territories Eckart, was expelled in 1757, and, on his return to Portugal in 1758 was imprisoned until 1777. On his release he rejoined the Jesuits went to Germany and then on to Russia; while in Nuremberg he collaborated with Christoph von Murr on his works relating to the Americas. This map is interesting for its' depiction of the southern tributaries of the Amazon, and particularly for the inclusion of the upper reaches of the River Madeira and its tributary Guapore in the Mato-Groso, an area first explored in the 1730's and 40's. The map maker draws some information from Father Samuel Fritz's map of the Amazon published in 1707, however this manuscript is far more detailed and accuartely drawn in comparison to Fritz's work 50 years earlier.
Manuscript map of the Amazon river, sepia ink on thin paper, 380 x 465mm. The map covers the river Amazon from the River Javari, near the present day town of Leticia down to the sea including the northern tributaries of the Japura, Rio Negro, Rio Branco, and the extensive southern tributaries of Tocantins, Xingu, Tapajos, Madeira, Mamore, Purus and Tefe, numerous mission posts and settlements marked with various symbols denoting towns, villages, Jesuit and Carmelite Missions, elaborate title cartouche depicting shells surmounted by the Jesuit star, symbol key and scale bar, with grid and graticule border, verso with contemporary inscription 'Mappa presens ex Maragnon submissa fuit a R.P.Anselmo Echart..nuper missin nunc Vinchi Jesu Ch in Lusitania. R.P. Georgio Eckart...Patruo Suo No 159', the map with old fold creases.
A interesting early map of the missions in the Amazon produced by or for Father Anselm Eckart. Eckart came to the Amazon as a Jesuit missionary in 1753, working at the Abacaxis mission on the River Madeira from 1754-1755, then moved upstream to the Trocano Mision in July 1755. As part of the marquess of Pombal's expulsions of the Jesuits from Portuguese territories Eckart, was expelled in 1757, and, on his return to Portugal in 1758 was imprisoned until 1777. On his release he rejoined the Jesuits went to Germany and then on to Russia; while in Nuremberg he collaborated with Christoph von Murr on his works relating to the Americas. This map is interesting for its' depiction of the southern tributaries of the Amazon, and particularly for the inclusion of the upper reaches of the River Madeira and its tributary Guapore in the Mato-Groso, an area first explored in the 1730's and 40's. The map maker draws some information from Father Samuel Fritz's map of the Amazon published in 1707, however this manuscript is far more detailed and accuartely drawn in comparison to Fritz's work 50 years earlier.