Geographic Map of Brazil with notes in Italian, published by Giovanni Battista Albrizzi. ca. 1740

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This map of Brazil was published by Giovanni Battista Albrizzi (1698-1777), a prominent Venetian publisher of books and maps. The notes on the map, in Italian, include various speculative remarks about the people and the geography of the interior of Brazil, then still largely unknown to Europeans.

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Size: 5753px × 4442px
Photo credit: © JSM Historical / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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