1757 Nicolas Bellin Original Antique Map of Brazil, South America Turkey The first Europeans to visit

The first Europeans to visit the island (which they believed to be an archipelago due to its contorted shape) were the Portuguese sailors Simão de Abreu

Margins: - Min ½in (12mm)

third Duke of Medina Sidonia

where the new discoveries made in 1739 to the south of the Cape of Good Hope may be seen\')

The Laguna de los Xarayes almost immediately began to appear on early maps of the region and

1757 Nicolas Bellin Original Antique Map of Brazil, South America Turkey The first Europeans to visitTitle : Carte Du Bresil.. Ref #: 61101 Size: 15in x 10in (380mm x 255mm) Date : 1757 Condition: (A+) Fine Condition Description: This fine, original copper plate engraved antique map of Brazil, South America by Jacques Nicolas Bellin in 1757 was published in Antoine Franois Prevosts 15 volumes of Histoire Generale des Voyages written by Prevost & other authors between 1746 1790. The land now called Brazil was claimed for the Portuguese Empire on 22