1789 Jean Baptiste Lamarck Antique Concology Print, Surf Clam Shells Plate 250 Military roughly 46° 37W

1789 Jean Baptiste Lamarck Antique Concology Print, Surf Clam Shells Plate 250 Military roughly 46° 37W roughly 46° 37W This fine hand coloured original antique map of the Magellan Straits between the South American mainland and Tierra Del Fuego with major points discovered and remarked in a 9 point legend was engraved by Jacques Nicolas Bellin in 1753 the date is engraved in the title cartouche and was published in Antoine François Prevost's monumental 20 volume edition of L`Histoire Generale des Voyages published by Pierre de Hondt Tableau encyclopédique et méthodique des trois regnes de la nature was an illustrated encyclopedia of plants Encyclopédie méthodique par ordre des matières (Methodical Encyclopedia by Order of Subject Matter) was published between 1782 and 1832 by the French publisher Charles Joseph Panckoucke