Mendes de Almeida, Candido (sold)
Candido Mendes de Almeida (October 14, 1818 - March 1, 1881) was a Brazilian author, historian, lawyer, and senator. He published mainly on the subject of law, but also edited a series of memoirs of the history of the indigenous population of the Maranhão region of the Amazon, which were published between 1860 and 1874. The journal of the Historical, Geographical and Ethnographic Institute of Brazil published his December 10, 1875, presentation to the Institute, 'O nome de América será americano?' (Will the name America be American?) regarding the naming of the Americas by Vespucci. Though not prolific as a mapmaker, he did produce the first atlas of Brazil (Atlas do Império do Brasil, 1868) and at least one separately-issued map: a c. 1865 pertaining to the beginning of the1864-1870 War of the Triple Alliance. He served as a Brazilian senator between 1871 and 1881, and received honors during his lifetime.
Theater of the War of the Triple Alliance.
Carte du Théâtre de la Guerre Entre Le Brésil, La Confédération Argentine, La République de l'Uruguay et Le Paraguay Dressée par Candido Mendes de Almeida.
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This is a rare 1869 map of the theater of the Paraguayan War, or the War of the Triple Alliance, drafted by Brazilian statesman and historian Candido Mendes de Almeida in the first years of the war. Its geography reflects the situation in 1865, when an increasingly militaristic and aggressive Paraguay, under the disastrous reign of Francisco Solano López Carrillo (1827 - 1870), inspired the unlikely alliance of traditional enemies, Brazil, Uruguay, and the Argentine Republic. The war, a year old when this map was composed, would by 1870 result in Paraguay's virtual annihilation. This Paris edition of the map was printed as a supplement to the 1869 Revue Martime et Coloniale, published by the French Ministere de la Marine et des Colonies. France had, from the dawn of Uruguay's independence, maintained a political and trade interest there, and so the turmoil of the Plata region during the 1860s would have been of pressing interest. (more details)