Petroschi, Giovanni (sold)
Giovanni Petroschi (1715 - 1766) was an Italian engraver, cartographer, and map publisher based in Rome. He was considered the foremost authority on Latin American cartography in the first half of the 18th century. He published several important Jesuit maps, including Carolo Brentano's Provincia Quitensis (1751) and Jose Antonio de Sylverio Villaseñor y Sánchez 's map of Mexico (1754). Although significant as a cartographer, Petroschi, like many Jesuit publishers, lived humbly in religious obscurity.
Scarce Map of La Plata.
Descripción de las Provincias del Chaco, y confinantes segun las relaciones modernas, y noticias aquiridas por diversas entradas de los Missioneros de la Companía de Iesus que se han hecho en este siglo de 1700.
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This rare 1733 Pedro Lozano map of central South America, engraved by Giovanni Petroschi, is the first appearance of Antonio Machoni's amendments to Juan Francisco D’Avila's foundational map of the La Plata region. These changes were made both to the Chaco region on the west bank of the Paraguay River (the location of Machoni's missionary work) and the southern coast of what would become Uruguay. The region was a key theatre of Jesuit missionary activity; consequently, the Jesuits produced the first accurate maps of the complex river systems emptying into the Rio de la Plata. The present work illustrates the process of revision over the 18th century, with the contributions of key cartographers and missionaries. (more details)
…most complete and most comprehensive map undertaken by the Jesuits up to the middle of the eighteenth century. - Furlong
Paraquariae Provinciae Soc. Jesu Cum Adiacentibus Novissima Descriptio Post iterata peregrinationes et plures observationes Patrum Missionariorum . . . 1732.
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A rare example of the 1760 edition of Jesuit lay brother Juan Francisco Dávila's map of Paraguay, Uruguay, and La Plata. The map details the Río de la Plata basin, presenting the most advanced cartographic representation of the region available at the time of publication. Coverage extends from the Pantanal region and the northern extremis of the Paraguay River, the fictional Laguna de Xarayes, to Buenos Aires, Montevideo, and the mouth of the Río de la Plata. Focus is on the Jesuit Reductions, inland Jesuit missionary settlements of extreme wealth and prosperity that dominated the inland river systems between the Paraná River and the foothills of the Andes. (more details)