1778 Capt Cook Antique Print Portrait of a Man of Terra del Fuego, Chile in 1774 Topographicaal Italian influence on Lyons architecture

Italian influence on Lyons architecture is still visible among historic buildings

West Africa - a significant slave port of the 17th & 18th centuries - by Jacques Nicolas Bellin in 1750 was published in Antoine François Prevosts 15 volumes of Histoire Generale des Voyages written by Prevost & other authors between 1746-1790

This fine original copper-plate engraved antique frontispiece from the Italian version of Guillaume Delisle atlas Atlante Novissimo

but Dürer was evidently fascinated by what he had to say

In his journal

1778 Capt Cook Antique Print Portrait of a Man of Terra del Fuego, Chile in 1774 Topographicaal Italian influence on Lyons architectureTitle : Homme du Canal de Noel Dans La Terre De Feu Ref : 16354 Size: 10in x 8in (255mm x 205mm) Date : 1778 Condition: (A+) Fine Condition Description: This fine original copper plate engraved antique print, portrait of a Man of Christmas Sound on the S. W. Coast of Terra del Fuego Chile, visited by Captain James Cook during his 2nd Voyage of Discovery to the South Seas in December 1774, was engraved by Robert Benard after William Hodges and was