| | Thumbnail | | Creator | Date | Title / Author / Date / Location | Price | | | Description |
| 3672 |  | Details | Frezier, Amedee | 1717 |
| Plan of the anchorage at Ilo, Peru |
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Frezier, Amedee |
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| 1717 |
| LOC:77 |
| $125.00 | Frezier--Amedee | Plan-of-the-anchorage-at-Ilo--Peru | Frezier's plan of the Peruvian port city of Ilo (Ylo), the capital of Ylo province. Frezier made a reconnaisance mission to the coast of South America from 1712-1714. Posing as a trader or merchant captain, Frezier sketched harbor defenses and gathered information on the military preparedness of each port visited.
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Includes a coastal elevation view and several drawings of a mill probably for sugar cane. Key at top right relates to locations identified on the plan. North is oriented to the left.
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Amédée Frézier (1682 – 1773) was an French explorer, military engineer, mathematician, and spy. This plan of Ylo, Peru is from Frezier's 1717 account of his travels published in French in 1717: "Relation du voyage de la mer du Sud, aux côtes du Chili, du Pérou et de Brésil, fait pendant les années 1712, 1713, et 1714". |