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Subject: Cartography -- France -- 18th century

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Map of French Guiana and Part of Dutch Guiana and Northern Brazil, 1780Map of French Guiana and Part of Dutch Guiana and Northern Brazil, 1780

Copperplate engraving map of French Guiana, part of Dutch Guiana (now Suriname), and northern Brazil. Created by Rigobert Bonne in 1780. Shows the "line of defense against the Negroes in revolt" in Suriname and the Jewish settlement of Jodensavanne. Published in Paris as part of the atlas accompanying Guillaume-Thomas François Raynal's Histoire philosophique et politique, des établissements et du commerce des européens dans les deux Indes.