John Ogilby (1600-1676)

AR 39510

Trujillo, Honduras

"Truxillo."

View of the fortifications of Trujillo, capital city of Honduras before its independence(1821). View from Puerto Castilla over the bay of Trujillo (Laguna de Guaymoreto) to the fort (Fortalesa Santa Bàrbara). Boats and sailing ships in the foreground.

Copper engraving by John Ogilby (1600-1676), London about 1670, 27 x 34 cm.

€ 380,-

John Ogilby (1600 - 1676)

Geographer, historian and publisher from Edinburgh, worked in London. Editor of the first book of road maps of England (1675). Translator of the texts of P. Montanus.

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