Vue de la ville de Porto Seguro - Voyage au Brésil, Dans les années 1815, 1816 et 1817, par S. A. S. Maximilien, Prince de Wied-Neuwied.

Fine original plate of a landscape overlooking the city of Porto Seguro, where Pedro Alvares Cabral and the Portuguese expedition he commanded landed on April 22, 1500. Engraved by G. Schleich as a copperplate engraving in folio format. It comes from the atlas of the French first edition of this travel account to Brazil, first published in 1820-1821 under the title Reise nach Brasilien in den Jahren 1815 bis 1817 and illustrating the account of the first voyage to Brazil by Maximilian, Prince of Wied-Neuwied.
Some marginal worming and minimal marginal tears.