Unpublished Letters and Plans of the 17th and 18th (...). 1930.

Unpublished Letters and Plans of the 17th and 18th Centuries and the First Decade of the 19th. Preserved in the Archive of the Direction of Geodesy, Cadastre and Map of the Province of Buenos Aires. Publications of the Geographic Research Institute of the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters Series B. Cartographic, Planimetric and Iconographic Documents No. 3. Buenos Aires. Workshops S.A. Casa Jacobo Peuser, Ltda. 1930.

Folio (35 x 27.5 cm), 45 pp., Includes Title page, plus 50 plates with maps and plans. Modern binding, without titles, preserving the original covers. Copy in good condition.

It is an important cartographic compilation of the colonial period that includes geographic and hydrographic charts, topographic and territorial maps, plans of towns and cities, land subdivisions and even some of the Colonia del Sacramento.

Félix Faustino Outes (1878-1939) was an archaeologist and anthropologist who taught Ethnography courses at the Universities of Buenos Aires and La Plata. Member of the Academies of Sciences and of History, he directed the Anthropological and Ethnographic Museum of Buenos Aires between 1930 and 1938. He published numerous studies on the indigenous groups of Argentina. The book has a great complementary importance to the successive catalogs that were published by the Spaniard Pedro Torres Lanzas (1921) and the Argentine José Torre Revello (1938) referring to the maps and plans that are kept in the General Archive of the Indies in Seville.

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