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DE BELLEFOREST, F. - Il Cuscho citta principale della provincia del Peru.
Lyons, 1564, Coloured.. 270x378mm. Wood block print with letter press. Centerfold on verso reinforced for protective reason. Fine.
A very desirable and scarce item of this decorative and early bid's-eye town-plan of the Inca city of Cuzco. Several figures shown inside the city walls and on the hillside and roads leading into the city. Title in ribbon banner. French text above the print and on verso. ... (Click on title or image to go to item page)

$ 1,100
Approx. Euro 1,001

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DE BRY, Th., Cusco urbs nobilissima & opule[n]tissima Peruani regni in occide[n]tali parte. . ., antique map, old maps

DE BRY, Th. - Cusco urbs nobilissima & opule[n]tissima Peruani regni in occide[n]tali parte. . .
Frankfurt, 1607, Uncoloured.. 290x404mm. Short right margin, as issued. A good and dark impression.
Famous town plan of Cuzco, from the first German edition of part VI of de Bry's " Grands Voyages". In this work the conquest of Peu by Pizarro was discribed. This double page view shows Cuzco as the Spaniards encountered it. In the city one can see an Inca king being carried in his elevated chair. <... (Click on title or image to go to item page)

$ 1,500
Approx. Euro 1,365

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GOTTFRIED, J.L. / DE BRY., [Incas lay seige to Cusco.], antique map, old maps

GOTTFRIED, J.L. / DE BRY. - [Incas lay seige to Cusco.]
Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633, Uncoloured.. 165x200mm. Copper plate engraving on text sheet. Paper toned as usual, some staining to margins and plate. Lower left corner missing, margin cropped to the image edge. Size of sheet : 345 x 212 mm.
German text and on verso.
Atahualpa’s brother, Manco, organized a long and bloody siege to reoccupy the Inca capital, which eventually spread to open rebellion throughout the land. Pizarro, who by this time was in Lima, sent a Spanish army of 500 men to support his over-stretched forces in Cuzco. Under the command of Almagro... (Click on title or image to go to item page)

$ 125
Approx. Euro 114

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BUCHON, J.A., Carte Geographique, Statistique et Historique du Perou., antique map, old maps

BUCHON, J.A. - Carte Geographique, Statistique et Historique du Perou.
Paris, 1825, In original colours.. 450x625mm. In mint condition. Wide margins etc.
A nice detailed map of Peru from Buchon's Atlas Gégraphique Statistique, historique et chronologique des deux Ameriques et des isles adjacentes traduit de l'atlas exécuté en Amerique d'aprés Lesage, avec des nombreuses corrections et augmentations, Paris 1825. An elegant Parisian publication... (Click on title or image to go to item page)

$ 100
Approx. Euro 91

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