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Tierra Nueva.
Uncommon first edition of this early map of the east coast is an enlarged version of Giacomo Gastaldi map published in 1548. Nomenclature and cartography are unchanged, w...
Place & Date: Venice, 1561
Il Cuscho citta principale della provincia del Peru.
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 hillsi...
Place & Date: Lyons, 1564
Americae Sive Novi Orbis, Nova Descriptio.
This is the second copperplate of Ortelius' map showing the western hemisphere, showing the prominent bulge in the South American coastline. An important map because of i...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1579
La Florida/ Peruviae Auriferae regionis Typus/ Guastecan.
The Chaves map of Florida is a prime example of an explorer's map since it records the recent discoveries of Cabeza de Vaca, De Soto, and Moscoso. The map revealed little...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1592
Americae Pars Magis Cognita. Chorographia nobilis & opulentae Peruanae Provinciae, atque Brasiliae, . . . MDXCII
First state. Although a map of South America it does include much of what is now the southern United States. There are two elaborate, strap-work cartouches with the one a...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1592
(South America) - Delineatio omnium orarum totius Australis partis Americae, dictae Peruvianae, a R. de la Plata, Brasiliam Pariam, et Castellam auream una cum omnibus…
A particularly lush example of Dutch decorative cartography boasting two intricate strapwork cartouches. Linschoten was one of the prime movers of Dutch and British expan...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1593
(Island of Pearls) Perlarum insula ob unionum copiam sic dicta.
A depiction of Cubagua as the Perlarum Insula (Island of Pearls), with in the foreground, two large ships send dinghies toward busy Native Americans collecting pearl oyst...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1594
Cacodemon attacking the savages.
Cacodemon ("evil spirit") attacking the savages. Read more about "Les Grand Voyages" by Theodore De Bry [+]
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1594
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Arcis Carolinae delineatio [Jacksonville]
Depicting Fort Caroline in Jacksonville, Florida. A French expedition, organized by Protestant leader Admiral Gaspard de Coligny and led by the French Explorer Jean Ribau...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1594
![[The French left in Fort Charles suffer the scarcity of provisions.]](/uploads/cache/48529-250x250.jpg)
[The French left in Fort Charles suffer the scarcity of provisions.]
An Indian town visited by the French of Charlesfort in search for food. After a drawing by LeMoyne. Charlesfort-Santa Elena is on what is now Parris Island, South Carolin...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1594
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Pisces in mari alati [flying fish attack]
Flying fish attacking a Portuguese ship in the West Indian Waters.Read more about "Les Grand Voyages" by Theodore De Bry [+]
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1594
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[Navel battle between Portuguese and French Battle off Buttugar (Brazil).]
Navel battle between Portuguese and French in the seas off the Poti guaran Territories in Brazil.Read more about "Les Grand Voyages" by Theodore De Bry [+]
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1594
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[Columbus is standing in the bow of his ship]
Columbus is standing in the bow of his ship, which is near the shore. He is clad in a long mantle and undercoat, while his armor lies at his feet, and his standard is flo...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1594
Inventio Maris Magallanici.
Allegorical scene allegorical image celebrating the circumnavigation of the earth by Ferdinand Magellan. The image shows Magellan on board of his ship, surrounded by myth...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1594
Americae Retectio (Allegory of the Discovery of America)
Allegorical scene commemorating the discovery of America. The main image shows Neptune, supporting a Globe, flanked by Flora-representing Florence, and Janus-representin...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1594
Occidentalis Americae partis.
The most beautifully engraved early map of the Caribbean, including Florida and the Southeast. The map includes representations of Columbus' ships and various notes regar...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1594
Hispaniae novae sive magnae recens et vera descriptio. 1579
This was the standard map of the area for a generation, copied by De Bry, Quad and Hondius. Even though Herrera (Spain's Royal Cosmographer) and Wytfliet worked 20 years ...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1598
Polus Arcticus cum vicinis regionibus.
Map of the North Pole regions from the 1608 second edition of Jodocus Hondius' Atlas Minor.A reduction of the 1606 Mercator-Hondius folio map (which is a later state of t...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1608
Descripcion de las Yndias Ocidentalis.
Rare early general map of America, the Pacific Ocean and the Eastern part of Asia. Showing "Meridiano de la demarcacion porla parte oscidental" - and "... ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Michel Colin, 1622
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Hanc Tabulam continens Laetam Pharnambuci.. . [Brazil].
An extremely rare and decorative map of coast-line of Pernambuco. With one inset: In the upper left corner a map of Brazil, with title in five lines Dutch and five lines ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1630
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[The Dutch covalesce on the Isle Santa Clara.]
Fanciful map of the Island of Santa Clara (Isla Do Francez), as seen by the Dutch in 1599, during the exploration of Olivier de Noort, published by Theodore de Bry, one y...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
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[Incas lay siege to Cusco.]
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 ...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
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Paraguay o Prov. de Rio de la Plata cum regionibus adiacentibus Tucuman et Sta. Cruz de la Sierra.
Blaeu's map of the Rio de la Plata region of South America. Originally engraved for Jodocus Hondius II, at his death in August 1629 this map was, among 39 other copper pl...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1634
Mappa Aestivarum Insularum alias Barmudas.
Blaeu based his work on John Speed's remarkably accurate map of 1626-1627. It shows the island divided into tribes and lots, and below the map itself appear the names of ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1635
Terra Firma et Novum Regnum Granatense et Popayan.
A handsome map of modern-day Panama and Colombia. The cartouches and decoration are colored in an artistic way. Very fine and rare with this type of coloring.From "l...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1635-1638
Nova Virginiae Tabula.
A fine example of Blaeu's map of Virginia and the Chesapeake region is based on the first state of Smith's map, 1612, and is slightly larger and more expertly engraved.Th...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1640
Virginiae Partis Australis, et Floridae Partis Orientalis.
Blaeu based this map on the Mercator-Hondius of 1606. A number of geographical improvements, however were incorporated, although two large fictions lakes accompanied by e...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1640
Americae Nova Tabula.
The delineation of the coast and the nomenclature on both the Pacific and Atlantic coasts are basically Spanish in origin and follow the maps of Ortelius and Wytfliet. To...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1645
Insulae Americanae in Oceanus Septentrionali cum Terris..
General map of the West Indies extending from Virginia to the mouth of the Orinoco, and destined to be copied in various shapes by many other publishers. Title cartouche ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1647
Rerum per octennium in Brasilia Et alibi nuper gestarum, Sub Praefectura Illustrissimi Comitis I. Mauritii, Nassoviae, (...) Historia.
First edition. Commissioned by Johan Maurits van Nassau (governor of Brazil between 1636-1644 and founder of "Mauritsstad" (present-day Recife)) and illustrated...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, J. Blaeu, 1647
Quartum Praelium Coniovian inter et Fluvium Rio Grande XVII Ian
Decorative engraving of the fourth sea battle with the Portuguese fleet offshore at the Rio Grande, in1640. Engraved by J. van Brosterhuyzen after a design by Frans J. Po...
Place & Date: Joannes Blaeu, Amsterdam 1647
Mar del Zur, Hispanis Mare Pacificum.
Janssonius' fine chart of the Pacific including the west coast of America with California shown as an island, Japan and a small Australian coastline. This is the earliest...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1650
Americae Nova Descriptio.
Final state. According to Philip Burden, "this scarce map is America's first single-sheet map with decorative borders." A re-issue of the 1614 plate by Pieter v...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1652
Terre Ferme, Nouveau Roy.me de Grenade..
Fine map of Colombia, Venezuela and the islands of Curaçao, Aruba, Bonaire, etc. Prepared by N.Sanson engraved by A.de Winter.
Place & Date: Paris, 1656
![Mexico, Regia et Celebris Hispaniae Novae Civitas ... [on sheet with] Cusco, Regni Peru in Novo Orbe Caput.](/uploads/cache/29013-250x250.jpg)
Mexico, Regia et Celebris Hispaniae Novae Civitas ... [on sheet with] Cusco, Regni Peru in Novo Orbe Caput.
Two bird's-eye views on one sheet: Mexico and Cusco.Showing Mexico City and Cusco, the capital cities of the Aztecs and Incas, with the major buildings shown in profile w...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1657
Tabula Magellanica.
A map with Willem Blaeu's signature, but published by his son Joan, of South America's extremity with the Strait of Magellan and Le Maire Strait.The coastlines are depict...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1658
Pascaerte van Brazil en Nieu Nederlandt van Cuorvo en Flores.
A rare chart of the Atlantic Ocean from the first edition of Hendrick Doncker's Zee-Atlas, of which no surviving example is known.Although the idea of its unusual coverag...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1658
Pascaerte vande Caribische Eylanden, vande Barbados tot aende Bocht van Mexico ‘t Amsterdam By Hendrick Doncker. . .
First state. Rare. “This chart appeared in the first edition of Hendrick Doncker’s Zee-Atlas, of which no surviving example is known” -- Burden. This is an example ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1659
Poli Arctici, et circumiacentium terrarum descriptio novissima. . .
A re-issue of the Hondius' plate. A particularly decorative map of the North Pole with Iceland. Several Dutch names in Labrador. The toponymy in Canada reflects the conti...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1660
![[Printed on silk] Nova Totius Americae Sive Novi Orbis Tabula, Auct. Hugo Allardt.](/uploads/cache/48420-250x250.jpg)
[Printed on silk] Nova Totius Americae Sive Novi Orbis Tabula, Auct. Hugo Allardt.
Hugo Allard’s ca. 1661 map of the Americas, showing California as an island printed on silk. This separately issued map printed on paper is quite rare on the market. T...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1661
Carta particolare del'mare del Zur che comincia con il capo S. Francesco nel Peru e finisce con il capo S. Lazaro nella nuova Spagnia.
FIRST EDITION Dudley’s magnificent chart of the Pacific Coast of Central and South America, from the coast of Columbia and Ecuador in the north to the Bay of Honduras i...
Place & Date: Florence 1661
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Guiana sive Amazonum regio.
This very rare map shows northwest Latin America with Surinam and French Guiana and was engraved by Johann Philipp Thelott. The map comes from the work of Johann Joachim ...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1669
Canibales Insulae.
Rare, early Dutch nautical chart of the Caribbean from Puerto Rico southward.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1670
Nova Virginia Tabula.
A beautifully engraved map, derived from the highly influential map by Captain John Smith in 1612, showing Chesapeake Bay and the surrounding area. The decoration of this...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, J.Meurs, 1671
Brasila.
Map of Brazil extending from C. Nasou and Parime Lago to the Mouth of the Rio de la Plata. Oriented with West on top.The cartography of the region is quite primitive. The...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1673
Yucatan . . . Et Guatimala Conventus Iuridicus.
Very attractive map encompassing the Mexican heartland, the Yucatan peninsula, and the old Spanish Audiencia of Guatemala including Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and pa...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1673
Recueil de divers voyages faits en Afrique et en l'Amerique, qui n'ont point esté encore publiez.
First edition of this collection of significant and interesting voyages, edited by a scholar and book collector who served in the employ of Louis XIV before being appoint...
Place & Date: Paris, Louis Billaine, 1674
Coste de Guayane autrement Franc Equinoctale en la Terre-Ferme d'Amerique suivant les Dernières Relations . . .
Uncommon map of the French colony Guyana in southern American Guyana, with a detailed enlargement of Cayenne in the upper right corner ( 155X110mm.), with fine title cart...
Place & Date: Paris, 1676
Novissima et Accuratissima Totius Americae Descriptio.
Second state of Visscher's map of the Americas, this decorative map greatly influenced the cartography of the Americas both geographically and artistically.Although it di...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1677
(Totius Americae nova et exacta tabula ex) optimis tum geographorum tum aliorum scriptis collecta et ad hodiernam regnorum principatuum et maiorum partium distinctionem accomodata.
Eastern part of a two-sheet map of America, with attribution to Willem Blaeu. According to Philip Burden, the map was derived from Cornelius Danckert's 1647 map of the sa...
Place & Date: Rome, 1679
Pas-kaart vande Zee kusten van Venecuela met de Byleggende Eylanden. . .
Rare chart of the coast of Venezuela, including the islands of Curaçao, Bonaire, Aruba, etc.The chart has two insets, one (15x22cm) with a map of Curaçao, one smaller w...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1680
Floride.
A charming map of Florida, also showing Cuba, Golf of Mexico & St Augustine.Title in curtain draped at top. French text on verso.From the original 1683 text edition o...
Place & Date: Paris, 1683
P.les de Virginie.
Attractive copper engraving, depicting a couple of native people of Florida.From the French text edition of Description d'Univers, 1683. by Allain Manneson Mallet (1630-1...
Place & Date: Paris, 1683
La Floride. . .
The map is derived from La Floride , 1657, by Nicolas Sanson. Several new rivers appear in Virginia. The Caroline listed is Ft. Caroline, not the Carolinas. The Florida n...
Place & Date: Paris, 1683
Novi Belgii novae que Angliae nec non partis Virginiae..
The third state with Fort Kassimier and Philadelphia and nearby placenames added. To the south the Dutch colony of Nieu Amstel. New nomenclature and a key appear around t...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1684
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Amerique Septentrionale divisée en ses principales parties. . .1685. [California as an Island]
Engraved by Cordier. Spectacular example of Jaillot's map of North America, showing California as an Island, based upon Sanson's landmark map of 1656. This map shows the ...
Place & Date: Paris, 1685
Archipelague du Mexique ou sont les Isles de Cuba..
Scarce map of Caribbean. A visually stunning map with a large title cartouche. This large one-sheet map was produced by the Venetian cosmographer Vincenzo Coronelli when ...
Place & Date: Paris, 1688
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Amerique Septentrionale divisée en ses principales parties. . .1692. [California as an Island]
A very good impression of Jaillot's large map of North America, showing California as an Island, based upon Sanson's landmark map of 1656. A first state.The map shows the...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, c.1692
L'Amerique Meridionale Dressée sur les Observations de Mrs de l'Academie Royale des Sciences . . .
Rare state of " L’Amerique Meridionale. Chez l’Auteur sur le Quai de l’Horloge a la Courone de Diamans avec Privilege du Roy pour 20 ans, 1700".Fine map o...
Place & Date: Paris, 1700
L'Amerique Septentrionale.
Very rare map, from "Metaphaste Barbao, Descriptio Indiae Occidentalis et America Nova" published by Henrico Verdussen.The map is a copy of Guillaume de L'Isle'...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1702
Carte du Mexique et de la Floride.
Third state, with "Quai de l'Horloge" imprint. Renard’s imprint has been erased”. It was the first printed map to portray accurately the course and mouth of...
Place & Date: Paris, 1703
Carte de la Terre Ferme du Perou, du Bresil.
A scarce state of the very detailed map includes Brazil, Peru and the Amazonian part. Very decorative title cartouche on the upper right corner. Very decorative title car...
Place & Date: Paris, 1703
Carte du Paraguay du Chili.
A finely engraved detailed map of the southern half of South America. Prepared by de l'Isle with the imprint "Chez l’Auteur sur le Quai de l’Horloge avec Privile...
Place & Date: Paris, L. Renard, 1703
Le vieux Mexique ou nouvelle Espagne. . .
Attractive map covering the Gulf of Mexico through Central America also including parts of Cuba and Jamaica. It extends through Mexico to show the southern tip of Baja Ca...
Place & Date: Paris, 1705
Nova tabula geographica complectens borealiorem..
A finely engraved pair of maps designed to be cut and joined together to provide a continuous coastline of North America from the Carolinas to Newfoundland and along the ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1720
A new map of the English Empire in America. . .
This fine English map of eastern North America including Canada engraved by John Harris and first published by Robert Morden. John Senex acquired and made minor alteratio...
Place & Date: London, 1720
Carte de la Nouvelle France, ou se voit le cours des Grandes Rivieres de S. Laurens & de Mississipi..
Derived from de Fer's 1718 map, from west of the Mississippi it contains a mass of inland detail with notes and vignettes of the indigenous peoples and fauna of North Ame...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1720
Stoel des Oorlogs in America Waar in Vertoont Werden Alle Desself Voornaamste Eylande . . .
Large impressive map of the West Indies with the Gulf of Mexico and Florida. The map shows prominently in the center Cuba, Haiti, the Bahamas and Florida, which is here m...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, c. 1720
Carte qui contient..Iles & Terres..L'Amerique..Jamaique..
Eight maps on one sheet. From Chatelain's Atlas Historique et Méthodique . Including maps of Bermuda, Jamaica, New England with Long Island, Carolina, Chesapeake and Del...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1728
Tabula Americae Specialis Geographica Regni Peru, Brasiliae, Terra Firmae & Reg: Amazonum, Secundum relationes de Herrera, de Laet & PP d Acuña & M. Rodriguez . . .
A good and clean copy of Homann's map of the northern part of South America. The map is on the Valley of the Amazon and delineates the Amazon and its labyrinth of tributa...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 1728
Virginie, Grande Region l'Amerique Septentrionale...
Pierre van der Aa used the old copper plate of Meurs and re-did the engraving, changed the large pictorial cartouche, a new scale of German and French leagues is provided...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1729
Carte du Canada ou de la Nouvelle France.
A later edition of Guillaume De l'Isle's map. It still includes the fictitious discoveries of Baron de Lahoutan: the legendary River Longue etc. The northwest corner of H...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1730
A Map of the British Empire in AMERICA with the French, Spanish and Hollandish Settlements Adjacent Thereto. by Henry Popple. / Nouvelle Carte Particuliere de L'Amerique . . .
The four sheet Dutch edition of Popple's monumental map of North America, in mint condition. Encompassing the West Indies, Florida, Louisiana, Texas and Central America.T...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1737
Avantures du Sr. C. Le Beau, avocat en parlement ou Voyage curieux et nouveau parmi les Sauvages de l'Amérique Septentrionale. Dans lequel on trouvera une Description du Canada… Ouvrage enrichi d'une Carte et des figures necessaires.
A description of Huron, Iroquois, and Algonquin customs, written in charming style and based, the Author claims, on observations made on a trip to America in 1729." ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1738
Nieuwe gemeten kaart van de colonie de Berbice : met der zelver plantagien en de namen der bezitters in het ligt gebragt door Reiner & Iosua Ottens kaartverkopers te Amsterdam 1740.
Rare separately published map of the colony of Berbice in present-day Guyana showing the Berbice River Valley and the plantations along the river. North on map of the col...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1740
Paraquariae Provinciae Soc. Iesu cum Adjacentibus Novissima...
Between the years of 1609 and 1780, the Jesuits (the Roman Catholic Society of Jesus) established in South America, an autonomous Christian state, on the lands of present...
Place & Date: Augsburg, 1740
Amerique Septentrionale suivant la carte de Pople faite à Londres en 20 feuilles.
The key sheet to Henry Le Rouge/Popple wall map of the British Colonies in North America. Appears in the author's Atlas Général [1741-62].Key map of the French editio...
Place & Date: Paris, Le Rouge, 1742
A new & accurate map of Louisiana, with part of Florida. . .
An English view of North America compiled from available French maps, especially those of Bellin used in Charlevoix's History of New France. English cartographers had lit...
Place & Date: London, 1744
A new and accurate map of Mexico or New Spain with California New Mexico . . .
With inset of Galapagos islands. A wonderfully engraved map showing the entire American South from Carolina to California, as well as all of Mexico and Central America. A...
Place & Date: London, 1747
Typus Geographicus Chili Paraguay Freti Magellanici &c.
Detailed map covering the southern part of the continent based on the cartography of Delisle and the information gleaned from the voyages of Brouwer, Narbouroug and Beauc...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 1750