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...
Publisher: DE BELLEFOREST, F. Date: Lyons, 1564
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...
Publisher: ORTELIUS, A. Date: Antwerp, 1579
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...
Publisher: ORTELIUS, A. Date: Antwerp, 1592
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...
Publisher: DE BRY, Th. Date: Frankfurt, 1592
3rd State. The first printed map of present day central Canada issued by Cornelis van Wytfliet in editions of his Descriptionis Ptolemaicae Augmentum first published in L...
Publisher: WYTVLIET, C. van Date: Lovain 1597-1600
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. Th...
Publisher: DE BRY, Th. Date: Frankfurt, 1607
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 ...
Publisher: PISCATOR,N.J. Date: Amsterdam, 1630
This map was created by Michael Mercator, grandson of the great Gerard Mercator. It is the only map attributed to him. The map first appeared in 1595, one year after the ...
Publisher: MERCATOR, G./ HONDIUS, J. Date: Amsterdam, 1630
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 ...
Publisher: GOTTFRIED, J.L. / DE BRY. Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
Many of the Dutch were in poor health after their Atlantic crossing and when they found an island to the north of Rio de Janeiro, called Santa Clara, (I. do Francez) they...
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...
Publisher: BLAEU, W Date: Amsterdam, 1634
German text on verso. A finely engraved, decorative map of Venezuela. The islands of Trinidad and Tobago, Margarita, Aruba, and Curaçao are shown. With a decorative titl...
Publisher: BLAEU, W. Date: Amsterdam, 1634
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 ...
Publisher: BLAEU, W. Date: Amsterdam, 1635
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...
Publisher: BLAEU, W. Date: Amsterdam, 1640
A beautifully executed and very rare map showing the Americas after Visscher.Published by Jacob Honervogt (c.1590-c.1663) who was a native of Cologne and worked from 1608...
Publisher: HONERVOGT, J. Date: Paris, ca. 1640
The map is based on the first state of Smith's map, 1612, and is slightly larger and more expertly engraved. In 1629 the Hondius plate was purchased by Blaeu who deleted ...
Publisher: BLAEU, W. Date: Amsterdam, 1644
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...
Publisher: VISSCHER, N.J. Date: Amsterdam, 1652
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...
Publisher: JANSSONIUS, J. Date: Amsterdam, 1657
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...
Publisher: BLAEU, J. Date: Amsterdam, 1658
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 covera...
Publisher: DONCKER, H. Date: Amsterdam, 1658
RARE. First Atlas Major issue: originally issued by Blaeu in Casper van Baarle's 'Rerum per Octennium in Brasilia' (1647) dedicated to the former Governor of the Dutch co...
Publisher: BLAEU, J. Date: Amsterdam, 1664
Map of Guiana and Amazon extending westwards to Trinidad and Margarita Island, dominated by a huge inland sea north of the Amazon.Embellished with decorative title and sc...
Publisher: MONTANUS, A. Date: Amsterdam, 1673
Very attractive map encompassing the Mexican heartland, the Yucatan peninsula, and the old Spanish Audiencia of Guatemala including Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and pa...
Detailed map of Panama and northwestern South America derived from the Blaeu/Jansson map of the regionFeaturing ships at sea, two compass roses, and two cartouches depict...
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...
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...
Publisher: JUSTEL, H. Date: Paris, Louis Billaine, 1674
Uncommon miniature map of Mexico, central America and the Gulf of Mexico. From Pierre Duval's La Geographie Universeille dated 1676. Following his Cartes de geographie in...
Publisher: DU VAL, P. Date: Paris, 1676
Uncommon map of the Azores. Engraved by Sommer. Du Val is mentioned as the cartographer and the publisher was Pierre Mariette.
Publisher: DU VAL, P. Date: Paris, c. 1650 - 1676
Eastern part of a two sheet map of America, with an attribution to Willem Blaeu. According to Philip Burden the map was derived from Cornelius Danckert's 1647 map of the ...
Publisher: ROSSI, G. / BLAEU, W. Date: Rome, 1679
A charming view of Floridian natives with bow and arrow.Title in curtain draped at top. French text on verso.From the original 1683 text edition of "Description d'Un...
Publisher: MANESSON MALLET, A. Date: Paris, 1683
A charming little map of the islands of Cuba and Jamaica with on the horizon the tip of Florida and to the South and West part of the coast of Mexico. Two fleets of ships...
This example is state 3 of the original Janssonius plate, printed after Schenk acquired the plates at public auction in 1694 from the heirs of Jansson van Waesberge. The ...
Publisher: SCHENK, P. Date: Amsterdam, 1694
A historically significant map of Florida and the Gulf Coast shows especially the Mississippi's estuary in some detail, more or less correctly located.The locations of ma...
Publisher: DE FER, N. Date: Paris, 1705
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 ...
Publisher: VISSCHER, N. / SCHENK,P. Date: Amsterdam, 1720
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...
Publisher: CHATELAIN, H. Date: Amsterdam 1728
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...
Publisher: HOMANN HEIRS. Date: Nuremberg, 1728
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...
Publisher: VAN DER AA, P. Date: Amsterdam, 1729
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 north west corner of ...
Publisher: COVENS, J. / MORTIER, C. Date: Amsterdam, 1730