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[ Hieroglyph representing the Cihuacohuat Goddess ].

Aquatint depicting a hieroglyph representing the Cihuacohuat Goddess engraved by DKB. Plate N°68.From Giulio Ferrario's work Le Costume Ancien et Moderne ou Histoire du ...

$150 / ≈ €140
Maker / Publisher: FERRARIO, G.
Place & Date: Milan, 1827

 


[ Azrec Idols ].

Aquatint depicting Aztec idols engraved by Gallina. Plate N°698.From Giulio Ferrario's work Le Costume Ancien et Moderne ou Histoire du gouvernement, de la milice, de la...

$150 / ≈ €140
Maker / Publisher: FERRARIO, G.
Place & Date: Milan, 1827

 


[Human sacrifice.]

Aquatint depicting a human sacrifice engraved by Gallina. Plate N°72.From Giulio Ferrario's work Le Costume Ancien et Moderne ou Histoire du gouvernement, de la milice, ...

$150 / ≈ €140
Maker / Publisher: FERRARIO, G.
Place & Date: Milan, 1827

 


[ Gladiators ].

Aquatint depicting gladiators in combat engraved by Gallina. Plate N°73.From Giulio Ferrario's work Le Costume Ancien et Moderne ou Histoire du gouvernement, de la milic...

$100 / ≈ €94
Maker / Publisher: FERRARIO, G.
Place & Date: Milan, 1827

 


[ Local Mexican Indian game, the Voladores de Papantla ].

Aquatint depicting local game engraved by Fumagalli. Plate N°77.The Aztecs also had spectacular dances such as the Voladores de Papantla ,the Sun Dance, in which the dan...

$100 / ≈ €94
Maker / Publisher: FERRARIO, G.
Place & Date: Milan, 1827

 


[ Acrobatic games ].

Aquatint depicting acrobatic games engraved by Gallina. Plate N°78.From Giulio Ferrario's work Le Costume Ancien et Moderne ou Histoire du gouvernement, de la milice, de...

$150 / ≈ €140
Maker / Publisher: FERRARIO, G.
Place & Date: Milan, 1827

 


[ Bread making ].

Aquatint depicting a family making bread engraved by Gallina. Plate N°82.From Giulio Ferrario's work Le Costume Ancien et Moderne ou Histoire du gouvernement, de la mili...

$80 / ≈ €75
Maker / Publisher: FERRARIO, G.
Place & Date: Milan, 1827

 


[ Mexican traditional garments ].

Aquatint depicting Mexican traditional garments engraved by Gallina. Plate N°83.From Giulio Ferrario's work Le Costume Ancien et Moderne ou Histoire du gouvernement, de ...

$150 / ≈ €140
Maker / Publisher: FERRARIO, G.
Place & Date: Milan, 1827

 


[ Hieroglyph Christian calendar written in an Aztec style ].

Aquatint depicting Hieroglyph Christian calendar written in an Aztec style engraved by BonattiB. Plate N°84.From Giulio Ferrario's work Le Costume Ancien et Moderne ou H...

$150 / ≈ €140
Maker / Publisher: FERRARIO, G.
Place & Date: Milan, 1827

 


[ Mechoacan Indians traditional garments ].

Aquatint depicting Mechoacan Indians traditional garments engraved by Gallina. Plate N°85.From Giulio Ferrario's work Le Costume Ancien et Moderne ou Histoire du gouvern...

$150 / ≈ €140
Maker / Publisher: FERRARIO, G.
Place & Date: Milan, 1827

 


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...

$6500 / ≈ €6082
Maker / Publisher: DE BRY, Th.
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1594

 


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...

$1500 / ≈ €1404
Maker / Publisher: VAN DER AA, P.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1729

 


Map of the Great Salt Lake And Adjacent Country in the Territory Of Utah. Surveyed in 1849 and 1850, under the orders of Col. J.J. Abert ...

Map of the Great Salt Lake And Adjacent Country in the Territory Of Utah. Surveyed in 1849 and 1850, under the orders of Col. J.J. Abert .. by Capt. Howard Stansbury .. a...

$1350 / ≈ €1263
Maker / Publisher: STANSBURY, H./J. W. GUNNISON/CHAS. PRUESS.
Place & Date: Ackerman, New York, 1852

 


[City Of New York and Environs].

A very decorative bird's-eye view of Manhattan, Brooklyn, and part of New Jersey. Manhattan Island from the southwest is surrounded by the Hudson, Harlem, East River, and...

$750 / ≈ €702
Maker / Publisher: CURRIER & IVES.
Place & Date: New York, 1875

 


New York Ferry Boat. (Bac à vapeur de New York).

A very decorative print showing the New York Ferry Boat "Fulton," published by Currier & Ives. The Ferry boat "Fulton" sails to the right. A singl...

$550 / ≈ €515
Maker / Publisher: CURRIER / IVES.
Place & Date: New York, ca. 1875

 


Carte du Mexique et des Etats Unis d'Amérique...

A later edition of De l'Isle's foundation map of 1703, is widely regarded as one of the most influential maps in the history of American Cartography. This updated version...

$1200 / ≈ €1123
Maker / Publisher: L'ISLE, G. de. / DEZAUCHE.
Place & Date: Paris, 1783

 


A Map of the most Inhabited part of New England containing the Provinces of Massachusetts Bay and New Hampshire, with the Colonies of Connecticut and Rhode Island.

A copper engraving in four sheets, published in Georges Louis Le Rouge, in his "Atlas Ameriqua in Septentrional Contenant les details des differentes provinces, de c...

$4000 / ≈ €3743
Maker / Publisher: LE ROUGE, G. L.
Place & Date: Paris, 1777

 


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...

$1100 / ≈ €1029
Maker / Publisher: DE BELLEFOREST, F.
Place & Date: Lyons, 1564

 


Nieuwe Wassende Graadige Pas-kaart van de Kust van Guinea en Brasilia.

Rare two-sheet sea chart of the coasts of Brazil, West Africa and South Africa, published by Johannes Van Keulen (the younger), circa 1720.The chart shows the western coa...

$1800 / ≈ €1684
Maker / Publisher: VAN KEULEN, G.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1751

 


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...

$2000 / ≈ €1871
Maker / Publisher: VISSCHER, N.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1677

 


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...

$2500 / ≈ €2339
Maker / Publisher: HONDIUS, H. / DE WIT, F.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1660

 


Plano de los Ferro-Carriles de Republica Argentina 1902.

Folding rail road map of Argentina, with inset of Buenos Aires in upper right corner.

$500 / ≈ €468
Maker / Publisher: MONQAUT / VAZQUEZ MILLAN
Place & Date: Buenos Aires, ca. 1902

 


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...

$5500 / ≈ €5146
Maker / Publisher: ORTELIUS, A.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1579

 


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...

$250 / ≈ €234
Maker / Publisher: BLAEU, W
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1634

 


Venezuela cum parte Australi Novae Andalusiae.

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...

$750 / ≈ €702
Maker / Publisher: BLAEU, W.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1634

 


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...

$400 / ≈ €374
Maker / Publisher: HOMANN HEIRS.
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 1728

 


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...

$250 / ≈ €234
Maker / Publisher: HOMANN HEIRS.
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 1750

 


Map of Louisiana from D'Anville's Atlas.

This map presents a highly detailed treatment of the region from Cabo Del Norte to the Apalachiola River, centered on the mouth of the Mississippi and extending inland to...

$750 / ≈ €702
Maker / Publisher: BOWEN, Th.
Place & Date: London, 1788

 


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...

$6500 / ≈ €6082
Maker / Publisher: DE BRY, Th.
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1592

 


Nuevo plano de la ciudad de Buenos Aires y parte del partido de avellaneda . . .

A rare detailed city plan of Buenos Aires prepared in 1912 by Ernesto Escalante. The plan depicts the city from the Partido de Avellaneda and the Villa Riachuelo to the R...

$1500 / ≈ €1404
Maker / Publisher: ESCALANTE, E.
Place & Date: Buenos Aires, 1912

 


North and South America At-A-Glance.

A clever device for demonstrating the statistics of each country, the Area, Population, Population per Sq. Mile, Highest Elevation, Principal River, Currency, Capital, Fo...

$300 / ≈ €281
Maker / Publisher: THE INTERNATIONAL AT-A-GLANCE CHART CO.
Place & Date: New York & London: International At-A-Glance Chart Co. 1931

 


United States At-A-Glance.

A clever device for demonstrating the statistics of each state, the Area, Population, Highest Elevation, Principal River, Capital, railroad Mileage, Date Entered Union, P...

$300 / ≈ €281
Maker / Publisher: THE INTERNATIONAL AT-A-GLANCE CHART CO.
Place & Date: New York & London: International At-A-Glance Chart Co. 1931

 


Town of Bedford Westchester Co. NY.

Fine lithographed map of the town of Bedford. The map provides the names of specific homeowners, as well as information about the occupations and physical locations of th...

$100 / ≈ €94
Maker / Publisher: DE BEERS, F.W.
Place & Date: New York, 1867

 


Plan of Yonkers Town of Yonkers Westchester Co. N.Y. . . .

Fine lithographed map of Yonkers, New York. The map provides the names of specific homeowners, as well as information about the occupations and physical locations of the ...

$200 / ≈ €187
Maker / Publisher: DE BEERS, F.W.
Place & Date: New York, 1867

 


Plan of the Borough of New Rochelle, Westchester Co. N.Y.

Fine lithographed map of the plan of the Borough of New Rochelle. The map provides the names of specific homeowners, as well as information about the occupations and phys...

$125 / ≈ €117
Maker / Publisher: DE BEERS, F.W.
Place & Date: New York, 1867

 


Plan of the Beekmanton Tarryntown and Ivring. Westchester Co. N.Y.

Fine lithographed map of the plan of the Beekmantown, Tarrytown, and Irving, New York. The map provides the names of specific homeowners, as well as information about the...

$110 / ≈ €103
Maker / Publisher: DE BEERS, F.W.
Place & Date: New York, 1867

 


New Jersey entworfen von D.F. Sotzmann. Hamburg bey Carl Ernst Bohn 1796 . . . NO.VIII

Extremely rare map of New Hampshire prepared by Daniel Friedrich Sotzmann for Christopher Ebeling's "Erdbeschreibung von Amerika", a project ended after only te...

$5000 / ≈ €4679
Maker / Publisher: SOTZMANN, D.F.
Place & Date: Hamburg, Carl Ernst Bohn, 1797

 


New Yok entworfen von D.F. Sotzmann. Hamburg bey Carl Ernst Bohn 1799 . . . NO.VII

An extremely rare map of New York prepared by Daniel Friedrich Sotzmann for Christopher Ebeling's "Erdbeschreibung von Amerika", a project ended after only ten ...

$6000 / ≈ €5614
Maker / Publisher: SOTZMANN, D.F.
Place & Date: Hamburg, Carl Ernst Bohn, 1799

 


Rhode Island entworfen von D.F. Sotzmann. Hamburg bey Carl Ernst Bohn 1798 . . . NO.V

Extremely rare map of Rhode Island prepared by Daniel Friedrich Sotzmann for Christopher Ebeling's "Erdbeschreibung von Amerika", a project ended after only ten...

$5000 / ≈ €4679
Maker / Publisher: SOTZMANN, D.F.
Place & Date: Hamburg, Carl Ernst Bohn, 1797

 


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...

$16000 / ≈ €14971
Maker / Publisher: VISSCHER, N.J.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1652