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Islands in the Atlantic.

Decorative steel engraved map of Islands showing the Azores, Madeira, Bermuda, the Canaries and the Cape Verdes. Interlocking border design. Taken from "The illustra...

$150 / ≈ €130
Maker / Publisher: TALLIS, J.
Place & Date: London, ca. 1851

 


America settentrionale. . .

Rare map of North America drawn directly from the work of Nicholas De Fer and N. Sanson's famous map of 1650. The map is engraved by Antonius Donzel Gallus.With open Grea...

$1800 / ≈ €1562
Maker / Publisher: PETRINI, P.
Place & Date: Napels, 1766

 


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'...

$900 / ≈ €781
Maker / Publisher: VERDUSSEN, H.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1702

 


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...

$120 / ≈ €104
Maker / Publisher: MALLET, A.M.
Place & Date: Paris, 1683

 


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...

$800 / ≈ €694
Maker / Publisher: MONTANUS, A. / OGILBY, J.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, J.Meurs, 1671

 


Nieuwe kaart van Kanada . . .

Nice map of the Bay of Hudson, In Labrador, a small inset of Nova Scotia. The map is dated 1769. All text is in Dutch. The map shows the region shortly after the conclusi...

$500 / ≈ €434
Maker / Publisher: TIRION, I.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1769

 


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...

$2300 / ≈ €1996
Maker / Publisher: CHATELAIN, H.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1720

 


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...

$800 / ≈ €694
Maker / Publisher: DE BRY, Th.
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...

$750 / ≈ €651
Maker / Publisher: DE BRY, Th.
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1594

 


[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...

$750 / ≈ €651
Maker / Publisher: DE BRY, Th.
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1594