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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 [+]

$400 / ≈ €350
Maker / Publisher: DE BRY, Th.
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...

$7500 / ≈ €6571
Maker / Publisher: DE BRY, Th.
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1594

 


(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...

$250 / ≈ €219
Maker / Publisher: DE BRY, Th.
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1594

 


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 ...

$2200 / ≈ €1927
Maker / Publisher: BLAEU, W.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1635

 


Curacao Eylandt.

One of the earliest separate maps of Curaçao. The map has nice topographical detail and features an ornate title cartouche. The map displays locations of two freshwater ...

$1900 / ≈ €1665
Maker / Publisher: DE LAET, Joannes
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1644

 


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 ...

$2500 / ≈ €2190
Maker / Publisher: BLAEU, W.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1647

 


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...

$2500 / ≈ €2190
Maker / Publisher: DONCKER, H.
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 ...

$4500 / ≈ €3942
Maker / Publisher: DONCKER, H.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1659

 


Canibales Insulae.

Rare, early Dutch nautical chart of the Caribbean from Puerto Rico southward.

$1200 / ≈ €1051
Maker / Publisher: BLAEU, J.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1670

 


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...

$5000 / ≈ €4380
Maker / Publisher: JUSTEL, H.
Place & Date: Paris, Louis Billaine, 1674