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[Moose].

Scarce print (150x177mm.) of a Moose on a German text sheet taken from a first edition of Johann Ludwig Gottfried's "Newe Welt Vnd Americanische Historien/ Jnhaltend...

$100 / ≈ €86
Maker: GOTTFRIED, J.L. / DE BRY, T.
Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633

 


[A Typical Tupi Feast.]

Once a year the Indians from all the surrounding villages would get together for a feast. With decorative head-dresses, cloaks and belts of colored feathers, three or fou...

$100 / ≈ €86
Maker: GOTTFRIED, J.L. / DE BRY.
Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633

 


[Rituals for those that were dying.]

When one of the villagers was dying, the others would not feed or care for him but sing and danced as usual. Once he was dead though, the women would start lamenting by h...

$100 / ≈ €86
Maker: GOTTFRIED, J.L. / DE BRY.
Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633

 


[Staden forecasts an Indian attack.]

Staden told the Indian chief that he could tell the future and, who lived in the nearby village of ‘Arirab’ (probably Cairussú). He predicted an attack from rival In...

$100 / ≈ €86
Maker: GOTTFRIED, J.L. / DE BRY.
Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633

 


[Indians attacked near Cartagena.]

When the governor of Cartagena, Alonso de Ojeda, led a party of Spanish soldiers into the interior to search for gold, they were attacked by Indians with such ferocity th...

$100 / ≈ €86
Maker: GOTTFRIED, J.L. / DE BRY.
Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633

 


[Indian market at Cartagena.]

The natives of the province of Cartagena had plenty of fruit, fish, salt and peppers, which they exchanged for other necessities of life. In times of peace, the natives o...

$100 / ≈ €86
Maker: GOTTFRIED, J.L. / DE BRY.
Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633

 


[How Incas wrought their gold.]

The goldsmiths of Huayna-Capac were master craftsmen who wrought gold into magnificent artefacts with the simplest of tools. They used clay furnaces, heated by coals and ...

$100 / ≈ €86
Maker: GOTTFRIED, J.L. / DE BRY.
Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633

 


[The ritual of the killing.]

On the day of the killing, the rope is untied from the prisoner’s neck, then put round his body and pulled tightly from both ends. A fire burns in front of the prisoner...

$100 / ≈ €86
Maker: GOTTFRIED, J.L. / DE BRY.
Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633

 


[Revenge for Juan de Ayola's death.]

During Ayolas’s travels in Paraguay, he founded the fort at La Candelaria, near Corumba but later, while returning to Asunción, he and his entire party were killed by ...

$100 / ≈ €86
Maker: GOTTFRIED, J.L. / DE BRY.
Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633

 


[Atahualpa captured by Spanish.]

Accompanying Pizarro was a monk called Valverde, who confronted Atahualpa with a crucifix and breviary. The interpreter said the Spanish had been sent by their emperor to...

$80 / ≈ €69
Maker: GOTTFRIED, J.L.
Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633

 


[Diego de Almagro is killed.]

Almagro returned to Cuzco, disillusioned and embittered from his long and fruitless journey south into Chile, where he had been searching for further wealth. This led to ...

$80 / ≈ €69
Maker: GOTTFRIED, J.L. / DE BRY.
Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633

 


[Royal Governor of Peru is killed.]

Life under the new governor, Vaca de Castro, was no more stable than before and the king of Spain was eventually forced to send out yet another governor to replace him. H...

$100 / ≈ €86
Maker: GOTTFRIED, J.L. / DE BRY.
Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633

 


[Last of the Pizzaro brothers killed.]

Conflict between Gonzalo Pizarro and the latest officially appointed governor of Peru, Pedro de la Gasca, reached a climax in 1548 when Gasca’s forces crossed the Apuri...

$80 / ≈ €69
Maker: GOTTFRIED, J.L. / DE BRY.
Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633

 


[Columbus taken prisoner, and sent back to Spain.]

This engraving depicts the arrest of Columbus and his brothers. Bobadilla (sent by Spain, at Columbus’ request, to settle a revolt) reached Santo Domingo August 23, 150...

$100 / ≈ €86
Maker: GOTTFRIED, J.L. / DE BRY.
Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633

 


[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...

$100 / ≈ €86
Maker: GOTTFRIED, J.L. / DE BRY.
Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633

 


[Indian caciques are held for ransom.]

Gutierrez held the Indian caciques ransom. He said they would be released in exchange for enough gold to fill a basket six times over. Later, some of the Indians bought g...

$100 / ≈ €86
Maker: GOTTFRIED, J.L. / DE BRY.
Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633

 


[Nicaraguan's dancing.]

Each province organized its own festivities and people would come to a place of open land therein, which had been swept clean for dancing. The dancers were accompanied by...

$100 / ≈ €86
Maker: GOTTFRIED, J.L. / DE BRY.
Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633

 


[Natives of America offering Vaso Balbao gold.]

This early engraving shows natives of America offering Vaso Balbao gold. In 1511, Nuñez de Balboa formed a colony on the banks of the Atrato, in the Gulf of Uraba. Two y...

$100 / ≈ €86
Maker: GOTTFRIED, J.L. / DE BRY.
Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633

 


[Montezuma's dream as told by a labourer, predicts calamties to come.]

An apocalyptic scene of Montzuma's dream .In 1631 Johann Ludwig Gottfried, inherited the Theodor De Bry’s publishing firm, among the illustrated accounts of the expedit...

$100 / ≈ €86
Maker: GOTTFRIED, J.L. / DE BRY.
Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633

 


Freti Magellanici ac novi Freti vulgo Le Maire. . .

A fine map of Tierra del Fuego. With an explanatory text of the passage by Barent Jansz. Potgieter who accompanied captain Sebald de Weert to the Straits in 1599/1600, be...

$750 / ≈ €648
Maker: HONDIUS, H.
Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1633

 


[The manner of making their boats.]

The manner of making boats in Virginia is wonderful to behold. They were able to do so without using any iron tool at all. First they chose a tall tree, wide enough for a...

$100 / ≈ €86
Maker: GOTTFRIED, J.L.
Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633

 


[Ralegh arrives at Orocotona.]

On reaching the rapids of the Caroní, further up the Orinoco, Ralegh’s expedition was unable to proceed further by river, so they continued overland, eventually arrivi...

$100 / ≈ €86
Maker: GOTTFRIED, J.L. / DE BRY.
Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633

 


[Mutiny in Jamaica.]

On 29th May 1504, Columbus entered St. Ann’s Bay, Jamaica, but the Porras brothers and a number of Spanish soldiers on the island prevented him from coming ashore and t...

$100 / ≈ €86
Maker: GOTTFRIED, J.L. / DE BRY.
Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633

 


[How the Indians cross the river.]

The Indians of Peru had strange ways of crossing rivers. They tied a rope between two poles on either side of a river, then they hung a large basket from this rope and wh...

$100 / ≈ €86
Maker: GOTTFRIED, J.L. / DE BRY.
Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633

 


[How the women tease their captives.]

The Indian women led their captive, Staden, into the middle of the hamlet. Then they decorated his head with feathers and his legs with rattles. After forming a circle ro...

$100 / ≈ €86
Maker: GOTTFRIED, J.L. / DE BRY.
Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633

 


[Columbus lands on the Island of San Salvador.]

On 12th October 1492, after 33 days at sea, Columbus sighted land. His three ships made their way round the south-west point of an island Columbus named San Salvador - be...

$100 / ≈ €86
Maker: GOTTFRIED, J.L. / DE BRY.
Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633

 


[Collective suicide under Spanish rule.]

The natives of Hispaniola, who saw no end to the fearful oppression of Spanish rule, preferred death. So many, devoid of all hope, went into the woods to kill their child...

$80 / ≈ €69
Maker: GOTTFRIED, J.L. / DE BRY.
Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633

 


[The strange sheep-like creatures that carried the silver .]

When the Spanish discovered the silver mines of Potosí, they organised the transporting of the rich ore, westward by llama trains across the Altiplano and down to Arica ...

$80 / ≈ €69
Maker: GOTTFRIED, J.L. / DE BRY.
Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633

 


[How the Indians mined the silver at Pitosi.]

The mountain shown here is probably the Cerro Rico, which stand above the city of Potosí and has the distinction of being the richest mountain in all the Americas. The I...

$100 / ≈ €86
Maker: GOTTFRIED, J.L. / DE BRY.
Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633

 


[How the Indians cured the Spanish thirst for gold....by pouring it down their throats!]

A brutal scene depicting native Indians tying down Spanish men and pouring liquid gold down their throats. Scenes of cannibalism in the background.In 1631 Johann Ludwig G...

$80 / ≈ €69
Maker: GOTTFRIED, J.L. / DE BRY.
Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633

 


De Sota meets the Inca king near Cajamarca.]

When the Spanish arrived in Cajamarca, they found only a few inhabitants. The Inca army was camped in the surrounding hills and the residence of the Inca king, Atahualpa,...

$80 / ≈ €69
Maker: GOTTFRIED, J.L. / DE BRY.
Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633

 


[Vespucci lands on the Island of Itius.]

According to the esteemed historian, Las Casas,‘Itius cannot be other than the islands we reach coming from Spain, named Guadeloupe and Dominica.When Vespucci and his S...

$100 / ≈ €86
Maker: GOTTFRIED, J.L. / DE BRY.
Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633

 


Praelium Divrnum. [Spanish fleet defeated by the Dutch] / Nocturnum Praelium [Dutch and Spanish at sea off Lima].

Two engravings. [498] On the evening of 17th July, 1615, Spilbergen’s Dutch fleet encountered, off the coast of Peru near Lima, the powerful fleet of the Spanish, under...

$100 / ≈ €86
Maker: GOTTFRIED, J.L. / DE BRY.
Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633

 


[Spilbergen's fleet visits the island of Santa Maria] / [The Dutch visit Isla Mocha].

Two engravings. [514] On 29th May, 1615, Spilbergen’s fleet anchored further north, off an island called Santa María that was separated by a narrow stretch of water (A...

$80 / ≈ €69
Maker: GOTTFRIED, J.L. / DE BRY.
Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633

 


[Spanish take over Cusco] / [Atahualpa is garrotted].

Two engravings. [486] After Atahualpa was killed, Pizarro set out with his troops to find the city of Cuzco, which he had heard was rich in gold. The journey from Cajamar...

$80 / ≈ €69
Maker: GOTTFRIED, J.L. / DE BRY.
Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633

 


[The bloody battle at Chupas] / [Francesco Pizzaro is killed].

Two engravings. [492] Even before Pizarro’s death, a new royal governor, Vaca de Castro, was on his way to settle the turmoil in Peru. He refused to accept Almagro the ...

$80 / ≈ €69
Maker: GOTTFRIED, J.L. / DE BRY.
Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633

 


[How the Inca nobility are buried] / [Bridge of Huaynacapaco]

Two engravings. [470] The funeral of an Inca king was a ceremony of great splendor. After digging a large pit, the Indians would decorate the corpse with gold and silver ...

$80 / ≈ €69
Maker: GOTTFRIED, J.L. / DE BRY.
Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633

 


[How natives of Paria cope with illness] / Vespucci reaches Lake Maracaibo]..

Two engravings. [421b] When the natives of those parts, they were bathed in a cold stream, then chased round a blazing fire until they had dried out. Then they were put t...

$80 / ≈ €69
Maker: GOTTFRIED, J.L. / DE BRY.
Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633

 


[A prisoner of the Indians of Tupinamba, covered in feathers . . .]

A graphic scene of fighting and extreme violence. One man is seen covered in feathers, before being sacrificed and killed before the Brazilian tribe of Tupinamba. In 1631...

$80 / ≈ €69
Maker: GOTTFRIED, J.L. / DE BRY.
Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633

 


[Another Dutch fleet reaches Lima].

In 1624 a heavily armed Dutch fleet sailed from the Juan Fernandez Islands to Lima. The leader of the fleet, Jacob l’Hermite, was in such poor health that he had to han...

$80 / ≈ €69
Maker: GOTTFRIED, J.L. / DE BRY.
Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633

 


(Native population of Tierra del Fuego attacking some Dutchmen)

Native population of Tierra del Fuego attacking some Dutchmen. In the background anchored ships. Illustrating the account of the expedition of Jacobus L'Hermite.With nati...

$100 / ≈ €86
Maker: GOTTFRIED, J.L. / DE BRY.
Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633

 


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 / ≈ €216
Maker: BLAEU, W
Date: Amsterdam, 1634

 


Insulae Americanae in Oceano Septentrionali cum Terris adiacentibus.

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 ...

$1000 / ≈ €864
Maker: BLAEU, W.
Date: Amsterdam, 1635

 


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 / ≈ €1900
Maker: BLAEU, W.
Date: Amsterdam, 1635

 


Guiana sive Amazonum Regio.

Willem Blaeu’s decorative map of the Guianas, Lake Parima (Parime Lacus), and the route to El Dorado was initially issued in 1630 (with some variants were published wel...

$400 / ≈ €345
Maker: BLAEU, W.
Date: Amsterdam, 1638

 


Insulae Americanae in Oceano Septentrionali cum Terris adiacentibus.

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 t...

$1800 / ≈ €1555
Maker: BLAEU, W.
Date: Amsterdam, 1638

 


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...

$450 / ≈ €389
Maker: BLAEU, W.
Date: Amsterdam, 1635-1638

 


Terra Firma et Novum regnum Granatense et Propayan.

Fine copy, with wide margins of this handsome map of the Isthmus of Panama and northwestern South America including most of present day Columbia and part of Venezuela. Te...

$400 / ≈ €345
Maker: BLAEU, W.
Date: Amsterdam, 1640

 


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...

$2750 / ≈ €2375
Maker: BLAEU, W.
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...

$1750 / ≈ €1511
Maker: BLAEU, W.
Date: Amsterdam, 1640

 


Guiana sive Amazonum Regio.

Nice map extending from the Isla Margarita in the northwest to the coast of northern Brazil near Sao Luis east of the Amazon delta. The map locates at its center a large ...

$500 / ≈ €432
Maker: HONDIUS, H.
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...

$1400 / ≈ €1209
Maker: BLAEU, W.
Date: Amsterdam, 1640

 


Venezuela cum parte Australi novae Andalusiae.

RARE. A finely engraved, decorative map with no text on the verso. The islands Trinidad, Margarita, Aruba and Curaçao are shown as well.

$400 / ≈ €345
Maker: JANSSONIUS, J.
Date: Amsterdam, c. 1640

 


Mappa Aestivarum Insularum, alias Barmudas...

This magnificent map is based on the famous survey by John Norwood of the Bermuda Company in 1618. The map shows the division into the original Tribes and shows the vario...

$1700 / ≈ €1468
Maker: JANSSONIUS, J.
Date: Amsterdam, 1640

 


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 ...

$2000 / ≈ €1727
Maker: BLAEU, W.
Date: Amsterdam, 1644

 


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...

$1500 / ≈ €1296
Maker: BLAEU, W.
Date: Amsterdam, 1644

 


Terra Firma et Novum regnum Granatense et Propayan.

Handsome map of the Isthmus of Panama and north-western South America, including most of present day Columbia and part of Venezuela.Terra Firma is Panama, Veragua is Cost...

$350 / ≈ €302
Maker: BLAEU, W.
Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1644

 


Venezuela cum parte Australi Novae Andalusiae.

A finely engraved, decorative map of Venezuela. The islands of Trinidad and Tobago, Margarita, Aruba and Curaçao are shown. Local animals are depicted, sheep, birds, mon...

$800 / ≈ €691
Maker: BLAEU, W.
Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1644

 


Paraguayo prov. de Rio de La Plata cum regionibus..

A beautiful map of Paraguay, and parts of Peru, Chile, Argentina, Brazil and Bolivia. Much of the area was still "Terra Incognita" so there are few towns and ci...

$600 / ≈ €518
Maker: BLAEU, W.
Date: Amsterdam, 1644

 


Tabula Magellanica.

A map with Willem Blaeu's signature, but published by his son Joan, of South America's extremity. A dedication to Constantijn Huygens. From early on Willem Jansz. Blaeu ...

$1000 / ≈ €864
Maker: BLAEU, J.
Date: Amsterdam, 1644

 


Chili.

Willem Blaeu's very decorative map of Chili with two large and beautiful cartouches, a compass and ships. From early on Willem Jansz. Blaeu aimed of publishing an atlas ...

$900 / ≈ €777
Maker: BLAEU, W.
Date: Amsterdam, 1644

 


Peru.

FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE OF THIS MAP. Decorated with ships and monsters in the sea. Orientated with east at the top. With the signature of G. Blaeuw lower right corner....

$900 / ≈ €777
Maker: BLAEU, W.
Date: Amsterdam, 1644

 


Americae Nova Tabula.

An inset shows Greenland and Iceland. Decorative elements include ships, sea monsters, and vignettes of native Americans within South America. In addition, the map is bor...

$6500 / ≈ €5614
Maker: BLAEU, W.
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 t...

$2500 / ≈ €2159
Maker: BLAEU, W.
Date: Amsterdam, 1644

 


Nova Virginiae Tabula.

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 ...

$2500 / ≈ €2159
Maker: BLAEU, W.
Date: Amsterdam, 1644

 


Nova Belgica et Anglia Nova.

Orientated with north to the right. This is one of the earliest maps to concentrate solely on this area of the colonies, excluding Virginia and the extreme north east coa...

$3000 / ≈ €2591
Maker: BLAEU, W.
Date: Amsterdam, 1644

 


Mappa Aestivarum Insularum, alias Barmudas.

This magnificent map is based on the famous survey by John Norwood of the Bermuda Company in 1618. The map shows the division into the original Tribes and shows the vario...

$2000 / ≈ €1727
Maker: JANSSONIUS, J.
Date: Amsterdam, 1645

 


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...

$6000 / ≈ €5182
Maker: BLAEU, W.
Date: Amsterdam, 1645

 


Mappa Aestivarum Insularum, alias Barmudas..

Based closely on Blaeu's map of 1630 but with a simpler centered title piece. The map includes the arms of Bermuda and England, and lists proprietors of the various tribe...

$1750 / ≈ €1511
Maker: HONDIUS,H.
Date: Amsterdam, 1645

 


Guiana sive Amazonum Regio.

Copper engraving, hand colored in outline when published. A highly decorative map showing Guiana extending westwards to Trinidad and Margarita Island, dominated by a huge...

$500 / ≈ €432
Maker: HONDIUS, H.
Date: Amsterdam, 1645

 


Mappa Aestivarum Insularum, alias Barmudas. . .

It shows the island divided into tribes and lots, and below the map itself appear the coats of arms of Bermuda and England and the names of the first proprietors and the ...

$1600 / ≈ €1382
Maker: JANSSONIUS, J.
Date: Amsterdam, 1645

 


Brasilia.

Striking old color example of Blaeu's second map of Brazil prepared by Krystof Arciszewski, a Polish general who worked for the Dutch West Indian Company. The map perpetu...

$750 / ≈ €648
Maker: BLAEU, J.
Date: Amsterdam, 1647

 


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 / ≈ €2159
Maker: BLAEU, W.
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...

$32500 / ≈ €28070
Maker: BARLAEUS, C.
Date: Amsterdam, J. Blaeu, 1647

 


Brasilia.

Fine copy of this map by Krystof Arciszewski, a Polish general who worked for the Dutch West Indian Company. The map perpetuates various myths including the Parime Lago ,...

$700 / ≈ €605
Maker: BLAEU, J.
Date: Amsterdam, 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...

$500 / ≈ €432
Maker: POST, F. J.
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...

$2500 / ≈ €2159
Maker: JANSSONIUS, J.
Date: Amsterdam, 1650

 


Amerique Meridionale. Par N.Sanson d'Abbeville. . .

The first edition of a cornerstone South America map, the first to show the boundaries of many countries, regions, and provinces. Peru is shown governing a huge tract of ...

$500 / ≈ €432
Maker: SANSON, N. / MARIETTE, P.
Date: Paris, after 1650

 


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.

$60 / ≈ €52
Maker: SANSON,N.
Date: Paris, 1656

 


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...

$2250 / ≈ €1943
Maker: JANSSONIUS, J.
Date: Amsterdam, 1657