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[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 / ≈ €88
Maker / Publisher: GOTTFRIED, J.L. / DE BRY.
Place & 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 / ≈ €71
Maker / Publisher: GOTTFRIED, J.L. / DE BRY.
Place & 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 / ≈ €71
Maker / Publisher: GOTTFRIED, J.L. / DE BRY.
Place & 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 / ≈ €88
Maker / Publisher: GOTTFRIED, J.L. / DE BRY.
Place & 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 / ≈ €88
Maker / Publisher: GOTTFRIED, J.L. / DE BRY.
Place & 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 / ≈ €88
Maker / Publisher: GOTTFRIED, J.L. / DE BRY.
Place & 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 / ≈ €88
Maker / Publisher: GOTTFRIED, J.L. / DE BRY.
Place & 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 / ≈ €88
Maker / Publisher: GOTTFRIED, J.L. / DE BRY.
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 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 / ≈ €88
Maker / Publisher: GOTTFRIED, J.L.
Place & 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 / ≈ €662
Maker / Publisher: HONDIUS, H.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca. 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 / ≈ €88
Maker / Publisher: GOTTFRIED, J.L. / DE BRY.
Place & 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 / ≈ €88
Maker / Publisher: GOTTFRIED, J.L. / DE BRY.
Place & 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 / ≈ €88
Maker / Publisher: GOTTFRIED, J.L. / DE BRY.
Place & 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 / ≈ €88
Maker / Publisher: GOTTFRIED, J.L. / DE BRY.
Place & 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 / ≈ €88
Maker / Publisher: GOTTFRIED, J.L. / DE BRY.
Place & 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 / ≈ €88
Maker / Publisher: GOTTFRIED, J.L. / DE BRY.
Place & 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 / ≈ €88
Maker / Publisher: GOTTFRIED, J.L. / DE BRY.
Place & 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 / ≈ €71
Maker / Publisher: GOTTFRIED, J.L. / DE BRY.
Place & 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 / ≈ €71
Maker / Publisher: GOTTFRIED, J.L.
Place & 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 ...

$120 / ≈ €106
Maker / Publisher: GOTTFRIED, J.L. / DE BRY.
Place & 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...

$150 / ≈ €132
Maker / Publisher: GOTTFRIED, J.L. / DE BRY.
Place & 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 ...

$200 / ≈ €177
Maker / Publisher: GOTTFRIED, J.L. / DE BRY.
Place & 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...

$120 / ≈ €106
Maker / Publisher: GOTTFRIED, J.L. / DE BRY.
Place & 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...

$125 / ≈ €110
Maker / Publisher: GOTTFRIED, J.L. / DE BRY.
Place & 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...

$150 / ≈ €132
Maker / Publisher: GOTTFRIED, J.L. / DE BRY.
Place & 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...

$200 / ≈ €177
Maker / Publisher: GOTTFRIED, J.L. / DE BRY.
Place & 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...

$200 / ≈ €177
Maker / Publisher: GOTTFRIED, J.L. / DE BRY.
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633

 


[English attack Praia.]

Scarce print with German text sheet showing the English attack on Praia. On 16 November, 1585, during Francis Drake’s round-the-world voyage, his fleet anchored off San...

$150 / ≈ €132
Maker / Publisher: GOTTFRIED, J.L. / DE BRY.
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633

 


[Dutch attack the fortress of Praia.]

Scarce print with German text sheet showing the Dutch attack on Praia.On 27th June 1589, Simon de Cordes left Holland with five ships, bound for the Magellan Straits. On ...

$80 / ≈ €71
Maker / Publisher: GOTTFRIED, J.L. / DE BRY.
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633

 


S. Jago.

Scarce print with German text sheet showing the Dutch at Santiago. The Dutch were invited to visit the harbour, about two miles along the coast. On arrival, they found it...

$100 / ≈ €88
Maker / Publisher: GOTTFRIED, J.L. / DE BRY.
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633

 


[Isle la Moche].

Scarce print with a German text sheet showing the Dutch fleet anchored off the Island of Mocha, near Concepción in Chile. The islanders sat on wooden stumps and watched ...

$100 / ≈ €88
Maker / Publisher: GOTTFRIED, J.L. / DE BRY.
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633

 


[Cavendish reaches Morro Moreno.]

Scarce print with a German text sheet showing Cavendish’s fleet anchor at a place called Morro Moreno, on the coast of Chile. The Indians came down from the high cliffs...

$80 / ≈ €71
Maker / Publisher: GOTTFRIED, J.L. / DE BRY.
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633

 


[French seizure of Chiorera.]

Scarce print with a German text sheet showing the French torching and looting Chiorera. From de Bry's "Great American Voyages". Johann Theodor de Bry (1561-1623...

$80 / ≈ €71
Maker / Publisher: GOTTFRIED, J.L. / DE BRY.
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633

 


[Sir Walter Ralegh meets the King of Arromaia].

Scarce print with a German text sheet. During Ralegh’s voyage up the Orinoco in search of El Dorado, he met an old man who said he was the king of Arromaia. He claimed ...

$125 / ≈ €110
Maker / Publisher: GOTTFRIED, J.L. / DE BRY.
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633

 


[Black slaves escape punishment].

Scarce print with a German text sheet. Many Black slaves, weary of ill treatment, managed to escape Spanish captivity and freely wandered the island, breaking into prison...

$80 / ≈ €71
Maker / Publisher: GOTTFRIED, J.L. / DE BRY.
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633

 


[Religious ritual on Hispaniola].

Scarce print with a German text sheet.On certain feast-days the Indian cacique, while beating a drum, led a procession of his people to the worship of their idol, which w...

$80 / ≈ €71
Maker / Publisher: GOTTFRIED, J.L. / DE BRY.
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633

 


[Captain Weert dines with the Chief].

Scarce print with a German text sheet. Captain Weert and the chief ate modestly on roast plantain, smoked fish and wine fermented from palm, bought by a local woman. Howe...

$80 / ≈ €71
Maker / Publisher: GOTTFRIED, J.L. / DE BRY.
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633

 


[American history plate].

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

$80 / ≈ €71
Maker / Publisher: GOTTFRIED, J.L. / DE BRY, T.
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633

 


[Murder of Dominican monks in Cumana or Cubagua Island].

Murder of Dominican monks in Cumana or Cubagua Island in what is now Venezuela. Scarce print (150x177mm.) on a German text sheet taken from a first edition of Johann Ludw...

$80 / ≈ €71
Maker / Publisher: GOTTFRIED, J.L. / DE BRY, T.
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633

 


[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 / ≈ €88
Maker / Publisher: GOTTFRIED, J.L. / DE BRY, T.
Place & 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 / ≈ €221
Maker / Publisher: BLAEU, W
Place & 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 / ≈ €883
Maker / Publisher: BLAEU, W.
Place & 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 / ≈ €1942
Maker / Publisher: BLAEU, W.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1635

 


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 / ≈ €397
Maker / Publisher: BLAEU, W.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1635-1638

 


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 / ≈ €1589
Maker / Publisher: BLAEU, W.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1638

 


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 / ≈ €353
Maker / Publisher: BLAEU, W.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1638

 


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 / ≈ €2427
Maker / Publisher: BLAEU, W.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1640

 


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 / ≈ €353
Maker / Publisher: BLAEU, W.
Place & 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 / ≈ €1236
Maker / Publisher: BLAEU, W.
Place & 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 / ≈ €1545
Maker / Publisher: BLAEU, W.
Place & 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 / ≈ €441
Maker / Publisher: HONDIUS, H.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 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 / ≈ €1501
Maker / Publisher: JANSSONIUS, J.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1640

 


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 / ≈ €1677
Maker / Publisher: DE LAET, Joannes
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1644

 


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 / ≈ €1765
Maker / Publisher: BLAEU, W.
Place & 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 / ≈ €1324
Maker / Publisher: BLAEU, W.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1644

 


Nova Hispania et Nova Galicia.

Map of New Spain and New Galicia shows the city of Mexico situated by a large lake, as well as the location of many silver and gold mines. The map's elaborate cartouche i...

$850 / ≈ €750
Maker / Publisher: BLAEU, W.
Place & 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 / ≈ €309
Maker / Publisher: BLAEU, W.
Place & 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 / ≈ €706
Maker / Publisher: BLAEU, W.
Place & 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 / ≈ €530
Maker / Publisher: BLAEU, W.
Place & 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 / ≈ €883
Maker / Publisher: BLAEU, J.
Place & 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 / ≈ €794
Maker / Publisher: BLAEU, W.
Place & 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 / ≈ €794
Maker / Publisher: BLAEU, W.
Place & 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 / ≈ €5737
Maker / Publisher: BLAEU, W.
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 t...

$2500 / ≈ €2207
Maker / Publisher: BLAEU, W.
Place & 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 / ≈ €2207
Maker / Publisher: BLAEU, W.
Place & 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 / ≈ €2648
Maker / Publisher: BLAEU, W.
Place & 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 / ≈ €1765
Maker / Publisher: JANSSONIUS, J.
Place & 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 / ≈ €1545
Maker / Publisher: HONDIUS,H.
Place & 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 / ≈ €441
Maker / Publisher: HONDIUS, H.
Place & 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 / ≈ €5296
Maker / Publisher: BLAEU, W.
Place & 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 ...

$2000 / ≈ €1765
Maker / Publisher: JANSSONIUS, J.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1645

 


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 / ≈ €441
Maker / Publisher: POST, F. J.
Place & Date: Joannes Blaeu, 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 / ≈ €2207
Maker / Publisher: BLAEU, W.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 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 / ≈ €618
Maker / Publisher: BLAEU, J.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1647

 


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 / ≈ €662
Maker / Publisher: BLAEU, J.
Place & Date: 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 / ≈ €2207
Maker / Publisher: JANSSONIUS, J.
Place & 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 / ≈ €441
Maker / Publisher: SANSON, N. / MARIETTE, P.
Place & Date: Paris, after 1650

 


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 / ≈ €14123
Maker / Publisher: VISSCHER, N.J.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1652

 


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 / ≈ €1986
Maker / Publisher: JANSSONIUS, J.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1657

 


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 ...

$1500 / ≈ €1324
Maker / Publisher: BLAEU, W.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1658