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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...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1594
![Pisces in mari alati [flying fish attack]](/uploads/cache/48527-250x250.jpg)
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 / ≈ €374
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 / ≈ €234
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1594
Culiacanae Americae regionis.. / Hispaniolae, Cubae..
Two virtually identically sized inset maps on one sheet, each with a decorative scroll title cartouche. Culiacanae depicts the coastal and inland western region in North ...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1598
Culiacanae Americae regionis.. / Hispaniolae, Cubae..
Two separate virtually identically sized inset maps on one sheet, each with a decorative scroll title cartouche. Culiacanae depicts the coastal and inland western region...
- $1200 / ≈ €1123
Place & Date: Antwerp 1598
Sancta Helena.
An attractive small map of the south Atlantic island of St. Helena. Two years after the publication of Linschoten's Itinerario, the first map of St. Helena appeared in 15...
- $100 / ≈ €94
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1606
Descriptio Tercerae.
An attractive miniature map of The Azorian island of Terceira, in the Atlantic Ocean. Published by Petrus Bertius, in Amsterdam at the turn of the seventeenth century. Di...
- $100 / ≈ €94
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1606
Decriptio Hispaniolae.
A miniature map of Hispaniola, (modern day Haiti and Dominican Republic), as well as the extreme eastern parts of Cuba. With a simple strap-work title and a scale in Germ...
- $150 / ≈ €140
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1606
Cuba Insula. Hispaniola.
Decorative engraved map of Cuba above Hispaniola with smaller insets of Havana, Jamaica, Puerto Rico and Margarita.From the first French-text edition of Jodocus Hondius''...
- $300 / ≈ €281
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1608
V. Inusitata Terrae Concussio, in Insula S. Michael Facta.
Showing the Vila Franca earthquake on 26 July 1591Theodore de Bry, a German engraver and book dealer, began a compilation of early voyages in 1590 and had published six p...
- $75 / ≈ €70
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1609
Description des Isles Bermudas.
Map of Bermuda from the rare Cloppenburg edition slightly larger format and more scarce edition of the Mercator/Hondius "Atlas Minor". Engraved by Pieter Van De...
- $800 / ≈ €749
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1630
![[Religious ritual on Hispaniola].](/uploads/cache/39921-250x250.jpg)
[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 / ≈ €75
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
![[Captain Weert dines with the Chief].](/uploads/cache/39922-250x250.jpg)
[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 / ≈ €75
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
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[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...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
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[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 / ≈ €94
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
![[Collective suicide under Spanish rule.]](/uploads/cache/40480-250x250.jpg)
[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 / ≈ €75
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
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[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...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
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[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 / ≈ €75
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 / ≈ €94
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
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[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 / ≈ €75
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
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[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 / ≈ €140
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
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 ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1635
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 / ≈ €936
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1635
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 / ≈ €1684
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1638
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 / ≈ €1591
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. Published in de Laet's account of the history...
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 / ≈ €1871
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 / ≈ €2339
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1644
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...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1645
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 / ≈ €1871
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 / ≈ €1871
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1645
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 ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1647
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 / ≈ €1404
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1658
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...
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 ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1659
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 / ≈ €2059
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1662
Canibales Insulae.
Rare, early Dutch nautical chart of the Caribbean from Puerto Rico southward.
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...
Place & Date: Paris, Louis Billaine, 1674
Les Isles Terceres. . .
Uncommon map of the Azores. Engraved by Sommer. Du Val is mentioned as the cartographer and the publisher was Pierre Mariette.
Place & Date: Paris, c. 1650 - 1676
Pas-kaart vande Zee kusten van Venecuela met de Byleggende Eylanden. . .
Rare chart of the coast of Venezuela, including the islands of Curaçao, Bonaire, Aruba, etc.The chart has two insets, one (15x22cm) with a map of Curaçao, one smaller w...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1680
Pas kaart Van Rio Oronoque Golfo De Paria met d'Eylanden Trinidad, Tabago, Granada, Granadillos, en Bequia . . .
A highly detailed and rare sea chart of the mouth of the Orinoco River, Trinidad, Tabago, St.Vincent and neighboring islands. Oriented with north to the right by two comp...
- $900 / ≈ €842
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1684
Archipelague du Mexique ou sont les Isles de Cuba..
Scarce map of Caribbean. A visually stunning map with a large title cartouche. This large one-sheet map was produced by the Venetian cosmographer Vincenzo Coronelli when ...
Place & Date: Paris, 1688
Insulae Americanae in Oceano Septentrionali..
A particularly handsome map portraying the south-eastern U.S., the Caribbean islands, part of Mexico, Central America, Florida (called tegesta Prov. ) and part of South A...
- $1500 / ≈ €1404
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1702
Pas kaart vande Zuyd kust van Cuba en van Geheel Jamaica…
A nautical chart covering the southern part of Cuba, all of Jamaica and the western tip of Hispaniola and a bit of the Honduras coastline. Insets of "Baya Oristan in...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, J. van Keulen, 1697-1709
Stoel des Oorlogs in America Waar in Vertoont Werden Alle Desself Voornaamste Eylande . . .
Large impressive map of the West Indies with the Gulf of Mexico and Florida. The map shows prominently in the center Cuba, Haiti, the Bahamas and Florida, which is here m...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, c. 1720
Particularitez Curieuses de l'Ile de St. Christophle et de la Province de Bemarin . . .
Six meticulously detailed and engraved scenes of the island of St. Kitts, also known as Saint Christopher, and the province of Bemarin, indigenous plants, animals, reptil...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1720
Mappa Aestivarum Insularum, alias Barmudas..
The map is the rare re-issue of the Blaeu's copperplate of 1630. The map includes the arms of Bermuda and England, and lists proprietors of the various tribes into which ...
- $1600 / ≈ €1497
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1720
Nieuwe Wassende Graade Zee Kaart over de Spaanse Zee Vant Kanaal tot 't Eyland Cuba in Westindia. . .
¤ Engraved by I.van Anse. A very representative example of a Dutch chart of the Atlantic, showing the north-east coast of America, the coasts of Africa and Europe and So...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1728
Description des plantes, arbres, animaux & poissons des Antilles . . .
Interesting sheet with eight detailed views illustrating fauna and flora on the Antillean islands, and how the natives are making sugar, with descriptive French text, fro...
- $150 / ≈ €140
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1728
Dominia Anglorum in praecipuis Insulis Americae ut sunt Insula S. Christopheri, Antegoa, Iamaica, Barbados nec non Insula Bermudes vel Sommers . . .
Four maps of the islands of West Indies (St. Christoph "Delineatio Insulae St, Christophori alias I. Kitts", Antigua "Insula Antegoa", Barbados &q...
- $500 / ≈ €468
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 1740
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...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1751
Nieuwe Wassende Graade Zee Kaart over de Spaanse Zee Vant Kanaal tot 't Eyland Cuba In Westindia.
Rare two-sheet blue-back sea chart of the Atlantic and Eastern part of North America., published by Gerard Van Keulen. The map extends from the latitude of Newfoundland a...
- $2000 / ≈ €1871
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1728-1751
Carolinae Floridae nec non Insularum Bahamensium cum partibus adjacentibus delinatio ad Exemplar Londinense in lucem edita . . . Ao. 1755.
The German edition of this map of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands in full original colors. Published in Seligmann's "Sammlung verschiedener auslaendischer ...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 1755
Carte Hydrographique de la Baye de la Havane.. N° 69.
A well-engraved and highly detailed chart of the walled city of Havana and its harbor features inset plans of three forts (La Punta, El Morro, and La Real Fuerza) as well...
- $2000 / ≈ €1871
Place & Date: Paris, 1762
Carte de la Dominique Prise par les Francois le 7 Septembre 1778. Avec le Plan du Debarquement et de l'Attaque des Forts et Batteries par les Troupes et Les Fregates de sa Majeste
A rare map of St. Dominica, with insets of Charlotteville with its attack by the French on 7 September 1778 on the British. Also small inset map of the Caribbean islands ...
- $500 / ≈ €468
Place & Date: Paris, 1778
Golfe du Mexique Assujetti aux Observations Astronomiques Par J.B.Nolin.
Rare map of the Caribbean prepared by J.B.Nolin and published by L.J. Mondhare for his Atlas Général a l'usage des colleges et maisons d'education.. Louis Joseph Mondha...
- $200 / ≈ €187
Place & Date: Paris, 1781
Carte Geo-Hydrographique du Golfe du Mexique et de ses Isles..
Map of the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico showing the various islands and continental coastlines according to the 18th century Venetian cartography of Rizzi Zannoni.Illustr...
Place & Date: Paris, ca 1783
Isle de la Jamaïque.
Map of Jamaica, from Atlas de la Géographie de toutes les parties du monde.. Ouvrage destiné pour l'education, et nécessaire aux négocians, aux voyageurs, aux fonctio...
Place & Date: Paris, Prudhomme, Levrault, Debray, 1806
Selling price: $25
Sold in 2016
Carte Réduite Du Golphe Du Mexique Et Des Isles De L' Amérique..
A well engraved and highly detailed chart prepared by Bellin of the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean. In addition to a magnificent title cartouche and a color key to the ...
Place & Date: Paris dated year 17, or 1808
West indien.
Nice small map of The West Indies, with Cuba, Jamaica, S.Domingo, etc. Southern tip of Florida is included. Map by Johannes Walch in his rare Allgemeiner Atlas Nach den b...
- $150 / ≈ €140
Place & Date: Augsburg, 1812
Manuscript plan of Havana harbour.
Manuscript chart with good nautical detail and soundings of Havana harbour.
Place & Date: Spain c.1820
Tobago.
A delightfully detailed map of the West Indian island Tobago by John Thomson. The map displays excellent detail concerning roads, rivers, towns, bays, harbors, and other ...
- $50 / ≈ €47
Place & Date: Edenburgh, 1821
Grenada.
A delightfully detailed map the West Indian island Grenada by John Thomson. The map displays excellent detail concerning roads, rivers, towns, bays, harbours and other in...
- $50 / ≈ €47
Place & Date: Edenburgh, 1821
Carte Geographique, Statistique et Historique des Indes Occidentales.
A nice detailed map of The West Indies, including Cuba, the Bahamas, the southern most tip of FL, parts of Central America, and the northern tip of South America. From Bu...
- $120 / ≈ €112
Place & Date: Paris, 1825
![[ A view of a Caribbean sugar plantation ].](/uploads/cache/27335-250x250.jpg)
[ A view of a Caribbean sugar plantation ].
Aquatint depicts a Caribbean (probably sugar) plantation. Engraved by Fumagalli.From Giulio Ferrario's work Le Costume Ancien et Moderne ou Histoire du gouvernement, de ...
- $90 / ≈ €84
Place & Date: Milan, 1827
West Indies.
A fine, detailed steel engraved map comprising Florida, Bahamas, Cuba, Haiti, Jamaica, the Windward, and the Leeward Islands, the northern Columbian coastline, Panama, Gu...
Place & Date: London, 1839
Antilles.
Finely engraved map of the Caribbean, with a color key to Spanish, English, French, Danish, Dutch and Swedish possessions, prepared by A.H.Dufour and engraved by Giraldon...
- $75 / ≈ €70
Place & Date: Paris, Jules Renouard, ca.1840
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Posesiones de America : Isla de Cuba. [together with] Isla de Cuba. . .
Wall size sea chart and map of land areas showing all of Cuba, part of Florida Keys plus San Adios and Salvador Grande in the Bahamas.Minute topographical, political, and...
Place & Date: Madrid, 1853 / 1851
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...
- $300 / ≈ €281
Place & Date: London, ca. 1851
Colonies Françaises (en Amérique). N°92.
A very decorative 19th century map showing the islands of St Martin, St Pierre et Miquelon and Terra Nova. Includes also Guyana. The map is surrounded by portraits, anima...
Place & Date: Paris, A. Combette, 1852
![ISLA DE CUBA [with 2 maps] Plano Pintoresco De La Habana con los numeros de las casas B. May y Ca. 1853. (with) Inset map Puerto y Cereanias De La Habana. (with) 14 views of Havana & prominent buildings.](/uploads/cache/36720-250x250.jpg)
ISLA DE CUBA [with 2 maps] Plano Pintoresco De La Habana con los numeros de las casas B. May y Ca. 1853. (with) Inset map Puerto y Cereanias De La Habana. (with) 14 views of Havana & prominent buildings.
Lithographic town-plan surrounded with views of the city of Havana including the "Fuente De La India En El Paseo De Isabel 2a." and "Vista Gral De La Haban...
Place & Date: Havana, 1853
West India Islands.
Map of the West Indies, published by "The London Printing and Publishing Company". Drawn and engraved by John Rapkin.
- $75 / ≈ €70
Place & Date: London, 1854
Christianssted. (St.Croix).
A beautiful view of the small town of Christiansted on the island of St. Croix. This view shows much of the harbour and a portion of the town's waterfront. one of a serie...
- $900 / ≈ €842
Place & Date: Copenhagen, Baerentzen & Co, 1856
Parti ved Frederikssted (St. Croix).
Early town-views of the small town of Frederiksted on the island of St. Croix. This view shows much of the harbor and a portion of the town's waterfront. one of a series ...
- $950 / ≈ €889
Place & Date: Copenhagen, Baerentzen / Co, 1856
St. Thomas (parti af Byen og Havnen).
A beautiful view of the harbour on the island St. Thomas. This view shows much of the town, bay and surrounding area. One of a series of six lithographs of St. Thomas pro...
- $1100 / ≈ €1029
Place & Date: Copenhagen, Baerentzen Co, 1856
Carta del Gran Banco de Bahama parte de la Isla de Cuba y Costa de la Florida.
A large marine chart, engraved by Juan Noguera and C.Marquerie, produced by the Direccion de Hydrografia, under the direction of Jose de Quesada, who was the then chief o...
- $1750 / ≈ €1638
Place & Date: Madrid, 1858-1866
Amérique Centrale.
Decorative map of Central America from Géographie Universelle, Atlas Migeon. With an inset map of the Isthmus of Panama lower left corner and a panoramic view of Mexico ...
Place & Date: Paris, 1874
Isla Martinica.
A beautiful hand colored, hand drawn map of the French Caribbean island of Martinique, prepared for the Buenos Aires 1939 Philatelic Exhibition, with separate text with d...
- $100 / ≈ €94
Place & Date: Buenos Aires, 1939
BWIA. North America - Caribbean Route Map.
An interesting double-sided brochure-type map of the routes flown by BWIA (British West Indian Airlines) between North America and the Caribbean. One side shows (not in t...
- $110 / ≈ €103
Place & Date: USA, ca 1960-1965
West Indies Virgin islands Sheet III Tortola I. to Culebra including St. Thomas...
An British Admiralty chart of the Virgin Islands. A highly corrected version of Admiralty chart 2452 originally published 15th December 1856 under the Superintendence of ...
- $135 / ≈ €126
Place & Date: London, 1856- 1988-1993