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Descripcion del audiencia de Guatimala 6

The earliest map to include information from the previously secret manuscript maps of the Spanish cosmographer, Juan López de Velasco, showing part of Central America, i...

$400 / ≈ €374
Maker / Publisher: HERRERA y TORDESILLAS, A. de.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Michel Colin, 1622

 


[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 / ≈ €94
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 / ≈ €94
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 / ≈ €94
Maker / Publisher: GOTTFRIED, J.L. / DE BRY.
Place & 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 / ≈ €75
Maker / Publisher: GOTTFRIED, J.L. / DE BRY.
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633

 


[The dogs of Vasco Nunez de Balboa attacking native Indians]

A brutal scene in which the dogs of the Spanish explorer Vasco Nunez de Balboa, ferociously attack native Indians, while the Spanish look on.In 1631 Johann Ludwig Gottfri...

$80 / ≈ €75
Maker / Publisher: GOTTFRIED, J.L. / DE BRY.
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633

 


Nova Hispaniae, Chili, Peruviae, et Guatimalae Littorae..

A superbly decorative chart, oriented with north to the left of the sheet, covering the coasts of Central America, Peru, Chile, Jamaica and part of Cuba and Porto Rico. S...

$1000 / ≈ €936
Maker / Publisher: DE WIT, F
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1660

 


Yucatan . . . Et Guatimala Conventus Iuridicus.

Very attractive map encompassing the Mexican heartland, the Yucatan peninsula, and the old Spanish Audiencia of Guatemala including Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and pa...

$450 / ≈ €421
Maker / Publisher: MONTANUS, A.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1673

 


Carte Particuliere de Isthmus ou Darien qui Comprend le Golfe de Panama &c. Cartagena, et les Isles aux Environs.

Finely executed map of a portion of Central America, extending from the East Coast of Nicaragua and Costa Rica in the northwest to Cartagena and Santa Martha in modern Co...

$1250 / ≈ €1170
Maker / Publisher: MORTIER, P.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1720

 


L'Ancien et le nouveau Mexique avec la Floride..

Covering Florida, Texas, western part of Cuba and central America. Showing dozens (100+) of place names, extensive river systems, mountain ranges and featuring the Gulf o...

$250 / ≈ €234
Maker / Publisher: BONNE, R.
Place & Date: Paris, 1781