Browse Listings in America > South America > Venezuela
Plants Lantor, Assa, Pimenta, Mangostan and Pepper.
Lantor is a kind of coconut palm (or Indian nut) with fronds as long as a human body. These fronds are used as paper. Pimenta del Rabo (or cubebe) grows grape-like on tre...
- $80 / ≈ €75
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1598
Descripcion del audiencia del Nuevo Reino 9.
The earliest map to include information from the previously secret manuscript maps of the Spanish cosmographer, Juan López de Velasco, showing present-day Colombia and V...
- $450 / ≈ €421
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Michel Colin, 1622
![[Sir Walter Ralegh meets the King of Arromaia].](/uploads/cache/39916-250x250.jpg)
[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 / ≈ €117
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
Venezuela, atque Occidentalis Pars Novæ Andalusiae.
Coastline of Venezuela with little interior development. Including Aruba, Bonaire, Curaçao, etc. Scarce map prepared by Hessel Gerritsz (1581-1632), former apprentice of...
- $600 / ≈ €561
Place & Date: Leiden, Elzevier, 1630
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...
- $1100 / ≈ €1029
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1644
![[Murder of Dominican monks in Cumana or Cubagua Island].](/uploads/cache/40177-250x250.jpg)
[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 / ≈ €75
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
Venezuela, atque Occidentalis Pars Novæ Andalusiae.
The coastline of Venezuela with little interior development. Including Aruba, Bonaire, Curaçao, etc. This scarce map was prepared by Hessel Gerritsz (1581-1632), a forme...
- $600 / ≈ €561
Place & Date: Leiden, 1625
(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
![[Ralegh arrives at Orocotona.]](/uploads/cache/40468-250x250.jpg)
[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...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
![[How natives of Paria cope with illness] / Vespucci reaches Lake Maracaibo]..](/uploads/cache/41095-250x250.jpg)
[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...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
Venezuela cum parte Australi Novae Andalusiae.
Most decorative map with two large cartouches and compass-rose, large group of islands at the mouth of the Orinoco, other islands off Venezuela coast: Margarita, Aruba, C...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1673
Venezuela cum parte Australi Novae Andalusiae.
German text on verso. A finely engraved, decorative map of Venezuela. The islands of Trinidad and Tobago, Margarita, Aruba, and Curaçao are shown. With a decorative titl...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1634