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Maris Pacifici.
From the rare Dutch text edition of the Theatrum of which according to van den Broecke only 100 copies are printed.This was the first printed map to be devoted solely to ...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1598
![[The attack by Schouten and his men on a waka.]](/uploads/cache/39658-250x250.jpg)
[The attack by Schouten and his men on a waka.]
Scarce print on French text sheet showing the attack by Schouten and his men on a waka.From a description of the voyage of Le Maire and Schouten included in the first Fre...
- $200 / ≈ €187
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1622
![[Locals.]](/uploads/cache/39659-250x250.jpg)
[Locals.]
Scarce print on French text sheet showing a copper engraved view of locals in Oceania.From a description of the voyage of Le Maire and Schouten included in first French t...
- $150 / ≈ €140
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1622
Cocos Insel Cocos Insula / Verräter Insel Insula proditorum.
Scarce print (148x204mm.) on a German text sheet showing the landing of Le Maire and Schouten at Cocos Island in May 1616 (today’s Tafahi in the Tonga Islands). Named b...
- $150 / ≈ €140
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1631
![[The attack by Schouten and his men on a waka.]](/uploads/cache/39754-250x250.jpg)
[The attack by Schouten and his men on a waka.]
Scarce print (145x210mm.) on a German text sheet showing the attack by Schouten and his men on a waka.The page is taken from a first edition of Johann Ludwig Gottfried's ...
- $150 / ≈ €140
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1631
Vligen Insel.
Scarce print (168x200mm.) on a German text sheet showing the attack of mosquitos on Schouten's ship.The page is taken from a first edition of Johann Ludwig Gottfried's &q...
- $75 / ≈ €70
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M. Merian, 1631
![[The description of Horn's Island].](/uploads/cache/41103-250x250.jpg)
[The description of Horn's Island].
This was a charming and beautiful island, full of coconuts, upas-root and wild pigs, which the natives either offered or sold to the Dutch. The natives seemed very wild a...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
![[The natives eat, drink and dance for their king].](/uploads/cache/41104-250x250.jpg)
[The natives eat, drink and dance for their king].
Food was carried on the natives’ heads as they humbly crept forward on their knees to greet the Dutch. The drink, called cava, was made from a certain plant, which they...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
![[The Dutch are received at another island in Samoa].](/uploads/cache/41105-250x250.jpg)
[The Dutch are received at another island in Samoa].
On visiting another island [in Samoa] the Dutch were made heartily welcome by the king and all the inhabitants. A king of another neighbouring island also called to meet ...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
![[The adventures of the Dutch at 'Bottomless' island in Samoa].](/uploads/cache/41106-250x250.jpg)
[The adventures of the Dutch at 'Bottomless' island in Samoa].
The Dutch arrived at an island [in Samoa] fringed with wild vines on which there were native men with long hair and native women with short hair. Because the water surrou...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
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...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1650
.Pascaerte Vande Zuyd-Zee tusschen California, en Ilhas de Ladrones. . .
A decorative and most interesting map - being one of the earliest of the Pacific to record the observations of Tasman's voyages. The northern part of the island of Califo...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1666
Paskaerte Zynde t'Oosterdeel Van Oost Indien, met alle de Eylanden daer ontrendt geleegen van C. Comorin tota aen Iapan.
An eye-catching chart of Pieter Goos' sea chart of Australia, Southeast Asia, China, Japan, Korea and India. The chart shows the regions from Cape Comorin (Southern India...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1669
De Kust van Nova Guinea tot aan deze bogt . . .
Five views of the coast of New Ireland in New Guinea. Abel Tasman, but also Willem Schouten and Isaac le Maire, thought that this was the coast of New Guinea. In reality ...
- $150 / ≈ €140
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1726
L'Hemisphere Meridional pour voir plus distinctement les Terres Australes.
Decorative map depicting from the southern pole to the Equator with good detail, and showing all the political divisions.Showing South America, southern Africa, the west ...
- $1000 / ≈ €936
Place & Date: Amsterdam, c. 1745
![Vue d'un Rocher troué de la Nouvelle Zélande. [Tome III Pl. 8.]](/uploads/cache/29073-250x250.jpg)
Vue d'un Rocher troué de la Nouvelle Zélande. [Tome III Pl. 8.]
A view of a New Zealand landscape and seascape through a hollow rock. Engraved by Demouchy. From the French edition of James Cook's first voyage entitled Relation des voy...
- $75 / ≈ €70
Place & Date: Paris, 1773
![Coffre Sculpté des Habitants de la nouvelle Zélande. [Tome III Pl. 13.]](/uploads/cache/26092-250x250.jpg)
Coffre Sculpté des Habitants de la nouvelle Zélande. [Tome III Pl. 13.]
A carved chest of New Zealand, as a specimen of the carving of the country. Engraving drawn after John Frederick Miller (1759-1796). John Frederick Miller was an English ...
- $25 / ≈ €23
Place & Date: Paris, 1773
![Vue de la Rivière d'Endeavour sur la Côte de la Nouvelle Hollande ou le Vaisseau fut mis à la bande. [Tome IV Pl. 1ère.]](/uploads/cache/26093-250x250.jpg)
Vue de la Rivière d'Endeavour sur la Côte de la Nouvelle Hollande ou le Vaisseau fut mis à la bande. [Tome IV Pl. 1ère.]
The first known landscape drawing of the east coast of Australia. A View of the Endeavour River, on the coast of New Holland, where the ship was laid on shore, in order t...
Place & Date: Paris, 1773
![Hausse-col militaire des insulaires de la Mer du Sud. [Tome II Pl. 12.]](/uploads/cache/26095-250x250.jpg)
Hausse-col militaire des insulaires de la Mer du Sud. [Tome II Pl. 12.]
Maori warrior rise-collar. From the French edition of James Cook's first voyage entitled Relation des voyages entrepris par ordre de sa Majesté Britannique actuellement ...
- $25 / ≈ €23
Place & Date: Paris, 1773
![Instruments des insulaires de la Mer du Sud. [Tome II Pl. 15.]](/uploads/cache/26097-250x250.jpg)
Instruments des insulaires de la Mer du Sud. [Tome II Pl. 15.]
Divers tools. From the French edition of James Cook's first voyage entitled Relation des voyages entrepris par ordre de sa Majesté Britannique actuellement régnante pou...
- $15 / ≈ €14
Place & Date: Paris, 1773
![Emouchoir des Otahitiens avec ses manches. [Tome II Pl. 13.]](/uploads/cache/26098-250x250.jpg)
Emouchoir des Otahitiens avec ses manches. [Tome II Pl. 13.]
From the French edition of James Cook's first voyage entitled Relation des voyages entrepris par ordre de sa Majesté Britannique actuellement régnante pour faire des dÃ...
- $25 / ≈ €23
Place & Date: Paris, 1773
![Le Capitaine Wallis est attaqué dans le Dauphin par les Otahitiens. [Tome II Pl. 1ère.]](/uploads/cache/26099-250x250.jpg)
Le Capitaine Wallis est attaqué dans le Dauphin par les Otahitiens. [Tome II Pl. 1ère.]
Scene of an attack by local Tahitians on Captain Wallis' Dolphin ship off Tahiti's shore. Samuel Wallis (1728-95), a Royal Navy Captain and a skilled navigator was given ...
- $150 / ≈ €140
Place & Date: Paris, 1773
![Vue de l'Isle d'Otahiti et de plusieurs Pirogues. [Tome II Pl. 11.]](/uploads/cache/26102-250x250.jpg)
Vue de l'Isle d'Otahiti et de plusieurs Pirogues. [Tome II Pl. 11.]
View of the Island of Tahiti and dugouts. From the French edition of James Cook's first voyage entitled Relation des voyages entrepris par ordre de sa Majesté Britanniqu...
- $75 / ≈ €70
Place & Date: Paris, 1773
![Vue de l'Isle d'Ulietéa avec une double Pirogue et un hangar où les Insulaires retirent leurs bâtiments de mer. [Tome III Pl. 5.]](/uploads/cache/26106-250x250.jpg)
Vue de l'Isle d'Ulietéa avec une double Pirogue et un hangar où les Insulaires retirent leurs bâtiments de mer. [Tome III Pl. 5.]
A view on the Island of Ulietea, French Polynesia, of a dugout boat house and a beautifully engraved pirogue at sea. From the French edition of James Cook's first voyage ...
- $50 / ≈ €47
Place & Date: Paris, 1773
![Vue de l'Isle d'Huaheine avec La Maison de Dieu, et un petit Autel couvert d'offrandes. [Tome III Pl. 4.]](/uploads/cache/26108-250x250.jpg)
Vue de l'Isle d'Huaheine avec La Maison de Dieu, et un petit Autel couvert d'offrandes. [Tome III Pl. 4.]
A view of the Island of Huaheine, Tahiti, a beautiful tropical Owharra tree in the foreground and a depiction of the House of God with its offertory. From the French edit...
- $50 / ≈ €47
Place & Date: Paris, 1773
![Vue d'un Rocher troué de la Nouvelle Zélande. [Tome III Pl. 8.]](/uploads/cache/26112-250x250.jpg)
Vue d'un Rocher troué de la Nouvelle Zélande. [Tome III Pl. 8.]
A view of a New Zealand landscape and seascape through a hollow rock. Engraved by Demouchy. From the French edition of James Cook's first voyage entitled Relation des voy...
- $30 / ≈ €28
Place & Date: Paris, 1773
![Manière dont on expose les morts à Otahiti. [Tome II Pl. 16.]](/uploads/cache/26113-250x250.jpg)
Manière dont on expose les morts à Otahiti. [Tome II Pl. 16.]
A view of a Tahitian funeral home in a beautiful landscape. Engraved by Demouchy. From the French edition of James Cook's first voyage entitled Relation des voyages entre...
- $50 / ≈ €47
Place & Date: Paris, 1773
Carte de la Nouvelle-Zelande visitée en 1769 et 1770 par le Lieutenant J. Cook.
Original French Edition of James Cook's Chart of New Zealand, from the First French Edition of Hawkesworth's Voyages. Map of New Zealand, engraved by Bernard. The most im...
Place & Date: Paris, 1774
Carte d'une Partie de la Côte, de la Nle Galles Meridle depuis le Cap Tribulation jusqu'au Detroit de l'Endeavour par le Lieut. J. Cook 1770. Tome IV. Pl. 3.
Map of a part of the New galles Meridle Coastline in Australia from the Cap Tribulation to the Endeavour Detroit. This map is taken from the first French edition of Jame...
- $300 / ≈ €281
Place & Date: Paris, 1774
Isles des Cocos appellée Bosscaiven par le Capitaine Wallis / Isles des Traîtres appellée Keppel par le Capitaine Wallis. Tome II Pl. 4.
Chart of the Cocos and Keeppel Islands. The territory of Cocos (Keeling) Islands, also called Cocos Islands and Keeling Islands, is a territory of Australia. This map is ...
- $50 / ≈ €47
Place & Date: Paris, 1774
![Village fortifié bâti sur un Rocher troué de la Nouvelle Zélande. [Tome III Pl. 10.]](/uploads/cache/26110-250x250.jpg)
Village fortifié bâti sur un Rocher troué de la Nouvelle Zélande. [Tome III Pl. 10.]
A view of a village fortified on a hollow rock in New Zealand. Engraved by François Godefroi. From the French edition of James Cook's first voyage entitled Relation des ...
- $50 / ≈ €47
Place & Date: Paris, 1774
![Cession de l'Isle d'Ohahiti au Capitaine Wallis par la Reine Obéréa. [Tome II Pl. 2.]](/uploads/cache/26111-250x250.jpg)
Cession de l'Isle d'Ohahiti au Capitaine Wallis par la Reine Obéréa. [Tome II Pl. 2.]
The Queen Oberea's transfer ceremony on Tahiti to Captain Wallis.Engraved by François Godefroi. From the French edition of James Cook's first voyage entitled Relation de...
- $50 / ≈ €47
Place & Date: Paris, 1774
La Nuova Zelanda tracorsa nel 1769 e 1770 dal Cook commandante dell' Endeavour Vascello di S.M.Britannica.
Antonio Zatta’s map of New Zealand is not only one of the first to show the results of Cook’s voyages, but is also one of the most attractive of the islands. Consider...
Place & Date: Venise, 1778
Carte de l'Entrée de Norton, et du Detroit de Bhering ou Von vou le Cap le plus oriental de l'Asie, et la Pointe la plus occidentale de l'Amerique.
Early detailed map of the passage between Asia and the NW Coast of America, including nice topographical details and the day by day tracks of Cook through the region in 1...
- $300 / ≈ €281
Place & Date: Paris, 1785
Uomo dell' Isola di Tanna, una delle nuove Ebridi nel Mar Pacifico. / Homme de l' Isle de Tanna, une des nouvelles Hébrides dans la Mer du Pacifique.
Full portrait of a man from the island of Tanna in the Pacific. A rare engraving from "Raccolata di stampe ... di varie nazioni". From the original drawing by W...
- $250 / ≈ €234
Place & Date: Venice, Antonio Zatta, c.1790
Donna dell' Isola d' Erramanga una delle nuove Ebridi nel Mar Pacifico. / Femme de l'Isle d'Erramanga une des nouvelles Hebrides dans la Mer Pacifique.
Full portrait of a woman, native of the island of Erramanga in the Pacific. A rare engraving from "Raccolata di stampe ... di varie nazioni". From the original ...
- $250 / ≈ €234
Place & Date: Venice, Antonio Zatta, c.1790
Donna dell' Isola di Mallicolo una delle nuove Ebridi nel Mar Pacifico del Sud. / Femme de l' Isle d'Erramanga une des nouvelles Hebrides dans la Mer Pacifique du Sud.
Full portrait of a woman, a native of the island of Mallico. A rare engraving from "Raccolata di stampe ... di varie nazioni". From the original drawing by Will...
- $250 / ≈ €234
Place & Date: Venice, Antonio Zatta, c.1790
Donna dell' Isola di Tanna, una delle nuove Ebridi nel Mar Pacifico. / Femme de l' Isle de Tanna, une des nouvelles Hebrides dans la Mer Pacifique.
Full portrait of a woman, a native from the island of Mallico. A rare engraving from "Raccolata di stampe ... di varie nazioni". From the original drawing by Wi...
- $250 / ≈ €234
Place & Date: Venice, Antonio Zatta, c.1790
Potatow Capo dei Tahiti Isola nel Mare Pacifico del Sud. / Potatow Chef de Tahiti Isle dans la Mer Pacifique du Sud.
Full portrait of the Hawaiian chief Potatow. A rare engraving from "Raccolata di stampe ... di varie nazioni". From the original drawing by William Hodges, who ...
- $250 / ≈ €234
Place & Date: Venice, Antonio Zatta, c.1790
Otoo, Re di Tahiti Isola nel Mar Pacifico del Sud. / Otoo, Roi de Tahiti Isle dans la Mer Pacifique du Sud.
Full portrait of the Hawaiian King Otoo. A rare engraving from "Raccolata di stampe ... di varie nazioni". From the original drawing by William Hodges, who acco...
- $300 / ≈ €281
Place & Date: Venice, Antonio Zatta, c.1790