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Tierra Nueva.

Uncommon first edition of this early map of the east coast is an enlarged version of Giacomo Gastaldi map published in 1548. Nomenclature and cartography are unchanged, w...

$1000 / ≈ €936
Maker / Publisher: RUSCELLI, G.
Place & Date: Venice, 1561

 


Americae Sive Novi Orbis, Nova Descriptio

Woodcut map by based on Abraham Ortelius' classic map of 1570, with the huge bulge in the southwest coastline of South America, the Ortelian western coastline of North Am...

$1900 / ≈ €1778
Maker / Publisher: MÜNSTER, S.
Place & Date: Basel, ca. 1588

 


La Florida/ Peruviae Auriferae regionis Typus/ Guastecan.

The Chaves map of Florida is a prime example of an explorer's map since it records the recent discoveries of Cabeza de Vaca, De Soto, and Moscoso. The map revealed little...

$1400 / ≈ €1310
Maker / Publisher: ORTELIUS, A.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1592

 


Americae Retectio (Allegory of the Discovery of America)

Allegorical scene commemorating the discovery of America. The main image shows Neptune, supporting a Globe, flanked by Flora-representing Florence, and Janus-representin...

$1000 / ≈ €936
Maker / Publisher: DE BRY, Th.
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1594

 


Inventio Maris Magallanici.

Allegorical scene allegorical image celebrating the circumnavigation of the earth by Ferdinand Magellan. The image shows Magellan on board of his ship, surrounded by myth...

$750 / ≈ €702
Maker / Publisher: DE BRY, Th.
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1594

 


[Columbus is standing in the bow of his ship]

Columbus is standing in the bow of his ship, which is near the shore. He is clad in a long mantle and undercoat, while his armor lies at his feet, and his standard is flo...

$750 / ≈ €702
Maker / Publisher: DE BRY, Th.
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1594

 


[Navel battle between Portuguese and French Battle off Buttugar (Brazil).]

Navel battle between Portuguese and French in the seas off the Poti guaran Territories in Brazil.Read more about "Les Grand Voyages" by Theodore De Bry [+]

$400 / ≈ €374
Maker / Publisher: DE BRY, Th.
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1594

 


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
Maker / Publisher: DE BRY, Th.
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1594

 


[The French left in Fort Charles suffer the scarcity of provisions.]

An Indian town visited by the French of Charlesfort in search for food. After a drawing by LeMoyne. Charlesfort-Santa Elena is on what is now Parris Island, South Carolin...

$400 / ≈ €374
Maker / Publisher: DE BRY, Th.
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1594

 


Arcis Carolinae delineatio [Jacksonville]

Depicting Fort Caroline in Jacksonville, Florida. A French expedition, organized by Protestant leader Admiral Gaspard de Coligny and led by the French Explorer Jean Ribau...

$400 / ≈ €374
Maker / Publisher: DE BRY, Th.
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1594

 


Cacodemon attacking the savages.

Cacodemon ("evil spirit") attacking the savages. Read more about "Les Grand Voyages" by Theodore De Bry [+]

$200 / ≈ €187
Maker / Publisher: DE BRY, Th.
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
Maker / Publisher: DE BRY, Th.
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1594

 


La Florida/ Peruviae Auriferae regionis Typus/ Guastecan.

The Chaves map of Florida is a prime example of an explorer's map since it records the recent discoveries of Cabeza de Vaca, De Soto, and Moscoso. The map revealed little...

$1200 / ≈ €1123
Maker / Publisher: ORTELIUS, A.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1598

 


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 ...

$1000 / ≈ €936
Maker / Publisher: ORTELIUS, A.
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
Maker / Publisher: ORTELIUS, A.
Place & Date: Antwerp 1598

 


Hispaniae novae sive magnae recens et vera descriptio. 1579

This was the standard map of the area for a generation, copied by De Bry, Quad and Hondius. Even though Herrera (Spain's Royal Cosmographer) and Wytfliet worked 20 years ...

$750 / ≈ €702
Maker / Publisher: ORTELIUS, A.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1598

 


Peruviae Auriferae Regionis Typus [with] La Florida Auctore Hieron Chiaves [with] Guastecan Reg.

The Chaves map of Florida is a prime example of an explorer's map since it records the recent discoveries of Cabeza de Vaca, De Soto, and Moscoso. The map revealed little...

$2000 / ≈ €1871
Maker / Publisher: ORTELIUS, A.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1598

 


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
Maker / Publisher: DE BRY, Th.
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1598

 


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
Maker / Publisher: LANGENES, B. / BERTIUS, P.
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
Maker / Publisher: LANGENES, B. / BERTIUS, P.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1606

 


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
Maker / Publisher: LANGENES, B. / BERTIUS, P.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1606

 


Die Spanier treiben allerhand Unzucht mit den Indianischen Weibern die sie in dem läger unnd Wasserbädern ergriffen nach dem Atabaliba gefangen worden.

Spanish soldiers march past a pool where native American women are bathing. Some of the soldiers drag some of the women away. After the defeat of the Inca king, some of t...

$150 / ≈ €140
Maker / Publisher: DE BRY, Th.
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1607

 


Wie der Indianer Brucken seyen von Seilen zusammen geflochten und vom Farth Guaynacapae.

Native Americans cross a net bridge over a river while one group cuts the end of it causing men to fall into the river and drown. Includes war clubs, spears, bows and arr...

$100 / ≈ €94
Maker / Publisher: DE BRY, Th.
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1607

 


Die Spanier hawen die Bäume darauff die Indianer ihre wohnung haben mit Axten umb und stürtzen sie herunder.

Native Americans in trees drop stones on Spanish soldiers who attack from the ground. One man chops at a tree trunk while two others hold boards over his head to protect ...

$100 / ≈ €94
Maker / Publisher: DE BRY, Th.
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1607

 


Gonsaluus Pizarrus wird uberwunden gefangen und enthauptet.

Pizarro returned to Spain in 1528 and appealed to the king to grant him permission to conquer Peru. With him, he brought gold and silver, as evidence of their potential w...

$100 / ≈ €94
Maker / Publisher: DE BRY, Th.
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1607

 


Ferdinandus de Soto Hauptmann uber das Kriegssvolck wardt sampt etlichen anderen von Pizarro, zu dem König Atabaliba abgesandt.

Hernando de Soto on horseback greets a native American carrying a scepter in the shape of a sun.They are surrounded by native American and Spanish soldiers. Includes war ...

$100 / ≈ €94
Maker / Publisher: DE BRY, Th.
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1607

 


Der König Atabaliba kompt mit grossem Pracht zu Caxamalca an.

The Inca king, Atahualpa or Atabaliba, holding a scepter in the shape of a sun is carried on a litter by native American soldiers. In the background is a fortified city. ...

$100 / ≈ €94
Maker / Publisher: DE BRY, Th.
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1607

 


Die Spanier streiten mit den Indianern welche ihre Wohnung auff den Bäumen haben.

Native Americans in trees drop stones, shoot with arrows, and pour water on Spanish soldiers who attack from the ground. One man chops at a tree trunk while two others ho...

$150 / ≈ €140
Maker / Publisher: DE BRY, Th.
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1607

 


Dess Ferdinandi und Petri de Contreras, gefangene Kriegssknecht werden zu Ranama [sic] durch den Statt Schultheissen mit einem Dolchen durchstochen.

Men are stabbed inside prisons while chests are loaded onto a boat. Includes men hanging from a tree seen through a barred window, chains, shackles, pillory, and knife. T...

$100 / ≈ €94
Maker / Publisher: DE BRY, Th.
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1607

 


Atabaliba kompt mit Francisco Pizarro ubereyn der Rantzion halben die er für sein erledigung bezahlen solte. . .

Atahualpa or Atabaliba talks to Francisco Pizarro in a room with Spanish soldiers. Includes spears, guns or muskets, and dwellings. Accompanying Pizarro was a monk called...

$100 / ≈ €94
Maker / Publisher: DE BRY, Th.
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1607

 


Als dem König Atabaliba zugesagt war dass er widerumb ledig werden solt schickte er die. . .

Spanish soldiers on horseback supervise native Americans who bring gold and silver vessels and statues to a fortified city. Includes vessels, animals such as a lobster, a...

$100 / ≈ €94
Maker / Publisher: DE BRY, Th.
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1607

 


Die Spanier gehen gantz Tyraiñsch mit den Indianern umb welche nicht fort kommen mochten . . .

As Pedro de la Gasca advanced from the north with about 1,500 soldiers, the journey from Trujillo to Ayacucho up the Eastern Cordillera was a terrible experience for the ...

$100 / ≈ €94
Maker / Publisher: DE BRY, Th.
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1607

 


Franciscus Pizarrus lässt den König Atabaliba wider verheissene trew und glauben auff . . .

Atahualpa who is chained to his chair is garroted or executed in a room with Spanish soldiers and blacks [slaves]. Includes spears, gun or musket, headdress, pole and rop...

$100 / ≈ €94
Maker / Publisher: DE BRY, Th.
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1607

 


Die Stadt Cuzco so die reichste war in gantzen Königreich Peru wirdt von den Spaniern eingenommen.

Spanish soldiers fight in a fortified town against native Americans. Includes guns or muskets, swords, spears, fortifications, and scene of warfare.After Atahualpa was ki...

$100 / ≈ €94
Maker / Publisher: DE BRY, Th.
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1607

 


Die Spanier und Indianer halten eine Schlacht für der Stadt Cuzco.

Spanish soldiers, some on horseback, fight before a fortified town against native Americans. Includes guns or muskets, drums, swords, spears, fortifications, and scene of...

$100 / ≈ €94
Maker / Publisher: DE BRY, Th.
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1607

 


Didacus Almagrus wird von dem Ferdinando Pizarro in gefängnuss geworffen darinnen strangul. . .

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 ...

$100 / ≈ €94
Maker / Publisher: DE BRY, Th.
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1607

 


Der meinste theil in Peru ubten nur ihren mutwillen under dem schein als ob sie Kay. May. gehorsam leisten.

A Spanish gentleman is stabbed in bed by a soldier. In the background other men are killed or murdered. Includes swords, spears, canopy, and knife. The self-appointed gov...

$150 / ≈ €140
Maker / Publisher: DE BRY, Th.
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1607

 


Margraff Pizarrus wird von Didoco Almagro dem jüngern mit hülff seiner Bundgenossen in . . .

Almagro’s son planned to take revenge on Pizarro for his father’s death. In 1541, with the help of Juan de Herrada and other Almagro supporters, they besieged Pizzaro...

$100 / ≈ €94
Maker / Publisher: DE BRY, Th.
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1607

 


Blascus Nunnez Vela Königlicher Statthalter ersticht den Guillanum Xuarez Königlichen Proc. . .

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...

$150 / ≈ €140
Maker / Publisher: DE BRY, Th.
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1607

 


Die Schlacht zwischen Vaca de Castro, und Almagro dem jüngern.

Even before Pizarro’s death, a new royal governor, Vaca de Castro, was on his way to settle the turmoil in Peru. He refused to accept Almagro the younger, when he heard...

$150 / ≈ €140
Maker / Publisher: DE BRY, Th.
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1607

 


Polus Arcticus cum vicinis regionibus.

Map of the North Pole regions from the 1608 second edition of Jodocus Hondius' Atlas Minor.A reduction of the 1606 Mercator-Hondius folio map (which is a later state of t...

$500 / ≈ €468
Maker / Publisher: MERCATOR, G./ HONDIUS, J.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1608
Selling price: $500
Sold in 2012

 


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
Maker / Publisher: MERCATOR, G. / HONDIUS, J.
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
Maker / Publisher: DE BRY, Th.
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1609

 


Tartariae sive Magni Chami Imperium.

This is a very early depiction of the northern Pacific, with the first mapping of Northwest Coast of America and probably the first map to name California 'C. Califormio...

$2500 / ≈ €2339
Maker / Publisher: ORTELIUS, A.
Place & Date: Antwerp, c. 1608-1612

 


Caarte vande nieuwe Passagie bezuijden de Strate Magellan. . . / Description de nouveau passage vers le zud du destroit de Maggellan. . .

Map showing the new route around the bottom of South America discovered by Schouten and Le Maire: through the Le Maire Strait, around the Barnevelt Islands, and past Cape...

$600 / ≈ €561
Maker / Publisher: DE BRY, T.
Place & Date: Frankfurt am Main, 1619

 


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
Maker / Publisher: HERRERA y TORDESILLAS, A. de.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Michel Colin, 1622

 


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

 


Descripcion del destricto del audiencia de la Nueva Galicia. 5.

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...

$300 / ≈ €281
Maker / Publisher: HERRERA y TORDESILLAS, A. de.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Michel Colin, 1622

 


Descripcion de las Yndias Ocidentalis.

Rare early general map of America, the Pacific Ocean and the Eastern part of Asia. Showing "Meridiano de la demarcacion porla parte oscidental" - and "... ...

$1750 / ≈ €1638
Maker / Publisher: HERRERA y TORDESILLAS, A. de.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Michel Colin, 1622

 


Cocos Eijlandt Isle de Cocos.

Scarce print (193x165mm.) on a French 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...

$245 / ≈ €229
Maker / Publisher: HERRERA y TORDESILLAS, A. de
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1622

 


Descripcion Del Destrieto Del Audiencia De Lima. (Peru, and parts of Colombia, and Brazil)

Rare early map of the Audiencia of Lima, locating rivers and settlements, the earliest map to include information from the previously secret manuscript maps of the Spanis...

$475 / ≈ €444
Maker / Publisher: HERRERA y TORDESILLAS, A. de.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Michel Colin, 1622

 


Hispania Nova.

The rare Samuel Purchas' edition of the Mercator/Hondius Atlas Minor atlas map. This was the standard map of the area for a generation. The map shows an area correspondin...

$275 / ≈ €257
Maker / Publisher: HONDIUS, J. / PURCHAS, S.
Place & Date: London, 1625

 


Americae sive Indiae Occidentalis.

Hessel Gerritsz. the author and probable engraver of the map had seen maps of California as an island, but he relies on the more trustworthy accounts, such as Herrera, in...

$1000 / ≈ €936
Maker / Publisher: LAET, DE J. / GERITSZ, H.
Place & Date: Leiden, 1625

 


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
Maker / Publisher: LAET, DE J. / GERITSZ, H.
Place & Date: Leiden, 1625

 


Virginiae item et Floridae. . .

Cummings describes it as one of the most beautifully executed maps ever made of the Southeast. In detail and in general conception it surpasses all earlier maps of the re...

$2500 / ≈ €2339
Maker / Publisher: MERCATOR, G. / HONDIUS, J.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1630

 


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
Maker / Publisher: MERCATOR, G. / CLOPPENBURGH, J.E.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1630

 


Virginiae item et Floridae . . .

Map of Virginia from the rare Cloppenburg edition slightly larger format and more scarce edition of the Mercator/Hondius "Atlas Minor". Engraved by Pieter Van D...

$750 / ≈ €702
Maker / Publisher: MERCATOR, G. / CLOPPENBURGH, J.E.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1630

 


Sudseite des Landts Terza del Fuoco, abgezeichnet durch Iohan von Walbeck.

Map showing Cap Horn and the Terra del Fuego.From a German text edition of Theodor de Bry's travel book. The original copper plate is now shortened at the left side and h...

$550 / ≈ €515
Maker / Publisher: DE BRY, Th.
Place & Date: Frankfurt am Main, 1630

 


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
Maker / Publisher: LAET, DE J. / GERITSZ, H.
Place & Date: Leiden, Elzevier, 1630

 


America sive India Nova.

This map was created by Michael Mercator, grandson of the great Gerard Mercator. It is the only map attributed to him. The map first appeared in 1595, one year after the ...

$3000 / ≈ €2807
Maker / Publisher: MERCATOR, G. / HONDIUS, J.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1630

 


[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
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 / ≈ €94
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 / ≈ €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

 


[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 / ≈ €94
Maker / Publisher: GOTTFRIED, J.L. / DE BRY.
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...

$800 / ≈ €749
Maker / Publisher: HONDIUS, H.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca. 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 / ≈ €94
Maker / Publisher: GOTTFRIED, J.L.
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 / ≈ €94
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 / ≈ €94
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 / ≈ €94
Maker / Publisher: GOTTFRIED, J.L. / DE BRY.
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633

 


De Sota meets the Inca king near Cajamarca.]

When the Spanish arrived in Cajamarca, they found only a few inhabitants. The Inca army was camped in the surrounding hills and the residence of the Inca king, Atahualpa,...

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

 


[How the Inca nobility are buried] / [Bridge of Huaynacapaco]

Two engravings. [470] The funeral of an Inca king was a ceremony of great splendor. After digging a large pit, the Indians would decorate the corpse with gold and silver ...

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

 


[The bloody battle at Chupas] / [Francesco Pizzaro is killed].

Two engravings. [492] Even before Pizarro’s death, a new royal governor, Vaca de Castro, was on his way to settle the turmoil in Peru. He refused to accept Almagro the ...

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

 


[Spanish take over Cusco] / [Atahualpa is garrotted].

Two engravings. [486] After Atahualpa was killed, Pizarro set out with his troops to find the city of Cuzco, which he had heard was rich in gold. The journey from Cajamar...

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

 


[Spilbergen's fleet visits the island of Santa Maria] / [The Dutch visit Isla Mocha].

Two engravings. [514] On 29th May, 1615, Spilbergen’s fleet anchored further north, off an island called Santa María that was separated by a narrow stretch of water (A...

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

 


Praelium Divrnum. [Spanish fleet defeated by the Dutch] / Nocturnum Praelium [Dutch and Spanish at sea off Lima].

Two engravings. [498] On the evening of 17th July, 1615, Spilbergen’s Dutch fleet encountered, off the coast of Peru near Lima, the powerful fleet of the Spanish, under...

$100 / ≈ €94
Maker / Publisher: GOTTFRIED, J.L. / DE BRY.
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633

 


[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...

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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 ...

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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...

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Maker / Publisher: GOTTFRIED, J.L. / DE BRY.
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633