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![[The ritual of the killing.]](/uploads/cache/40081-250x250.jpg)
[The ritual of the killing.]
On the day of the killing, the rope is untied from the prisoner’s neck, then put round his body and pulled tightly from both ends. A fire burns in front of the prisoner...
Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
![[How Incas wrought their gold.]](/uploads/cache/40080-250x250.jpg)
[How Incas wrought their gold.]
The goldsmiths of Huayna-Capac were master craftsmen who wrought gold into magnificent artefacts with the simplest of tools. They used clay furnaces, heated by coals and ...
Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
![[Indian market at Cartagena.]](/uploads/cache/40078-250x250.jpg)
[Indian market at Cartagena.]
The natives of the province of Cartagena had plenty of fruit, fish, salt and peppers, which they exchanged for other necessities of life. In times of peace, the natives o...
Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
![[Indians attacked near Cartagena.]](/uploads/cache/40076-250x250.jpg)
[Indians attacked near Cartagena.]
When the governor of Cartagena, Alonso de Ojeda, led a party of Spanish soldiers into the interior to search for gold, they were attacked by Indians with such ferocity th...
Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
![[Staden forecasts an Indian attack.]](/uploads/cache/40067-250x250.jpg)
[Staden forecasts an Indian attack.]
Staden told the Indian chief that he could tell the future and, who lived in the nearby village of ‘Arirab’ (probably Cairussú). He predicted an attack from rival In...
Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
![[Rituals for those that were dying.]](/uploads/cache/40066-250x250.jpg)
[Rituals for those that were dying.]
When one of the villagers was dying, the others would not feed or care for him but sing and danced as usual. Once he was dead though, the women would start lamenting by h...
Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
![[A Typical Tupi Feast.]](/uploads/cache/40065-250x250.jpg)
[A Typical Tupi Feast.]
Once a year the Indians from all the surrounding villages would get together for a feast. With decorative head-dresses, cloaks and belts of colored feathers, three or fou...
Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
![[Moose].](/uploads/cache/40180-250x250.jpg)
[Moose].
Scarce print (150x177mm.) of a Moose on a German text sheet taken from a first edition of Johann Ludwig Gottfried's "Newe Welt Vnd Americanische Historien/ Jnhaltend...
Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
![[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...
Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
![[American history plate].](/uploads/cache/40176-250x250.jpg)
[American history plate].
Scarce print (150x177mm.) on a German text sheet taken from a first edition of Johann Ludwig Gottfried's "Newe Welt Vnd Americanische Historien/ Jnhaltende Warhaffti...
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 / ≈ €69
Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
![[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 / ≈ €69
Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
![[Black slaves escape punishment].](/uploads/cache/39920-250x250.jpg)
[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 / ≈ €69
Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
![[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 / ≈ €108
Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
![[French seizure of Chiorera.]](/uploads/cache/39911-250x250.jpg)
[French seizure of Chiorera.]
Scarce print with a German text sheet showing the French torching and looting Chiorera. From de Bry's "Great American Voyages". Johann Theodor de Bry (1561-1623...
- $80 / ≈ €69
Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
![[Cavendish reaches Morro Moreno.]](/uploads/cache/39910-250x250.jpg)
[Cavendish reaches Morro Moreno.]
Scarce print with a German text sheet showing Cavendish’s fleet anchor at a place called Morro Moreno, on the coast of Chile. The Indians came down from the high cliffs...
- $80 / ≈ €69
Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
![[Isle la Moche].](/uploads/cache/39909-250x250.jpg)
[Isle la Moche].
Scarce print with a German text sheet showing the Dutch fleet anchored off the Island of Mocha, near Concepción in Chile. The islanders sat on wooden stumps and watched ...
- $100 / ≈ €87
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 / ≈ €87
Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
![[Dutch attack the fortress of Praia.]](/uploads/cache/39901-250x250.jpg)
[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 / ≈ €69
Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
![[English attack Praia.]](/uploads/cache/39900-250x250.jpg)
[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 / ≈ €130
Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
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 / ≈ €865
Date: Amsterdam, 1635
Guiana sive Amazonum Regio.
Willem Blaeu’s decorative map of the Guianas, Lake Parima (Parime Lacus), and the route to El Dorado was initially issued in 1630 (with some variants were published wel...
- $400 / ≈ €346
Date: Amsterdam, 1638
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 / ≈ €1558
Date: Amsterdam, 1638
Carte de l'Amérique, corrigée et augmentée…1640.
State 2. Re-edition of the map by Bertius of 1624, the name of Bertius removed and dated 1640. Inset maps of the Arctic and Antarctic. The map is based on the Jodocus Hon...
Date: Amsterdam, 1640
Venezuela cum parte Australi novae Andalusiae.
RARE. A finely engraved, decorative map with no text on the verso. The islands Trinidad, Margarita, Aruba and Curaçao are shown as well.
Date: Amsterdam, c. 1640
Terra Firma et Novum regnum Granatense et Propayan.
Fine copy, with wide margins of this handsome map of the Isthmus of Panama and northwestern South America including most of present day Columbia and part of Venezuela. Te...
- $400 / ≈ €346
Date: Amsterdam, 1640
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 / ≈ €1471
Date: Amsterdam, 1640
Virginiae Partis Australis, et Floridae Partis Orientalis.
Blaeu based this map on the Mercator-Hondius of 1606. A number of geographical improvements, however were incorporated, although two large fictions lakes accompanied by e...
- $1400 / ≈ €1212
Date: Amsterdam, 1640
Guiana sive Amazonum Regio.
Nice map extending from the Isla Margarita in the northwest to the coast of northern Brazil near Sao Luis east of the Amazon delta. The map locates at its center a large ...
- $500 / ≈ €433
Date: Amsterdam, 1640
Nova Virginiae Tabula.
The map is based on the first state of Smith's map, 1612, and is slightly larger and more expertly engraved. In 1629 the Hondius plate was purchased by Blaeu who deleted ...
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 / ≈ €2164
Date: Amsterdam, 1644
Americae Nova Tabula.
An inset shows Greenland and Iceland. Decorative elements include ships, sea monsters, and vignettes of native Americans within South America. In addition, the map is bor...
- $6500 / ≈ €5625
Date: Amsterdam, 1644
Peru.
FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE OF THIS MAP. Decorated with ships and monsters in the sea. Orientated with east at the top. With the signature of G. Blaeuw lower right corner....
- $900 / ≈ €779
Date: Amsterdam, 1644
Chili.
Willem Blaeu's very decorative map of Chili with two large and beautiful cartouches, a compass and ships. From early on Willem Jansz. Blaeu aimed of publishing an atlas ...
- $900 / ≈ €779
Date: Amsterdam, 1644
Tabula Magellanica.
A map with Willem Blaeu's signature, but published by his son Joan, of South America's extremity. A dedication to Constantijn Huygens. From early on Willem Jansz. Blaeu ...
- $1000 / ≈ €865
Date: Amsterdam, 1644
Paraguayo prov. de Rio de La Plata cum regionibus..
A beautiful map of Paraguay, and parts of Peru, Chile, Argentina, Brazil and Bolivia. Much of the area was still "Terra Incognita" so there are few towns and ci...
- $600 / ≈ €519
Date: Amsterdam, 1644
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...
- $800 / ≈ €692
Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1644
Terra Firma et Novum regnum Granatense et Propayan.
Handsome map of the Isthmus of Panama and north-western South America, including most of present day Columbia and part of Venezuela.Terra Firma is Panama, Veragua is Cost...
- $350 / ≈ €303
Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1644
Virginiae Partis Australis, et Floridae Partis Orientalis.
Blaeu based this map on the Mercator-Hondius of 1606. A number of geographical improvements, however were incorporated, although two large fictions lakes accompanied by e...
- $1500 / ≈ €1298
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 / ≈ €1731
Date: Amsterdam, 1644
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 ...
Date: Amsterdam, 1645
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...
Date: Amsterdam, 1645
Guiana sive Amazonum Regio.
Copper engraving, hand colored in outline when published. A highly decorative map showing Guiana extending westwards to Trinidad and Margarita Island, dominated by a huge...
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 / ≈ €1731
Date: Amsterdam, 1645
Brasilia.
Fine copy of this map by Krystof Arciszewski, a Polish general who worked for the Dutch West Indian Company. The map perpetuates various myths including the Parime Lago ,...
Date: Amsterdam, 1647
Brasilia.
Striking old color example of Blaeu's second map of Brazil prepared by Krystof Arciszewski, a Polish general who worked for the Dutch West Indian Company. The map perpetu...
- $750 / ≈ €649
Date: Amsterdam, 1647
Amerique Meridionale. Par N.Sanson d'Abbeville. . .
The first edition of a cornerstone South America map, the first to show the boundaries of many countries, regions, and provinces. Peru is shown governing a huge tract of ...
- $500 / ≈ €433
Date: Paris, after 1650
Carte de L'AMERIQUE Corrigeé et argumenteé….
Separately published map published in 1658 but based on Petrus Bertius map of 1624., this on its turn taken from Jodocus Hondius map of 1618. On the sides he lists the pr...
Date: Paris, 1658
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 / ≈ €1298
Date: Amsterdam, 1658
Peru.
Decorated with ships and monsters on the sea. Orientated with east at the top. Shows the Pacific coast of South America from Ecuador (at the left-hand side) as far south ...
- $400 / ≈ €346
Date: Amsterdam, 1658
Brasilia.
A mint example of this map is by Krystof Arciszewski, a Polish general who worked for the Dutch West Indian Company. The map perpetuates various myths including the Parim...
- $1250 / ≈ €1082
Date: Amsterdam, 1658
Guiana sive Amazonum Regio.
A very decorative map of Suriname which extends from the Isla Margarita in the northwest to the coast of northern Brazil near Sao Luis east of the Amazon delta. The map l...
- $450 / ≈ €389
Date: Amsterdam, 1658
Virginiae Partis Australis, et Floridae Partis Orientalis.
Blaeu based this map on the Mercator-Hondius of 1606. A number of geographical improvements, however were incorporated, although two large fictions lakes accompanied by e...
Date: Amsterdam, 1658
Amerique Meridionale. . . 1650.
First edition. A fine large map of South America, engraved by A.Peyrounin. The relatively unknown Amazon region is left without speculation. However, Sanson includes the ...
- $450 / ≈ €389
Date: Paris, 1650-1659
Paraquaria vulgo Paraguay cum adjacentibus.
Rare map only included in Joan Blaeu's Atlas major. Detailed map of Uruguay, Paraguay, Northern part of Argentina and northern part of Chili. Engraved by Gerard Coeck. Tw...
- $800 / ≈ €692
Date: Amsterdam, 1660
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 / ≈ €865
Date: Amsterdam, 1660
Nova Virginiae tabula.
A fine example of Blaeu's map of Virginia and the Chesapeake region is based on the first state of Smith's map, 1612, and is slightly larger and more expertly engraved.Th...
Date: Amsterdam, 1635/1660
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 ...
Date: Amsterdam, 1662
![Noweav Mexiqve [California as an Island]](/uploads/cache/03796-250x250.jpg)
Noweav Mexiqve [California as an Island]
Uncommon miniature map of California as a island, from Pierre Duval's La Geographie Universeille in a second state. The map is derived from Audience de Guadalajara (1657)...
Date: Paris, 1663
Sinus Omnium Sanctoru. Bahia de Todos os Sanctos.
RARE. First Atlas Major issue: originally issued by Blaeu in Casper van Baarle's 'Rerum per Octennium in Brasilia' (1647) dedicated to the former Governor of the Dutch co...
Date: Amsterdam, 1664
Nova Totius Americae descriptio.
First state of de Wit's first map of America, with figured borders on three sides. North America has a good overall outline, with a completed Hudson Bay and Baffin Island...
Date: Amsterdam, 1665
.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...
Date: Amsterdam, 1666
Nouvelle description de lamerique.
Jollain published this rare map of America in 1667. State 3, with the scale, erased, as it fictitious strait on the west coast of North America which Le Royaume de Quiuer...
- $450 / ≈ €389
Date: Paris, 1667
Americque Septentrionale. . .
A general map of North America shows California as an island, but with few names and a flat northern coastline. Prepared by N. Sanson and engraved by A.Peyrounin. A firs...
- $1000 / ≈ €865
Date: Paris, P. Marriete, 1667
Portus Acapulco.
Attractive view of the city and harbor of Acapulco, showing fortifications, outlying buildings, ships in the harbor, costumed locals, etc.This map is taken from Ogilby's ...
- $300 / ≈ €260
Date: London, 1671
Serinhaim.
Fine view of a fort in Serinhaim, Brazil, with numbered key at the base. A procession of Portuguese or Dutch soldiers advance along the road carrying a litter. To the lef...
Date: London, 1671
Magellani Que.
Uncommon miniature map of Argentina and Strait of Magellan from Pierre Duval's La Geographie Universeille dated 1676. Following his Cartes de geographie in 1657, Pierre D...
Date: Paris, 1676
Les Isles Terceres. . .
Uncommon map of the Azores. Engraved by Sommer. Du Val is mentioned as the cartographer and the publisher was Pierre Mariette.
Date: Paris, c. 1650 - 1676
Novissima et Accuratissima Totius Americae descriptio..
Third state of one of the classic Dutch maps of the Americas and one of the most often copied.Lower right hand corner F. de Wit excudit. Longitudinal lines numbered to th...
Date: Amsterdam, [1678
L'Amerique, en plusieurs cartes nouvelles, et exactes, &c. En divers traitez de geographie, et d'histoire. Là où sont descrits succinctement, & avec une belle Methode, & facile.
Third edition, the text and maps of which are identical to the first given in 1657. However, the dedication to Nicolas Fouquet (2 pp.), disgraced in 1661, has been delete...
- $4500 / ≈ €3895
Date: Paris, 1680
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...
Date: Amsterdam, 1680
Pascaerte van Carybes, Nieu Neder landt, Brazil. . .
This progenitor chart covers the American shores of the Atlantic Ocean. This chart by Theunis Jacobsz. was most probably engraved close to his death in 1650 or shortly af...
- $2200 / ≈ €1904
Date: Amsterdam, 1653-1681
P.les du Chile.
A charming copper engraving depicting a town surrounded by a luxuriant landscape on the background and a couple of indigenous on the foreground.From the French text editi...
- $60 / ≈ €52
Date: Paris, 1683
Mexique ou Nouvelle Espagne.
Attractive copper engraving, depicting Mexico with Central America.From the French text edition of Description d'Univers, 1683. by Allain Manneson Mallet (1630-1706), a w...
Date: Paris, 1683
Hurons.
Attractive copper engraving, depicting Huron Indians or Wynadot / Wendat people hunting and gathering .From the French text edition of Description d'Univers, 1683. by All...
- $75 / ≈ €65
Date: Paris, 1683
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...
Date: Amsterdam, 1684
L'America Meridionale . . .
The second edition of Rossi's map of South America, based upon Sanson's map, but with revised Italian nomenclature. From his 'Mercurio Geografico...'. The engraver was G...
Date: Rome, 1687
Amerique Septentrionalis..
This handsome map shows California as an island, open-ended Great Lakes, and other details based mainly on Sanson. A large decorative cartouche occupies the area of the n...
Date: Paris, after1694
Nova Virginiae Tabula
Uncommon state of one of the most important maps of the Chesapeake Bay region, credited with disseminating knowledge of the English settlement in Virginia throughout Euro...
Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1694
Two polar calottes from a globe.
Two polar calottes from 110 centimeters in diameter globe of 1688 including the northern part of Baffin Bay, Greenland, Iceland, Nova Zembla. Coronelli elected to follow ...
Date: Venice, 1696