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Carte Geographique, Statistique et Historique du Perou.
A nice detailed map of Peru from Buchon's Atlas Gégraphique Statistique, historique et chronologique des deux Ameriques et des isles adjacentes traduit de l'atlas exécu...
Date: Paris, 1825
Carte Geographique, Statistique et Historique de Buenos-Ayres.
A nice detailed map of what is today northern Argentina (Rep. of Buenos Ayres or the United Provinces of South America) from Buchon's Atlas Gégraphique Statistique, hist...
Date: Paris, 1825
Carte Geographique, Statistique et Historique du Paraguay.
A nice detailed map of Paraguay from Buchon's Atlas Gégraphique Statistique, historique et chronologique des deux Ameriques et des isles adjacentes traduit de l'atlas ex...
Date: Paris, 1825
Carte Geographique, Statistique et Historique du Bresil.
A nice detailed map of Brazil from Buchon's Atlas Gégraphique Statistique, historique et chronologique des deux Ameriques et des isles adjacentes traduit de l'atlas exé...
Date: Paris, 1825
![[The Dutch covalesce on the Isle Santa Clara.]](/uploads/cache/40359-250x250.jpg)
[The Dutch covalesce on the Isle Santa Clara.]
Fanciful map of the Island of Santa Clara (Isla Do Francez), as seen by the Dutch in 1599, during the exploration of Olivier de Noort, published by Theodore de Bry, one y...
Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
Paraguay o Prov. de Rio de la Plata cum regionibus adiacentibus Tucuman et Sta. Cruz de la Sierra.
Blaeu's map of the Rio de la Plata region of South America. Originally engraved for Jodocus Hondius II, at his death in August 1629 this map was, among 39 other copper pl...
Date: Amsterdam, 1634
Tabula Americae Specialis Geographica Regni Peru, Brasiliae, Terra Firmae & Reg: Amazonum, Secundum relationes de Herrera, de Laet & PP d Acuña & M. Rodriguez . . .
A good and clean copy of Homann's map of the northern part of South America. The map is on the Valley of the Amazon and delineates the Amazon and its labyrinth of tributa...
Date: Nuremberg, 1728
Typus Geographicus Chili Paraguay Freti Magellanici &c.
Detailed map covering the southern part of the continent based on the cartography of Delisle and the information gleaned from the voyages of Brouwer, Narbouroug and Beauc...
Date: Nuremberg, 1750
Paraquariae Provinciae Soc. Iesu cum Adjacentibus Novissima...
Between the years of 1609 and 1780, the Jesuits (the Roman Catholic Society of Jesus) established in South America, an autonomous Christian state, on the lands of present...
Date: Augsburg, 1740
Brasila.
Map of Brazil extending from C. Nasou and Parime Lago to the Mouth of the Rio de la Plata. Oriented with West on top.The cartography of the region is quite primitive. The...
Date: Amsterdam, 1673
Entrée des forêts de la rivière Sedger. . .
Exquisite contemporary colored lithograph of Sedger's river in the Chili, with as seen by Dumont D'Urville's, with Indians. Drawn by Louis Le Breton, lithographed by Bich...
Date: Paris, 1846
Rivage du port Saint-Nicolas.
Exquisite contemporary colored lithograph of Port Saint-Nicolmas Bay in most southern part of South America, with Dumont D'Urville's officers making landfall. Drawn by E....
Date: Paris, 1846
Uomo del Paraguai nell' America Meridionalle. / Homme du Paraguai dans l'Amerique Meridionalle.
Full portrait of a person from Paraguay. From "Raccolta di stampe." a series of historically significant eighteenth-century copper plate engravings by Venetia...
Date: Venice, Antonio Zatta, c.1790
Indiana del Perù. / Indienne du Perou.
Portrait of a Peruvian Indian woman holding a fruit basket and a lama in the background. From "Raccolta di stampe." a series of historically significant eight...
Date: Venice, Antonio Zatta, c.1790
Paraguay, Chili, Terre Magellan ?
Map of Paraguay, Chili, and Argentina . By C. F. Delamarche, successor of Robert de Vaugondy, Geographer.
Date: Paris, 1794 -1806
![Hanc Tabulam continens Laetam Pharnambuci.. . [Brazil].](/uploads/cache/16521-250x250.jpg)
Hanc Tabulam continens Laetam Pharnambuci.. . [Brazil].
An extremely rare and decorative map of coast-line of Pernambuco. With one inset: In the upper left corner a map of Brazil, with title in five lines Dutch and five lines ...
Date: Amsterdam, 1630
![[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 / ≈ €86
Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
Carta geografica della america meridionale.
Uncommon map of South America based upon Guillaume De L'Isle's map. Includes the routes of early explorers in the Pacific, including Magellan, Drake, Le Maire, Mendana, V...
Date: Venice, 1740
Plano de la Hacienda de Juana de Oro.
Wall-map sized map in 2 sheets, if joined 940 x 1300mm., showing the Hacienda (farm) of Juana de Oro in Ecuador. The cocoa farm was owned by Mrs. Leonor Carbo of Higgins ...
Date: Guayaquil ( Equateur), 1868
Carta esférica del Rio de la Plata : desde su embocadura hasta Buenos Aires.
Large nautical chart illustrating the estuary formed by the combination of the Uruguay River and the Paraná River. It forms part of the border between Argentina and Ur...
Date: Madrid, 1812-1838
Antiguedades Peruanas (Atlas).
Atlas illustrated with 60 chromolithographic and tinted lithograph plates including illustrated title page.This atlas volume was produced to accompany a landmark collabor...
Date: Vienna (Austria), 1851
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
L'Amerique Meridionale Dressée sur les Observations . . .
Detailed map of South America prepared by De L'Isle, with fine title cartouche.
Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1745
Amérique Méridionale.
Map of South America.Lovely map from one of the last decorative atlases of the nineteenth century.The rather simple map is framed by horses, Indians, jaguars, tapirs, and...
Date: Paris, A. Combette, 1852
![[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
![[Revenge for Juan de Ayola's death.]](/uploads/cache/40083-250x250.jpg)
[Revenge for Juan de Ayola's death.]
During Ayolas’s travels in Paraguay, he founded the fort at La Candelaria, near Corumba but later, while returning to Asunción, he and his entire party were killed by ...
Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
![[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
![[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
![[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
![[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
![[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
![[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
![[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
L'Amerique selon l'Etendue de Ses Principales Parties et don't les Points Principaux. . .
Uncommon map of South America, decorated with an elaborate cartouche referring to the conversion of the natives to Christianity, with natives bowing to a figure holding a...
Date: Augsburg, ca. 1790
Suite de Perou Audience de Lima.
Uncommon edition of this accurate map showing the southern Peruvian coast, the ranges and villages of numerous Indian tribes are shown.FromAtlas Portatif pour servir a l'...
Date: Amsterdam, 1756
Carte du Cours du Maragnon ou .. Amazones..
Uncommon edition of this map of the river Amazon. In lower right engraved "30."From Atlas Portatif pour servir a l'intelligence de l'Histoire Philosophique et P...
Date: Amsterdam, 1773
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
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
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 / ≈ €776
Date: Amsterdam, 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 / ≈ €302
Date: Amsterdam, ca. 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 / ≈ €689
Date: Amsterdam, ca. 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 / ≈ €517
Date: Amsterdam, 1644
L'amerique meridionale dressee sur les memoires le plus recens. . .
Rare and decorative map of South America with good detail and interesting notations concerning the explorations of the interior. With in the lower right corner a title ca...
- $550 / ≈ €474
Date: Amsterdam, 1757
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 / ≈ €646
Date: Amsterdam, 1647
Carte générale de la République Argentine dressée d'après les données les plus récentes.
An UpToDate map of the Argentinian Republic published in Basel by "le Bureau Officiel d'Information de la République Argentine". Detailed map of Argentina show...
- $350 / ≈ €302
Date: Basel, 1887
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...
- $750 / ≈ €646
Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1633
Republica Argentina.
Unique manuscript map of Argentina. Award-winning manuscript card, prepared by Antonio Raggio for the 11th Congreso de la Union Postal Universal (World Postal Congress) E...
Date: Buenos Aires, 1939
America del Sur Filatelica.
Unique manuscript map of South America. Award-winning manuscript card, prepared by Antonio Raggio for the 11th Congreso de la Union Postal Universal (World Postal Congres...
Date: Buenos Aires, 1939
Carte du Bresil le Perou. . .
Scarce map of Northern part of South America with Venezuela, Colombia, Brazil and Peru, prepared by Nolin and published by L.J. Mondhare for his Atlas Général a l'usage...
- $125 / ≈ €108
Date: Paris, 1781
![[Gauchos near Buenos Aires in Argentina ].](/uploads/cache/27323-250x250.jpg)
[Gauchos near Buenos Aires in Argentina ].
Aquatint depicting some Gauchos cooking and relaxing near Buenos Aires. Engraved by Bonatti.From Giulio Ferrario's work Le Costume Ancien et Moderne ou Histoire du gouv...
- $75 / ≈ €65
Date: Milan, 1827
![[ Market Place at Buenos Aires. ]](/uploads/cache/27330-250x250.jpg)
[ Market Place at Buenos Aires. ]
Aquatint depicting a lifely scene of the Market Place Buenos Aires with its merchants.Engraved by Fumigalli.From Giulio Ferrario's work Le Costume Ancien et Moderne ou Hi...
- $75 / ≈ €65
Date: Milan, 1827
![[ A square at Buenos Aires. ]](/uploads/cache/27329-250x250.jpg)
[ A square at Buenos Aires. ]
Aquatint depicting a suare at Buenos Aires.Engraved by Fumigalli.From Giulio Ferrario's work Le Costume Ancien et Moderne ou Histoire du gouvernement, de la milice, de la...
- $75 / ≈ €65
Date: Milan, 1827
America Meridionalis.
The title cartouche lower left surrounded by native Indians and an Elephant.A rather accurate depiction and descriptions of South America. Brazil is slightly enlarged and...
Date: Augsburg, c. 1760
Carte du Paraguay, du Chili, du Detroit de Magellan &c.
Large handsome map of the southern part of the continent with good interior detail for the period. The route of 18th century explorations are shown along with notations c...
Date: Amsterdam c. 1745
L'Amérique Méridionale, Divisée en ses Principaux Etats.
Map of South America, from Atlas de la Géographie de toutes les parties du monde .. Ouvrage destiné pour l'education, et nécessaire aux négocians, aux voyageurs, aux ...
Date: Paris, Prudhomme, Levrault, Debray, 1806
Uomo del Perù. / Homme du Perou.
Full portrait of a Peruvian warrior. From “Raccolta di … stampe.” a series of historically significant eighteenth-century copper plate engravings by Venetian engrav...
Date: Venice, Antonio Zatta, c.1790
Carte du Bresil Prem. Partie..
Uncommon edition of this accurate map of eastern part of Brazil. In lower right engraved 29a.From Atlas Portatif pour servir a l''''intelligence de l''''Histoire Philosop...
Date: Amsterdam, 1773
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
Amérique Méridionale.
A very decorative 19th century map of the continent colored to show political divisions. The map is surrounded by steel engraved scenes including horses, Indians, mining ...
Date: Paris, c. 1850
(Album Pallière. Escenas Americanas. Reduccion de Cuadros, aquarelles y bosquejos.)
51 (of 52 )beautifully lithographed plates on tinted ground, lithographed by J. Pelvilain after designs by Juan Léon Palliere. One plate missing : santiagueña tejiendo ...
- $10000 / ≈ €8618
Date: Buenos Aires, en venta en la casa de los S.res Fusoni H.nos, ca. 1850
![[The strange sheep-like creatures that carried the silver .]](/uploads/cache/40481-250x250.jpg)
[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 ...
- $80 / ≈ €69
Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
![[How the Indians mined the silver at Pitosi.]](/uploads/cache/40482-250x250.jpg)
[How the Indians mined the silver at Pitosi.]
The mountain shown here is probably the Cerro Rico, which stand above the city of Potosí and has the distinction of being the richest mountain in all the Americas. The I...
- $100 / ≈ €86
Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
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
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 / ≈ €517
Date: Frankfurt am Main, 1619
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 / ≈ €345
Date: Amsterdam, 1658
![[South America].](/uploads/cache/46140-250x250.jpg)
[South America].
Alexey Afinogenovich Ilyin was a lieutenant general and cartographer (1832-1889). In 1856, after graduating from the Academy of the General Staff, he was at the military ...
- $100 / ≈ €86
Date: St. Petersburg, 1899
Cidade do Rio de Janeiro - Remodelação, Extensão e Embelezamento.
Important architectural book prepared by Antonio Prado Junior (1880-1955) under the general direction of Alfredo Agache ( 1875-1959) published by Foyer Brésilien editor,...
- $1100 / ≈ €948
Date: Foyer Brésilien editor, Paris, 1930
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 / ≈ €517
Date: Leiden, 1625
Prvinces des Jésuites dans l'Amerique méridionale.
Rare map of South America from "Atlas Universel indiquant les établissemens des Jésuites: avec la manière dont ils divisent la terre, suivi desévénemens remarqu...
- $200 / ≈ €172
Date: Paris, Ambroise Dupont , 1826
Paraguay o Prov. De Rio De La Plata cum regionibus adiacentibus Tucuman et Sta. Cruz De la Sierra.
An attractive map centered on Paraguay. Title cartouche on the upper right-hand corner, on the ocean a ship and a sea monster are depicted.
- $300 / ≈ €259
Date: Amsterdam, 1708
A general chart of the South Atlantic Ocean Drawn by J.W.Norie hydrographer. Revised & Corrected 1854.
A 2-sheet chart of the South Atlantic Ocean, showing the coast of South America from the mouth of the Amazon to Quito in Peru. The right hand part showing Africa's coast ...
- $600 / ≈ €517
Date: London, 1854
Brasilia.
Very fine decorative map od Brazil with west to the top. From the book "A Collection of Voyages and Travels" by Churchill and the map came from the part contain...
- $550 / ≈ €474
Date: London, Printed for A. and J. Churchill, 1703
Débarquement sur les iles Powell, le 20 février 1838.
Exquisite contemporary colored lithograph of the Powell islands, situated near the South Orkney Islands, with Dumont D'Urville's officers leaving the island. Drawn by Lou...
- $400 / ≈ €345
Date: Paris, 1848
Carte du Bresil Prem.Partie...
Uncommon edition of this accurate map of the eastern part of Brazil.From Atlas Portatif pour servir a l'intelligence de l'Histoire Philosophique et Politique des etabliss...
- $100 / ≈ €86
Date: Amsterdam, 1773
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 / ≈ €862
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 / ≈ €776
Date: Amsterdam, 1644
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 / ≈ €517
Date: Leiden, Elzevier, 1630
![[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
![[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
![[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
