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Nueva Hispania tabula nova.
Uncommon first edition of this early map of New Spain, Florida and Gulf of Mexico. The map is an enlarged version of Giacomo Gastaldi's map published in 1548. Nomenclatur...
Place & Date: Venice, 1561
Selling price: $1000
Sold in 2024
Isola Spagnola Nova.
One of the earliest separately published maps of Hispaniola, from an early edition of Ruscelli's version of Ptolemy's Geography, published in 1561. Ruscelli's map is a la...
Place & Date: Venice, 1562
Selling price: $70
Sold in 2019
Il Cuscho citta principale della provincia del Peru.
A very desirable and scarce item of this decorative and early bid's-eye town-plan of the Inca city of Cuzco. Several figures shown inside the city walls and on the hillsi...
Place & Date: Lyons, 1564
Selling price: $450
Sold in 2012
De Novis Insulis, Quomodo quando . . .
Text page with a map of unspecified islands in the New World (140 x 145 mm). with sea monsters on the recto. From Münster's Cosmographia Universalis.The Cosmographia by ...
Place & Date: Basle, ca. 1564
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2017
De Navigatione Maris.
One Latin text page about navigation, early voyages, and illustrated with a ship (68 x 64 mm), who was lateron used to illustrate Christopher Columbus ship. On verso an i...
Place & Date: Basle, ca. 1564
Selling price: $10
Sold in 2018
La Nuova Francia.
Second state of the woodcut map of the Atlantic coastline from New York to Labrador. Manhattan as the peninsula "Angouleme", named after King Francis I, Duke of...
Place & Date: Venice, 1565
Selling price: $2800
Sold in 2012
La Terra de Hochelaga nella Nova Francia... (MONTREAL).
Large, very rare woodcut depicting the first printed plan of Montreal, from the famous book "Delle navigationi et viaggi", prepared Jacques Cartier, the great F...
Place & Date: Venice, ca 1565
Selling price: $1490
Sold in 2019
Isola Cuba Nova
This important Ruscelli map of Cuba from his work La Geografia di Claudio Tolomeo Alessandrino, is based on Gastaldi’s earlier map of the same region, dated 1548. Altho...
Place & Date: Venice, 1570
Selling price: $375
Sold in 2023
Mexico. & Cusco regni Peru in novo orbe caput.
From part one of the "Civitates", the only view in the entire work to depict cities of the New World. Shown here are the great cities of the Aztec and Inca cult...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1572
Selling price: $1800
Sold
Cusco, Regni Peru in Novo Orbe Caput.
According to George Braun : "The capital of Peru in the south of the New world is Cusco, a city so large, powerful and beautiful that it can easily rank alongside th...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1572
Selling price: $425
Sold in 2014