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Discovery of America.
The discovery of America by Christopher Columbus from the Cosmographia by Sebastian Münster (ca 1544), on a full leaf. A second full leaf is added with the description o...
Place & Date: Basel, 1544
Selling price: $120
Sold in 2020
Insula Cuba Nova.
One of the earliest separately published maps of Cuba, with the Yslas de Lagartos (Cayman Islands). The map includes early appearances of Iamayea (Jamaica), Isola Espanol...
Place & Date: Venice, 1548
Selling price: $900
Sold in 2021
Isola Cuba Nova.
Scarce FIRST edition of this map depicting the island of Cuba - one of the earliest separately published maps of Cuba. Also includes Jamaica and northwestern Hispaniola a...
Place & Date: Venice, 1561
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2020
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
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
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
ISOLA CUBA NOVA.
One of the earliest separately published maps of Cuba. Also includes Jamaica and northwestern Hispaniola and the Cayman Islands. The map is elegantly designed and engrave...
Place & Date: Venice, 1574
Selling price: $1400
Sold in 2021
Açores Insulae.
The importance of the Azores at that time was connected with the observation of Columbus that compass variation (i.e. the difference between the real and the magnetic nor...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1580
Selling price: $1000
Sold in 2015
Liber V. De Novis insulis quomodo, quando & per quem illae inuentae sint.
Map of unspecified islands in the New World, printed area 105 x 160mm, set in a large page of text. From an Latin text edition of the Cosmography. One of the earliest obt...
Place & Date: Basle, c. 1580
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2009