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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
Açores Insulae.
First state. 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...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1584
Selling price: $900
Sold in 2014
Açores Insulae. . .
Three cartouches of exceptional beauty decorate this artistic map. A beautifully engraved chart of the Azores based on Luis Teixeira's cartographic work with two ornate t...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1584
Selling price: $310
Sold in 2015
Tercera Insula
Nice miniature map showing the island and the important port of Angra. The map is beautifully engraved with stippled seas and two sailing ships and two tiny sea monsters.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1588
Selling price: $50
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Descrittione dell'Isola Cuba.
Early map of Cuba, published in Venetia, Appresso gli Heredi di Simon Galignani, 1590.
Place & Date: Venise 1590
Selling price: $225
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[Cuba]
On recto a wood block printed map of Cuba (79x123mm.).From a Latin text edition of his Geographia , that great compendium of Renaissance knowledge.
Place & Date: Basle, 1550-1590
Selling price: $190
Sold in 2013
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, 1592
Selling price: $400
Sold in 2009
Acores Insulae.
Important map of Ortelius of the strategic islands of the Azores, in the 16th century an important hub from the Spanish Americas and the Silver fleet. The observation of ...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1592
Selling price: $420
Sold in 2018
Occidentalis Americae partis..
The most beautifully engraved early map of the Caribbean, including Florida and the Southeast. The map includes representations of Columbus' ships and various notes regar...
Place & Date: Frankfurt 1594
Selling price: $11025
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Occidentalis Americae partis.
The most beautifully engraved early map of the Caribbean, including Florida and the South-east. The map includes representations of Columbus' ships and various notes rega...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1594
Selling price: $7500
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Occidentalis Americae partis..
The most beautifully engraved early map of the Caribbean, including Florida and the Southeast. The map includes representations of Columbus' ships and various notes regar...
Place & Date: Frankfurt 1594
Selling price: $4500
Sold in 2019
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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
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
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1594
Vera effigies et delineatio Insulae, Ascencio nuncupatae (...) Waerachtighe affbeeldinghe en verthooninghe vant Eylant Asçençion (...)
A rare copper engraved bird's eye view by B. VAN DOETECUM of the island of Ascension in the South Atlantic Ocean. Panorama showing the island in three profile views, engr...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1596
Selling price: $375
Sold in 2019
Cuba Insula et Jamaica.
One of only two Caribbean maps in this important work, which was one of the first atlases to provide detailed maps on the individual regions in the New World. The map is ...
Place & Date: Louvain, 1597
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2012
Insula D.Helenae sacra coeli..
A fine perspective view of the Island of St.Helena in the South Atlantic. The location of the Island directly on the navigation route from Europe to the Cape of Good Hope...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1598
Selling price: $1225
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Hispaniola Insula.
Very rare sixteenth century map of the Hispaniola Island and the eastern tip of Cuba.Published in the German edition of José de Acosta's De Natura Nova Orbis, first publ...
Place & Date: Cologne 1598
Selling price: $600
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Cuba Insula et Iamaica.
Very rare sixteenth century map of Cuba, in lower part JamaicaPublished in the German edition of José de Acosta's De Natura Nova Orbis, first published in Salamanca, 158...
Place & Date: Cologne 1598
Selling price: $1400
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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, 1598
Selling price: $750
Sold in 2019
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, 1598
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2020
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 ...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1579-1603
Selling price: $600
Sold in 2016
Cuba Insula.
This lovely miniature map shows the Caribbean Islands of Cuba and Jamaica. Published by Petrus Bertius, in Amsterdam at the beginning of the seventeenth century, this map...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1606
Selling price: $170
Sold in 2020
Descriptio Iucatana.
An attractive miniature map of Mexico, Florida, the very north of South America and the Caribbean, published by Petrus Bertius, in Amsterdam at the beginning of the seven...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1606
Selling price: $95
Sold in 2019
Cuba.
An attractive copper engraved map of Cuba & the Caribbean islands from Mercator's "Atlas Minor", with larger images of Cuba and Hispaniola, and four smaller...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1607
Selling price: $85
Sold in 2017
Aity Sive Spaniola.
General map of Hispaniola. Title cartouche on the upper left corner.First published in 1598 in his Caert-Thresoor, the plates were executed by the most famous engravers i...
Place & Date: Amsterdam/Frankfurt 1609
Selling price: $160
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Hispaniolae, Cubae Alliarumique Insularium
Abraham Ortelius (1527-98), Dutch cartographer and publisher of the first modern atlas, ' Theatrum Orbis Terrarum' in 1570. Editions till 1612. Also an atlas of ancient c...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1609
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2022
S.Giovanni. (Puerto Rico)
One of the earliest obtainable separate maps of Puerto Rico. Also shows the Virgin Islands, with a large St. Croix (Croce). Includes decorative cartouche, four sea monste...
Place & Date: Venice, 1620
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2013
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A Mapp of the Sommer Islands..[Mappa Aestivarum Insularum]..
Title in both English and Latin. English text on verso. The map was beautifully engraved by Abraham Goos in Amsterdam for Speed's Prospect Of The Most Famous Parts Of The...
Place & Date: London 1626
Selling price: $3525
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[Two items] Abbildung Welcher Gestalt die Spanische Silberflota von dem Hollandischen / Das Eylandt Cuba mit Deroselben Gelegenheit
An etching showing Piet Heyn going ashore at Cuba on a sheet with letterpress. Together with a scarce engraving of the Dutch and Spanish fleets in Patanca Bay, Cuba illus...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1627
Selling price: $650
Sold in 2008
VEROVERING VANDE SILVER-VLOOT INDE BAY MATANCA.
Conquest of the treasure fleet in the Bay of Matanzas by a fleet of the WIC commanded by Admiral Piet Heyn, September 8, 1628. Bottom left a map of the island of Cuba. Ro...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1628
Verovering vande Silver-Vloot inde Bay Matanca. Anno 1628.
A scarce and important depiction of the taking of the Spanish silver fleet by the Dutch naval force in Matanzas Bay, Cuba. It includes the portraits of the Dutch commande...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1629
Selling price: $600
Sold in 2015