![[Aztec priests do penance.]](/uploads/cache/40072-250x250.jpg)
[Aztec priests do penance.]
On certain days, the holy men of Mexico would gather around their god, Vitzliputzli. While playing shawms and sprinkling incense on their idol, their leader would pierce ...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
Selling price: $100
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![[The origin of Mexico City.]](/uploads/cache/40073-250x250.jpg)
[The origin of Mexico City.]
The Mexican god, Vitzliputzli, said the Indians would find their promised land when they found the ‘Tunal Tree’ (Prickly Pear) which grows out of a stone near a river...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
Selling price: $100
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![[Montezuma's brother prefers death than disloyalty.]](/uploads/cache/40074-250x250.jpg)
[Montezuma's brother prefers death than disloyalty.]
During Montezuma’s reign, many Mexicans were captured after a fierce battle with the Chalco Indians. When the Calco found out that one of their prisoners was the brothe...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
Selling price: $80
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![[Fate of certain prisoners]](/uploads/cache/39912-250x250.jpg)
[Fate of certain prisoners]
A certain person was selected and held in a prison at night-time. During the day, he dined with the nobility and was accompanied by guards. He could go wherever he wanted...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
Selling price: $50
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![[Alvarado dies at Guadalajara]](/uploads/cache/40470-250x250.jpg)
[Alvarado dies at Guadalajara]
The Chichimecs Indians had been terrorising the Spanish at Guadalajara for some time, so, while Alvarado was on his way north to search for the Seven Cities of Cíbola, h...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
Selling price: $50
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![[How the Aztecs treat their dead.]](/uploads/cache/40471-250x250.jpg)
[How the Aztecs treat their dead.]
When an Aztec of distinction died, his corpse was laid out in a chamber so that his friends, followers and relations could go to pay their respects. Sometimes they would ...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
Selling price: $50
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![[Alvarado's greed in Mexico City] / [Spanish are attacked by Indians in Costa Rica].](/uploads/cache/41099-250x250.jpg)
[Alvarado's greed in Mexico City] / [Spanish are attacked by Indians in Costa Rica].
Two engravings [084] Cortés and his men marched into, and occupied Mexico City in 1520. Some time later Cortés was needed elsewhere, so he left Alvarado in charge. Whil...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
Selling price: $75
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Nova Hispania et Nova Galicia.
FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE OF THIS MAP. Fine map of New Spain and New Galicia shows the city of Mexico situated by a large lake, as well as the location of many silver an...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1634
Selling price: $300
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Nova Hispania et Nova Galicia.
Based on Ortelius' map of 1579 which became the basis for many of the seventeenth century maps of the area. A splendid and colored title cartouche with two allegorical fi...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1635
Selling price: $350
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![[Lot of 7 maps and gravure] Nova Hispania et Nova Galicia. [with map of Guatamala]](/uploads/cache/IMG_2235-250x250.jpg)
[Lot of 7 maps and gravure] Nova Hispania et Nova Galicia. [with map of Guatamala]
Willem Blaeu’s beautiful map of Mexico is decorated with a very large title-cartouche with the coat-of-arms of the king of Spain, another cartouche and two ships and a ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca 1636
Selling price: $240
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Nova Hispania et Nova Galicia.
Map of New Spain and New Galicia shows the city of Mexico situated by a large lake, as well as the location of many silver and gold mines. The map's elaborate cartouche i...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1638
Selling price: $750
Sold in 2010
Nova Hispania et Nova Galicia.
Map of New Spain and New Galicia shows the city of Mexico situated by a large lake, as well as the location of many silver and gold mines. The map's elaborate cartouche i...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1640
Selling price: $375
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Nova Hispania et Nova Galicia.
Based on Ortelius's map of 1579 which became the basis for many of the seventeenth century maps of the area. Despite the implications in the title, the map does not cover...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1647
Selling price: $600
Sold in 2011
Nova Hispania et Nova Galicia.
Map of old Mexico based on Ortelius's map of 1579 which became the basis for many of the seventeenth century maps of the area. A lovely copy of this decorative map.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1647
Selling price: $300
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Nova Hispania et Nova Galicia.
Based on Ortelius's map of 1579 which became the basis for many of the seventeenth century maps of the area. A lovely copy of this decorative map.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1647
Selling price: $175
Sold in 2018
![[Untitled Map of Mexico City].](/uploads/cache/26432-250x250.jpg)
[Untitled Map of Mexico City].
Map of the city of Mexico. Taken from Archontologia Cosmica... Primo opera & studio Jo. Ludovici Gotofredi, ex gallico per nobiliss. D.T.V.Y.... nunc continuati a G.C...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1649
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2008
![Mexico, Regia et Celebris Hispaniae Novae Civitas ... [on sheet with] Cusco, Regni Peru in Novo Orbe Caput](/uploads/cache/91340-250x250.jpg)
Mexico, Regia et Celebris Hispaniae Novae Civitas ... [on sheet with] Cusco, Regni Peru in Novo Orbe Caput
Janssonius rare town-plan of Mexico and Cusco. After Braun & Hogenberg. Latin text on verso. From "Theatrum Urbium Celebriorum totius Belgii sive Germaniae Infer...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1657
Selling price: $1000
Sold in 2010
Nova Hispania et Nova Galicia.
Based on Ortelius's map of 1579 which became the basis for many of the seventeenth century maps of the area. Despite the implications in the title, the map does not cover...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1658
Selling price: $600
Sold in 2013
Nova Hispania et Nova Galicia.
From the first edition of the last part of the Latin "Atlas maior" dedicated to America, and based on Ortelius's map of 1579 which became the basis for many of ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1662
Selling price: $700
Sold in 2010
Audience de Mexico . . .
Map of Mexico prepared by N.Sanson and published by Pierre Mariette.Published in an early edition of the small Sanson atlas L'Europe Dediée a Monseigneur . . . Le Tellie...
Place & Date: Paris, P. Mariette, 1667
Selling price: $380
Sold in 2010
Portus Acapulco.
Arnoldus Montanus, writer of ' De Nieuwe en Onbekende Weereld: of Beschryving van America?, published by Jacob van Meurs.A beautiful, finely etched view of Acapulco.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1671
Selling price: $170
Sold in 2009
St. Francisco de Campeche.
Large view of St. Francisco de Campeche in the Yucatan with numerous warships fighting in the foreground and firing on the fort. Title ribbon in the sky.This print is tak...
Place & Date: London, 1671
Selling price: $220
Sold in 2009
Nova Hispania Nova Galicia Guatimala
A fine map based on the cartography of Hessel Gerritsz. The map includes Mexico through Costa Rica with nice detail.Large pictorial cartouche depicting Native Americans l...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1671
Selling price: $400
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Nova Mexico.
This sweeping panorama of a walled Mexico City was the first published view to identify Tenochtitlan as Mexico City. This is one of the most important views of the great ...
Place & Date: London, ca 1671
Selling price: $210
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St. Francisco de Campeche.
A delightful view of St. Francesco de Campeche in which a Dutch ship is firing and sinking a ship close by. Other, small craft are seen nearby. In the background a heavil...
Place & Date: London, ca 1671
Selling price: $90
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Nova Hispania Nova Galicia Guatimala
A fine map based on the cartography of Hessel Gerritsz. The map includes Mexico through Costa Rica with nice detail.Large pictorial cartouche depicting Native Americans l...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1673
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2013
Mexique ou le Nll. Espagne.
Uncommon miniature map of Mexico, central America and the Gulf of Mexico. From Pierre Duval\'s La Geographie Universeille dated 1676. Following his Cartes de geographie i...
Place & Date: Paris, 1676
Selling price: $100
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Mexico sive N. Hispania.
Miniature map of Mexico and Central America including Cuba. Pierre Duval was Nicolas Sanson's nephew and pupil. He published a wide range of atlases and individual maps i...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 1679
Selling price: $100
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Mexique ou Nouvelle Espagne.
A charming late 17th century French map of North America, showing California to 30 degrees North and labelled I. Calfornie.
Place & Date: Paris 1683
Selling price: $95
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Mexique.
Charming bird's-eye view of a Mexico City, with title garland on top.From the French text edition of Description d'Univers, 1683. by Allain Manneson Mallet (1630-1706), a...
Place & Date: Paris 1683
Selling price: $50
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Mexique.
Attractive copper engraving, depicting a bird's-eye view of Mexico City.From the French text edition of Description d'Univers, 1683. by Allain Manneson Mallet (1630-1706)...
Place & Date: Paris, 1683
Selling price: $45
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Mexique ou Nouvelle Espagne.
Attractive copper engraving, depicting Mexico with Central America.
Place & Date: Paris, 1683
Selling price: $65
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Mexique.
Attractive copper engraving, depicting a bird's-eye view of Mexico City.From the French text edition of Description d'Univers, 1683. by Allain Manneson Mallet (1630-1706)...
Place & Date: Paris, 1683
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2016
Mexique ou Nouvelle Espagne.
A charming map of Mexico with in bottom part a sea battle in the Pacific and an Indian battle in the region labeled Louisiane. The map covers the southern part of the pre...
Place & Date: Paris, 1683
Selling price: $50
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Mexique.
A charming bird's-ey view of Mexico City with soldars in the foreground. Title in curtain draped at top. French text on verso.From the original 1683 text edition of "...
Place & Date: Paris, 1683
Selling price: $75
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Vitziliputzili ou Viztlipuztli
A charming print of a statue of view of Vitzliputzli, the Aztec God of war, sun & human sacrifice. From the original 1683 text edition of "Description d'Univers....
Place & Date: Paris, 1683
Selling price: $30
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![Mexique. [die Stadt Mexica]](/uploads/cache/42156-250x250.jpg)
Mexique. [die Stadt Mexica]
An attractive copper engraving, depicting a bird's-eye view of Mexico City.From the German text edition of Description d'Univers, published in 1684 by Allain Manneson Mal...
Place & Date: Paris, 1684
Selling price: $45
Sold in 2018
![[Globe gore, part of Baja California Sur and Mexico.]](/uploads/cache/45452-250x250.jpg)
[Globe gore, part of Baja California Sur and Mexico.]
Gore segment from his 110 centimeters in diameter globe of 1688 with southern tip of Baja California Sur . Some of the half-gores were reprinted in the 1696-97 edition of...
Place & Date: Venise, 1688
Selling price: $200
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Parte della Nuova Spagna, o del Mexico dove sono le Provincie di Guadalaira Xalisco Mecoacan e Mexico..
A beautiful map depicting western Mexico covering the area along the Pacific Coast from Xiamora to Acapulco, with a vivid portrayal of the volcano of Popocatepec. With im...
Place & Date: Venice 1690
Selling price: $350
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Audience de Mexico.
From a pocket atlas called: Description de tout l'Univers, published by F.Halma. Engraved by A. de Winter."
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1700
Selling price: $300
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