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Tierra Nova
Gastaldi's map of South America from Giacomo Gastaldi's Atlas of 1548 which has been called the most comprehensive atlas, produced between Martin Waldseemüller's Geograp...
Place & Date: Venice, 1548
Selling price: $700
Sold in 2022
Der Statt Cusco / so die fuernembste im Land Peru / Il Cuscho Citta Principale della Provincia del Peru.
An early woodcut view of Cusco (Cuzco) in Peru by Sebastian Munster on a full double sheet. One of the earliest views of a city in the 'New World'. Verso an early woodcut...
Place & Date: Basel, H.Petri, ca. 1550
Selling price: $145
Sold in 2019
Il Cuscho citta principale della provincia del Peru.
A very desirable item of this decorative and early bid's-eye view of the Inca city of Cuzco, based on Antoine du Pinet's depiction of the city. Several figures shown insi...
Place & Date: Basle 1555
Selling price: $130
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Il Cuscho citta principale della provincia del Peru.
A very desirable item of this decorative and early bid's-eye view of the Inca city of Cuzco, based on Braun & Hogenberg's depiction of the city. Several figures shown...
Place & Date: Basle, 1555
Selling price: $160
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Brasil.
A fantastic pictorial map of Brazil, shown north to the right. This graphic woodblock map, prepared by the great Venetian cartographer Giacomo Gastaldi and is filled with...
Place & Date: Venice about 1556
Selling price: $650
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Brasil.
A fantastic pictorial map of Brazil, shown north to the right. This graphic woodblock map, prepared by the great Venetian cartographer Giacomo Gastaldi and is filled with...
Place & Date: Venice ca. 1556
Selling price: $1000
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Brasil nuova tavola.
Uncommon first edition of this early map of Brazil. West to the top.Girolamo Ruscelli's edition of Ptolemy's Geographia included newly engraved copperplates by Giulio and...
Place & Date: Venice, 1561
Selling price: $350
Sold in 2020
Tierra Nova.
Uncommon first edition of this early map of South America.Girolamo Ruscelli\'s edition of Ptolemy\'s Geographia included newly engraved copperplates by Giulio and Livio S...
Place & Date: Venice, 1561
Selling price: $650
Sold in 2009
Tierra Nova.
Scarce FIRST edition of this map depicting South America, extending from Labrador to Jamaica. The map is based upon a map published by Giacomo Gastaldi in 1548. One of th...
Place & Date: Venice, 1561
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2017
Tierra Nova.
Scarce FIRST edition of this map depicting South America, extending from Labrador to Jamaica. The map is based upon a map published by Giacomo Gastaldi in 1548. One of th...
Place & Date: Venice, Vincenzo Valgrisi, 1561
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2018
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
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
Americae Pervvi aqve ita vt postremvm detecta traditvr recens delineatio.
Map of Central and South America from the extremely rare first edition.. This map shows South America, part of Mexico, Caribbean and the southern tip of Florida. In lower...
Place & Date: Antwerp 1578
Selling price: $11625
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Brevis exactaq totius novi orbis eiusq insularum descriptio recens edita
Woodcut map of the Americas, which was published in three states. The first in Antwerp by Iuan Steelsio in 1554 in “La Historia General de las Indias”, written by the...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1566, 1567 or 1583
Selling price: $4100
Sold in 2023
Principale della provincia citta del peru il cuscho.
On recto an early birds-eye view of Cusco. On verso tittle page and a plan of Mexico City "Urbs themistiana hispaniae" (165x162mm.)From a German text edition of...
Place & Date: Basle, 1550-1590
Selling price: $90
Sold in 2014
Americae Pars Magis Cognita. Chorographia nobilis & opulentae Peruanae Provinciae, atque Brasiliae, . . . MDXCII
Although a map of South America it does include much of what is now the southern United States. There are two elaborate, strap-work cartouches with the one at lower right...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1592
Selling price: $1350
Sold in 2014
![[South America] Delineatio omnium orarum totius Australis partis Americae..](/uploads/cache/16740-250x250.jpg)
[South America] Delineatio omnium orarum totius Australis partis Americae..
A particularly decorative example of Dutch cartography boasting two intricate strapwork cartouches. Exotic animals and bellicose indians populate the continent, while in ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1593
Selling price: $4000
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Brasilia et Peruvia.
A rare map of south America and the Caribbean with sea monsters and five sailing ships decorating the sea and small vignettes of natives, some with bow and arrow, others ...
Place & Date: Antwerp 1593
Selling price: $5275
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![[South America] Delineatio omnium orarum totius Australis partis Americae..](/uploads/cache/21304-250x250.jpg)
[South America] Delineatio omnium orarum totius Australis partis Americae..
A particularly decorative example of Dutch cartography boasting two intricate strapwork cartouches. Exotic animals and bellicose indians populate the continent, while in ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1593
Selling price: $4400
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![[South America] Delineatio omnium orarum totius Australis partis Americae. . .](/uploads/cache/34876-250x250.jpg)
[South America] Delineatio omnium orarum totius Australis partis Americae. . .
A particularly decorative example of Dutch cartography boasting two intricate strapwork cartouches. Exotic animals and bellicose Indians populate the continent, while in ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1593
Selling price: $5100
Sold in 2014
![[South America] Delineatio omnium orarum totius Australis partis Americae. . .](/uploads/cache/35162-250x250.jpg)
[South America] Delineatio omnium orarum totius Australis partis Americae. . .
A particularly decorative example of Dutch cartography boasting two intricate strapwork cartouches. Exotic animals and bellicose Indians populate the continent, while in ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, after 1593
Selling price: $5500
Sold in 2017
![[South America] Delineatio omnium orarum totius Australis partis Americae. . .](/uploads/cache/94145-250x250.jpg)
[South America] Delineatio omnium orarum totius Australis partis Americae. . .
A particularly decorative example of Dutch cartography boasting two intricate strapwork cartouches. Exotic animals and bellicose Indians populate the continent, while in ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, after 1593
Selling price: $2600
Sold in 2015
![[South America] Delineatio omnium orarum totius Australis partis Americae. . .](/uploads/cache/41496-250x250.jpg)
[South America] Delineatio omnium orarum totius Australis partis Americae. . .
A particularly decorative example of Dutch cartography boasting two intricate strapwork cartouches. Exotic animals and bellicose Indians populate the continent, while in ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, after 1593
Selling price: $4900
Sold in 2019
Brasilia et Peruvia.
VERY RARE. THE EARLIEST DUTCH MAP OF SOUTH AMERICA. A nice example of De Jode's important map of South America, based largely upon Petrus Plancius' wall map of the World....
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1593
Selling price: $8000
Sold in 2020
Cusco
Miniature town view of the City of Cuzco, Peru, with figures in the foreground Valegio signature at the lower edge of the plate. It was published as part of a series of b...
Place & Date: Venice, 1595
Selling price: $180
Sold in 2016
Brasilia
A map of Brazil from "Descriptionis Ptolemaicae Augmentum, sive Occidentis Notitia" published in 1597. First edition, paper size 30 x 37 cm, map size: 28.4 cm x...
Place & Date: 1597
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2016
Chili Provincia Amplissima.
Very rare sixteenth century map of Chili.Published in the German edition of José de Acosta's De Natura Nova Orbis, first published in Salamanca, 1588. Acosta was a Spani...
Place & Date: Cologne 1598
Selling price: $300
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Peruani Regni Discriptio.
Very rare sixteenth century map of Peru.Published in the German edition of José de Acosta's De Natura Nova Orbis, first published in Salamanca, 1588. Acosta was a Spanis...
Place & Date: Cologne 1598
Selling price: $375
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Plata Americae Provincia.
Very rare sixteenth century map showing part of Peru and the territory known as Paraguay including La Plata River and south part of Brazil, with effluents of Panama river...
Place & Date: Cologne 1598
Selling price: $335
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Residuum Continentis cum Adiacentibus Insulis.
Very rare sixteenth century map of Venezuela, including the islands of Curaçao, Bonaire, Aruba and the islands in the Caribbean and Puerto Rico.Published in the German e...
Place & Date: Cologne 1598
Selling price: $950
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Castilia Aurifera cum vicinis Provinciis.
Very rare sixteenth century map of Colombia.Published in the German edition of José de Acosta's De Natura Nova Orbis, first published in Salamanca, 1588. Acosta was a Sp...
Place & Date: Cologne 1598
Selling price: $335
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Brasilia.
Very rare sixteenth century map of Brazil.Published in the German edition of José de Acosta's De Natura Nova Orbis, first published in Salamanca, 1588. Acosta was a Span...
Place & Date: Cologne 1598
Selling price: $470
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Chica Sive Patagonica et Australis Terra.
Fragment of the famous and rare copper engraved map by Cornelius Wytfliet, published in "Descriptionis Ptolemaicae Augmentum". The map portion on the top shows...
Place & Date: 1598
Selling price: $325
Sold in 2011
Nova Et Exacta Delineatio Americae Partis Australis Que Est : Brasilia, Caribana, Guiana ?
Very rare map of South America, published by Hulsius. First issue. One of the two maps of Central and South América published in "Brevis & admiranda descriptio ...
Place & Date: Nuremberg 1599
Selling price: $1650
Sold in 2010
Fretum Magellannicum, und dessen eigentliche Beschribung, so die hollander durch schifft und aush der leng beschreiben.
A fascinating early map of the Strait of Magellan, with north at the bottom, showing ships sailing the passageway between Terrae del Fuogo Pars and Americae Pars. Depicte...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1599
Selling price: $600
Sold in 2012
Descripcion de las yndias de mediodia.
Rare map depicting South America by Antonio de Herrera Y Tordesillas. He was the official historian of Spain and the Indies. This simply engraved map of the continent was...
Place & Date: 1601
Selling price: $750
Sold in 2013
Descripcion del audencia 10 del Quito.
A rare early map with parts of modern day Ecuador, Columbia and Peru. Naming towns, and showing rivers. The earliest map to include information from the previously secret...
Place & Date: Madrid, ca 1601
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2022
![Nova et exacta delineatio Americae partis australis.. [2 maps]](/uploads/cache/21606-250x250.jpg)
Nova et exacta delineatio Americae partis australis.. [2 maps]
Very rare map of South America, published by Hulsius. The map is arrayed with wildlife throughout the land, a battle scene in Brazil and mythological figures. The seas ar...
Place & Date: Nuremberg 1602
Selling price: $1600
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Descriptio Freti Magellanici / Fretum Magellanicum.
A rare miniature map of the Straits of Magellan. Title cartouche on the lower right corner.First published in 1598 in his Caert-Thresoor, the plates were executed by the ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Cornelis Claes, 1606
Selling price: $230
Sold in 2016
Descriptio Regni Chili / Chili et Patago num regio.
A rare miniature map of Southern part of South America, including Chili,, Brasil, Argentina. Title cartouche on the lower right corner.First published in 1598 in his Caer...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Cornelis Claes, 1606
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2016