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Fretum Magellani.
The rare Samuel Purchas' edition of the Mercator/Hondius Atlas Minor atlas map. Early map of Strait Magellan. Depicts the extremity of South America, with Patagonia, the ...
Place & Date: London 1625
Selling price: $328
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Provincia Sitæ Ad Fretum Magallanis itemque Fretum Le Maire.
Detailed map of the southern tip of South America, with coastline and Strait of Magellan from Tierra del Fuego to southern Argentina.Scarce map prepared by Hessel Gerrits...
Place & Date: Leiden, Elzevier, 1625
Selling price: $425
Sold in 2013
Provincia de Brasil cum Adiacentibvs Provinciis.
Detailed map of eastern and northern coastline of Brazil. North is to the right. Primarily coastal towns and islands are shown.Scarce map prepared by Hessel Gerritsz (158...
Place & Date: Leiden, Elzevier, 1625
Selling price: $750
Sold in 2013
Venezuela, atque Occidentalis Pars Novæ Andalusiae.
Coastline of Venezuela with little interior development. Including Aruba, Bonaire, Curaçao, etc.Scarce map prepared by Hessel Gerritsz (1581-1632), former apprentice of ...
Place & Date: Leiden, Elzevier, 1625
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2013
Ó Prov. De Rio De La Plata: cum adiacentibus Provinciis. quas vocant Tvcvman Et Sta. Cruz De La Sierra.
Detailed map of Rio de la Plata region of Brazil west to the Chilean coast and north to Peru. Decorative title and scale cartouche with face, fruit, and vines. In the cen...
Place & Date: Leiden, Elzevier, 1625
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2013
Chili.
Fine map showing mainly the coastline of Chile with large title, scale and key cartouche in the blank interior. North is to the left.. In the upper center of the map a la...
Place & Date: Leiden, Elzevier, 1625
Selling price: $255
Sold in 2013
Peru.
Fine map showing mainly the coastline of Peru with large title and scale cartouche in the blank interior. North is to the left.. In the lower right of the map a large com...
Place & Date: Leiden, Elzevier, 1625
Selling price: $275
Sold in 2013
Guaiana sive Provinciae intra Rio De Las Amazonas atque Rio De Yviapari sive Orinoque.
Fine map showing northern coastline of South America from roughly the Amazon River to Trinidad Island. In the upper part of the map a large compass rose.Scarce map prepar...
Place & Date: Leiden, Elzevier, 1625
Selling price: $240
Sold in 2013
Terra Firma item Nuevo Reyno De Granada atque Popayan.
Important map showing the northern and northwestern area of South America, including Colombia, with extensive development of the interior areas. In the left part of the m...
Place & Date: Leiden, Elzevier, 1625
Selling price: $240
Sold in 2013
Exquisita & magno aliquot.. Freti Magellanici..
Map of the extremities of South America. North at 180 degrees. Borders graduated for latitude. Single compass rose with radiates. Scale in German miles. Soundings and sho...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1628
Selling price: $550
Sold in 2018
Paraguayo prov. de Rio de La Plata cum regionibus..
Extremely rare edition of this beautiful map of Paraguay, Uruguay and northern Argentina.Jodocus Hondius Jr. planned to produce a new modern atlas less dependent on the M...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1629
Selling price: $1500
Sold in 2017
Peru.
Rare first state. Decorated with ships and monsters on the sea. Orientated with east at the top. A most decorative item. One of the most dramatic events in the early hist...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1629
Selling price: $600
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Freti Magellanici ac novi Freti vulgo Le Maire..
The very rare first state with the address of J.Hondius. After the acquisition of the copper plate by Willem Blaeu, the name of J.Hondius has been erased and substituted ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1629
Selling price: $1200
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Freti Magellanici ac novi Freti vulgo Le Maire. . .
The very rare according v.d. Krogt first state with the address of J.Hondius. After the acquisition of the copper plate by Willem Blaeu, the name of J.Hondius has been er...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1629
Selling price: $1700
Sold in 2012
Provinciae sitae ad Fretum Magallanis itemque Fretum Le..
Detailed map of the southern tip of South America, prepared by Hessel Gerritsz, the official map maker for the Dutch West India Company. Gerritsz enjoys a very high reput...
Place & Date: Leiden 1630
Selling price: $500
Sold in 2011
Chili
This beautiful map covers Chili, from Puente de Vetes in the North to Cap de Diego Gallego in the south. North is to the left of the map. Beautiful title cartouche, scale...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1630
Selling price: $325
Sold in 2009
Exquilita.. Freti Magellanici Facies.
The turbulent strait of Magellan winds between Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia (here, simply 'Part of America') to link the Atlantic and the Pacific. In1606, nearly a cent...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1630
Selling price: $1000
Sold in 2013
Guiana sive Amazonum Regio
Beautiful map extending from the Isla Margarita in the northwest to the coast of northern Brazil near Sao Luis east of the Amazon delta. At center lies a large inland sea...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1630
Selling price: $350
Sold in 2009
Chili.
Decorative map of Chile from Copiapo to Isla de Chiloé. With the mountains of the Andes, with the main river valleys, provinces and volcanoes of southern Chili, with two...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, after 1630
Selling price: $500
Sold in 2012
America Meridionalis.
The eastern part of Brazil is depicted as an island: a huge Rio de la Plata extends from the Atlantic in the south to a large lake, Eupana Lacus. From this lake the Rio G...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1630
Selling price: $1250
Sold in 2019
America meridionalis.
Map of South America the rare Cloppenburg edition "Atlas Sive Cosmographicae Meditationes De Fabrica Mundi Et Fabricati Figura", slightly larger format and more...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1630
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2019
Provincia Sitæ Ad Fretum Magallanis itemque Fretum Le Maire.
Detailed map of the southern tip of South America, with coastline and Strait of Magellan from Tierra del Fuego to southern Argentina.Scarce map prepared by Hessel Gerrits...
Place & Date: Leiden, Elzevier, 1630
Selling price: $350
Sold in 2019
Description de nouveau pasage vers le zud.... together with an untitled map of Port Desire (today's Puerto Deseado, Argentina)
On verso a map of Tierra del Fuogo (167 x 201mm.) and on recto a scarce print (145x210mm.) on a German text sheet showing a map of Port Desire (today’s Puerto Deseado, ...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1631
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2023
Terra Firma et Novum regnum Granatense et Propayan.
Good copy, with wide margins of this handsome map of the Isthmus of Panama and northwestern South America, including most of present day Columbia and part of Venezuela.Te...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1631
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2017
Guiana sive Amazonum Regio.
An important map extending from the Isla Margarita in the northwest, to the coast of northern Brazil near Sao Luis east of the Amazon delta. The map locates at its center...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1631
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2017
Freti Magellanici ac novi Freti vulgo Le Maire exactissima delinatio..
Early impression of this fine map of Tierra del Fuego. With a Dutch translation of the explanatory text of the passage by Barent Jansz. Potgieter who accompanied captain ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1633
Selling price: $650
Sold in 2020
Freti Magellanici ac novi Freti vulgo Le Maire exactissima delinatio...
Decorative map of the Straits of Magellan, Le Mair Strait, Fire Lands, and the southern tip of Patagonia. The coastlines of Tierra del Fuego are incomplete. Fully engrave...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1633
Selling price: $800
Sold in 2013
Freti Magellanici ac novi Freti vulgo Le Maire exactissima delinatio...
Decorative map of the Straits of Magellan, Le Mair Strait, Fire Lands, and the southern tip of Patagonia. The coastlines of Tierra del Fuego are incomplete. Fully engrave...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1633
Selling price: $825
Sold in 2013
![[Discovery of the Magellan Strait.]](/uploads/cache/39903-250x250.jpg)
[Discovery of the Magellan Strait.]
Scarce print with a German text sheet shows the great Portuguese explorer, Ferdinand Magellan, navigating the dangerous waters of the channel that bears his name. On 21st...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
Selling price: $210
Sold in 2017
![[Dutch fight with the local Indians in the Magellan Strait.]](/uploads/cache/39904-250x250.jpg)
[Dutch fight with the local Indians in the Magellan Strait.]
Scarce print with a German text sheet shows Noort’s fleet in the Magellan Straits, the Dutch visited an island near Cape Nassau. It was inhabited by Fuegian Indians who...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
Selling price: $80
Sold in 2020
![[Dutch become stranded in the Magallen Strait.]](/uploads/cache/39905-250x250.jpg)
[Dutch become stranded in the Magallen Strait.]
Scarce print with a German text sheet. While the Dutch were killing the birds on Penguin Island, there was a great storm and the waves damaged their boat so badly that it...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
Selling price: $80
Sold in 2023
![[Cavendish reaches Deseado.]](/uploads/cache/39906-250x250.jpg)
[Cavendish reaches Deseado.]
Scarce print with a German text sheet. In December, 1586, during his round-the-world voyage, Cavendish’s fleet landed on the Atlantic coast of Patagonia, near some isla...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
Selling price: $50
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Quintero.
Scarce print with a German text sheet. On 13th June, 1615, Spilbergen’s fleet entered the beautiful Bay of Quintero (A), and anchored there (C). Again the Dutch went as...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
Selling price: $100
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Val Parysa.
Scarce print with a German text sheet. In the June of 1615, the Dutch fleet reached the town of Valparaíso. The natives were dressed as shown (I). The fleet (D) anchored...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
Selling price: $70
Sold in 2017
![[Drake reaches the Rio de la Plata].](/uploads/cache/39915-250x250.jpg)
[Drake reaches the Rio de la Plata].
Scarce print with a German text sheet showing Drake’s fleet of five ships reaching the Rio de la Plata in April, 1578. One of the ships in poor repair had been slowing ...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2017
![[Sebald de Weert arriving in South America].](/uploads/cache/40158-250x250.jpg)
[Sebald de Weert arriving in South America].
Scarce print (150x175mm.) showing Sebald de Weert making landfall in South America on a German text sheet taken from a first edition of Johann Ludwig Gottfried's "Ne...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2017
![[The Portuguese settlement in Brazil, at the Island of St. Vincent].](/uploads/cache/40186-250x250.jpg)
[The Portuguese settlement in Brazil, at the Island of St. Vincent].
Panoramic view of the Portuguese settlement in Brazil, at the Island of St. Vincent. Scarce print (150x177mm.) on a German text sheet taken from a first edition of Johann...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2020
![[Dutch fleet reaches Rio de Janeiro.]](/uploads/cache/40062-250x250.jpg)
[Dutch fleet reaches Rio de Janeiro.]
In 1599, the Dutch fleet, under the command of Oliver van Noort, reached an island in the natural harbour of Rio de Janeiro. On this island there was a town, as marked (C...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
Selling price: $100
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![[Indian Cannibalism.]](/uploads/cache/40063-250x250.jpg)
[Indian Cannibalism.]
While Staden was still in captivity, he witnessed more cannibalism. Because the Tupinamba Indians said he was too ugly, they cut off the head and threw it away. They also...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
Selling price: $100
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![[Straden is captured by Indians.]](/uploads/cache/40064-250x250.jpg)
[Straden is captured by Indians.]
In 1552, while Staden was out hunting with his guide, not far from the fort at Bertioga, he found himself surrounded by shouting Indians. Although the guide escaped, Stad...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2018