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Le Canada, ou Nouvelle France, &c, tiree de diverses Relations des Francois, Anglois, Hollandois, &c. . .

A fine smaller map of the north eastern US seaboard, extending to the Great Lakes (shown as open-ended) and beyond into 'Upper Canada' by Nicolas Sanson, and originally f...

$420 / ≈ €393
Maker / Publisher: LUYTS, Johannis.
Place & Date: Utrecht, 162
Selling price: $420
Sold in 2021

 


Novae Insulae XXVI Nova Tabula (America)

Rare first state of Münster's map of America which is the earliest map to show both continents of America and the first to use Magellan’s name, Mare Pacificum (Pacific...

Maker / Publisher: MÜNSTER, S.
Place & Date: Basel, (1540) 1542
Selling price: $6250
Sold in 2022

 


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...

$120 / ≈ €112
Maker / Publisher: MÜNSTER, Sebastian.
Place & Date: Basel, 1544
Selling price: $120
Sold in 2020

 


Novae Insulae XXVI Nova Tabula (America)

Rare second state of Münster's map of America which is the earliest map to show both continents of America and the first to use Magellan’s name, Mare Pacificum (Pacifi...

$3500 / ≈ €3275
Maker / Publisher: MÜNSTER, S.
Place & Date: Basel, Heinrich Petri, 1545
Selling price: $3500
Sold in 2017

 


Terra Nueva

Gastaldi's map of Eastern USA from Giacomo Gastaldi's Atlas of 1548 which has been called the most comprehensive atlas, produced between Martin Waldseemüller's Geographi...

Maker / Publisher: GASTALDI, G.
Place & Date: Venice, 1548
Selling price: $3400
Sold in 2023

 


Nueva Hispania Tabula Nova.

Gastaldi's map of Mexico and Texas from Giacomo Gastaldi's Atlas of 1548 which has been called the most comprehensive atlas, produced between Martin Waldseemüller's Geog...

$1800 / ≈ €1684
Maker / Publisher: GASTALDI, G.
Place & Date: Venice, 1548
Selling price: $1800
Sold in 2021

 


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...

$900 / ≈ €842
Maker / Publisher: GASTALDI, G.
Place & Date: Venice, 1548
Selling price: $900
Sold in 2021

 


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...

$700 / ≈ €655
Maker / Publisher: GASTALDI, G.
Place & Date: Venice, 1548
Selling price: $700
Sold in 2022

 


Tabula novarum insularum, quas diversis respectibus Occidentalis et Indianas vocant.

The earliest separate map to show both North and South America. One of the first maps also to include Japan, and the first to refer to Mare Pacificum or the Pacific Ocean...

$9100 / ≈ €8515
Maker / Publisher: MÜNSTER, S.
Place & Date: Basle, 1550
Selling price: $9100
Sold in 2013

 


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...

$145 / ≈ €136
Maker / Publisher: MÜNSTER, Sebastian.
Place & Date: Basel, H.Petri, ca. 1550
Selling price: $145
Sold in 2019

 


Die Neuwen Inseln so Hinder Hispanien Gegen Orient bey dem Land Indie Ligen

This is an authentic, antique map of the Western Hemisphere showing North and South America connected as true continents. It is the 5th state example published out of Bas...

Maker / Publisher: Munster, S
Place & Date: Basel, 1550
Selling price: $4500
Sold in 2023

 


Novae Insulae XXVI Nova Tabula.

The earliest separate map of the western hemisphere, first published in the 1540 edition of Münster's "Geographia" and reprinted for subsequent editions of the...

$4200 / ≈ €3930
Maker / Publisher: MÜNSTER, S.
Place & Date: Basel, 1552
Selling price: $4200
Sold in 2011

 


La table des Isles neufves, lequelles on appelle isles d'occident & d'Indie pour divers regardz

The rare 1552 edition of Münster's map showing all of North and South America. Münster's map is the earliest map to show all of the continent of America and the first t...

$2800 / ≈ €2620
Maker / Publisher: MÜNSTER, S
Place & Date: Basel, 1552
Selling price: $2800
Sold in 2018

 


Tabula novarum insularum, quas diversis respectibus Occidentales & Indianas vocant.

The earliest separate map of the western hemisphere. State 5 of the Latin text edition incorporating the words 'Die Nüw Welt' in South America. It was first published in...

Maker / Publisher: MÜNSTER, S.
Place & Date: Basel, 1552
Selling price: $4000
Sold in 2023

 


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...

$130 / ≈ €122
Maker / Publisher: MÜNSTER,S.
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...

$160 / ≈ €150
Maker / Publisher: MÜNSTER,S.
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...

$650 / ≈ €608
Maker / Publisher: RAMUSIO,G.B.
Place & Date: Venice about 1556
Selling price: $650
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Nova Francia.

RARE FIRST STATE of the woodcut map of the Atlantic coastline from New York to Labrador. Manhattan as the peninsula "Angouleme", named after King Francis I, Duk...

$5100 / ≈ €4772
Maker / Publisher: RAMUSIO,G.B.
Place & Date: Venice 1556
Selling price: $5100
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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...

$1000 / ≈ €936
Maker / Publisher: RAMUSIO,G.B.
Place & Date: Venice ca. 1556
Selling price: $1000
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(MONTREAL). La Terra de Hochelaga nella Nova Francia.

The first printed plan of Montreal, from Delle navigationi et viaggi, and prepared Jacques Cartier, the great French explorer. visited the village of Hochelaga on the isl...

$2250 / ≈ €2105
Maker / Publisher: RAMUSIO, G.B.
Place & Date: Venice, 1556
Selling price: $2250
Sold in 2014

 


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...

$350 / ≈ €328
Maker / Publisher: RUSCELLI, G.
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...

$650 / ≈ €608
Maker / Publisher: RUSCELLI, G.
Place & Date: Venice, 1561
Selling price: $650
Sold in 2009

 


Tierra Nveva.

Rare first edition of the map of east coast of North America..According to Shirley, most likely engraved by the brothers Giulio and Livio Sanuto. Ptolemaic world map, con...

$850 / ≈ €795
Maker / Publisher: RUSCELLI, G.
Place & Date: Venise, 1561
Selling price: $850
Sold in 2008

 


Nueva Hispania tabula nova.

Uncommon first edition of this early map of New Spain, Florida and Gulf of Mexico. The map is an enlarged version of Giacomo Gastaldi's published in 1548. Nomenclature an...

$1050 / ≈ €983
Maker / Publisher: RUSCELLI, G.
Place & Date: Venice, 1561
Selling price: $1050
Sold in 2008

 


Tierra Nveva.

Early map of the east coast is an enlarged version of Giacomo Gastaldi's published in 1548. Nomenclature and cartography are unchanged, with the exception of the depictio...

$475 / ≈ €444
Maker / Publisher: RUSCELLI, G.
Place & Date: Venise, 1561
Selling price: $475
Sold in 2012

 


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...

$300 / ≈ €281
Maker / Publisher: RUSCELLI, G.
Place & Date: Venice, 1561
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2020

 


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...

$300 / ≈ €281
Maker / Publisher: RUSCELLI, G.
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...

$300 / ≈ €281
Maker / Publisher: RUSCELLI, G.
Place & Date: Venice, Vincenzo Valgrisi, 1561
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2018

 


Nueva Hispania tabula nova.

Uncommon first edition of this early map of New Spain, Florida and Gulf of Mexico. The map is an enlarged version of Giacomo Gastaldi's map published in 1548. Nomenclatur...

$1000 / ≈ €936
Maker / Publisher: RUSCELLI, G.
Place & Date: Venice, 1561
Selling price: $1000
Sold in 2024

 


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...

$70 / ≈ €66
Maker / Publisher: Ptolemy C. / Ruscelli G.
Place & Date: Venice, 1562
Selling price: $70
Sold in 2019

 


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...

$450 / ≈ €421
Maker / Publisher: DU PINET, A.
Place & Date: Lyons, 1564
Selling price: $450
Sold in 2012

 


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 ...

$50 / ≈ €47
Maker / Publisher: MÜNSTER, S.
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...

$10 / ≈ €9
Maker / Publisher: MÜNSTER, S.
Place & Date: Basle, ca. 1564
Selling price: $10
Sold in 2018

 


La Nuova Francia.

Second state of the woodcut map of the Atlantic coastline from New York to Labrador. Manhattan as the peninsula "Angouleme", named after King Francis I, Duke of...

$2800 / ≈ €2620
Maker / Publisher: RAMUSIO, G.B.
Place & Date: Venice, 1565
Selling price: $2800
Sold in 2012

 


La Terra de Hochelaga nella Nova Francia... (MONTREAL).

Large, very rare woodcut depicting the first printed plan of Montreal, from the famous book "Delle navigationi et viaggi", prepared Jacques Cartier, the great F...

$1490 / ≈ €1394
Maker / Publisher: RAMUSIO, G.B.
Place & Date: Venice, ca 1565
Selling price: $1490
Sold in 2019

 


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...

Maker / Publisher: Ruscelli, G
Place & Date: Venice, 1570
Selling price: $375
Sold in 2023

 


Mexico. & Cusco regni Peru in novo orbe caput.

From part one of the "Civitates", the only view in the entire work to depict cities of the New World. Shown here are the great cities of the Aztec and Inca cult...

$1800 / ≈ €1684
Maker / Publisher: BRAUN, G. / HOGENBERG, F.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1572
Selling price: $1800
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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...

$425 / ≈ €398
Maker / Publisher: BRAUN, G. / HOGENBERG, F.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1572
Selling price: $425
Sold in 2014

 


Mexico. & Cusco regni Peru in novo orbe caput.

From part one of the "Civitates", the only view in the entire work to depict cities of the New World. Shown here are the great cities of the Aztec and Inca cult...

$775 / ≈ €725
Maker / Publisher: BRAUN, G. / HOGENBERG, F.
Place & Date: Cologne, ca. 1572
Selling price: $775
Sold in 2013

 


Mexico regia et celebris Hispaniae Novae civitas [with] Cusco regni Peru in novo orbe caput.

From part one of the "Civitates", the only view in the entire work to depict cities of the New World. Shown here are the great cities of the Aztec and Inca cult...

$1400 / ≈ €1310
Maker / Publisher: BRAUN, G. / HOGENBERG, F.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1572
Selling price: $1400
Sold in 2017