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Americae Sive Novi Orbis, Nova Descriptio
Woodcut map by based on Abraham Ortelius' classic map of 1570, with the huge bulge in the southwest coastline of South America, the Ortelian western coastline of North Am...
Place & Date: Basel, ca.1588
Selling price: $1200
Sold in 2022
Maris Pacifici.
The first printed map of the Pacific. Acknowledged to be one of the most beautiful and decorative maps which appeared in the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, it was also one of t...
Place & Date: Antwerp 1589
Selling price: $6050
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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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Americae pars, Nunc Virginia dicta, primum ab Anglis. . .
John White's map, elegantly designed and superbly engraved, revolutionized geographic knowledge of the region. Although White left the Chesapeake poorly explored, much of...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1590
Selling price: $12010
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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
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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
Wie die Weiber von Dafamonguepeuc.
Engraving depicting a native American woman of Dasamonguepeuc carrying a child, from Theodorus De Bry's Les Grands Voyages.
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1590
Selling price: $90
Sold in 2013
Nova reperta.
Title-page from a series of twenty prints illustrating new inventions and discoveries (Nova Reperta) after Jan van der Straet. Lettered on image: 'NOVA REPERTA'; on left ...
Place & Date: Antwerp, Philips Galle, c. 1590
Selling price: $700
Sold in 2018
![[The Englishmen's arrival in Virginia with Roanoke Colony - Carolina Coastline] No title.](/uploads/cache/42117-250x250.jpg)
[The Englishmen's arrival in Virginia with Roanoke Colony - Carolina Coastline] No title.
Map showing the coast of Virginia with many islands just off the mainland, two Native territories, Secotan and Weapemeoc, and the Native community of Roanoak on an island...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, c. 1590
Selling price: $285
Sold in 2018
Americae pars, Nunc Virginia dicta, primum ab Anglis. . .
John White's map, elegantly designed and superbly engraved, revolutionized geographic knowledge of the region. Although White left the Chesapeake poorly explored, much of...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1590
Selling price: $8100
Sold in 2019
![La Florida [with] Guastecan](/uploads/cache/florida_01-250x250.jpg)
La Florida [with] Guastecan
A fine, old-colored example of Abraham Ortelius’ seminal map of Florida and the North American South. Ortelius’ map La Florida was the foundation for cartography ...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1590
Selling price: $650
Sold in 2023
Floridae Americae Provinciae recens & exactissima descriptio . . .
A superb map of the Eastern Seaboard from Cape Lookout to Florida, with Cuba and the Bahamas, by the official artist of the second French Huguenot expedition to their col...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1591
Selling price: $12750
Sold in 2012
Floridae Americae Provinciae recens & exactissima descriptio . . .
A superb map of the Eastern Seaboard from Cape Lookout to Florida, with Cuba and the Bahamas, by the official artist of the second French Huguenot expedition to their col...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1591
Selling price: $1500
Sold in 2014
French battle with Florida Indians, 1591
Exciting de Bry engraving from 'der ander Theil der newlich erfundenen Landtschafft Americae' showing French soldiers aiding native North Americans in a war against a riv...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, c.1591
Selling price: $225
Sold in 2014
Floridae Americae Provinciae recens & exactissima descriptio . . .
A superb map of the Eastern Seaboard from Cape Lookout to Florida, with Cuba and the Bahamas, by the official artist of the second French Huguenot expedition to their col...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1591
Selling price: $5700
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, 1592
Selling price: $400
Sold in 2009
Hispaniae Novae.
This was the standard map of the area for a generation, copied by Quad and Hondius. Even though Herrera (Spain's Royal Cosmographer) and Wytfliet worked 20 years after Or...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1592
Selling price: $650
Sold in 2009
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
La Florida/ Peruviae Auriferae regionis Typus/ Guastecan.
The Chaves map of Florida is a prime example of an explorer's map since it records the recent discoveries of Cabeza de Vaca, De Soto, and Moscoso. The map revealed little...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1592
Selling price: $1200
Sold in 2016
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
![[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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Quivirae Regnv cum alijs versus Borea.
Extraordinarily rare map, the first published map devoted to the west and north-west coasts of North America.The map not only conveys the early cartographic view of the N...
Place & Date: Antwerp 1593
Selling price: $11075
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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
Americae sive Novi Orbis, Nova Descriptio.
An engraved map of the Americas, image 357 x 493 mm (452 x 550 mm sheet). Elaborate baroque title cartouche, may ships and sea-monster, Italian text on verso. One of the ...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1593
Selling price: $2700
Sold in 2020
Mexico, Regia & Celebris Hispania Novae Civitas.
An old map with a bird's-eye view of Mexico City situated, as it was, in the middle of a lake, by Georg Braun and Frans Hogenberg, from the: 'Civitates Orbis Terrarum', K...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1572-1593
Selling price: $225
Sold in 2020
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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Americae Retectio (Allegory of the Discovery of America)
Allegorical scene commemorating the discovery of America. The main image shows Neptune, supporting a Globe, flanked by Flora-representing Florence, and Janus-representing...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1594
Selling price: $850
Sold in 2015
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
America.
A nice late 16th century, finely engraved map of America, published in Bologna in 1594 by Giuseppi Rossaccio. The map is interesting for the fact of its number of curious...
Place & Date: Bologna, ca. 1594
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2020
Americae sive novi orbis, nova descriptio.
In 1587, a new plate was engraved which appeared in editions from 1588 onwards. Of the three maps, this one is perhaps the most important. It is the most geographically a...
Place & Date: Antwerp 1595
Selling price: $6225
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Maris Pacifici.
"This was the first printed map to be devoted solely to the Pacific, and the first to name North and South America separately. It includes most of North and South Am...
Place & Date: Antwerp 1595
Selling price: $7525
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Hispaniae Novae.
This was the standard map of the area for a generation, copied by De Bry, Quad and Hondius. Even though Herrera (Spain's Royal Cosmographer) and Wytfliet worked 20 years ...
Place & Date: Antwerp 1595
Selling price: $500
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Americae sive novi orbis, nova descriptio.
In 1587, a new plate was engraved which appeared in editions from 1588 onwards. Of the three maps, this one is perhaps the most important. It is the most geographically a...
Place & Date: Antwerp 1595
Selling price: $4525
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