Browse Listings in America
Iucatana Regio et Fondura.
Very rare sixteenth century map of Yucatan and Honduras.Published in the German edition of José de Acosta's De Natura Nova Orbis, first published in Salamanca, 1588. Aco...
Place & Date: Cologne 1598
Selling price: $375
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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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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. Geographically, it is the most ...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1598
Selling price: $3300
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Nova Francia et Canada.
Very rare sixteenth century map: the second printed map to use CANADA in its title, and the second to concentrate on the river and Gulf of St.Lawrence. It summarises sixt...
Place & Date: Cologne 1598
Selling price: $2200
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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 1598
Selling price: $1000
Sold in 2010
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
Maris Pacifici, (quod vulgo Mar del Zur) cum regionibus circumiacentibus, insulisque in codem passim sparsis, novissima descriptio.
"One of the most important maps that appeared in the Ortelius atlases, this was the first printed map to be devoted to the Pacific Ocean, the discovery of which is r...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1598
Selling price: $5500
Sold in 2020
America sive novvs.
Scarce miniature map of the Americas. From the second series of miniature atlas of Ortelius' Epitome. A new series of pocket-size atlases was begun by Philip Galle in 158...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1598
Selling price: $500
Sold in 2012
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, 1598
Selling price: $750
Sold in 2019
America.
Fine 1598 edition of this early map of America. Girolamo Ruscelli first published the map in his "La Geographi di Claudio Tolomeo" (Venice, 1561), with the pres...
Place & Date: Venice, 1598
Selling price: $700
Sold in 2018
Americae sive Novi Orbis Nova Descriptio (Dutch text edition).
One of the most famous and decorative maps of America.The map, which shows both North and South America, featured in Abraham Ortelius' Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, the first ...
Place & Date: Antwerp, (1587) 1598
Selling price: $2750
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, 1598
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2020
Hispania Novae Sivae magnae, Recens et Vera Descriptio 1579.
Abraham Ortelius’ map of Mexico appeared for the first time in the ‘Additamentum II’. State 2 with dots behind the names in the sea part. Strong decorative embellis...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1598
Selling price: $275
Sold in 2021
Deliniatio cartae trium navigationum per Batavos..
A major landmark in Arctic cartography incorporating recent voyages including Barents' third voyage to this region, made in 1596-7. A derivative of Willem Barentsz's map ...
Place & Date: Frankfurt 1599
Selling price: $2150
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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
Franciscus Draco cum in locum quendam venis set, à Rege istius regionis convenitur.
This famous and desirable scene was engraved by de Bry native Americans approaching European soldiers and offer gifts. A group of native Americans sit around a fire in a ...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, Matthaeus Becker, 1599
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2014
Deliniatio cartae trium navigationum per Batavos. . .
A major landmark in Arctic cartography incorporating recent voyages including Barents' third voyage to this region, made in 1596-7. A derivative of Willem Barentsz's map ...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1599
Selling price: $1900
Sold in 2012
Deliniatio cartae trium navigationum per Batavos..
A major landmark in Arctic cartography incorporating recent voyages including Barents' third voyage to this region, made in 1596-7. A derivative of Willem Barentsz's map ...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1599
Selling price: $2500
Sold in 2017
Conibas Regio cum uicinis gentibus.
2nd State. The first printed map of present day central Canada issued by Cornelis van Wytfliet in editions of his Descriptionis Ptolemaicae Augmentum first published in L...
Place & Date: Lovain 1597-1600
Selling price: $500
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Florida et Apalache.
Very rare map of Florida, including parts of Cuba and the east coast north to the area of the Outer Banks of Carolina. The map is a reduced version of Cornelis Wytfliet m...
Place & Date: Cologne 1600
Selling price: $2000
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Florida et Apalche.
Very rare map of Florida, including parts of Cuba and the east coast north to the area of the Outer Banks of Carolina. The map is a reduced version of Cornelis Wytfliet m...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1600
Selling price: $3300
Sold in 2013
Novi Orbis Pars America. . .
Published in Cologne in 1600 this map is from 'Geographisch Handtbuch' with German text on the verso.Quad's map of North America is derived from De Jode and is a beautifu...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1600
Selling price: $2300
Sold in 2013
America Sive India Nova.
The famous Michael Mercator hemispherical Americas map of 1595, based on his grandfather Rumold Mercator's world map. One of the most important and beautifully engraved e...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, c.1600
Selling price: $4800
Sold in 2014
Florida et Apalche.
Wyfliet's map is one of the earliest to focus on the Southeast and to name "Florida", showing part of Texas, Mexico, Cuba, the Bahamas and the Gulf of Mexico.Dr...
Place & Date: Louvain, 1597-1600
Selling price: $2500
Sold in 2020
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
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 America,...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1601
Selling price: $2500
Sold in 2013
America sive Novus Orbis.
The miniature map of North and South America based on Ortelius' larger map, ornamented with sailing ship. It comes from Latin edition of pocket-size atlas "Epitome T...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1601
Selling price: $400
Sold in 2020
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
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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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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 1602
Selling price: $3300
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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.From the rare Spanish text edition, printed i...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1602
Selling price: $7500
Sold in 2009
Western Hemisphere.
Scarce early miniature map of America from the 1602 Ortelius Epitome Theatri Orbis Terrarum. Virginia and California are named and spurious rivers in North America are sh...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1602
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2014
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, 1602
Selling price: $4100
Sold in 2015
Peruviae Auriferae.. La Florida.. Guatecan..
Didacus Mendezius' is mentioned on the map as the author of the map, however this person is unknown in cartographical history. Possibly, it derives from Don Diego Hurtado...
Place & Date: Antwerp 1584-1603
Selling price: $1900
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Culiacanae Americae regionis.. / Hispaniolae, Cubae. . .
Two separate virtually identically sized inset maps on one sheet, each with a decorative scroll title cartouche. Culiacanae depicts the coastal and inland western region ...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1579-1603
Selling price: $600
Sold in 2016
Maris Pacifici, (quod vulgo Mar del Zur) cum regionaribus circumiacentibus, insulisque in eodem passim sparsis, novissima descripto.
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 America,...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1590-1603
Selling price: $5200
Sold in 2020
Peruviae Auriferae Regionis Typus. - La Florida - Guastecan.
[3 maps: Florida, Peru and Mexico.] "The Florida map is one of the very few maps printed in the sixteenth century that was based upon original Spanish sources. They ...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1603
Selling price: $780
Sold in 2019
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Tartariae Sive Magni Chami Regni typus. [Alaska and N.America West coast]
Important Map of Asia and North America Included in the World’s First Modern Atlas. It is the earliest obtainable map to name California and is one of the first to incl...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1603
Selling price: $700
Sold in 2021
Maris Pacifici, (quod vulgo Mar del Zur) ...
The first printed map of the Pacific Ocean. Date on the map: 1589, first published 1590. Based on Mercator's world map of 1569. This was the first map to focus on the Pac...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1589 / 1603
Selling price: $4600
Sold in 2022