Browse Listings in America
Hispania Nova.
This was the standard map of the Mexico for a generation. The map shows an area corresponding roughly to the modern Mexican states of Michoacan, Jalisco, Mayarit, and Gue...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1608
Selling price: $350
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Fretum Magella:ni.
Early map of Strait Magellan. Depicts the extremity of South America, with Patagonia, the Straight of Magellan, Terra del Fuego and the discoveries made by LeMaire and Sc...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1608
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2008
Virginia et Florida.
Excellent example of Mercator's miniature map of Colonial America, south to named St. Augustine, north past Chesapeake Bay. Early reference to 'Apalacci' Mountains, showi...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1608
Selling price: $500
Sold in 2013
Americae Descrip.
Map of America from the first French-text edition of Jodocus Hondius' Atlas Minor.Shortly after the publication of the big folio-atlases the need was apparently felt for ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1608
Selling price: $350
Sold in 2016
Polus Arcticus cum vicinis regionibus.
Map of the North Pole regions from the 1608 second edition of Jodocus Hondius' Atlas Minor.A reduction of the 1606 Mercator-Hondius folio map (which is a later state of t...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1608
Selling price: $500
Sold in 2012
America Meridi:onalis.
Attractive map of South America, embellished with a strapwork title-cartouche, from the first French-text edition of Jodocus Hondius' Atlas Minor.Shortly after the public...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1608
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2009
Fretum Magellani.
Early map of Strait Magellan. Depicts the extremity of South America, with Patagonia, the Straight of Magellan, Terra del Fuego and the discoveries made by LeMaire and Sc...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1608
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2011
Virginiae Item et Floridae Americae Provinciarum.nova Descriptio.
An attractive, detailed and early map of the Southeast from the rare Cloppenburg edition slightly larger format and more scarce edition of the Mercator/Hondius "Atla...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Cloppenburgh, 1608
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2016
SEPTENTRIONALIUM Terrarum descriptio. Per Gerardum Mercatore
State 2. This is the first map devoted to the Arctic, a hemispherical one on a North Polar projection with an attractive floral design surrounding it. In the corners are ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1609
Selling price: $1325
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Aity Sive Spaniola.
General map of Hispaniola. Title cartouche on the upper left corner.First published in 1598 in his Caert-Thresoor, the plates were executed by the most famous engravers i...
Place & Date: Amsterdam/Frankfurt 1609
Selling price: $160
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Virginia et Florida
Nice small map based on the Hondius' folio map of the same name. Based on John White's Virginia and Jacques le Moyne's Florida as interpreted by Theodore de Bry. Numerous...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1609
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2011
SEPTENTRIONALIUM Terrarum descriptio. Per Gerardum Mercatore.
State 2. This is the first map devoted to the Arctic, a hemispherical one on a North Polar projection with an attractive floral design surrounding it. In the corners are ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1609
Selling price: $2450
Sold in 2013
Septentrionalium Terrarum descriptio. Per Gerardum Mercatorem Cum Privilegio.
State 2. This is the first map devoted to the Arctic, a hemispherical one on a North Polar projection with an attractive floral design surrounding it. In the corners are ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1609
Selling price: $2000
Sold in 2015
Maris Pacifici.
Splendid map by Ortelius.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...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1609
Selling price: $6190
Sold in 2015
Fretum Magellani.
An early map of Strait Magellan. Depicts the extremity of South America, with Patagonia, the Straight of Magellan, Terra del Fuego and the discoveries made by LeMaire and...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1609
Selling price: $180
Sold in 2020
Tartariae sive Magni Chami Regni typus.
The famous and important map of Tartary, Japan, and the west coast of North America, from Ortelius' Theatrum Orbis Terarrum, the first modern atlas of the World.This map ...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1609
Selling price: $959
Sold in 2020
Tartariae sive Magni Chami Regni Typus.
Tartariae sive Magni Chami Regni Typus. Map of Mongolia, also showing the northwest coast of North America. Abraham Ortelius(1527-98), Dutch cartographer and publishe...
Place & Date: Antwerp, Robert Bruneau, 1609
Selling price: $500
Sold in 2021
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Hispaniolae, Cubae Alliarumique Insularium
Abraham Ortelius (1527-98), Dutch cartographer and publisher of the first modern atlas, ' Theatrum Orbis Terrarum' in 1570. Editions till 1612. Also an atlas of ancient c...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1609
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2022
Americae Descrip.
Verso Latin text. An intricate and beautiful map of North and South America as well as parts of the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1610
Selling price: $600
Sold in 2013
Septentrionalium Terrarum descriptio
This influential map was the first separately printed map devoted to the Arctic. The hemisphere is surrounded by a floral design with four roundels in each corner. These ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1611
Selling price: $1150
Sold in 2011
Tabula Geogr. in qua admirandae navigationis cursus et recursus designatur.
First state of a very early and scarce map of the North Pole and Arctic regions showing recent discoveries including the voyage of Jan Willem Barentsz on his quest to fin...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1611
Selling price: $850
Sold in 2016
CULIACANAE,A MERICAE REGIO NIS, DESCRIPTIO - Hispaniolae, Cubae, Aliarumique Insularum Circumiacientium Delineatio
CULIACANAE, A MERICAE REGIO NIS, DESCRIPTIO - Hispaniolae, Cubae, Aliarumique Insularum Circumiacientium Delineatio.Antique map of the Caribbean. Two maps on one sheet: ...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1603-1612
Selling price: $400
Sold in 2023
America.
A very nice map from America, first published in 1606 and used till 1630. This example published in 1613, one year after the death of Jodocus Hondius I. The inset shows n...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1606 - 1613
Selling price: $3650
Sold in 2009
Tabula Nautica, qua repraesentantur orae maritimae.
First map to depict Hudson bay, prepared by Hessel Gerritsz, and reduced and included by de Bry in his tenth part of his Petit Voyages .Hudson had already made three acco...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1613
Selling price: $2600
Sold in 2012
Polus Arcticus cum vicinis regionibus
Excellent early map of the North Polar regions, based upon early maps by Mercator and Hondius.Shows the mythical land masses near the pole, the clearly navigable NW and N...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1613
Selling price: $400
Sold in 2023
Americae Descrip
Excellent early map of the Americas, based upon early maps by Mercator and Hondius.Interesting feature of the map is the Northwest Coast of America, which pre-dates Hondi...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1613
Selling price: $600
Sold in 2023
Tabula Geogr. In qua admirandae navigatonis..
A finely engraved map by Jodocus Hondius with coastline details of northern Europe, Greenland, Frisland, Strait Anian with America pars. With the track of a Willem Barent...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1614
Selling price: $740
Sold in 2019
AMERICAE NOVA DESCRIPTIO
FIRST State of Pieter Van Den Keere's rare Carte a figures of America -- The First Single Sheet Map of America to include decorative panels. This first state (of six) of ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1614
Selling price: $6700
Sold in 2019
Americae Nova Descriptio
FIRST State of Pieter Van Den Keere's rare Carte a figures of America -- The First Single Sheet Map of America to include decorative panels. This first state (of six) of ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1614
Selling price: $10000
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America Meridionalis.
Superb folio map of the continent that was added by Jodocus Hondius for publication in his continuation of the Mercator Atlas. The map is beautifully engraved with a wave...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1609/1616
Selling price: $900
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Tierra del Fuogo / Porto Desire (Carte vande nieuwe Passagie bezuijden de Strate Magellan)
Early map of the region depicting the tip of South America with Tierra del Fuogo, which is unexplored on the west. Depicts the tract of Guillaume Schouten and Jacob Le Ma...
Place & Date: Cologne, c. 1616
Selling price: $450
Sold in 2011
New England/ Die mercklichsten dheile. .
Hulsius used the first state of Smith's New England map published the previous year in London. The most noticeable differences, however, are the lack of any imprints lowe...
Place & Date: Frankfurt ,1617
Selling price: $8100
Sold in 2012
Die Mercklichsten Dheile, also Genennet durch den Durchl: und Mechtigen Prinzen und H.H. Carolus, Prinzen von Gross Britannien.
Hulsius used the first state of Smith's New England map published the previous year in London. The most noticeable differences, however, are the lack of any imprints lowe...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1617
Selling price: $10000
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America.
Map of America from Magini's 'Geographiae Universae', printed by Petrus Keschedt, containing a completely new set of maps, derived from the earlier Italian edition. Accor...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1617
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2015
Hispaniae novae nova descriptio.
A map of Mexico, embellished with a large title cartouche, a sailing ship, and a sea monster.
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1619
Selling price: $200
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Descripcion de las Indias Ocidentalis.
De Bry's version of this important map by Antonio de Herrera y Tordesillas with cartography based on the manuscript charts of Juan Lopez de Velasco.It depicts the Papal l...
Place & Date: Frankfurt 1619
Selling price: $900
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Hispaniae novae sive magnae, recens et vera descriptio * 1595.
This was the standard map of the area for a generation, copied after Ortelius. Both cartouches in the map are copies of designs by Hans Vredeman de Vries. The map shows a...
Place & Date: Frankfurt 1619
Selling price: $300
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Hispaniae novae sive magnae, recens et vera descriptio * 1595.
This was the standard map of the area for a generation, copied after Ortelius. Both cartouches in the map are copies of designs by Hans Vredeman de Vries. The map shows a...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1619
Selling price: $1200
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America
Jodocus Hondius's fine delineation of the Americas is probably the most attractive map of the Western Hemisphere in the Mercator/Hondius/Janssonius succession. A clarity ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1619
Selling price: $3900
Sold in 2010
Pars Undecima Orientalis I. Quid Americo Vesputio, ejusque comitibus, in India . . .
Amerigo Vespucci (1454-1512) or one of his crew members capturing by female cannibals at arrival in South America. Note the violin which is oddly included among the strew...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1619
Selling price: $35
Sold in 2023