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America.
Jodocus Hondius fine delineation of the Americas is probably the most attractive map of the Western Hemisphere in the Mercator/Hondius/Janssonius succession. A clarity of...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1628
Selling price: $4000
Sold in 2015
America./ Americae Descriptio.
Map of America from 'Atlas Minor Gerardi Mercatoris', engraved by Abraham Goos. Joannes Jansson created a completely new set of small formatted maps to be included in the...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1628
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2016
Septentrionalium Terrarum decsript.
A good example of Mercator-Jansson's small map of the North Polar regions.The map is extended to 60 degrees, to show the recent explorations in search of the North West a...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1628
Selling price: $195
Sold in 2017
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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Nova Virginiae Tabula.
The map is based on the first state of Smith's map, 1612, and is slightly larger and more expertly engraved. In 1629 the Hondius plate was purchased by Blaeu who deleted ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1618-1629
Selling price: $2300
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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
Verovering vande Silver-Vloot inde Bay Matanca. Anno 1628.
A scarce and important depiction of the taking of the Spanish silver fleet by the Dutch naval force in Matanzas Bay, Cuba. It includes the portraits of the Dutch commande...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1629
Selling price: $600
Sold in 2015
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
Maiores minores que Insulae Hispaniola, Cuba Lucaia..
Detailed map of the Caribbean, prepared by Hessel Gerritsz, the official map maker for the Dutch West India Company. Gerritsz enjoys a very high reputation for his critic...
Place & Date: Leiden 1630
Selling price: $730
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Virginiae item et Floridae.
Cummings describes it as one of the most beautifully executed maps ever made of the Southeast. In detail and in general conception it surpasses all earlier maps of the re...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1630
Selling price: $2500
Sold in 2013
Virginiae item et Floridae.
"Cummings describes it as ""one of the most beautifully executed maps ever made of the Southeast. In detail and in general conception it surpasses all earl...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1630
Selling price: $2400
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America sive India Nova.
The map's geography is based on the appropriate portions of Rumold Mercator's 1569 world map. The central hemisphere, which is a general map of the two continents, is sur...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1630
Selling price: $4500
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Nova Hispania et Nova Galicia.
Willem Blaeu, father of Johan and Cornelis Blaeu, was the founder of the famous publishing firm. Originally publishing pilot-guides, he issued his first atlas, 'Atlantis ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, c. 1630
Selling price: $500
Sold in 2011
Hispaniae Novae Nova Descriptio.
Hendrick Hondius (1597-1651). In association with Johannes Janssonius, Hendrick continued to publish the Mercator-Hondius Atlas, which was improved and enlarged, the by t...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, c. 1630
Selling price: $120
Sold in 2019
Nova Hispania et Nova Galicia.
In association with Johannes Janssonius, Hendrick continued to publish the Mercator-Hondius Atlas, which was improved and enlarged, the by then obsolute Mercator maps wer...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, c. 1630
Selling price: $550
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De Groote ende Kleyne Eylanden van West-Indien
This map covers all of the West Indies and the Bahamas and shows the coastline of Florida, Central and South America. The title is contained in a decorative title cartouc...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1630
Selling price: $800
Sold in 2008
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
Septentrionalium Terrarum descriptio.
The classic map of the Arctic region, representing the late Medieval concept of four islands surrounding a centralized whirlpool. This polar depiction was an expansion of...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1630
Selling price: $1600
Sold in 2009
America sive India Nova.
The map's geography is based on the appropriate portions of Rumold Mercator's 1569 world map. The central hemisphere, which is a general map of the two continents, is sur...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1610 -1630
Selling price: $3100
Sold in 2010
America.
A very nice map from America. The inset shows native Brazilians brewing beer.Mercator was born in Rupelmonde in Flanders and studied in Louvain under Gamma Friskies, Dutc...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1630
Selling price: $3800
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
AMERICA
A spectacular map of the Americas at the beginning of European settlement in North America. This map provides considerable, interesting detail on European knowledge and ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, (1606) 1630
Selling price: $4300
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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
Virginiae item et Floridae..
Cummings describes it as one of the most beautifully executed maps ever made of the Southeast. In detail and in general conception it surpasses all earlier maps of the re...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1630
Selling price: $1050
Sold in 2016
Nova Francia et Regiones Adiacentes.
This map is one of the foundation maps of Canada. It is the first printed map to include an accurate Prince Edward Island, and the earliest depiction of a north-south ori...
Place & Date: Leiden, 1630
Selling price: $310
Sold in 2013
Virginiae item et Floridae..
Cummings describes it as one of the most beautifully executed maps ever made of the Southeast. In detail and in general conception it surpasses all earlier maps of the re...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1630
Selling price: $900
Sold in 2014
Cuba Insula, Hispaniola Insula, Ins. Jamaica..
One of the earliest maps depicting five of the major West Indian islands. An inset top right shows Havana. The map is exceptionally attractive and beautifully engraved.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1630
Selling price: $750
Sold in 2014
Nova Francia et Regiones Adiacentes.
An important early map of the Maritime Provinces. Considered one of the foundation maps of Canada (Burden), this is the first printed map to show an accurate Prince Edwar...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, c. 1630
Selling price: $1400
Sold in 2018
Cuba Insula. Hispaniola.
Decorative engraved map of Cuba above Hispaniola with smaller insets of Havana, Jamaica, Puerto Rico and Margarita.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1630
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2015
America noviter delineata. Auct: Judoco Hondio.
Fine map of the American continent with insets of the South and North Pole on the left hand side.Panels on the left, right and top borders, as in the Blaeu Americas. Note...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1630
Selling price: $7400
Sold in 2016
Cuba Insula. Hispaniola.
Decorative engraved map of Cuba above Hispaniola with smaller insets of Havana, Jamaica, Puerto Rico and Margarita.From the first French-text edition of Jodocus Hondius' ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1630
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2016
Nova Virginiae Tabula.
The map is based on the first state of Smith's map, 1612, and is slightly larger and more expertly engraved.The map is, in part, famous for its depiction, upper left, of ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1630
Selling price: $1200
Sold in 2016
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 TRUE INDIA NOVA ad magna Gerardi Mercatoris aui Vniversalis imitationem in compendi. Um redacta.
A copperplate full hand colored map of American continent. The map's geography is based on the appropriate portions of Rumold Mercator's 1569 world map.The central hemisp...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1610-1630
Selling price: $1200
Sold in 2017
Virginiae item et Floridae.
From the rare French text edition of Mercator's Atlas Minor. From the first of the so-called Cloppenburg edition with new engraved maps in a larger format. The map extend...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1630
Selling price: $240
Sold in 2017
America noviter delineata.
America map from the rare Cloppenburg edition slightly larger format and more scarce edition of the Mercator/Hondius "Atlas Minor". Engraved by Pieter Van Den K...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1630
Selling price: $350
Sold in 2018