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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...

Maker: MÜNSTER, Sebastian.
Date: Basel, 1544
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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...

Maker: GASTALDI, G.
Date: Venice, 1548
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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...

Maker: RUSCELLI, G.
Date: Venice, 1561
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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...

Maker: Ptolemy C. / Ruscelli G.
Date: Venice, 1562
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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 ...

Maker: MÜNSTER, S.
Date: Basle, ca. 1564
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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...

Maker: MÜNSTER, S.
Date: Basle, ca. 1564
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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: Ruscelli, G
Date: Venice, 1570
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ISOLA CUBA NOVA.

One of the earliest separately published maps of Cuba. Also includes Jamaica and northwestern Hispaniola and the Cayman Islands. The map is elegantly designed and engrave...

Maker: RUSCELLI / MALOMBRA.
Date: Venice, 1574
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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...

Maker: ORTELIUS,A.
Date: Antwerp, 1580
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Liber V. De Novis insulis quomodo, quando & per quem illae inuentae sint.

Map of unspecified islands in the New World, printed area 105 x 160mm, set in a large page of text. From an Latin text edition of the Cosmography. One of the earliest obt...

Maker: MÜNSTER, S.
Date: Basle, c. 1580
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Açores Insulae.

First state. 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...

Maker: ORTELIUS, A.
Date: Antwerp, 1584
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Açores Insulae. . .

Three cartouches of exceptional beauty decorate this artistic map. A beautifully engraved chart of the Azores based on Luis Teixeira's cartographic work with two ornate t...

Maker: ORTELIUS, A.
Date: Antwerp, 1584
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Tercera Insula

Nice miniature map showing the island and the important port of Angra. The map is beautifully engraved with stippled seas and two sailing ships and two tiny sea monsters.

Maker: ORTELIUS,A.
Date: Antwerp, 1588
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Descrittione dell'Isola Cuba.

Early map of Cuba, published in Venetia, Appresso gli Heredi di Simon Galignani, 1590.

Maker: PORRO,G./ MAGINI,G.
Date: Venise 1590
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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.

Maker: MUNSTER, S.
Date: Basle, 1550-1590
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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...

Maker: ORTELIUS, A.
Date: Antwerp, 1592
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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 ...

Maker: ORTELIUS, A.
Date: Antwerp, 1592
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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...

Maker: DE BRY, Th.
Date: Frankfurt, 1594
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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...

Maker: DE BRY, Th.
Date: Frankfurt 1594
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Vera effigies et delineatio Insulae, Ascencio nuncupatae (...) Waerachtighe affbeeldinghe en verthooninghe vant Eylant Asçençion (...)

A rare copper engraved bird's eye view by B. VAN DOETECUM of the island of Ascension in the South Atlantic Ocean. Panorama showing the island in three profile views, engr...

Maker: VAN DOETECUM, B. / VAN LINSCH, J. H.
Date: Amsterdam, 1596
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Cuba Insula et Jamaica.

One of only two Caribbean maps in this important work, which was one of the first atlases to provide detailed maps on the individual regions in the New World. The map is ...

Maker: WYTFLIET, C. VAN
Date: Louvain, 1597
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Insula D.Helenae sacra coeli..

A fine perspective view of the Island of St.Helena in the South Atlantic. The location of the Island directly on the navigation route from Europe to the Cape of Good Hope...

Maker: VAN LINSCHOTEN,J.H.
Date: Amsterdam 1598
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Hispaniola Insula.

Very rare sixteenth century map of the Hispaniola Island and the eastern tip of Cuba.Published in the German edition of José de Acosta's De Natura Nova Orbis, first publ...

Maker: METELLUS,J./ ACOSTA,J.DE
Date: Cologne 1598
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Cuba Insula et Iamaica.

Very rare sixteenth century map of Cuba, in lower part JamaicaPublished in the German edition of José de Acosta's De Natura Nova Orbis, first published in Salamanca, 158...

Maker: METELLUS,J./ ACOSTA,J.DE
Date: Cologne 1598
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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...

Maker: ORTELIUS, A.
Date: Antwerp, 1598
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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...

Maker: ORTELIUS, A.
Date: Antwerp, 1598
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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 ...

Maker: ORTELIUS, A.
Date: Antwerp, 1579-1603
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Cuba Insula.

This lovely miniature map shows the Caribbean Islands of Cuba and Jamaica. Published by Petrus Bertius, in Amsterdam at the beginning of the seventeenth century, this map...

Maker: LANGENES, B. / BERTIUS, P.
Date: Amsterdam, 1606
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Descriptio Iucatana.

An attractive miniature map of Mexico, Florida, the very north of South America and the Caribbean, published by Petrus Bertius, in Amsterdam at the beginning of the seven...

Maker: LANGENES, B. / BERTIUS, P.
Date: Amsterdam, 1606
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Cuba.

An attractive copper engraved map of Cuba & the Caribbean islands from Mercator's "Atlas Minor", with larger images of Cuba and Hispaniola, and four smaller...

Maker: MERCATOR,G. / HONDIUS, J.
Date: Amsterdam, 1607
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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...

Maker: LANGENES,B.
Date: Amsterdam/Frankfurt 1609
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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...

Maker: ORTELIUS, A.
Date: Antwerp, 1609
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S.Giovanni. (Puerto Rico)

One of the earliest obtainable separate maps of Puerto Rico. Also shows the Virgin Islands, with a large St. Croix (Croce). Includes decorative cartouche, four sea monste...

Maker: PORCACCHI,Th.
Date: Venice, 1620
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A Mapp of the Sommer Islands..[Mappa Aestivarum Insularum]..

Title in both English and Latin. English text on verso. The map was beautifully engraved by Abraham Goos in Amsterdam for Speed's Prospect Of The Most Famous Parts Of The...

Maker: SPEED,J.
Date: London 1626
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[Two items] Abbildung Welcher Gestalt die Spanische Silberflota von dem Hollandischen / Das Eylandt Cuba mit Deroselben Gelegenheit

An etching showing Piet Heyn going ashore at Cuba on a sheet with letterpress. Together with a scarce engraving of the Dutch and Spanish fleets in Patanca Bay, Cuba illus...

Maker: MERIAN, M
Date: Frankfurt, 1627
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