Novae Insulae XXVI Nova Tabula (America)
Rare first state of Münster's map of America which is the earliest map to show both continents of America and the first to use Magellan’s name, Mare Pacificum (Pacific...
Place & Date: Basel, (1540) 1542
Selling price: $6250
Sold in 2022
Novae Insulae XXVI Nova Tabula (America)
Rare second state of Münster's map of America which is the earliest map to show both continents of America and the first to use Magellan’s name, Mare Pacificum (Pacifi...
Place & Date: Basel, Heinrich Petri, 1545
Selling price: $3500
Sold in 2017
Tabula novarum insularum, quas diversis respectibus Occidentalis et Indianas vocant.
The earliest separate map to show both North and South America. One of the first maps also to include Japan, and the first to refer to Mare Pacificum or the Pacific Ocean...
Place & Date: Basle, 1550
Selling price: $9100
Sold in 2013
Die Neuwen Inseln so Hinder Hispanien Gegen Orient bey dem Land Indie Ligen
This is an authentic, antique map of the Western Hemisphere showing North and South America connected as true continents. It is the 5th state example published out of Bas...
Place & Date: Basel, 1550
Selling price: $4500
Sold in 2023
Novae Insulae XXVI Nova Tabula.
The earliest separate map of the western hemisphere, first published in the 1540 edition of Münster's "Geographia" and reprinted for subsequent editions of the...
Place & Date: Basel, 1552
Selling price: $4200
Sold in 2011
La table des Isles neufves, lequelles on appelle isles d'occident & d'Indie pour divers regardz
The rare 1552 edition of Münster's map showing all of North and South America. Münster's map is the earliest map to show all of the continent of America and the first t...
Place & Date: Basel, 1552
Selling price: $2800
Sold in 2018
Tabula novarum insularum, quas diversis respectibus Occidentales & Indianas vocant.
The earliest separate map of the western hemisphere. State 5 of the Latin text edition incorporating the words 'Die Nüw Welt' in South America. It was first published in...
Place & Date: Basel, 1552
Selling price: $4000
Sold in 2023
Americae Sive Novi Orbis, Nova Descriptio.
This is the second state of the first copperplate of Ortelius' map showing the western hemisphere, showing the prominent bulge in the South American coastline. An importa...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1573
Selling price: $3800
Sold in 2014
Americae Sive Novi Orbis, Nova Descripto.
A finely engraved and beautiful map and one of the most recognised and influential maps of the Americas from the 16th century. This example is from an early state of the ...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1573
Selling price: $1350
Sold in 2019
Americae Sive Novi Orbis, Nova Descriptio.
This is the second state of the first copperplate of Ortelius' map showing the western hemisphere, showing the prominent bulge in the South American coastline. An importa...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1574
Selling price: $4600
Sold in 2015
Die neüwen Inseln/ so hinder Hispanien gegen Orient bey dem land Indie ligen.
The earliest and one of the most important separate maps to show both Americas. Although it was not the first map to use “America” as a designation for the New World,...
Place & Date: Basle, 1574
Selling price: $2900
Sold in 2019
Americae Sive Novi Orbis, Nova Descriptio.
This is the third state of the first copperplate of Ortelius' map showing the western hemisphere, showing the prominent bulge in the South American coastline. An importan...
Place & Date: Antwerp 1575
Selling price: $3925
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America. Die Neüwen Inseln so hinder Hispanien gegen Orient, bey dem Landt Indie ligen.
A very rare state of the earliest separate map to show both North and South America. One of the first maps also to include Japan, and the first to refer to "Mare Pac...
Place & Date: Basel, 1578
Selling price: $2100
Sold in 2018
Americae Sive Novi Orbis, Nova Descriptio.
This is the second copperplate of Ortelius' map showing the western hemisphere, showing the largest ships in the Pacific sailing eastward and the prominent bulge in the S...
Place & Date: Antwerp 1579
Selling price: $4426
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Americae Sive Novi Orbis, Nova Descriptio. . .
This is the second copperplate of Ortelius' map showing the western hemisphere, showing the largest ships in the Pacific sailing eastward and the prominent bulge in the S...
Place & Date: Antwerp 1579
Selling price: $2800
Sold in 2017
Americae sive Novi Orbis Nova Descriptio.
A derivative of Mercator's large map published the year before, this is the second plate of Ortelius's map of the Americas, with the ship in the Pacific sailing East ward...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1579
Selling price: $3500
Sold in 2016
Americae Sive Novi Orbis Nova Descriptio.
Beautifully colored map of the Americas from the 1579 edition of Ortelius’ Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, the first modern atlas of the world. In this second edition, the or...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1579
Selling price: $3150
Sold in 2015
Americae sive Novi Orbis Nova Descriptio.
A rare miniature map of North and South America based on Ortelius' larger map, ornamented with two sailing ships and a delicate floral framing. This is the second edition...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1579
Selling price: $550
Sold in 2020
Americae Sive Novi Orbis, Nova Descriptio.
This is the third edition of Ortelius' map landmark map of the Americas showing the western hemisphere, and showing a prominent bulge in the South American coastline. An ...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1579
Selling price: $3500
Sold in 2022
![[Native Americans meeting Vespucci]](/uploads/cache/11851-250x250.jpg)
[Native Americans meeting Vespucci]
"On recto an early representation of Vespucci meeting native Americans (92x142mm).From a French text edition of his ""Geographia"", that great co...
Place & Date: Basle 1550-1580
Selling price: $20
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![[UNTITLED] Indians of America and Africa.](/uploads/cache/92622-250x250.jpg)
[UNTITLED] Indians of America and Africa.
Rare representation of Indians. A set of 6 couples with titles below. Each couple with traditional clothing, some of the males with bow and arrow. After Abraham de Bruyn....
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1581
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2013
America, sive Bresilia. . .
print of America. By Jan Sadeler after Theodor Bernard.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca 1581
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2018
Brevis exactaq totius novi orbis eiusq insularum descriptio recens edita
Woodcut map of the Americas, which was published in three states. The first in Antwerp by Iuan Steelsio in 1554 in “La Historia General de las Indias”, written by the...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1566, 1567 or 1583
Selling price: $4100
Sold in 2023
Americae Sive Novi Orbis.
This is the third state of the famous Ortelius map showing the western hemisphere without the prominent bulge in the South American coastline.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1587
Selling price: $3500
Sold in 2016
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, 1587
Selling price: $4200
Sold in 2018
Americae Sive Novi Orbis, Nova Descriptio.
Third plate, state 1. In 1587, a new plate was engraved which appeared in editions from 1588 onward. Of the three maps, this one is perhaps the most important. Geographic...
Place & Date: Anvers, 1588
Selling price: $5000
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![Americae sive Novi Orbis, Nova Descriptio [Spanish text edition]](/uploads/cache/199823-250x250.jpg)
Americae sive Novi Orbis, Nova Descriptio [Spanish text edition]
One of the most famous and decorative maps of America. In 1587, a new plate was engraved which appeared in editions from 1588 onwards. Of the three maps, this one is perh...
Place & Date: Antwerp, (1587) 1588
Selling price: $4000
Sold in 2011
Americae Sive Novi Orbis Nova Descriptio. Die newen inseln so hinder Hispaniam gegen Orient, bey dem landt Indie gelegen
Nicely colored map of North and South America. Two elongated oval cartouches across the top with gothic German text and a finely decorated title cartouche to the bottom l...
Place & Date: Basle, Henri Petrie, 1588
Selling price: $1250
Sold in 2013
Americae Sive Novi Orbis Nova Descriptio. / Die newen inseln so hinder Hispaniam gegen Orient . . .
Sebastian Münster (1489-1552) is one of the most renowned cartographers of the sixteenth century, Mercator and Ortelius are considered at the same level. Munster's two m...
Place & Date: Basle, 1588
Selling price: $1205
Sold in 2019
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
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
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
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
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
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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: $6225
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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
Sold
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: $4000
Sold
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: $2600
Sold in 2013
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: $5200
Sold in 2014
Americae Sive Novi Orbis Nova Descriptio.
A beautiful colored map of the America continent which comes from the Latin edition of Theatrum Orbis Terrarum by Abraham Ortelius. This is the third plate that Ortelius ...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1595
Selling price: $3500
Sold in 2020