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![[Vespucci visits Paria.]](/uploads/cache/40068-250x250.jpg)
[Vespucci visits Paria.]
In his letters, Vespucci describes the natives of this region, as tawney, going about naked and with no pubic hair. They eat whatever the land provides naturally for them...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2017
![[Vespucci lands on Colombian shores.]](/uploads/cache/40077-250x250.jpg)
[Vespucci lands on Colombian shores.]
Perhaps the first Europeans ever to reach Colombian shores where Alonso de Ojeda and his crew during their voyage in 1499-1500. Amerigo Vespucci was reputed to be among t...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
Selling price: $125
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![[Venezuelan Indians kill Spanish Monks.]](/uploads/cache/40079-250x250.jpg)
[Venezuelan Indians kill Spanish Monks.]
Some monks crossed from Cubagua to the Venezuelan mainland to spread the message of Christianity to the Indians. Along with them went other Spaniards who wanted to barter...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
Selling price: $80
Sold in 2018
![[First Spanisn colony at Buenos Aires.]](/uploads/cache/40084-250x250.jpg)
[First Spanisn colony at Buenos Aires.]
In 1534 Pedro de Mendoza was sent to colonise the Rio de la Plata. The following year, several hundred men began to colonise the present day site of Buenos Aires. At firs...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2017
![[How the Tupi Indians roasted their meat.]](/uploads/cache/40476-250x250.jpg)
[How the Tupi Indians roasted their meat.]
The Indians set up a grill, consisting of four posts set in the ground. They were as thick as a man’s arm and had a fork at the top, across which sticks were laid to fo...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
Selling price: $85
Sold in 2020
![Guame. [Spilbergen's fleet reaches Huarmey] / Payta [Spilbergen's fleet reach Paita].](/uploads/cache/41088-250x250.jpg)
Guame. [Spilbergen's fleet reaches Huarmey] / Payta [Spilbergen's fleet reach Paita].
Two engravings. [500] The town of Huarmey was situated about 150 miles north of Lima. It was conveniently located for ships because there was a natural harbour nearby wit...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
Selling price: $60
Sold in 2021
![[Indians of the Orinoco Delta, who live in trees] / [Sea monsters from Ralegh's expedition to Guyana].](/uploads/cache/41098-250x250.jpg)
[Indians of the Orinoco Delta, who live in trees] / [Sea monsters from Ralegh's expedition to Guyana].
Two engravings. [430] In the Orinoco delta, during the rainy season, no one could live at ground level because the river rose about 30 feet. During this time the Indians ...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
Selling price: $125
Sold in 2018
![[L'Hermite reaches the Juan Fernandez Islands].](/uploads/cache/41112-250x250.jpg)
[L'Hermite reaches the Juan Fernandez Islands].
After rounding the Horn, the Dutch fleet sailed north-east and, on 5th April 1624, landed on the more easterly island of the Juan Fernandez Islands. On the north-east of ...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
Selling price: $80
Sold in 2018
![[A broth is made from the intestines].](/uploads/cache/41113-250x250.jpg)
[A broth is made from the intestines].
The women make a thick soup from the intestines and the head, which is shared it out among themselves and their children. After killing the prisoner, the chief gave himse...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2018
![[Chart of the Nassau fleet in Tierra del Fuego].](/uploads/cache/41115-250x250.jpg)
[Chart of the Nassau fleet in Tierra del Fuego].
L’Hermite’s fleet reached the Tierra del Fuego on 17th February 1624. Because of bad weather, inexperience and bad compass readings, they anchored in a bay, which the...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2023
Freti Magellanici ac novi Freti vulgo Le Maire. . .
A fine map of Tierra del Fuego. With a Dutch translation of the explanatory text of the passage by Barent Jansz. Potgieter who accompanied captain Sebald de Weert to the ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1633
Selling price: $130
Sold in 2018
Freti Magellanici.
Decorative small map of Tierra del Feugo showing both the Strait of Magellan and the newly discovered Strait le Maire. Engraved by Petrus Kaerius. Strapwork title cartouc...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1634
Selling price: $150
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Das Norder theil des Lands Brasilien.
The map, displayed on a roll above, shows the coastal contours, with place-names along the Brazilian coast near Recife, and below is a bird?s-eye view of the siege with s...
Place & Date: Frankfurt 1633-1634
Selling price: $460
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\"Olinda\" and \"Olinda de Phernambuco\".
Above, this shows a view of the town of Olinda, with two figures in the foreground displaying a cloth on which are displayed fourteen places by name. Below an offshore vi...
Place & Date: Frankfurt 1633-1634
Selling price: $350
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Tabula Geographica vnova omnium oculis exibens et proponens venssimam descriptionem..
De Bry's important map of the Orinoco Basin and El Dorado, including Venezuela and Guiana. The islands of Aruba, Curaçao, Bonaire, etc in upper left corner.The map inclu...
Place & Date: Frankfurt 1633-1634
Selling price: $1250
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Die Landschafft Gvaiana Inhaltende alle die Prouincien awischen dem Fluss AMAZONVM und dem wasser YVIAPARI oder ORINOQVE
This map appeared in the "Historia antipodvm sive Novi Orbis, qvi vvlgo Americae et Indiae Occidentalis. . ., edited by J.L. Gottfried and published by Matthas Meria...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M. Merian, 1633-1634
Selling price: $290
Sold in 2018
Peru.
FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE OF THIS MAP. Decorated with ships and monsters in the sea. Orientated with east at the top. With the signature of G. Blaeuw lower right corner....
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1634
Selling price: $450
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Novus Brasilia Typus.
Glorious map of Brazil by Willem Blaeu. Originally engraved for Jodocus Hondius II, at his death in August 1629 this map was, among 39 other copper plates,purchased by Wi...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1634
Selling price: $800
Sold in 2017
Peru.
Decorated with ships and monsters on the sea. Orientated with east at the top. A most attractive item.
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1635
Selling price: $320
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Freti Magellanici ac novi Freti vulgo Le Maire..
Early impression of this fine map of Tierra del Fuego. Hondius added a Dutch translation of the explanatory text of the passage by Barent Jansz. Potgieter who accompanied...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1635
Selling price: $475
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PERU.
Decorative map of Peru, shows the Pacific coast of South America from Ecuador (at the left-hand side) as far south as the Atacama desert in the northern reaches of Chile....
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1635
Selling price: $190
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Novus Brasiliae Typus.
A decorative map with a title cartouche of two natives: in the interior is an inset of Baya de todos os Sanctos (Salvador), indigenous wild life and cannibal scenes. Orig...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1635
Selling price: $750
Sold in 2022
Guiana sive Amazonum Regio.
Nice map extending from the Isla Margarita in the northwest to the coast of northern Brazil near Sao Luis east of the Amazon delta. The map locates at its center a large ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, c.1635
Selling price: $325
Sold in 2011
Freti Magellanici ac novi Freti vulgo Le Maire. . .
Early impression of this fine map of Tierra del Fuego. Hondius added a Dutch translation of the explanatory text of the passage by Barent Jansz. Potgieter who accompanied...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1635
Selling price: $500
Sold in 2017
Freti Magellanici ac novi Freti vulgo Le Maire. . .
Early impression of this fine map of Tierra del Fuego. Hondius added a Dutch translation of the explanatory text of the passage by Barent Jansz. Potgieter who accompanied...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1635
Selling price: $700
Sold in 2012
Guiana Siue Amazonu, Regio
Striking. 1635 map of the northwestern part of South America including Lake Parima (Parime Lacus), and the route to El Dorado. The map covers from Isla Margarita and the ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1635
Selling price: $170
Sold in 2016
TERRA FIRMA et NOVUM REGNUM GRANATENSE et POPAYAN.
A fine example of this handsome map of modern-day Panama and Colombia. Decorated with a cartouche, a distance memorandum and two rose compasses. Very fine and rare. Frenc...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1635
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2019
VENEZUELA cum parte Australi Novae Andalusiae.
A nice example of Blaeu's map showing two compass roses, a lovely cartouche and a ship. In the land are shown mountains, trees an exotic bird and a sheep. From the first ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1635
Selling price: $95
Sold in 2020
Venezuela, cum parte Australi Novae Andalusiae.
Venezuela, cum parte Australi Novae Andalusiae. A very fine example of Willem Blaeu's map of Venezuela and Columbia, embellished with two cartouches, two compass-roses...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, c. 1635
Selling price: $180
Sold in 2023
![[Lot of 7 maps] Paraguay, Ó Prov. de Rio de la Plata cum regionibus With Arnold Montanus's and Tirion's of the countries bordering the Rio de la Plata. and Isaak Tirion's map of the same area.](/uploads/cache/18260-(2)-250x250.jpg)
[Lot of 7 maps] Paraguay, Ó Prov. de Rio de la Plata cum regionibus With Arnold Montanus's and Tirion's of the countries bordering the Rio de la Plata. and Isaak Tirion's map of the same area.
Willem Blaeu, founder of the famous publishing firm. Originally publishing pilot-guides, he issued his first atlas, 'Atlantis Appendix', in 1630, followed by his "...
Place & Date: 1635
Selling price: $200
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Venezuela cum parte Australi Novae Andalusiae Amstelodami Henricus Hondius Excudit.
A well executed engraved map that covers the Venezuelan coast of South America, east to the mouth of the Orinoco, and including the offshore islands from Aruba through Do...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1636
Selling price: $275
Sold in 2016
Terra Firma et Novum Regnum Granatense et Popayan.
Decorative, old colored copper engraved map of Colombia by J. Janssonius. Shows parts of Ecuador with Esmeraldas in the south-west, up to Venezuela in the East. With the ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1637
Selling price: $700
Sold in 2015
PARAGUAY, O PROV. DE RIO DE LA PLATA cum regionibus adiacentibus..
Early map showing this northern Patagonia territory. Also showing Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paolo, Santa Cruz of Bolivia, Paraguays, Uruguay, Buenos Ayres, Chili and Santo Iago...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1635-1638
Selling price: $175
Sold in 2022
VENEZUELA, cum parte Australi NOVAE ANDALUSIAE.
A finely engraved, decorative map. The islands Trinidad, Margarita, Aruba and Curaçao are shown as well. With decorative title cartouche.From "le Théâtre du monde...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1635-1638
Selling price: $750
Sold in 2012
Olinda de Phernambuco
Cooper engraved view of Olinda the historical city in the Brazilian state of Pernambuco from D. Meisner "Sciographia Cosmica" printed 1638 in Nuremberg. With La...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 1638
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2009
S. Salvator in Brasilien
Cooper engraved view of Salvador, Bahia in Brazil from D. Meissner "Sciographia Cosmica" printed 1638 in Nuremberg. With Latin and German aphorism and sailing b...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 1638
Selling price: $160
Sold in 2009
Terra Firma et Novum regnum Granatense et Propayan.
Fine copy, with wide margins of this handsome map of the Isthmus of Panama and northwestern South America including most of present day Columbia and part of Venezuela. Te...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1638
Selling price: $450
Sold in 2010
Venezuela, cum parte Australi novae Andalusiae.
A finely engraved, decorative map with Latin text on the reverse. The islands Trinidad, Margarita, Aruba and Curaçao are shown as well. With decorative title cartouche.A...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1638
Selling price: $600
Sold in 2010
Paraguayo prov. de Rio de La Plata cum regionibus..
A beautiful map of Paraguay, and parts of Peru, Chile, Argentina, Brazil and Bolivia. Much of the area was still "Terra Incognita" so there are few towns and ci...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1638
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2018
Tabula Magellanica.
A map of South America's extremity with the Strait of Magellan and Le Maire Strait.The coastlines are depicted as very mountainous, while the interior is completely witho...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1638
Selling price: $1500
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