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Novae Guineae Forma & Situs.
Extraordinarily rare map of the eastern part of Australia. The first separate map of this continent ever printed.The map appeared in the 2nd edition of De Jode's rare Spe...
Place & Date: Antwerp 1593
Selling price: $5650
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Maris Pacifici.
This was the first printed map to be devoted solely to the Pacific, and the first to name North and South America separately. Lower right a large presentation of Ferdinan...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1595
Selling price: $6100
Sold in 2016
Maris Pacifici.
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 North and South America,...
Place & Date: Antwerp 1595
Selling price: $6050
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Maris Pacifici.
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 North and South America,...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1595
Selling price: $6350
Sold in 2012
Nova Guinea et In. Salomonis.
From the CAERT-THRESOOR, one the very first maps to depict New Guinea as a separate island. This work is also the first to provide a "full" charting / identific...
Place & Date: Paris, 1598
Selling price: $360
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Chica sive Patagonica et Australis Terra 1598.
Very rare sixteenth century map: A reduced version of the Cornelis Wytfliet map of the same name.The map is divided into two sections. The top half is drawn on normal pro...
Place & Date: Cologne 1598
Selling price: $2025
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Maris Pacifici vulgo Mar del Zur.
The second printed map devoted to the Pacific.Published in the German edition of José de Acosta's De Natura Nova Orbis. All other maps in the book are reduced versions o...
Place & Date: Cologne 1598
Selling price: $3025
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Maris Pacifici.
This was the first printed map to be devoted solely to the Pacific, and the first to name North and South America separately. Lower right a large presentation of Ferdinan...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1598
Selling price: $6000
Sold in 2018
Maris Pacifici vulgo Mar del Zur.
Only the second printed map devoted to the Pacific. Reduced version of the map by Ortelius, it lacks latitude and longitude markings.Published in Metellus America sive No...
Place & Date: Cologne c. 1602
Selling price: $3000
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Nova Guinea et In. Salomonis.
Early miniature map of New Guinea from the Caert-Thresoor and engraved by the Dutch master-engraver Petrus Kaerius. The first edition was printed in Middelburg by Barent ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Cornelis Claes, 1606
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2020
Nova Guinea et In. Salomonis.
Early nice map of New Guinea. The Solomon Islands appear on the right hand portion of the plate. Title cartouche on the lower right corner.First published in 1598 in his ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam / Frankfurt 1609
Selling price: $200
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Maris Pacifici.
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 North and South America,...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1590-1612
Selling price: $6000
Sold in 2010
Beschreibung Novae Guineae, wie die von Wilhelm Schouten umbfahren.
Rare and very early map of New Guinea, published in Frankfurt in 1619, as part of Hulsius' Sechtzehende Schiffahrt, which retold the voyage of Willem Schouten. Schouten ...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1619
Selling price: $700
Sold in 2009
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[Cavendish meets the natives at Guam.]
During Thomas Cavendish’s voyage to the Spice Islands of the East, he dropped anchor in 1587 at Guam in the Ladrones, known as the Islands of Thieves. At least sixty ca...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
Selling price: $90
Sold in 2017
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[What the Dutch experienced at the Ladrones Islands.]
At the Marianas Islands, the Dutch ship was visited by about 200 small boats, each containing 2 or 3 people. To do trade with them, the Dutch let down ironware by means o...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
Selling price: $105
Sold in 2017
Mar Del Zur Hispanis Mare Pacificum.
Jansson's fine map of the Pacific including the west coast of America, Japan and a small Australian coastline. This is one of the earliest maps of the Pacific. The first ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, c.1650
Selling price: $1800
Sold in 2015
Hollandia Nova detecta 1644 , Terre Australe decouuerte l'an 1644.
Thevenot's map of Australia is the first published large-scale map of Australia and the first French map to record Tasman's 1642-1642 and 1644 discoveries in both Austral...
Place & Date: Paris, Langlois, 1663
Selling price: $9200
Sold in 2018
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[No title] Hollandia Nova detecta 1644.
EXTREMELY RARE FIRST EDITION of Thevenot's map of Australia which is the first published large-scale map of Australia and the first French map to record Tasman's 1642-42 ...
Place & Date: Paris, 1664
Selling price: $17250
Sold in 2015
La Mer de Sud dite autrement Mer Pacific Par P. Du-val. . .
Lower left sheet of a 4 sheet map of the Pacific. This sheet showing part of the South Sea with Nova Guinea, Carpentaria, Van Diemen's Land, New Zealand and "Terres ...
Place & Date: Paris, 1679
Selling price: $3850
Sold in 2016
Magnum Mare del Zur.
Based on Goos' 1666 map, California depicted with an indented northern coastline following the second Sanson model. Tasmania, NW Australia and Carpentaria appear, as does...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1680
Selling price: $2875
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Polus Antarcticus (rare IV State).
A nice example of the rare De Wit edition of the famous, large hemispherical map of the Antarctic region, originally published by Hondius. In this edition the discoveries...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1680
Selling price: $1040
Sold in 2020
Nouvelle Guinée et Carpentarie.
A charming late 17th century French map of the coast of Australia round Carpentaria Bay and New Guinea. Title displayed on a draped cloth above.
Place & Date: Paris 1683
Selling price: $95
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Isles de Salomon.
A curious map reflecting the contemporary ambiguity of the Solomon Islands, and the question as to whether they, and/or New Zealand, is part of a southern continent.The r...
Place & Date: Paris 1683
Selling price: $65
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I. Cocos.
A fine view of this Indian Ocean island, with a tall mast ship off the coast.From the French text edition of Description d'Univers, 1683. by Allain Manneson Mallet (1630-...
Place & Date: Paris 1683
Selling price: $50
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Nouvelle Guinée et Carpentarie.
A charming late 17th century French map of the coast of Australia round Carpentaria Bay and New Guinea. Title displayed on a draped cloth above.
Place & Date: Paris, 1683
Selling price: $70
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Isles de Salomon.
A curious map reflecting the contemporary ambiguity of the Solomon Islands, and the question as to whether they, and/or New Zealand, is part of a southern continent.The r...
Place & Date: Paris, 1683
Selling price: $95
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Continent Meridional Austral ou Antarctique.
Interesting map of the South Polar Regions.
Place & Date: Paris, 1683
Selling price: $80
Sold in 2010
Nouvelle Guinée et Carpentarie.
A charming map of part of Papua New Guinea and the Gulf of Carpentaria in Australia. Title in curtain draped at top. French text on verso.From the original 1683 text edit...
Place & Date: Paris, 1683
Selling price: $75
Sold in 2022
Nouvelle Guinée et Carpentarie.
A charming map of New Guinea and Carpentaria. Title in curtain draped at top. French text on verso.From the original 1683 text edition of "Description d'Univers. . ....
Place & Date: Paris, 1683
Selling price: $30
Sold in 2020
Isles de Salomon.
A charming map of Salomon Isles. Title in curtain draped at top. French text on verso.From the original 1683 text edition of "Description d'Univers. . ." by All...
Place & Date: Paris, 1683
Selling price: $35
Sold in 2020
Isles de Salomon.
A charming map of Salomon Isles. Title in curtain draped at top. French text on verso.From the original 1683 text edition of "Description d'Univers. . ." by All...
Place & Date: Paris, 1683
Selling price: $40
Sold in 2020
Continent Meridional Austral ou Antartique.
A charming map of Antarctica, showing Austalia, part of Van Diemans Land and a coast of New Zealand.Title in curtain draped at top. French text on verso.From the original...
Place & Date: Paris, 1683
Selling price: $65
Sold in 2020
Mar Del Zur Hispanis Mare Pacificum.
Jansson's map of the Pacific, the first of the whole Pacific Ocean, the first chart of the Pacific to show California as an island as well as an imaginary string of islan...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, c.1688
Selling price: $3000
Sold in 2014
OOST INDIEN Wassende-Graade Paskaart, vertoonende nevens het Oosterlykste van Afrika, meede de Zeekusten van Asia, van C. de Bona Esperance tot Eso, boven Japan. . .
Sea chart of the East Indies on Mercator projection delineating not only the eastern coast of Africa, but also the coasts of Asia, from the C. of Good Hope till Eso, nort...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1690
Selling price: $38000
Sold in 2015
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Globe gore [ Het Niew Hollandt..] (New Holland)
A globe gore including the Spice Islands, Papua New Guinea and the North Coast of Australia and an explanatory of "Lochac". Italian text below the map which is ...
Place & Date: Venice, 1696
Selling price: $2300
Sold in 2011
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[Asia]
Important Asia map of V.M. Coronelli showing SE Asia with Japan and parts of Australia and New Zealand. Many discoveries around Australia are described with dates, place ...
Place & Date: Venice, 1697
Selling price: $1800
Sold in 2009
Isle de Ladrones.
Early map of the Mariana Islands (up to the early 20th century sometimes called Ladrones Islands, from Spanish Islas de los Ladrones meaning "Islands of Thieves"...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, E. Roger, 1702
Selling price: $80
Sold in 2013
Tantum distamus ap invicem.
A map from the series of maps by the Jesuit mathematician. The map is centered on the Pacific Ocean between Asia and North America. It is an illustration of an uncommon p...
Place & Date: Munich, 1703
Selling price: $700
Sold in 2014
Tantum distamus ap invicem.
A map from the series of maps by the Jesuit mathematician. The map is centered on the Pacific Ocean between Asia and North America. It is an illustration of an uncommon p...
Place & Date: Munich, 1703
Selling price: $450
Sold in 2018
Nouva Zelanda, ò Terra Degli Stati, detta dagl'Hollandesi Het Niew Zelandt. scoperta dagli medemi l'anno 1654 . . .
RARE. This is the first printed map to dedicate to New Zealand, although the information dates back to Tasman in 1642. Showing from the Island of Three Kings to Cape Clip...
Place & Date: Naples, 1706
Selling price: $1150
Sold in 2016