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Le Canada, ou Nouvelle France, &c, tiree de diverses Relations des Francois, Anglois, Hollandois, &c. . .

A fine smaller map of the north eastern US seaboard, extending to the Great Lakes (shown as open-ended) and beyond into 'Upper Canada' by Nicolas Sanson, and originally f...

$420 / ≈ €393
Maker / Publisher: LUYTS, Johannis.
Place & Date: Utrecht, 162
Selling price: $420
Sold in 2021

 


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...

Maker / Publisher: MÜNSTER, S.
Place & Date: Basel, (1540) 1542
Selling price: $6250
Sold in 2022

 


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...

$120 / ≈ €112
Maker / Publisher: MÜNSTER, Sebastian.
Place & Date: Basel, 1544
Selling price: $120
Sold in 2020

 


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...

$3500 / ≈ €3275
Maker / Publisher: MÜNSTER, S.
Place & Date: Basel, Heinrich Petri, 1545
Selling price: $3500
Sold in 2017

 


Terra Nueva

Gastaldi's map of Eastern USA from Giacomo Gastaldi's Atlas of 1548 which has been called the most comprehensive atlas, produced between Martin Waldseemüller's Geographi...

Maker / Publisher: GASTALDI, G.
Place & Date: Venice, 1548
Selling price: $3400
Sold in 2023

 


Nueva Hispania Tabula Nova.

Gastaldi's map of Mexico and Texas from Giacomo Gastaldi's Atlas of 1548 which has been called the most comprehensive atlas, produced between Martin Waldseemüller's Geog...

$1800 / ≈ €1684
Maker / Publisher: GASTALDI, G.
Place & Date: Venice, 1548
Selling price: $1800
Sold in 2021

 


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...

$900 / ≈ €842
Maker / Publisher: GASTALDI, G.
Place & Date: Venice, 1548
Selling price: $900
Sold in 2021

 


Tierra Nova

Gastaldi's map of South America from Giacomo Gastaldi's Atlas of 1548 which has been called the most comprehensive atlas, produced between Martin Waldseemüller's Geograp...

$700 / ≈ €655
Maker / Publisher: GASTALDI, G.
Place & Date: Venice, 1548
Selling price: $700
Sold in 2022

 


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...

$9100 / ≈ €8515
Maker / Publisher: MÜNSTER, S.
Place & Date: Basle, 1550
Selling price: $9100
Sold in 2013

 


Der Statt Cusco / so die fuernembste im Land Peru / Il Cuscho Citta Principale della Provincia del Peru.

An early woodcut view of Cusco (Cuzco) in Peru by Sebastian Munster on a full double sheet. One of the earliest views of a city in the 'New World'. Verso an early woodcut...

$145 / ≈ €136
Maker / Publisher: MÜNSTER, Sebastian.
Place & Date: Basel, H.Petri, ca. 1550
Selling price: $145
Sold in 2019

 


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...

Maker / Publisher: Munster, S
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...

$4200 / ≈ €3930
Maker / Publisher: MÜNSTER, S.
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...

$2800 / ≈ €2620
Maker / Publisher: MÜNSTER, S
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...

Maker / Publisher: MÜNSTER, S.
Place & Date: Basel, 1552
Selling price: $4000
Sold in 2023

 


Il Cuscho citta principale della provincia del Peru.

A very desirable item of this decorative and early bid's-eye view of the Inca city of Cuzco, based on Antoine du Pinet's depiction of the city. Several figures shown insi...

$130 / ≈ €122
Maker / Publisher: MÜNSTER,S.
Place & Date: Basle 1555
Selling price: $130
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Il Cuscho citta principale della provincia del Peru.

A very desirable item of this decorative and early bid's-eye view of the Inca city of Cuzco, based on Braun & Hogenberg's depiction of the city. Several figures shown...

$160 / ≈ €150
Maker / Publisher: MÜNSTER,S.
Place & Date: Basle, 1555
Selling price: $160
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Brasil.

A fantastic pictorial map of Brazil, shown north to the right. This graphic woodblock map, prepared by the great Venetian cartographer Giacomo Gastaldi and is filled with...

$650 / ≈ €608
Maker / Publisher: RAMUSIO,G.B.
Place & Date: Venice about 1556
Selling price: $650
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Nova Francia.

RARE FIRST STATE of the woodcut map of the Atlantic coastline from New York to Labrador. Manhattan as the peninsula "Angouleme", named after King Francis I, Duk...

$5100 / ≈ €4772
Maker / Publisher: RAMUSIO,G.B.
Place & Date: Venice 1556
Selling price: $5100
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Brasil.

A fantastic pictorial map of Brazil, shown north to the right. This graphic woodblock map, prepared by the great Venetian cartographer Giacomo Gastaldi and is filled with...

$1000 / ≈ €936
Maker / Publisher: RAMUSIO,G.B.
Place & Date: Venice ca. 1556
Selling price: $1000
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(MONTREAL). La Terra de Hochelaga nella Nova Francia.

The first printed plan of Montreal, from Delle navigationi et viaggi, and prepared Jacques Cartier, the great French explorer. visited the village of Hochelaga on the isl...

$2250 / ≈ €2105
Maker / Publisher: RAMUSIO, G.B.
Place & Date: Venice, 1556
Selling price: $2250
Sold in 2014

 


Brasil nuova tavola.

Uncommon first edition of this early map of Brazil. West to the top.Girolamo Ruscelli's edition of Ptolemy's Geographia included newly engraved copperplates by Giulio and...

$350 / ≈ €328
Maker / Publisher: RUSCELLI, G.
Place & Date: Venice, 1561
Selling price: $350
Sold in 2020

 


Tierra Nova.

Uncommon first edition of this early map of South America.Girolamo Ruscelli\'s edition of Ptolemy\'s Geographia included newly engraved copperplates by Giulio and Livio S...

$650 / ≈ €608
Maker / Publisher: RUSCELLI, G.
Place & Date: Venice, 1561
Selling price: $650
Sold in 2009

 


Tierra Nveva.

Rare first edition of the map of east coast of North America..According to Shirley, most likely engraved by the brothers Giulio and Livio Sanuto. Ptolemaic world map, con...

$850 / ≈ €795
Maker / Publisher: RUSCELLI, G.
Place & Date: Venise, 1561
Selling price: $850
Sold in 2008

 


Nueva Hispania tabula nova.

Uncommon first edition of this early map of New Spain, Florida and Gulf of Mexico. The map is an enlarged version of Giacomo Gastaldi's published in 1548. Nomenclature an...

$1050 / ≈ €983
Maker / Publisher: RUSCELLI, G.
Place & Date: Venice, 1561
Selling price: $1050
Sold in 2008

 


Tierra Nveva.

Early map of the east coast is an enlarged version of Giacomo Gastaldi's published in 1548. Nomenclature and cartography are unchanged, with the exception of the depictio...

$475 / ≈ €444
Maker / Publisher: RUSCELLI, G.
Place & Date: Venise, 1561
Selling price: $475
Sold in 2012

 


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...

$300 / ≈ €281
Maker / Publisher: RUSCELLI, G.
Place & Date: Venice, 1561
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2020

 


Tierra Nova.

Scarce FIRST edition of this map depicting South America, extending from Labrador to Jamaica. The map is based upon a map published by Giacomo Gastaldi in 1548. One of th...

$300 / ≈ €281
Maker / Publisher: RUSCELLI, G.
Place & Date: Venice, 1561
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2017

 


Tierra Nova.

Scarce FIRST edition of this map depicting South America, extending from Labrador to Jamaica. The map is based upon a map published by Giacomo Gastaldi in 1548. One of th...

$300 / ≈ €281
Maker / Publisher: RUSCELLI, G.
Place & Date: Venice, Vincenzo Valgrisi, 1561
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2018

 


Nueva Hispania tabula nova.

Uncommon first edition of this early map of New Spain, Florida and Gulf of Mexico. The map is an enlarged version of Giacomo Gastaldi's map published in 1548. Nomenclatur...

$1000 / ≈ €936
Maker / Publisher: RUSCELLI, G.
Place & Date: Venice, 1561
Selling price: $1000
Sold in 2024

 


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...

$70 / ≈ €66
Maker / Publisher: Ptolemy C. / Ruscelli G.
Place & Date: Venice, 1562
Selling price: $70
Sold in 2019

 


Il Cuscho citta principale della provincia del Peru.

A very desirable and scarce item of this decorative and early bid's-eye town-plan of the Inca city of Cuzco. Several figures shown inside the city walls and on the hillsi...

$450 / ≈ €421
Maker / Publisher: DU PINET, A.
Place & Date: Lyons, 1564
Selling price: $450
Sold in 2012

 


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 ...

$50 / ≈ €47
Maker / Publisher: MÜNSTER, S.
Place & Date: Basle, ca. 1564
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2017

 


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...

$10 / ≈ €9
Maker / Publisher: MÜNSTER, S.
Place & Date: Basle, ca. 1564
Selling price: $10
Sold in 2018

 


La Nuova Francia.

Second state of the woodcut map of the Atlantic coastline from New York to Labrador. Manhattan as the peninsula "Angouleme", named after King Francis I, Duke of...

$2800 / ≈ €2620
Maker / Publisher: RAMUSIO, G.B.
Place & Date: Venice, 1565
Selling price: $2800
Sold in 2012

 


La Terra de Hochelaga nella Nova Francia... (MONTREAL).

Large, very rare woodcut depicting the first printed plan of Montreal, from the famous book "Delle navigationi et viaggi", prepared Jacques Cartier, the great F...

$1490 / ≈ €1394
Maker / Publisher: RAMUSIO, G.B.
Place & Date: Venice, ca 1565
Selling price: $1490
Sold in 2019

 


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 / Publisher: Ruscelli, G
Place & Date: Venice, 1570
Selling price: $375
Sold in 2023

 


Mexico. & Cusco regni Peru in novo orbe caput.

From part one of the "Civitates", the only view in the entire work to depict cities of the New World. Shown here are the great cities of the Aztec and Inca cult...

$1800 / ≈ €1684
Maker / Publisher: BRAUN, G. / HOGENBERG, F.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1572
Selling price: $1800
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Cusco, Regni Peru in Novo Orbe Caput.

According to George Braun : "The capital of Peru in the south of the New world is Cusco, a city so large, powerful and beautiful that it can easily rank alongside th...

$425 / ≈ €398
Maker / Publisher: BRAUN, G. / HOGENBERG, F.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1572
Selling price: $425
Sold in 2014

 


Mexico. & Cusco regni Peru in novo orbe caput.

From part one of the "Civitates", the only view in the entire work to depict cities of the New World. Shown here are the great cities of the Aztec and Inca cult...

$775 / ≈ €725
Maker / Publisher: BRAUN, G. / HOGENBERG, F.
Place & Date: Cologne, ca. 1572
Selling price: $775
Sold in 2013

 


Mexico regia et celebris Hispaniae Novae civitas [with] Cusco regni Peru in novo orbe caput.

From part one of the "Civitates", the only view in the entire work to depict cities of the New World. Shown here are the great cities of the Aztec and Inca cult...

$1400 / ≈ €1310
Maker / Publisher: BRAUN, G. / HOGENBERG, F.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1572
Selling price: $1400
Sold in 2017

 


Mexico regia et celebris Hispaniae Novae civitas.

One of the earliest prints of Mexico City and taken from part one of the "Civitates", the only view in the entire work to depict cities of the New World. The vi...

$300 / ≈ €281
Maker / Publisher: BRAUN, G. / HOGENBERG, F.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1572
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2018

 


Mexico. & Cusco regni Peru in novo orbe caput.

From part one of the "Civitates", the only view in the entire work to depict cities of the New World. Shown here are the great cities of the Aztec and Inca cult...

$1200 / ≈ €1123
Maker / Publisher: BRAUN, G. / HOGENBERG, F.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1572
Selling price: $925
Sold in 2021

 


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...

$3800 / ≈ €3556
Maker / Publisher: ORTELIUS, A.
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 ...

$1350 / ≈ €1263
Maker / Publisher: ORTELIUS, A.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1573
Selling price: $1350
Sold in 2019

 


Mexico. & Cusco regni Peru in novo orbe caput.

From part one of the "Civitates", the only view in the entire work to depict cities of the New World. Shown here are the great cities of the Aztec and Inca cult...

$2300 / ≈ €2152
Maker / Publisher: BRAUN, G. / HOGENBERG, F.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1574
Selling price: $2300
Sold in 2017

 


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...

$4600 / ≈ €4304
Maker / Publisher: ORTELIUS, A.
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,...

$2900 / ≈ €2714
Maker / Publisher: MUNSTER, S.
Place & Date: Basle, 1574
Selling price: $2900
Sold in 2019

 


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...

$1400 / ≈ €1310
Maker / Publisher: RUSCELLI / MALOMBRA.
Place & Date: Venice, 1574
Selling price: $1400
Sold in 2021

 


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...

$3925 / ≈ €3673
Maker / Publisher: ORTELIUS,A.
Place & Date: Antwerp 1575
Selling price: $3925
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Americae Pervvi aqve ita vt postremvm detecta traditvr recens delineatio.

Map of Central and South America from the extremely rare first edition.. This map shows South America, part of Mexico, Caribbean and the southern tip of Florida. In lower...

$11625 / ≈ €10878
Maker / Publisher: DE JODE,G.
Place & Date: Antwerp 1578
Selling price: $11625
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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...

$2100 / ≈ €1965
Maker / Publisher: Münster, Sebastian.
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...

$4426 / ≈ €4141
Maker / Publisher: ORTELIUS,A.
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...

$2800 / ≈ €2620
Maker / Publisher: ORTELIUS, A.
Place & Date: Antwerp 1579
Selling price: $2800
Sold in 2017

 


Hispaniae Novae sivae magnae, ...

This was the standard map of the area for a generation, copied by Quad, Hondius and De Bry. Even though Herrera (Spain's Royal Cosmographer) and Wytfliet worked 20 years ...

$275 / ≈ €257
Maker / Publisher: ORTELIUS, A.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1579
Selling price: $275
Sold in 2011

 


Hispaniae novae sivae magnae, recens et vera descriptio. 1579

Nice map of Mexico with the Pacific coastal line by A. Ortelius. With three beautiful cartouches and two sailing ship. From the 1579 Latin edition of 'Theatrum Orbis Terr...

$500 / ≈ €468
Maker / Publisher: ORTELIUS, A.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1579
Selling price: $500
Sold in 2010

 


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...

$3500 / ≈ €3275
Maker / Publisher: ORTELIUS, A.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1579
Selling price: $3500
Sold in 2016

 


Hispaniae novae sive magnae recens et vera descriptio. 1579

This was the standard map of the area for a generation, copied by De Bry, Quad and Hondius. Even though Herrera (Spain's Royal Cosmographer) and Wytfliet worked 20 years ...

$1000 / ≈ €936
Maker / Publisher: ORTELIUS, A.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1579
Selling price: $1000
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...

$3150 / ≈ €2948
Maker / Publisher: ORTELIUS, A.
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...

$550 / ≈ €515
Maker / Publisher: ORTELIUS, A.
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 ...

$3500 / ≈ €3275
Maker / Publisher: ORTELIUS, A.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1579
Selling price: $3500
Sold in 2022

 


[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...

$20 / ≈ €19
Maker / Publisher: -
Place & Date: Basle 1550-1580
Selling price: $20
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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...

$1000 / ≈ €936
Maker / Publisher: ORTELIUS,A.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1580
Selling price: $1000
Sold in 2015

 


der Statt Themistitan in den newen Inseln gelegen / figurierung.

Plan of Mexico City (\"Der Statt Themistitan...\"). From his Cosmographia, that great compendium of Renaissance knowledge. An exciting print.Sebastian Münster ...

$70 / ≈ €66
Maker / Publisher: MÜNSTER,S.
Place & Date: Basle 1550-1580
Selling price: $70
Sold in 2008

 


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...

$100 / ≈ €94
Maker / Publisher: MÜNSTER, S.
Place & Date: Basle, c. 1580
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2009

 


Hispaniae Novae Sivae Magnae, Recens et vera Descriptio.

This ornate edition is an important map of New Spain, and the forerunner for most maps of the early 17th century. It covers the Pacific coast from present-day Acapulco to...

$300 / ≈ €281
Maker / Publisher: ORTELIUS, A.
Place & Date: Antwerp 1580
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2014

 


[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....

$100 / ≈ €94
Maker / Publisher: DE BRUYN, A.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1581
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2013

 


America, sive Bresilia. . .

print of America. By Jan Sadeler after Theodor Bernard.

$250 / ≈ €234
Maker / Publisher: SADELER, J.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca 1581
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2018

 


Mexico, Regia et Celebris Hispaniae Novae Civitas ... [on sheet with] Cusco, Regni Peru in Novo Orbe Caput.

An antique map with two bird's-eye views of Mexico City and Cusco (Peru). German text on verso by Braun & Hogenberg.

$1050 / ≈ €983
Maker / Publisher: BRAUN & HOGENBERG.
Place & Date: Cologne, 1582
Selling price: $1050
Sold in 2019

 


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...

Maker / Publisher: BELLERE, Jean
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1566, 1567 or 1583
Selling price: $4100
Sold in 2023

 


Tartariae sive Magni Chami Regni typus.

Much of the information shown on this map relates to the travels of Marco Polo between 1275 and 1291 with later information gained from the Portuguese Jesuit missionaries...

$1600 / ≈ €1497
Maker / Publisher: ORTELIUS,A.
Place & Date: Antwerp 1584
Selling price: $1600
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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...

$900 / ≈ €842
Maker / Publisher: ORTELIUS, A.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1584
Selling price: $900
Sold in 2014

 


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...

$310 / ≈ €290
Maker / Publisher: ORTELIUS, A.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1584
Selling price: $310
Sold in 2015

 


Descrittione dell' isola et terra di Santa Croce, overo Mondo Nuovo.

Porcacchi's map of North America, set in a page of text From "L'Isole piu famoso del mondo”. This is the second earliest obtainable map of North America, preceded ...

$550 / ≈ €515
Maker / Publisher: PORCACCHI, T.
Place & Date: Venice, 1572-1585
Selling price: $550
Sold in 2019

 


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.

$3500 / ≈ €3275
Maker / Publisher: ORTELIUS, A.
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...

$4200 / ≈ €3930
Maker / Publisher: ORTELIUS, A.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1587
Selling price: $4200
Sold in 2018

 


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.

$50 / ≈ €47
Maker / Publisher: ORTELIUS,A.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1588
Selling price: $50
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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...

$5000 / ≈ €4679
Maker / Publisher: ORTELIUS, A.
Place & Date: Anvers, 1588
Selling price: $5000
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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...

$4000 / ≈ €3743
Maker / Publisher: ORTELIUS, A.
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...

$1250 / ≈ €1170
Maker / Publisher: MÜNSTER,S.
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...

$1205 / ≈ €1128
Maker / Publisher: MÜNSTER, S.
Place & Date: Basle, 1588
Selling price: $1205
Sold in 2019