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Fretum Magellani.
The rare Samuel Purchas' edition of the Mercator/Hondius Atlas Minor atlas map. Early map of Strait Magellan. Depicts the extremity of South America, with Patagonia, the ...
Place & Date: London 1625
Selling price: $328
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Provincia Sitæ Ad Fretum Magallanis itemque Fretum Le Maire.
Detailed map of the southern tip of South America, with coastline and Strait of Magellan from Tierra del Fuego to southern Argentina.Scarce map prepared by Hessel Gerrits...
Place & Date: Leiden, Elzevier, 1625
Selling price: $425
Sold in 2013
Provincia de Brasil cum Adiacentibvs Provinciis.
Detailed map of eastern and northern coastline of Brazil. North is to the right. Primarily coastal towns and islands are shown.Scarce map prepared by Hessel Gerritsz (158...
Place & Date: Leiden, Elzevier, 1625
Selling price: $750
Sold in 2013
Venezuela, atque Occidentalis Pars Novæ Andalusiae.
Coastline of Venezuela with little interior development. Including Aruba, Bonaire, Curaçao, etc.Scarce map prepared by Hessel Gerritsz (1581-1632), former apprentice of ...
Place & Date: Leiden, Elzevier, 1625
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2013
Ó Prov. De Rio De La Plata: cum adiacentibus Provinciis. quas vocant Tvcvman Et Sta. Cruz De La Sierra.
Detailed map of Rio de la Plata region of Brazil west to the Chilean coast and north to Peru. Decorative title and scale cartouche with face, fruit, and vines. In the cen...
Place & Date: Leiden, Elzevier, 1625
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2013
Chili.
Fine map showing mainly the coastline of Chile with large title, scale and key cartouche in the blank interior. North is to the left.. In the upper center of the map a la...
Place & Date: Leiden, Elzevier, 1625
Selling price: $255
Sold in 2013
Peru.
Fine map showing mainly the coastline of Peru with large title and scale cartouche in the blank interior. North is to the left.. In the lower right of the map a large com...
Place & Date: Leiden, Elzevier, 1625
Selling price: $275
Sold in 2013
Guaiana sive Provinciae intra Rio De Las Amazonas atque Rio De Yviapari sive Orinoque.
Fine map showing northern coastline of South America from roughly the Amazon River to Trinidad Island. In the upper part of the map a large compass rose.Scarce map prepar...
Place & Date: Leiden, Elzevier, 1625
Selling price: $240
Sold in 2013
Terra Firma item Nuevo Reyno De Granada atque Popayan.
Important map showing the northern and northwestern area of South America, including Colombia, with extensive development of the interior areas. In the left part of the m...
Place & Date: Leiden, Elzevier, 1625
Selling price: $240
Sold in 2013
Exquisita & magno aliquot.. Freti Magellanici..
Map of the extremities of South America. North at 180 degrees. Borders graduated for latitude. Single compass rose with radiates. Scale in German miles. Soundings and sho...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1628
Selling price: $550
Sold in 2018
Paraguayo prov. de Rio de La Plata cum regionibus..
Extremely rare edition of this beautiful map of Paraguay, Uruguay and northern Argentina.Jodocus Hondius Jr. planned to produce a new modern atlas less dependent on the M...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1629
Selling price: $1500
Sold in 2017
Peru.
Rare first state. Decorated with ships and monsters on the sea. Orientated with east at the top. A most decorative item. One of the most dramatic events in the early hist...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1629
Selling price: $600
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Freti Magellanici ac novi Freti vulgo Le Maire..
The very rare first state with the address of J.Hondius. After the acquisition of the copper plate by Willem Blaeu, the name of J.Hondius has been erased and substituted ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1629
Selling price: $1200
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Freti Magellanici ac novi Freti vulgo Le Maire. . .
The very rare according v.d. Krogt first state with the address of J.Hondius. After the acquisition of the copper plate by Willem Blaeu, the name of J.Hondius has been er...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1629
Selling price: $1700
Sold in 2012
Provinciae sitae ad Fretum Magallanis itemque Fretum Le..
Detailed map of the southern tip of South America, prepared by Hessel Gerritsz, the official map maker for the Dutch West India Company. Gerritsz enjoys a very high reput...
Place & Date: Leiden 1630
Selling price: $500
Sold in 2011
Chili
This beautiful map covers Chili, from Puente de Vetes in the North to Cap de Diego Gallego in the south. North is to the left of the map. Beautiful title cartouche, scale...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1630
Selling price: $325
Sold in 2009
Exquilita.. Freti Magellanici Facies.
The turbulent strait of Magellan winds between Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia (here, simply 'Part of America') to link the Atlantic and the Pacific. In1606, nearly a cent...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1630
Selling price: $1000
Sold in 2013
Guiana sive Amazonum Regio
Beautiful map extending from the Isla Margarita in the northwest to the coast of northern Brazil near Sao Luis east of the Amazon delta. At center lies a large inland sea...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1630
Selling price: $350
Sold in 2009
Chili.
Decorative map of Chile from Copiapo to Isla de Chiloé. With the mountains of the Andes, with the main river valleys, provinces and volcanoes of southern Chili, with two...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, after 1630
Selling price: $500
Sold in 2012
America Meridionalis.
The eastern part of Brazil is depicted as an island: a huge Rio de la Plata extends from the Atlantic in the south to a large lake, Eupana Lacus. From this lake the Rio G...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1630
Selling price: $1250
Sold in 2019
America meridionalis.
Map of South America the rare Cloppenburg edition "Atlas Sive Cosmographicae Meditationes De Fabrica Mundi Et Fabricati Figura", slightly larger format and more...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1630
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2019
Provincia Sitæ Ad Fretum Magallanis itemque Fretum Le Maire.
Detailed map of the southern tip of South America, with coastline and Strait of Magellan from Tierra del Fuego to southern Argentina.Scarce map prepared by Hessel Gerrits...
Place & Date: Leiden, Elzevier, 1630
Selling price: $350
Sold in 2019
Description de nouveau pasage vers le zud.... together with an untitled map of Port Desire (today's Puerto Deseado, Argentina)
On verso a map of Tierra del Fuogo (167 x 201mm.) and on recto a scarce print (145x210mm.) on a German text sheet showing a map of Port Desire (today’s Puerto Deseado, ...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1631
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2023
Terra Firma et Novum regnum Granatense et Propayan.
Good 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, ca. 1631
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2017
Guiana sive Amazonum Regio.
An important 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...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1631
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2017
Freti Magellanici ac novi Freti vulgo Le Maire exactissima delinatio..
Early impression of this fine map of Tierra del Fuego. With a Dutch translation of the explanatory text of the passage by Barent Jansz. Potgieter who accompanied captain ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1633
Selling price: $650
Sold in 2020
Freti Magellanici ac novi Freti vulgo Le Maire exactissima delinatio...
Decorative map of the Straits of Magellan, Le Mair Strait, Fire Lands, and the southern tip of Patagonia. The coastlines of Tierra del Fuego are incomplete. Fully engrave...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1633
Selling price: $800
Sold in 2013
Freti Magellanici ac novi Freti vulgo Le Maire exactissima delinatio...
Decorative map of the Straits of Magellan, Le Mair Strait, Fire Lands, and the southern tip of Patagonia. The coastlines of Tierra del Fuego are incomplete. Fully engrave...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1633
Selling price: $825
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[Discovery of the Magellan Strait.]
Scarce print with a German text sheet shows the great Portuguese explorer, Ferdinand Magellan, navigating the dangerous waters of the channel that bears his name. On 21st...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
Selling price: $210
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[Dutch fight with the local Indians in the Magellan Strait.]
Scarce print with a German text sheet shows Noort’s fleet in the Magellan Straits, the Dutch visited an island near Cape Nassau. It was inhabited by Fuegian Indians who...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
Selling price: $80
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[Dutch become stranded in the Magallen Strait.]
Scarce print with a German text sheet. While the Dutch were killing the birds on Penguin Island, there was a great storm and the waves damaged their boat so badly that it...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
Selling price: $80
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[Cavendish reaches Deseado.]
Scarce print with a German text sheet. In December, 1586, during his round-the-world voyage, Cavendish’s fleet landed on the Atlantic coast of Patagonia, near some isla...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
Selling price: $50
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Quintero.
Scarce print with a German text sheet. On 13th June, 1615, Spilbergen’s fleet entered the beautiful Bay of Quintero (A), and anchored there (C). Again the Dutch went as...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
Selling price: $100
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Val Parysa.
Scarce print with a German text sheet. In the June of 1615, the Dutch fleet reached the town of Valparaíso. The natives were dressed as shown (I). The fleet (D) anchored...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
Selling price: $70
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[Drake reaches the Rio de la Plata].
Scarce print with a German text sheet showing Drake’s fleet of five ships reaching the Rio de la Plata in April, 1578. One of the ships in poor repair had been slowing ...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
Selling price: $100
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[Sebald de Weert arriving in South America].
Scarce print (150x175mm.) showing Sebald de Weert making landfall in South America on a German text sheet taken from a first edition of Johann Ludwig Gottfried's "Ne...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
Selling price: $50
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[The Portuguese settlement in Brazil, at the Island of St. Vincent].
Panoramic view of the Portuguese settlement in Brazil, at the Island of St. Vincent. Scarce print (150x177mm.) on a German text sheet taken from a first edition of Johann...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
Selling price: $100
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[Dutch fleet reaches Rio de Janeiro.]
In 1599, the Dutch fleet, under the command of Oliver van Noort, reached an island in the natural harbour of Rio de Janeiro. On this island there was a town, as marked (C...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
Selling price: $100
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[Indian Cannibalism.]
While Staden was still in captivity, he witnessed more cannibalism. Because the Tupinamba Indians said he was too ugly, they cut off the head and threw it away. They also...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
Selling price: $100
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[Straden is captured by Indians.]
In 1552, while Staden was out hunting with his guide, not far from the fort at Bertioga, he found himself surrounded by shouting Indians. Although the guide escaped, Stad...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
Selling price: $100
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[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
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[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.]
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
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[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
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[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
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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
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[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
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[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
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[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
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[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
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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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Chili.
FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE OF THIS MAP. Willem Blaeu's very decorative map of Chili with two large and beautiful cartouches, a compass rose, a sea monster and a pair of g...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1634
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2015
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
Guiana sive Amazonum Regio.
An important 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 ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1634
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2015
Terra Firma et Novum Regnum Granatense et Popayan.
Handsome map of modern-day Panama, Colombia, parts of Ecuador extending south to Esmereldas, and Venezuela extending east almost to Caracas. The map depicts a strong view...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1634
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2015
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.
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
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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