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Brasilia.
Striking old color example of Blaeu's second map of Brazil prepared by Krystof Arciszewski, a Polish general who worked for the Dutch West Indian Company. The map perpetu...
- $750 / ≈ €702
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1647
Quartum Praelium Coniovian inter et Fluvium Rio Grande XVII Ian
Decorative engraving of the fourth sea battle with the Portuguese fleet offshore at the Rio Grande, in1640. Engraved by J. van Brosterhuyzen after a design by Frans J. Po...
Place & Date: Joannes Blaeu, Amsterdam 1647
Brasilia.
Fine copy of this map by Krystof Arciszewski, a Polish general who worked for the Dutch West Indian Company. The map perpetuates various myths including the Parime Lago ,...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1647
Amerique Meridionale. Par N.Sanson d'Abbeville. . .
The first edition of a cornerstone South America map, the first to show the boundaries of many countries, regions, and provinces. Peru is shown governing a huge tract of ...
- $500 / ≈ €468
Place & Date: Paris, after 1650
Peru.
Decorated with ships and monsters on the sea. Orientated with east at the top. Shows the Pacific coast of South America from Ecuador (at the left-hand side) as far south ...
- $400 / ≈ €374
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1658
Tabula Magellanica.
A map with Willem Blaeu's signature, but published by his son Joan, of South America's extremity with the Strait of Magellan and Le Maire Strait.The coastlines are depict...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1658
Brasilia.
A mint example of this map is by Krystof Arciszewski, a Polish general who worked for the Dutch West Indian Company. The map perpetuates various myths including the Parim...
- $1250 / ≈ €1170
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1658
Guiana sive Amazonum Regio.
A very decorative map of Suriname which extends from the Isla Margarita in the northwest to the coast of northern Brazil near Sao Luis east of the Amazon delta. The map l...
- $450 / ≈ €421
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1658
Amerique Meridionale. . . 1650.
First edition. A fine large map of South America, engraved by A.Peyrounin. The relatively unknown Amazon region is left without speculation. However, Sanson includes the ...
- $450 / ≈ €421
Place & Date: Paris, 1650-1659
Paraquaria vulgo Paraguay cum adjacentibus.
Rare map only included in Joan Blaeu's Atlas major. Detailed map of Uruguay, Paraguay, Northern part of Argentina and northern part of Chili. Engraved by Gerard Coeck. Tw...
- $800 / ≈ €749
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1660
Sinus Omnium Sanctoru. Bahia de Todos os Sanctos.
RARE. First Atlas Major issue: originally issued by Blaeu in Casper van Baarle's 'Rerum per Octennium in Brasilia' (1647) dedicated to the former Governor of the Dutch co...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1664
Serinhaim.
Fine view of a fort in Serinhaim, Brazil, with numbered key at the base. A procession of Portuguese or Dutch soldiers advance along the road carrying a litter. To the lef...
Place & Date: London, 1671
Guiana sive Amazonum Regio.
Map of Guiana and Amazon extending westwards to Trinidad and Margarita Island, dominated by a huge inland sea north of the Amazon.Embellished with decorative title and sc...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1673
Venezuela cum parte Australi Novae Andalusiae.
Most decorative map with two large cartouches and compass-rose, large group of islands at the mouth of the Orinoco, other islands off Venezuela coast: Margarita, Aruba, C...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1673
Terra Firma et Novum Regnum Granatense et Popayan.
Detailed map of Panama and northwestern South America derived from the Blaeu/Jansson map of the regionFeaturing ships at sea, two compass roses, and two cartouches depict...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1673
Brasila.
Map of Brazil extending from C. Nasou and Parime Lago to the Mouth of the Rio de la Plata. Oriented with West on top.The cartography of the region is quite primitive. The...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1673
Magellani Que.
Uncommon miniature map of Argentina and Strait of Magellan from Pierre Duval's La Geographie Universeille dated 1676. Following his Cartes de geographie in 1657, Pierre D...
- $200 / ≈ €187
Place & Date: Paris, 1676
P.les du Chile.
A charming copper engraving depicting a town surrounded by a luxuriant landscape on the background and a couple of indigenous on the foreground.From the French text editi...
- $60 / ≈ €56
Place & Date: Paris, 1683
L'America Meridionale . . .
The second edition of Rossi's map of South America, based upon Sanson's map, but with revised Italian nomenclature. From his 'Mercurio Geografico...'. The engraver was G...
- $900 / ≈ €842
Place & Date: Rome, 1687
I. S. Clara.
Island "S. Clara" in Brazil just a few degrees north of the Tropic of Capricorn.From volume two of the French reissue of the account of early Dutch voyages. The...
- $150 / ≈ €140
Place & Date: Amsterdam, E. Roger, 1703
Brasilia.
Very fine decorative map od Brazil with west to the top. From the book "A Collection of Voyages and Travels" by Churchill and the map came from the part contain...
- $550 / ≈ €515
Place & Date: London, Printed for A. and J. Churchill, 1703
I. S. Sebastien.
Simplified bird's-eye view of Ilha de São Sebastiao, part of an archipelago off the southern coast of Brazil 210 miles from Rio de Janeiro. It was discovered on January ...
- $225 / ≈ €211
Place & Date: Amsterdam, E. Roger, 1703
Nieuwe gelyk Graadige Paskaart van de Kust van Guiana in West-Indien.
Detailed chart of Guiana in South America. Two scales are given in both maps: Dutch, French and English nautical miles.The inset chart provide detailed view of the Camopi...
- $650 / ≈ €608
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1684 - 1704
Paraguay o Prov. De Rio De La Plata cum regionibus adiacentibus Tucuman et Sta. Cruz De la Sierra.
An attractive map centered on Paraguay. Title cartouche on the upper right-hand corner, on the ocean a ship and a sea monster are depicted.
- $300 / ≈ €281
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1708
Nouvelle carte de geographie de .. Meridionale de l'Amerique
Chatelain's map of South America. The title is in two lines across the map. The tracks of Magellan, de la Maire, de Mendana, etc. are shown.On each side, borders appear a...
- $250 / ≈ €234
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1719
Isle du Prince.
Simplified bird's-eye view of "Isle du Prince" in present-day Argentina.From volume two of the French reissue of the account of early Dutch voyages. The French ...
- $75 / ≈ €70
Place & Date: Amsterdam, F. Bernard, 1725
Porto il Desire.
Simplified bird's-eye view of Port Desire or Puerto Deseado in present-day Argentina.From volume two of the French reissue of the account of early Dutch voyages. The Fren...
- $150 / ≈ €140
Place & Date: Amsterdam, F. Bernard, 1725
I. S. Clara.
Island "S. Clara" in Brazil just a few degrees north of the Tropic of Capricorn.From volume two of the French reissue of the account of early Dutch voyages. The...
- $100 / ≈ €94
Place & Date: Amsterdam, F. Bernard, 1725
Tabula Americae Specialis Geographica Regni Peru, Brasiliae, Terra Firmae & Reg: Amazonum, Secundum relationes de Herrera, de Laet & PP d Acuña & M. Rodriguez . . .
A good and clean copy of Homann's map of the northern part of South America. The map is on the Valley of the Amazon and delineates the Amazon and its labyrinth of tributa...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 1728
Nieuwe gemeten kaart van de colonie de Berbice : met der zelver plantagien en de namen der bezitters in het ligt gebragt door Reiner & Iosua Ottens kaartverkopers te Amsterdam 1740.
Rare separately published map of the colony of Berbice in present-day Guyana showing the Berbice River Valley and the plantations along the river. North on map of the col...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1740
Carta geografica della america meridionale.
Uncommon map of South America based upon Guillaume De L'Isle's map. Includes the routes of early explorers in the Pacific, including Magellan, Drake, Le Maire, Mendana, V...
- $350 / ≈ €328
Place & Date: Venice, 1740
Paraquariae Provinciae Soc. Iesu cum Adjacentibus Novissima...
Between the years of 1609 and 1780, the Jesuits (the Roman Catholic Society of Jesus) established in South America, an autonomous Christian state, on the lands of present...
Place & Date: Augsburg, 1740
Naaukeurige Platte Grond van den Staat en den Loop van Rio de Berbice Met derzelver Plantagien in de Geoctrojeerde Colonie de Berbice Gelegen. . .
Uncommon large-scale map of Berbice with Rio de Berbice and Rio de Canjewith at the bottom left a list of plantation owners. In top 3 x 3 coats of arms in cartouches. The...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1742
L'Amerique Meridionale Dressée sur les Observations..
Detailed map of South America prepared by De L'Isle, with fine title cartouche.The map is from a Dutch edition of De L'Isle's work entitled, Atlas Nouveau, Contenant Tout...
- $500 / ≈ €468
Place & Date: Amsterdam c. 1745
Carte du Paraguay, du Chili, du Detroit de Magellan &c.
Large handsome map of the southern part of the continent with good interior detail for the period. The route of 18th century explorations are shown along with notations c...
Place & Date: Amsterdam c. 1745
L'Amerique Meridionale Dressée sur les Observations . . .
Detailed map of South America prepared by De L'Isle, with fine title cartouche.
- $500 / ≈ €468
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1745
Amérique Méridionale.
Nice small map of South America. Dated 1748. From Atlas Portatif Universel, by Robert de Vaugondy.Page 105 outside border top right. Mary Sponberg Pedley does not mention...
- $75 / ≈ €70
Place & Date: Paris, later than 1748
Partie Orientale de la Terre Ferme ou l'on trouve la Guiane.
Nice small map encompassing a large area between the Orinoco and the River Amazon.From Atlas Portatif Universel, by Robert de Vaugondy.Page 107 outside border top right. ...
- $75 / ≈ €70
Place & Date: Paris, later than 1749
Terre de Sainte Croix, nommée à présent Bresil.
Detailed small map showing most part of the Brazilian seacoasts, from the mouth of the Amazon River as far as the island of Sao Sebastiao.From Atlas Portatif Universel, b...
- $75 / ≈ €70
Place & Date: Paris, later than 1749
Amerique méridionale. . .
Detailled map of South America from his "Atlas Universel".Gilles Robert de Vaugondy (1688–1766), also known as Le Sieur or Monsieur Robert, and his son, Didie...
- $150 / ≈ €140
Place & Date: Paris, 1750
Typus Geographicus Chili Paraguay Freti Magellanici &c.
Detailed map covering the southern part of the continent based on the cartography of Delisle and the information gleaned from the voyages of Brouwer, Narbouroug and Beauc...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 1750
Plan de la ville de Buenos-Ayres.
Early plan of Buenos-Ayres city. Across the top is an extensive list of 22 important sites and locations keyed to the plan with tiny letters and numbers.Jacques Nicolaas ...
- $300 / ≈ €281
Place & Date: Paris, 1750
Carte de La Riviere de la Plata . . .
Map of La Plata Riviera. Across the top is an extensive list of 22 important sites and locations keyed to the plan with tiny letters and numbers.Jacques Nicolas Bellin (1...
- $350 / ≈ €328
Place & Date: Paris, 1750
Suite de Perou Audience de Lima.
Uncommon edition of this accurate map showing the southern Peruvian coast, the ranges and villages of numerous Indian tribes are shown.FromAtlas Portatif pour servir a l'...
- $100 / ≈ €94
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1756
L'amerique meridionale dressee sur les memoires le plus recens. . .
Rare and decorative map of South America with good detail and interesting notations concerning the explorations of the interior. With in the lower right corner a title ca...
- $550 / ≈ €515
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1757
America Meridionalis.
This is the more scarce edition with the title cartouche lower left surrounded by Neptune and a native Indian.A rather accurate depiction and descriptions of South Americ...
- $550 / ≈ €515
Place & Date: Augsburg, c. 1760
America Meridionalis.
The title cartouche lower left surrounded by native Indians and an Elephant.A rather accurate depiction and descriptions of South America. Brazil is slightly enlarged and...
Place & Date: Augsburg, c. 1760
Carte de la Guyane Françoise et l'Isle de Cayenne..
A well engraved and highly detailed chart of French Guiana and the island of Cayenne. Made in 1763 by Jacques Bellin (1703-72), a prolific cartographer assigned the Minis...
- $500 / ≈ €468
Place & Date: Paris, 1763
Nieuwe gemeten kaart van de colonie de Berbice met der zelver plantagiën en de namen der Bezitters. . .
Re-issue of his map from 1740, without the printed list of owners, with a large added contemp. hand-colored cartouche Relaas van de rebellie, ontstaan op de plantagien in...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca.1763
Carte du Bresil Prem.Partie...
Uncommon edition of this accurate map of the eastern part of Brazil.From Atlas Portatif pour servir a l'intelligence de l'Histoire Philosophique et Politique des etabliss...
- $100 / ≈ €94
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1773
Carte du Bresil Prem. Partie..
Uncommon edition of this accurate map of eastern part of Brazil. In lower right engraved 29a.From Atlas Portatif pour servir a l''''intelligence de l''''Histoire Philosop...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1773
Carte du Cours du Maragnon ou .. Amazones..
Uncommon edition of this map of the river Amazon. In lower right engraved "30."From Atlas Portatif pour servir a l'intelligence de l'Histoire Philosophique et P...
- $75 / ≈ €70
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1773
Carte de L'Isle de Caiene et de ses environs.
Uncommon edition of this accurate map of Cayenne. In lower right engraved "31."From Atlas Portatif pour servir a l'intelligence de l'Histoire Philosophique et P...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1773
Vue de la Rade et de la Ville de Paramaribo.
A very decorative panoramic view of the town with a large Dutch vessel in the foreground. Engraved by Noach van der Meer Junior. Included in a Dutch edition of "Hist...
- $200 / ≈ €187
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1774
L'America meridionale divisa nei suoi principali stati.
Rare map of south America, from "Atlante Novissimo ad uso Dei Giovani Studiosi Contenuto In Carte XXVII.", published by Giovanni Zempel in Rome, ca. 1780.The ma...
- $100 / ≈ €94
Place & Date: Rome, 1780
Carte du Bresil le Perou. . .
Scarce map of Northern part of South America with Venezuela, Colombia, Brazil and Peru, prepared by Nolin and published by L.J. Mondhare for his Atlas Général a l'usage...
- $125 / ≈ €117
Place & Date: Paris, 1781
Karte der Magellanischen-Strasse. . .
Very detailed map of Strait of Magellan, with in top inset map of Southern tip of South America with the Falklands. Prepared by Don Juan de La Cruz of Spain.Engraved by J...
- $600 / ≈ €561
Place & Date: Vienna, 1789
L'Amerique selon l'Etendue de Ses Principales Parties et don't les Points Principaux. . .
Uncommon map of South America, decorated with an elaborate cartouche referring to the conversion of the natives to Christianity, with natives bowing to a figure holding a...
- $600 / ≈ €561
Place & Date: Augsburg, ca. 1790
Uomo del Paraguai nell' America Meridionalle. / Homme du Paraguai dans l'Amerique Meridionalle.
Full portrait of a Paraguayan hunter. From "Raccolta di ? stampe." a series of historically significant eighteenth-century copper plate engravings by Venetian e...
- $250 / ≈ €234
Place & Date: Venice, Antonio Zatta, c.1790
Indiana del Perù. / Indienne du Perou.
Portrait of a Peruvian Indian woman holding a fruit basket and a lama in background. From "Raccolta di ? stampe." a series of historically significant eighteent...
- $300 / ≈ €281
Place & Date: Venice, Antonio Zatta, c.1790
Dona del Regno di Granata. / Femme du Roy.me de Granade.
Full portrait of a woman from Grenada region is situated on Lake Nicaragua. From "Raccolta di ? stampe." a series of historically significant eighteenth-century...
- $250 / ≈ €234
Place & Date: Venice, Antonio Zatta, c.1790
Uomo del Canale di Noël della terra del Fuoco, nel Mar Australe. / Homme du Canal de Noël de la terre de Feu dans la Mer Australe.
Full portrait of a man from the Tierra del Fuego. From "Raccolta di ? stampe." a series of historically significant eighteenth-century copper plate engravings b...
- $250 / ≈ €234
Place & Date: Venice, Antonio Zatta, c.1790
Donna dell' Isola di Pasqua, o terra di Davis nel Mar del Sud. / Femme de l' Isle de Pâques ou terre de Davis dans la Mer du Sud.
Full portrait of a woman, a native of the Easter Island. From "Raccolta di ? stampe." a series of historically significant eighteenth-century copper plate engra...
- $350 / ≈ €328
Place & Date: Venice, Antonio Zatta, c.1790
Uomo dell' Isola di Pasqua o Terra di Davis nel Mar del Sud. / Homme de l' Isle de Pâquesou Terra de Davis dans la Mer du Sud.
Full portrait of a native from the Easter Island. From "Raccolta di ? stampe." a series of historically significant eighteenth-century copper plate engravings b...
- $300 / ≈ €281
Place & Date: Venice, Antonio Zatta, c.1790
Uomo del Perù. / Homme du Perou.
Full portrait of a Peruvian warrior. From “Raccolta di … stampe.” a series of historically significant eighteenth-century copper plate engravings by Venetian engrav...
Place & Date: Venice, Antonio Zatta, c.1790
Guyana, Surinam, Amapa.
Very rare Ottoman printed map of Guyana, Suriname and Amapa. With Trinidad, an inset map of the mouth of the Rivers Essequibo, Courantyne, Suriname with Paramaribo.From C...
Place & Date: Üsküdar (Istanbul), 1803
Géographie des Plantes Equinoxiales - Tableau physique des Andes et pays voisins. . .
Physical Portrait of the Andes and adjacent lands", organized around the Chimborazo and Cotopaxi volcanoes in Ecuador.With local vegetation is illustrated pictoriall...
- $1000 / ≈ €936
Place & Date: Paris, 1805
Paraguay, Chili, Terre Magellan ?
Map of Paraguay, Chili, and Argentina . By C. F. Delamarche, successor of Robert de Vaugondy, Geographer.
Place & Date: Paris, 1794 -1806
L'Amérique Méridionale, Divisée en ses Principaux Etats.
Map of South America, from Atlas de la Géographie de toutes les parties du monde .. Ouvrage destiné pour l'education, et nécessaire aux négocians, aux voyageurs, aux ...
Place & Date: Paris, Prudhomme, Levrault, Debray, 1806
Carte Geographique, Statistique et Historique de l'Amerique Meridionale.
A nice detailed map of South America from Buchon's Atlas Gégraphique Statistique, historique et chronologique des deux Ameriques et des isles adjacentes traduit de l'atl...
Place & Date: Paris, 1825
Carte Geographique, Statistique et Historique du Perou.
A nice detailed map of Peru from Buchon's Atlas Gégraphique Statistique, historique et chronologique des deux Ameriques et des isles adjacentes traduit de l'atlas exécu...
Place & Date: Paris, 1825
Carte Geographique, Statistique et Historique de Buenos-Ayres.
A nice detailed map of what is today northern Argentina (Rep. of Buenos Ayres or the United Provinces of South America) from Buchon's Atlas Gégraphique Statistique, hist...
Place & Date: Paris, 1825
Carte Geographique, Statistique et Historique de la Guyane.
A nice detailed map of Guyana from Buchon's Atlas Gégraphique Statistique, historique et chronologique des deux Ameriques et des isles adjacentes traduit de l'atlas exé...
Place & Date: Paris, 1825
Carte Geographique, Statistique et Historique du Paraguay.
A nice detailed map of Paraguay from Buchon's Atlas Gégraphique Statistique, historique et chronologique des deux Ameriques et des isles adjacentes traduit de l'atlas ex...
Place & Date: Paris, 1825
Carte Geographique, Statistique et Historique du Bresil.
A nice detailed map of Brazil from Buchon's Atlas Gégraphique Statistique, historique et chronologique des deux Ameriques et des isles adjacentes traduit de l'atlas exé...
Place & Date: Paris, 1825
Prvinces des Jésuites dans l'Amerique méridionale.
Rare map of South America from "Atlas Universel indiquant les établissemens des Jésuites: avec la manière dont ils divisent la terre, suivi desévénemens remarqu...
- $200 / ≈ €187
Place & Date: Paris, Ambroise Dupont , 1826
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[Human sacrifices by Peruvian Indians ].
Aquatint depicting human sacrifices by Peruvian Indians. Engraved by Gallina.From Giulio Ferrario's work Le Costume Ancien et Moderne ou Histoire du gouvernement, de la m...
Place & Date: Milan, 1827
Selling price: $20
Sold in 2016
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[The Callo Palace ].
Aquatint depicting Peruvian Inca Palace called Callo.Engraved by Fumagalli.From Giulio Ferrario's work Le Costume Ancien et Moderne ou Histoire du gouvernement, de la mil...
- $80 / ≈ €75
Place & Date: Milan, 1827
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[The Callo Palace.]
Aquatint depicting upper portion of print an Inca Palace near Cannar in the province of Quito in Peru. Bottom portion a plan of the palace (70 x 160).Engraved by Fumagall...
- $80 / ≈ €75
Place & Date: Milan, 1827
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[Spanish Sheppard's in Paraguay ].
Aquatint depicting Spanish Sheppard's in Paraguay.Engraved by Gallina.From Giulio Ferrario's work Le Costume Ancien et Moderne ou Histoire du gouvernement, de la milice, ...
- $50 / ≈ €47
Place & Date: Milan, 1827