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![[How the Indians mined the silver at Pitosi.]](/uploads/cache/40482-250x250.jpg)
[How the Indians mined the silver at Pitosi.]
The mountain shown here is probably the Cerro Rico, which stand above the city of Potosà and has the distinction of being the richest mountain in all the Americas. The I...
- $100 / ≈ €94
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
![[How the Indians cured the Spanish thirst for gold....by pouring it down their throats!]](/uploads/cache/40483-250x250.jpg)
[How the Indians cured the Spanish thirst for gold....by pouring it down their throats!]
A brutal scene depicting native Indians tying down Spanish men and pouring liquid gold down their throats. Scenes of cannibalism in the background.In 1631 Johann Ludwig G...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
![[The dogs of Vasco Nunez de Balboa attacking native Indians]](/uploads/cache/40484-250x250.jpg)
[The dogs of Vasco Nunez de Balboa attacking native Indians]
A brutal scene in which the dogs of the Spanish explorer Vasco Nunez de Balboa, ferociously attack native Indians, while the Spanish look on.In 1631 Johann Ludwig Gottfri...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
![De Sota meets the Inca king near Cajamarca.]](/uploads/cache/40485-250x250.jpg)
De Sota meets the Inca king near Cajamarca.]
When the Spanish arrived in Cajamarca, they found only a few inhabitants. The Inca army was camped in the surrounding hills and the residence of the Inca king, Atahualpa,...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
![[Vespucci lands on the Island of Itius.]](/uploads/cache/40486-250x250.jpg)
[Vespucci lands on the Island of Itius.]
According to the esteemed historian, Las Casas,‘Itius cannot be other than the islands we reach coming from Spain, named Guadeloupe and Dominica.When Vespucci and his S...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
![Praelium Divrnum. [Spanish fleet defeated by the Dutch] / Nocturnum Praelium [Dutch and Spanish at sea off Lima].](/uploads/cache/41087-250x250.jpg)
Praelium Divrnum. [Spanish fleet defeated by the Dutch] / Nocturnum Praelium [Dutch and Spanish at sea off Lima].
Two engravings. [498] On the evening of 17th July, 1615, Spilbergen’s Dutch fleet encountered, off the coast of Peru near Lima, the powerful fleet of the Spanish, under...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
![[Spilbergen's fleet visits the island of Santa Maria] / [The Dutch visit Isla Mocha].](/uploads/cache/41090-250x250.jpg)
[Spilbergen's fleet visits the island of Santa Maria] / [The Dutch visit Isla Mocha].
Two engravings. [514] On 29th May, 1615, Spilbergen’s fleet anchored further north, off an island called Santa MarÃa that was separated by a narrow stretch of water (A...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
![[Spanish take over Cusco] / [Atahualpa is garrotted].](/uploads/cache/41092-250x250.jpg)
[Spanish take over Cusco] / [Atahualpa is garrotted].
Two engravings. [486] After Atahualpa was killed, Pizarro set out with his troops to find the city of Cuzco, which he had heard was rich in gold. The journey from Cajamar...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
![[The bloody battle at Chupas] / [Francesco Pizzaro is killed].](/uploads/cache/41093-250x250.jpg)
[The bloody battle at Chupas] / [Francesco Pizzaro is killed].
Two engravings. [492] Even before Pizarro’s death, a new royal governor, Vaca de Castro, was on his way to settle the turmoil in Peru. He refused to accept Almagro the ...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
![[How the Inca nobility are buried] / [Bridge of Huaynacapaco]](/uploads/cache/41094-250x250.jpg)
[How the Inca nobility are buried] / [Bridge of Huaynacapaco]
Two engravings. [470] The funeral of an Inca king was a ceremony of great splendor. After digging a large pit, the Indians would decorate the corpse with gold and silver ...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
![[How natives of Paria cope with illness] / Vespucci reaches Lake Maracaibo]..](/uploads/cache/41095-250x250.jpg)
[How natives of Paria cope with illness] / Vespucci reaches Lake Maracaibo]..
Two engravings. [421b] When the natives of those parts, they were bathed in a cold stream, then chased round a blazing fire until they had dried out. Then they were put t...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
![[A prisoner of the Indians of Tupinamba, covered in feathers . . .]](/uploads/cache/41101-250x250.jpg)
[A prisoner of the Indians of Tupinamba, covered in feathers . . .]
A graphic scene of fighting and extreme violence. One man is seen covered in feathers, before being sacrificed and killed before the Brazilian tribe of Tupinamba. In 1631...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
![[The description of Horn's Island].](/uploads/cache/41103-250x250.jpg)
[The description of Horn's Island].
This was a charming and beautiful island, full of coconuts, upas-root and wild pigs, which the natives either offered or sold to the Dutch. The natives seemed very wild a...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
![[The Dutch are received at another island in Samoa].](/uploads/cache/41105-250x250.jpg)
[The Dutch are received at another island in Samoa].
On visiting another island [in Samoa] the Dutch were made heartily welcome by the king and all the inhabitants. A king of another neighbouring island also called to meet ...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
![[The adventures of the Dutch at 'Bottomless' island in Samoa].](/uploads/cache/41106-250x250.jpg)
[The adventures of the Dutch at 'Bottomless' island in Samoa].
The Dutch arrived at an island [in Samoa] fringed with wild vines on which there were native men with long hair and native women with short hair. Because the water surrou...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
![[John Smith caught by the French].](/uploads/cache/41114-250x250.jpg)
[John Smith caught by the French].
In 1615, during one of John Smith’s voyages across the Atlantic, he was caught by some French pirates. While at sea in captivity he was forced to suffer great hardships...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
![[Another Dutch fleet reaches Lima].](/uploads/cache/41117-250x250.jpg)
[Another Dutch fleet reaches Lima].
In 1624 a heavily armed Dutch fleet sailed from the Juan Fernandez Islands to Lima. The leader of the fleet, Jacob l’Hermite, was in such poor health that he had to han...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
(Native population of Tierra del Fuego attacking some Dutchmen)
Native population of Tierra del Fuego attacking some Dutchmen. In the background anchored ships. Illustrating the account of the expedition of Jacobus L'Hermite.With nati...
- $100 / ≈ €94
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
Composite atlas of the Low Countries.
A unique, made-to-order atlas comprising 18 double-page engraved maps by or after Hessel Gerritsz, Theodoor Galle, Jacob van Deventer, Gerard Mercator, Peter Verbiest, Je...
Place & Date: [Antwerp, c. 1633
Turcici Imperii Imago.
A very decorative map. On top of title cartouche the portrait of Sultan Mahumet Turcorum Imperat .More about Mapping of Arabia [+]
- $1000 / ≈ €936
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1633
![[Title page] Cartes particulières des costes de France de la mer mediterrannée . . .](/uploads/cache/48048-250x250.jpg)
[Title page] Cartes particulières des costes de France de la mer mediterrannée . . .
Title page by Tassin for the atlas " Cartes particulières des costes de France de la mer mediterrannée. . .".
Place & Date: Paris, 1633
Nassovia comitatus.
Elegantly engraved map of the region including Koblenz, Sigen and Dillenburg. The mountainous topography is graphically depicted and there is a coats of arms in the corne...
- $100 / ≈ €94
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1634
Novus XVII Inferioris Germaniae Provinciarum Typus.
Willem Blaeu published this map in 1608 as a wall map with figured borders. When later, in 1630 he needed a general map of the Netherlands for his first atlas, the Append...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1634
Tractus Danubii, Fluminis in Europa Maximi, A Fontibus, Per Germaniam. . .
This is Blaeu’s first map of the Danube and surrounding regions. The Danube River runs through the map from the top left with its headwaters in the German Black Forest ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1634
Russia cum Confinijs.
Charming small map of European Russia. Nicely detailed including engraved forests and mountains and embellished with two strapwork cartouches. Latin text on verso.
- $220 / ≈ €206
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1634
![[Title page] Premiere partie Les plans et profilz de toutes les principales villes et lieux considerables de France . . .](/uploads/cache/41392-250x250.jpg)
[Title page] Premiere partie Les plans et profilz de toutes les principales villes et lieux considerables de France . . .
Title page from "Premiere partie Les plans et profilz de toutes les principales villes et lieux considerables de France . . ." In lower left corner a little cir...
- $75 / ≈ €70
Place & Date: Paris, 1634
![[Title page] Les plans et profils de toutes les principales villes et lieux considerables de France . . .](/uploads/cache/48026-250x250.jpg)
[Title page] Les plans et profils de toutes les principales villes et lieux considerables de France . . .
Title page of the first part of the atlas "Les plans et profils de toutes les principales villes et lieux considerables de France", by Nicolas Tassin.Nicolas Ta...
Place & Date: Paris, 1634
![[Title page] Les plans et profils de toutes les principales villes et lieux considerables de France . . .](/uploads/cache/48027-250x250.jpg)
[Title page] Les plans et profils de toutes les principales villes et lieux considerables de France . . .
Title page of the first tome of the atlas "Les plans et profils de toutes les principales villes et lieux considerables de France", by Nicolas Tassin.Read more ...
- $150 / ≈ €140
Place & Date: Paris, 1634
![[Title page] Cartes generale et particulières de toutes les costes de France. . .](/uploads/cache/48047-250x250.jpg)
[Title page] Cartes generale et particulières de toutes les costes de France. . .
Title page by Tassin for the atlas "Cartes generale et particulières de toutes les costes de France. . .".
Place & Date: Paris, 1634
![[Set of 14 title pages] Les plans et profils de toutes les principales villes et lieux considerables de France . . .](/uploads/cache/48028-250x250.jpg)
[Set of 14 title pages] Les plans et profils de toutes les principales villes et lieux considerables de France . . .
Set of 14 title pages of the first part of the atlas "Les plans et profils de toutes les principales villes et lieux considerables de France", by Nicolas Tassin...
- $150 / ≈ €140
Place & Date: Paris, 1634
Comitatus Zutphania.
With an inset a plan of the town of Zutphen. Originally published by Petrus Kaerius in 1617. Published by Visscher in his "Belgium sive Germania Inferior continens p...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1634
Osnabrugensis Episcopatus.
Originally engraved for Jodocus Hondius II, at his death in August 1629 this map was, among 39 other copper plates, purchased by Willem Blaeu who deleted Hondius' name an...
- $150 / ≈ €140
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1634
Paraguay o Prov. de Rio de la Plata cum regionibus adiacentibus Tucuman et Sta. Cruz de la Sierra.
Blaeu's map of the Rio de la Plata region of South America. Originally engraved for Jodocus Hondius II, at his death in August 1629 this map was, among 39 other copper pl...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1634
Waldeck Comitatus.
FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE OF THIS MAP. From the 1634 edition of Blaeu's Atlas Novus, the first edition of this work.Important early map of Waldeck. Attractive coat of ar...
- $100 / ≈ €94
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1634
Westphalia Ducatus.
Originally engraved for Jodocus Hondius II, at his death in August 1629 this map was, among 39 other copper plates,purchased by Willem Blaeu who deleted Hondius' name and...
- $100 / ≈ €94
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1634
Franconia vulgo Franckenlandt.
FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE OF THIS MAP. From the 1634 edition of Blaeu's Atlas Novus, the first edition of this work.Map highlights all the major cities of this region li...
- $100 / ≈ €94
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1634
Mansfeldia Comitatus. . .
FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE OF THIS MAP. From the 1634 edition of Blaeu's Atlas Novus, the first edition of this work.Centered on Mansfeld and its surrounding region, this...
- $100 / ≈ €94
Place & Date: Amsterdam,1634
Mantua ducatus.
Originally engraved for Jodocus Hondius II, at his death in August 1629 this map was, among 39 other copper plates, purchased by Willem Blaeu who deleted Hondius' name an...
- $300 / ≈ €281
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1634
Carte Generale des Dixet Sept Provinces des Pays Bas.
Rare map of the Low Countries, including Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg after Tassin and offered for sale by the publisher N. Berey.
- $650 / ≈ €608
Place & Date: Paris, 1634
Tractus Danubii, Fluminis in Europa Maximi, A Fontibus, Per Germaniam. . .
This is Blaeu’s first map of the Danube and surrounding regions. The Danube River runs through the map from the top left with its headwaters in the German Black Forest ...
- $2000 / ≈ €1871
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1634
Wirtenberg Ducatus.
FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE OF THIS MAP. From the 1634 edition of Blaeu's Atlas Novus, the first edition of this work. PROOF STATE with blank upper right corner, only incl...
- $100 / ≈ €94
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1634
Prussiae nova tabula.
The map features a bold title cartouche, a ship, compass rose and a sea monster in the Baltic Sea. As indicated in the title cartouche, the map was prepared by the German...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1634
Selling price: $80
Sold in 2015
Sardinia Insula.
FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE OF THIS MAP. Map of the Italian island of Sardinia in a copper engraving on a sheet with letterpress with German text description of the island...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1634
Corsica.
FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE OF THIS MAP. Blaeu's map of the French island of Corsica. East on top. A detailed and well executed map.From an incomplete example of the 1634 ...
- $500 / ≈ €468
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1634
Hassia Landgraviatus.
FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE OF THIS MAP. From the 1634 edition of Blaeu's Atlas Novus, the first edition of this work.Important map of Hesse in Germany, centered on the to...
- $100 / ≈ €94
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1634
Turcicum Imperium.
Early map of Turkey, the Arabian peninsula and eastern part of the Mediterranean.From the English edition of Mercator's Atlas Minor. This edition 1635. English text on ve...
- $400 / ≈ €374
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1635
Constantinopolitanae urbis effigies ad vivum expressa, quam Turcae Stampoldam vocant. A° MDCXXXV.
Large, decorative view of the city of Constantinople, with legend across the bottom. It is beautifully engraved with quaint scenes of everyday life, including hunters wit...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1635
Mantua ducatus.
Important map of northern Italy centered on the dramatic fortress of Mantua.
- $300 / ≈ €281
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1635
Natolia, quae olim Asia minor.
A finely designed map of Turkey and Cyprus from the great Blaeu family of Amsterdam. The decoration consist of a colored title cartouche, sea monsters, a naval engagement...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1635
Ducatus Holsatiae nova tabula.
Finely engraved map centered on the area north of Hamburg and Lubeck with two insets. This is a second state of a map initially made by Jodocus Hondius.
- $250 / ≈ €234
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1635
Ultraiectum Dominium.
Highly detailed map of Utrecht and its surroundings of The Netherlands.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca 1635
Mappa Aestivarum Insularum alias Barmudas.
Blaeu based his work on John Speed's remarkably accurate map of 1626-1627. It shows the island divided into tribes and lots, and below the map itself appear the names of ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1635
Insulae Americanae in Oceano Septentrionali cum Terris adiacentibus.
General map of the West Indies extending from Virginia to the mouth of the Orinoco, and destined to be copied in various shapes by many other publishers. Title cartouche ...
- $1000 / ≈ €936
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1635
Asia secunda pars in forma Pegasi.
UNRECORDED PLATE or STATE. Asia depicted as the flying horse Pegasus. Below the depiction 3 lines of engraved Latin text. Double page copper engraved map from Heinrich BÃ...
Place & Date: Brunswick, ca. 1635
![Zurichgow et Basiliensis Provincia [ Zurich].](/uploads/cache/60807-250x250.jpg)
Zurichgow et Basiliensis Provincia [ Zurich].
Finely engraved map including the towns of Basel, Lucerne, Zurich, etc.
- $400 / ≈ €374
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1635
Typus Frisiae Orientalis.
Finely engraved map of east Frisia in Germany with the Watten islands. With inset map of the area south of Emden. Prepared by Ubbo Emmius (1547-1625). A very decorative t...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1635
De Hertochdommen Gulick Cleve Berghe en de Graefschappen...
It is one of Blaeu's early maps: It was only published between 1630 and 1635 in three editions of the "Appendix" and one of the "Theatrum". In the lef...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1635
Franconia vulgo Franckenlandt.
Fine copy centered on Bamberg, Nuremberg, Würzburg, and Nuremberg. French text on verso. Würzburg is the main city in Franconian wine country. Grapevines cover the stee...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1635
Tabula Russiae ex autographo, quod delineandum curavit Foedor filius Tzaris Boris desums... - Domino regionum Iueriae Kartalinie et Groefiniae Tzari etc: dedicata ab Heselo Gerardo M.DC.XIIII
A re-issue, by Willem Blaeu, of Hessel Gerritsz' rare and influential map of Russia. Dutch text on verso, extending west to east from Emden to Aspachan and north to south...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1635
Nouvelle et exacte Carte du Duche de Brabant. . .
A very rare example of a map of the duchy of Brabant. Title cartouche in the lower left-hand corner. A very rare issue of this map of Brabant. Cornelis Danckerts II. copi...
- $800 / ≈ €749
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1635
La Flamboyante Colomne des Pays-Bas. Autrement dict les XVII Provinces. Chez Jacob Colom.
Rare atlas of the Low Countries, by Jacob Colom, in an early – first- French edition. The atlas was first printed in Dutch (1635) and than in 1636 in French, using the ...
- $3000 / ≈ €2807
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1636
Germaniae nova et accurata delineatio.. 1631.
Striking example of Hondius' map of the German Empire, extending from the Low Countries in the Northwest to the Baltic, Poland and Russia in the Northeast and Italy and t...
- $400 / ≈ €374
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1636
Amstelodamum, Celebre Emporium Forma Plana.
Second state of this rare and decorative plan of Amsterdam with Visscher's imprint. With a panoramic view seen from the IJ and further insets of Council House, The Exchan...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, c. 1636
Asiae Nova Descriptio.
Final State of Pieter Van Den Keere's Rare Map of Asia -- The first map of Asia to include decorative panels. Published by N.J.Visscher and engraved by Abraham Goos, embe...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1636
Asiae Nova Descriptio.
Final State of Pieter Van Den Keere's Rare Map of Asia--The first map of Asia to include decorative panels. Published by H.J.Visscher and engraved by Abraham Goos, embell...
- $3000 / ≈ €2807
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1636
Russia cum confinijs.
A rare map of Russia in a first edition. In the second state the coastline of Scandinavia is completed, the title changed and the name of the engraver Dirck Cornelissen S...
- $250 / ≈ €234
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Cloppenburgh, 1630-1636
Loudunois. Laudunum / Mirebalais.
Two maps on one sheet. Centered on Loudun and Mirebeau. Showing lower left cartouche putti playing with grapes.German text on verso.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, after 1636
St Tropez.
Published by Nicolas Tassin in "Les Plans et Profilz de toutes principalles Villes et lieux considerable de France." The first edition of this work was publish...
- $100 / ≈ €94
Place & Date: Paris, Sébastien Cramoisy, 1636
Ducatus Limburg.
A very rare issue of this map of Limburg. Cornelis Danckerts II. copied the folio map of H.Hondius.The publisher's address was placed in the lower right-hand corner. The ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1636
Carte generale d'Hespagne.
Rare map of Spain and Portugal from "Theatre des Gaules". In lower right corner a little inset of Cadiz.Very rare in original color.
- $600 / ≈ €561
Place & Date: Paris, 1637
Romani Imperii Oriens est Descriptio Geographica. . .
A fine map of the Near East. The map was first published by Tavernier and later by Mariette. This edition is dated 1637 with the address of Pierre Mariette at rue S. Jacq...
- $150 / ≈ €140
Place & Date: Paris, after 1637
Description de la Terre Ste a laquelle A esté adjouté Diverses Observations 1637.
Very rare map of the Holy Land published by Jean Boisseau and engraved by H. Picart in Paris. "A Paris Chez Iean Boisseau en lisle du Palais sur le quay qui regarde ...
- $2500 / ≈ €2339
Place & Date: Paris, 1637
Roma dentium Domina.
Rare map of Europe during the Roman Empire. In upper right corner inset map of the area around Rome "Imperium Romanum Nasces (305x250mm.) Prepared by P.Briet and pub...
- $1500 / ≈ €1404
Place & Date: Paris, 1637
Description de la Terre Ste a laquelle A esté adjouté Diverses Observations.
Very rare map of the Holy Land published by Jean Boisseau and engraved by H. Picart in Paris. "A Paris Chez Iean Boisseau en lisle du Palais sur le quay qui regarde ...
- $4000 / ≈ €3743
Place & Date: Paris, 1637
Comitatus Zutphania.
A very detailed map of this area, including Arnhem, Nijmegen, Zutphen, Groenlo, etc. First imprint, from a Latin edition of the scarce Atlas Appendix.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1637
Carte Generalle de la Germanie.
A rare map of the whole Germany. Very decorative title cartouche on the lower left-hand corner.With the mention A Paris chez Nicolas Berey Enlumineur de la Reine, Demeura...
- $1000 / ≈ €936
Place & Date: Paris, 1638
Guinea.
An attractive map covered with intersecting rhumb lines and decorated with monkeys, lions, elephants and native figures. With a dedication to Dr. Nicolas Tulp.As Willem B...
- $750 / ≈ €702
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1638
Histoire de la Navigation.
A fine example of Linschoten's classic illustrated travelogue to the East and West Indies, termed by Lach “the most important of the firsthand accounts published indepe...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Evert Cloppenburgh, 1638
![[Title page] Atlantis Novi Pars Secunda, exhibens Germaniam inferiorem, Galliam, Helvetiam, atque Hispaniam.](/uploads/cache/43277-250x250.jpg)
[Title page] Atlantis Novi Pars Secunda, exhibens Germaniam inferiorem, Galliam, Helvetiam, atque Hispaniam.
Highly decorative, and finely engraved architectural façade with figures topped with an armillary sphere.. The title is printed on a paste-on slip. Some elements highlig...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1638
Malta maris medit.inf.
The representation of the town of Valletta on MaltaMeisner added in its center point a metaphorical representation of a medical doctor speaking out a baroque sentence of ...
- $400 / ≈ €374
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1638