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Candia cum Insulis.. Corfu Zante, Milo, Nicsia, Santorini.
Four views on one sheet: A large map of Crete, with three smaller views across the top showing the Ionian Islands of Kerkira (Corfu), Cephalonia and Zakinthos (Zante.) Th...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1630
Sclavonia, Croatia, Bosnia cum Dalmatiae parte.
Nice map of the Eastern Balkans with the political divisions of Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Dalmatia.Mercator was born in Rupelmonde in Flanders and studied in Louvain ...
- $300 / ≈ €281
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1630
Das Wiflispurgergov.
In lower right Geneva and Lake Geneva with Lausanne. In center of map the cantons of Fribourg and Bern.
- $350 / ≈ €328
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1630
Oldenburg Comitatus
A map of the northern part of Germany centered on Oldenburg. Also showing Bremen. North to the right. The decoration consists with a windrose and a title cartouche surmou...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1629-1630
Ducatus Luneburgensis
Very detailed map centered on Albis river and the cities of Hamburg and Lunburg to the north. Also showing Bremen.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1629-1630
Pas-Caert vande ghelegetheyt vande Schans te Santvliet, Vertoonede de verdroncken overwaeterde Landen, nieuw aengewasse gorsingen,. . .
Showing the surrounding countryside of the cities of Antwerp, Santvliet, Lillo, Bergen op zoom, etc. The map is ponctuated by several fortifications to indicate the main ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1630
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...
- $600 / ≈ €561
Place & Date: Leiden, Elzevier, 1630
Meklenburg Ducatus.
Very detailed map of the northern part of Germany decorated with a coat of arms, a windrose and two saling ships.From the rare atlas Appendix, published in a very small n...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1629-1630
Belgii sive Germaniae Inferioris accuratissima tabula.
Very rare and very decorative map with in the right and left borders costumed figures and town plans alternately. In top and bottom border town plans and views.Separate p...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1631
(Zeeland)
Rare map of Zeeland, first issued by Petrus Kaerius, than by Claes Jansz. Visscher. The copper plate was previously made by an anonymous engraver, and than came into the ...
- $1050 / ≈ €983
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1631
Description du Gouvernement de la CAPPELLE. Par P. Petit Bourbon.
RARE without text on verso. Decorative map of Cappellein the region of the Nord-Pas-de-Calais in France with three decorative cartouches.The map of Cappelle is by Pierre ...
- $150 / ≈ €140
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1631
Description de nouveau pasage vers le zud.... together with an untitled map of Port Desire (today's Puerto Deseado, Argentina)
Rare double hemispherical world map showing the track round the world by Le Maire and Schouten in 1615-1617. Continents are marked in outline and no southern regions are ...
- $1500 / ≈ €1404
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1631
Vligen Insel.
Scarce print (168x200mm.) on a German text sheet showing the attack of mosquitos on Schouten's ship.The page is taken from a first edition of Johann Ludwig Gottfried's &q...
- $75 / ≈ €70
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M. Merian, 1631
![[The attack by Schouten and his men on a waka.]](/uploads/cache/39754-250x250.jpg)
[The attack by Schouten and his men on a waka.]
Scarce print (145x210mm.) on a German text sheet showing the attack by Schouten and his men on a waka.The page is taken from a first edition of Johann Ludwig Gottfried's ...
- $150 / ≈ €140
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1631
Description du Gouvernement de la CAPPELLE. Par P. Petit Bourbon.
Decorative map of Cappellein the region of the Nord-Pas-de-Calais in France with three decorative cartouches.The map of Cappelle is by Pierre Petit Bourbon (1598-1667), m...
- $100 / ≈ €94
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1631
Cocos Insel Cocos Insula / Verräter Insel Insula proditorum.
Scarce print (148x204mm.) on a German text sheet showing the landing of Le Maire and Schouten at Cocos Island in May 1616 (today’s Tafahi in the Tonga Islands). Named b...
- $150 / ≈ €140
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1631
Zeelandiae Comitatus.
Rare map of Zeeland, with inset view of the town of Middelburg topped with costumed figures. This is the second edition published by Claes Jansz. Visscher. The first edit...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1617-1631
Bresse.
Early map of Eastern France with Lyon to the lower left corner and part of Switzerland. Geneva in upper right corner. Engraved by Hondius. From a French composite atlas.R...
- $150 / ≈ €140
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1631
Belovacium comitatus.
Early map centered north of Paris. With Latin text on verso. Engraved by Petrus Kaerius. Shortly after the publication of big folio-atlases the need was apparently felt f...
- $75 / ≈ €70
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1632
Asia recens summa cura delineata.
This is the rare early issue with decorative paneled borders. In upper border views and plans of Famagusta, Rhodos, Damascus, Jerusalem, Aden and Ormus. Originally engrav...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1632
Nova Germaniae Descriptio..
A finely engraved carte à figures, with the side borders depicting emperors, while the upper and lower panels contain finely engraved miniature town prospects, among the...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1632
Pere Grinatie. De Reijse der Kinderen Israels so zij wt Egip . . . Africa - SW coast Table Bay surveyed by Mr F Skead Master RN assisted by Mr Charles Watermeyer 1858-60
Very rare separately map of the Holy Land engraved by Joannes van Doetecum Jr.In lower right corner inset with title cartouche surrounded by Aaron, the encampment of the ...
- $3500 / ≈ €3275
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1598, The Hague, 1632
Ducatus Iuliacensis, Cliviensis, Montensis. et Comitatus Marciae et Rapens-Bergae finitimaeque eis Regiones de novo accurate in lucem editae. per Nicolaum I. Piscatorem. t'Amsterdam Gedruckt bij Claes Ianß. Visscher. Anno 1633.': .
Claes Visscher map of the German Duchies Jülich, Cleves, Berg with the County of Mark. - Bottom right is an inset map the country around Ravensberg. Top left is a pretty...
- $250 / ≈ €234
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1632
Totius Rheni, ab eius Capitibus ad Oceanu usque Germanicum in quem se Exonerat Novissima Descriptio.
The course of the Rhine river by Henricus Hondius. Originally engraved as two parts on one sheet. Here separated and joined to one large map. The map is showing the compl...
- $300 / ≈ €281
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1632
Bresse.
Early map of Eastern France and part of Switzerland. Geneva in upper right corner. With Latin text on verso. Engraved by Petrus Kaerius. Shortly after the publication of ...
- $50 / ≈ €47
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1632
Episcop. Ultraiectinus.
A very detailed map based on Utrecht. Scale cartouche held by a surveyor. Based on the map by B.F.van Berckenrode (1620-21) and engraved by the master engraver Evert Sijm...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1630-1632
Sclavonia, Croatia, Bosnia cum Dalmatiae parte.
Nice map of the Eastern Balkans with the geographical & political divisions of Dalmatia, Croatia, Slavonia, Bosnia, Serbia, etc.Mercator was born in Rupelmonde in Fla...
- $250 / ≈ €234
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1632
Description du pais de Valois.
Rare map published by Jean Le Clerc (1560-1621) and prepared by Damien de Templeux map of the region to the northeast of Paris, between the Oise River in the west and the...
- $300 / ≈ €281
Place & Date: Paris, 1632
![[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
![[Cavendish reaches Morro Moreno.]](/uploads/cache/39910-250x250.jpg)
[Cavendish reaches Morro Moreno.]
Scarce print with a German text sheet showing Cavendish’s fleet anchor at a place called Morro Moreno, on the coast of Chile. The Indians came down from the high cliffs...
- $80 / ≈ €75
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
![[French seizure of Chiorera.]](/uploads/cache/39911-250x250.jpg)
[French seizure of Chiorera.]
Scarce print with a German text sheet showing the French torching and looting Chiorera. From de Bry's "Great American Voyages". Johann Theodor de Bry (1561-1623...
- $80 / ≈ €75
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
![[Sir Walter Ralegh meets the King of Arromaia].](/uploads/cache/39916-250x250.jpg)
[Sir Walter Ralegh meets the King of Arromaia].
Scarce print with a German text sheet. During Ralegh’s voyage up the Orinoco in search of El Dorado, he met an old man who said he was the king of Arromaia. He claimed ...
- $125 / ≈ €117
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
![[Black slaves escape punishment].](/uploads/cache/39920-250x250.jpg)
[Black slaves escape punishment].
Scarce print with a German text sheet. Many Black slaves, weary of ill treatment, managed to escape Spanish captivity and freely wandered the island, breaking into prison...
- $80 / ≈ €75
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
![[Religious ritual on Hispaniola].](/uploads/cache/39921-250x250.jpg)
[Religious ritual on Hispaniola].
Scarce print with a German text sheet.On certain feast-days the Indian cacique, while beating a drum, led a procession of his people to the worship of their idol, which w...
- $80 / ≈ €75
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
![[Captain Weert dines with the Chief].](/uploads/cache/39922-250x250.jpg)
[Captain Weert dines with the Chief].
Scarce print with a German text sheet. Captain Weert and the chief ate modestly on roast plantain, smoked fish and wine fermented from palm, bought by a local woman. Howe...
- $80 / ≈ €75
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
![[Isle la Moche].](/uploads/cache/39909-250x250.jpg)
[Isle la Moche].
Scarce print with a German text sheet showing the Dutch fleet anchored off the Island of Mocha, near Concepción in Chile. The islanders sat on wooden stumps and watched ...
- $100 / ≈ €94
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
S. Jago.
Scarce print with German text sheet showing the Dutch at Santiago. The Dutch were invited to visit the harbour, about two miles along the coast. On arrival, they found it...
- $100 / ≈ €94
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
![[Dutch attack the fortress of Praia.]](/uploads/cache/39901-250x250.jpg)
[Dutch attack the fortress of Praia.]
Scarce print with German text sheet showing the Dutch attack on Praia.On 27th June 1589, Simon de Cordes left Holland with five ships, bound for the Magellan Straits. On ...
- $80 / ≈ €75
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
![[English attack Praia.]](/uploads/cache/39900-250x250.jpg)
[English attack Praia.]
Scarce print with German text sheet showing the English attack on Praia. On 16 November, 1585, during Francis Drake’s round-the-world voyage, his fleet anchored off San...
- $150 / ≈ €140
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
Solor.
Scarce print on German text sheet showing the Island of Solor. From "Petits Voyages". The island Solar, to the north of Timor, has a high mountain and has a ver...
- $100 / ≈ €94
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
![[American history plate].](/uploads/cache/40176-250x250.jpg)
[American history plate].
Scarce print (150x177mm.) on a German text sheet taken from a first edition of Johann Ludwig Gottfried's "Newe Welt Vnd Americanische Historien/ Jnhaltende Warhaffti...
- $80 / ≈ €75
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
![[Murder of Dominican monks in Cumana or Cubagua Island].](/uploads/cache/40177-250x250.jpg)
[Murder of Dominican monks in Cumana or Cubagua Island].
Murder of Dominican monks in Cumana or Cubagua Island in what is now Venezuela. Scarce print (150x177mm.) on a German text sheet taken from a first edition of Johann Ludw...
- $80 / ≈ €75
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 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 corner...
- $75 / ≈ €70
Place & Date: Amsterdam, after 1633
![[Attack of Dutch fleet commanded by Pieter van der Does of Gran Canaria in 1599].](/uploads/cache/40179-250x250.jpg)
[Attack of Dutch fleet commanded by Pieter van der Does of Gran Canaria in 1599].
Attack of Dutch fleet commanded by Pieter van der Does of Gran Canaria in 1599. Scarce print (150x177mm.) on a German text sheet taken from a first edition of Johann Ludw...
- $180 / ≈ €168
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
![[Moose].](/uploads/cache/40180-250x250.jpg)
[Moose].
Scarce print (150x177mm.) of a Moose on a German text sheet taken from a first edition of Johann Ludwig Gottfried's "Newe Welt Vnd Americanische Historien/ Jnhaltend...
- $100 / ≈ €94
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
![[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
![[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
![[A Typical Tupi Feast.]](/uploads/cache/40065-250x250.jpg)
[A Typical Tupi Feast.]
Once a year the Indians from all the surrounding villages would get together for a feast. With decorative head-dresses, cloaks and belts of colored feathers, three or fou...
- $200 / ≈ €187
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
![[Rituals for those that were dying.]](/uploads/cache/40066-250x250.jpg)
[Rituals for those that were dying.]
When one of the villagers was dying, the others would not feed or care for him but sing and danced as usual. Once he was dead though, the women would start lamenting by h...
- $200 / ≈ €187
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
![[Staden forecasts an Indian attack.]](/uploads/cache/40067-250x250.jpg)
[Staden forecasts an Indian attack.]
Staden told the Indian chief that he could tell the future and, who lived in the nearby village of ‘Arirab’ (probably Cairussú). He predicted an attack from rival In...
- $150 / ≈ €140
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
![[The Dutch reach Annabon.]](/uploads/cache/40075-250x250.jpg)
[The Dutch reach Annabon.]
Eight days after leaving the mainland, the Dutch arrived at one of the Annabon islands (Pagalu), where they asked the Portuguese and Moors, who were occupying the island,...
- $100 / ≈ €94
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
![[Indians attacked near Cartagena.]](/uploads/cache/40076-250x250.jpg)
[Indians attacked near Cartagena.]
When the governor of Cartagena, Alonso de Ojeda, led a party of Spanish soldiers into the interior to search for gold, they were attacked by Indians with such ferocity th...
- $125 / ≈ €117
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 natives eat, drink and dance for their king].](/uploads/cache/41104-250x250.jpg)
[The natives eat, drink and dance for their king].
Food was carried on the natives’ heads as they humbly crept forward on their knees to greet the Dutch. The drink, called cava, was made from a certain plant, which they...
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
![[Indian market at Cartagena.]](/uploads/cache/40078-250x250.jpg)
[Indian market at Cartagena.]
The natives of the province of Cartagena had plenty of fruit, fish, salt and peppers, which they exchanged for other necessities of life. In times of peace, the natives o...
- $120 / ≈ €112
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
![[How Incas wrought their gold.]](/uploads/cache/40080-250x250.jpg)
[How Incas wrought their gold.]
The goldsmiths of Huayna-Capac were master craftsmen who wrought gold into magnificent artefacts with the simplest of tools. They used clay furnaces, heated by coals and ...
- $200 / ≈ €187
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
![[The ritual of the killing.]](/uploads/cache/40081-250x250.jpg)
[The ritual of the killing.]
On the day of the killing, the rope is untied from the prisoner’s neck, then put round his body and pulled tightly from both ends. A fire burns in front of the prisoner...
- $150 / ≈ €140
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
![[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
![[Borneo Insula.]](/uploads/cache/40082-250x250.jpg)
[Borneo Insula.]
Important map of Bornea based on a map by Olivier van Noort (1558-1627), who on his turn mostly adapted information from earlier maps such as those by Langenes and van Li...
- $300 / ≈ €281
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Geographica..
The first of four states of the map. French text on verso. One of the most beautiful world maps ever engraved and one of the most influential in promulgating the Californ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1630-1633
![[John Smith caught by the French.]](/uploads/cache/40473-250x250.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...
- $75 / ≈ €70
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
![[L'Hermite's fleet moors in the Solent for repairs.]](/uploads/cache/40472-250x250.jpg)
[L'Hermite's fleet moors in the Solent for repairs.]
In March 1623, a heavily armed fleet of 11 ships, under the command of Jacob l’Hermite, sailed from Holland with the ambitious hope of ‘destroying the Spanish in Amer...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
![[Ralegh arrives at Orocotona.]](/uploads/cache/40468-250x250.jpg)
[Ralegh arrives at Orocotona.]
On reaching the rapids of the Caroní, further up the Orinoco, Ralegh’s expedition was unable to proceed further by river, so they continued overland, eventually arrivi...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
![[The manner of making their boats.]](/uploads/cache/40467-250x250.jpg)
[The manner of making their boats.]
The manner of making boats in Virginia is wonderful to behold. They were able to do so without using any iron tool at all. First they chose a tall tree, wide enough for a...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
![[Incas lay siege to Cusco.]](/uploads/cache/40353-250x250.jpg)
[Incas lay siege to Cusco.]
Atahualpa’s brother, Manco, organized a long and bloody siege to reoccupy the Inca capital, which eventually spread to open rebellion throughout the land. Pizarro, who ...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
![[Diego de Almagro is killed.]](/uploads/cache/40354-250x250.jpg)
[Diego de Almagro is killed.]
Almagro returned to Cuzco, disillusioned and embittered from his long and fruitless journey south into Chile, where he had been searching for further wealth. This led to ...
- $80 / ≈ €75
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
Freti Magellanici ac novi Freti vulgo Le Maire. . .
A fine map of Tierra del Fuego. With an explanatory text of the passage by Barent Jansz. Potgieter who accompanied captain Sebald de Weert to the Straits in 1599/1600, be...
- $750 / ≈ €702
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1633
![[Royal Governor of Peru is killed.]](/uploads/cache/40355-250x250.jpg)
[Royal Governor of Peru is killed.]
Life under the new governor, Vaca de Castro, was no more stable than before and the king of Spain was eventually forced to send out yet another governor to replace him. H...
- $100 / ≈ €94
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
![[Columbus taken prisoner, and sent back to Spain.]](/uploads/cache/40358-250x250.jpg)
[Columbus taken prisoner, and sent back to Spain.]
This engraving depicts the arrest of Columbus and his brothers. Bobadilla (sent by Spain, at Columbus’ request, to settle a revolt) reached Santo Domingo August 23, 150...
- $100 / ≈ €94
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
![[Indian caciques are held for ransom.]](/uploads/cache/40360-250x250.jpg)
[Indian caciques are held for ransom.]
Gutierrez held the Indian caciques ransom. He said they would be released in exchange for enough gold to fill a basket six times over. Later, some of the Indians bought g...
- $100 / ≈ €94
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
![[Nicaraguan's dancing.]](/uploads/cache/40361-250x250.jpg)
[Nicaraguan's dancing.]
Each province organized its own festivities and people would come to a place of open land therein, which had been swept clean for dancing. The dancers were accompanied by...
- $100 / ≈ €94
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
![[Natives of America offering Vaso Balbao gold.]](/uploads/cache/40362-250x250.jpg)
[Natives of America offering Vaso Balbao gold.]
This early engraving shows natives of America offering Vaso Balbao gold. In 1511, Nuñez de Balboa formed a colony on the banks of the Atrato, in the Gulf of Uraba. Two y...
- $100 / ≈ €94
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 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
![[Last of the Pizzaro brothers killed.]](/uploads/cache/40356-250x250.jpg)
[Last of the Pizzaro brothers killed.]
Conflict between Gonzalo Pizarro and the latest officially appointed governor of Peru, Pedro de la Gasca, reached a climax in 1548 when Gasca’s forces crossed the Apuri...
- $80 / ≈ €75
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
![[Mutiny in Jamaica.]](/uploads/cache/40475-250x250.jpg)
[Mutiny in Jamaica.]
On 29th May 1504, Columbus entered St. Ann’s Bay, Jamaica, but the Porras brothers and a number of Spanish soldiers on the island prevented him from coming ashore and t...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633