Browse Listings in America
Hispania Nova.
This was the standard map of the Mexico for a generation. The map shows an area corresponding roughly to the modern Mexican states of Michoacan, Jalisco, Mayarit, and Gue...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1608
Selling price: $350
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Fretum Magella:ni.
Early map of Strait Magellan. Depicts the extremity of South America, with Patagonia, the Straight of Magellan, Terra del Fuego and the discoveries made by LeMaire and Sc...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1608
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2008
Virginia et Florida.
Excellent example of Mercator's miniature map of Colonial America, south to named St. Augustine, north past Chesapeake Bay. Early reference to 'Apalacci' Mountains, showi...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1608
Selling price: $500
Sold in 2013
Americae Descrip.
Map of America from the first French-text edition of Jodocus Hondius' Atlas Minor.Shortly after the publication of the big folio-atlases the need was apparently felt for ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1608
Selling price: $350
Sold in 2016
Polus Arcticus cum vicinis regionibus.
Map of the North Pole regions from the 1608 second edition of Jodocus Hondius' Atlas Minor.A reduction of the 1606 Mercator-Hondius folio map (which is a later state of t...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1608
Selling price: $500
Sold in 2012
America Meridi:onalis.
Attractive map of South America, embellished with a strapwork title-cartouche, from the first French-text edition of Jodocus Hondius' Atlas Minor.Shortly after the public...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1608
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2009
Fretum Magellani.
Early map of Strait Magellan. Depicts the extremity of South America, with Patagonia, the Straight of Magellan, Terra del Fuego and the discoveries made by LeMaire and Sc...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1608
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2011
Virginiae Item et Floridae Americae Provinciarum.nova Descriptio.
An attractive, detailed and early map of the Southeast from the rare Cloppenburg edition slightly larger format and more scarce edition of the Mercator/Hondius "Atla...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Cloppenburgh, 1608
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2016
SEPTENTRIONALIUM Terrarum descriptio. Per Gerardum Mercatore
State 2. This is the first map devoted to the Arctic, a hemispherical one on a North Polar projection with an attractive floral design surrounding it. In the corners are ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1609
Selling price: $1325
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Aity Sive Spaniola.
General map of Hispaniola. Title cartouche on the upper left corner.First published in 1598 in his Caert-Thresoor, the plates were executed by the most famous engravers i...
Place & Date: Amsterdam/Frankfurt 1609
Selling price: $160
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Virginia et Florida
Nice small map based on the Hondius' folio map of the same name. Based on John White's Virginia and Jacques le Moyne's Florida as interpreted by Theodore de Bry. Numerous...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1609
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2011
SEPTENTRIONALIUM Terrarum descriptio. Per Gerardum Mercatore.
State 2. This is the first map devoted to the Arctic, a hemispherical one on a North Polar projection with an attractive floral design surrounding it. In the corners are ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1609
Selling price: $2450
Sold in 2013
Septentrionalium Terrarum descriptio. Per Gerardum Mercatorem Cum Privilegio.
State 2. This is the first map devoted to the Arctic, a hemispherical one on a North Polar projection with an attractive floral design surrounding it. In the corners are ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1609
Selling price: $2000
Sold in 2015
Maris Pacifici.
Splendid map by Ortelius.This was the first printed map to be devoted solely to the Pacific, and the first to name North and South America separately. It includes most of...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1609
Selling price: $6190
Sold in 2015
Fretum Magellani.
An early map of Strait Magellan. Depicts the extremity of South America, with Patagonia, the Straight of Magellan, Terra del Fuego and the discoveries made by LeMaire and...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1609
Selling price: $180
Sold in 2020
Tartariae sive Magni Chami Regni typus.
The famous and important map of Tartary, Japan, and the west coast of North America, from Ortelius' Theatrum Orbis Terarrum, the first modern atlas of the World.This map ...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1609
Selling price: $959
Sold in 2020
Tartariae sive Magni Chami Regni Typus.
Tartariae sive Magni Chami Regni Typus. Map of Mongolia, also showing the northwest coast of North America. Abraham Ortelius(1527-98), Dutch cartographer and publishe...
Place & Date: Antwerp, Robert Bruneau, 1609
Selling price: $500
Sold in 2021
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Hispaniolae, Cubae Alliarumique Insularium
Abraham Ortelius (1527-98), Dutch cartographer and publisher of the first modern atlas, ' Theatrum Orbis Terrarum' in 1570. Editions till 1612. Also an atlas of ancient c...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1609
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2022
Americae Descrip.
Verso Latin text. An intricate and beautiful map of North and South America as well as parts of the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1610
Selling price: $600
Sold in 2013
Septentrionalium Terrarum descriptio
This influential map was the first separately printed map devoted to the Arctic. The hemisphere is surrounded by a floral design with four roundels in each corner. These ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1611
Selling price: $1150
Sold in 2011
Tabula Geogr. in qua admirandae navigationis cursus et recursus designatur.
First state of a very early and scarce map of the North Pole and Arctic regions showing recent discoveries including the voyage of Jan Willem Barentsz on his quest to fin...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1611
Selling price: $850
Sold in 2016
CULIACANAE,A MERICAE REGIO NIS, DESCRIPTIO - Hispaniolae, Cubae, Aliarumique Insularum Circumiacientium Delineatio
CULIACANAE, A MERICAE REGIO NIS, DESCRIPTIO - Hispaniolae, Cubae, Aliarumique Insularum Circumiacientium Delineatio.Antique map of the Caribbean. Two maps on one sheet: ...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1603-1612
Selling price: $400
Sold in 2023
America.
A very nice map from America, first published in 1606 and used till 1630. This example published in 1613, one year after the death of Jodocus Hondius I. The inset shows n...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1606 - 1613
Selling price: $3650
Sold in 2009
Tabula Nautica, qua repraesentantur orae maritimae.
First map to depict Hudson bay, prepared by Hessel Gerritsz, and reduced and included by de Bry in his tenth part of his Petit Voyages .Hudson had already made three acco...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1613
Selling price: $2600
Sold in 2012
Polus Arcticus cum vicinis regionibus
Excellent early map of the North Polar regions, based upon early maps by Mercator and Hondius.Shows the mythical land masses near the pole, the clearly navigable NW and N...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1613
Selling price: $400
Sold in 2023
Americae Descrip
Excellent early map of the Americas, based upon early maps by Mercator and Hondius.Interesting feature of the map is the Northwest Coast of America, which pre-dates Hondi...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1613
Selling price: $600
Sold in 2023
Tabula Geogr. In qua admirandae navigatonis..
A finely engraved map by Jodocus Hondius with coastline details of northern Europe, Greenland, Frisland, Strait Anian with America pars. With the track of a Willem Barent...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1614
Selling price: $740
Sold in 2019
AMERICAE NOVA DESCRIPTIO
FIRST State of Pieter Van Den Keere's rare Carte a figures of America -- The First Single Sheet Map of America to include decorative panels. This first state (of six) of ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1614
Selling price: $6700
Sold in 2019
Americae Nova Descriptio
FIRST State of Pieter Van Den Keere's rare Carte a figures of America -- The First Single Sheet Map of America to include decorative panels. This first state (of six) of ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1614
Selling price: $10000
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America Meridionalis.
Superb folio map of the continent that was added by Jodocus Hondius for publication in his continuation of the Mercator Atlas. The map is beautifully engraved with a wave...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1609/1616
Selling price: $900
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Tierra del Fuogo / Porto Desire (Carte vande nieuwe Passagie bezuijden de Strate Magellan)
Early map of the region depicting the tip of South America with Tierra del Fuogo, which is unexplored on the west. Depicts the tract of Guillaume Schouten and Jacob Le Ma...
Place & Date: Cologne, c. 1616
Selling price: $450
Sold in 2011
New England/ Die mercklichsten dheile. .
Hulsius used the first state of Smith's New England map published the previous year in London. The most noticeable differences, however, are the lack of any imprints lowe...
Place & Date: Frankfurt ,1617
Selling price: $8100
Sold in 2012
Die Mercklichsten Dheile, also Genennet durch den Durchl: und Mechtigen Prinzen und H.H. Carolus, Prinzen von Gross Britannien.
Hulsius used the first state of Smith's New England map published the previous year in London. The most noticeable differences, however, are the lack of any imprints lowe...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1617
Selling price: $10000
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America.
Map of America from Magini's 'Geographiae Universae', printed by Petrus Keschedt, containing a completely new set of maps, derived from the earlier Italian edition. Accor...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1617
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2015
Hispaniae novae nova descriptio.
A map of Mexico, embellished with a large title cartouche, a sailing ship, and a sea monster.
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1619
Selling price: $200
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Descripcion de las Indias Ocidentalis.
De Bry's version of this important map by Antonio de Herrera y Tordesillas with cartography based on the manuscript charts of Juan Lopez de Velasco.It depicts the Papal l...
Place & Date: Frankfurt 1619
Selling price: $900
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Hispaniae novae sive magnae, recens et vera descriptio * 1595.
This was the standard map of the area for a generation, copied after Ortelius. Both cartouches in the map are copies of designs by Hans Vredeman de Vries. The map shows a...
Place & Date: Frankfurt 1619
Selling price: $300
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Hispaniae novae sive magnae, recens et vera descriptio * 1595.
This was the standard map of the area for a generation, copied after Ortelius. Both cartouches in the map are copies of designs by Hans Vredeman de Vries. The map shows a...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1619
Selling price: $1200
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America
Jodocus Hondius's fine delineation of the Americas is probably the most attractive map of the Western Hemisphere in the Mercator/Hondius/Janssonius succession. A clarity ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1619
Selling price: $3900
Sold in 2010
Pars Undecima Orientalis I. Quid Americo Vesputio, ejusque comitibus, in India . . .
Amerigo Vespucci (1454-1512) or one of his crew members capturing by female cannibals at arrival in South America. Note the violin which is oddly included among the strew...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1619
Selling price: $35
Sold in 2023
Exquisita & magno aliquot.. Freti Magellanici. . .
A 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 s...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1619
Selling price: $1050
Sold in 2020
Americae sive Novi Orbis, nova descriptio.
Though it was generally believed that the production of Ortelius' maps ended with the 1612 edition, records in the Plantin Museum show that in 1628 the engravers Arsenius...
Place & Date: Antwerp, c.1620
Selling price: $8675
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America Meridionalis
A stunning map of South America with Latin text on the verso. The Strait of Magellan is shown but Tierra Del Fuego is part of the large southern continent. Eastern Braz...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, c 1620
Selling price: $1200
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HISPANIA NOVAE / NOVA DESCRIPTIO.
The Mercator / Hondius pocket atlas 'Atlas Minor' was published between 1607 and 1651, editions in Latin, Dutch English, French and German.A map of Mexico.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, c. 1620
Selling price: $120
Sold in 2019
America Meridionalis.
A very decorative map which includes several animated vignettes of ships, sea monsters and indigenous people. The inset is a view of Cuzco in Peru, the Inca capital. The ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1620
Selling price: $1000
Sold in 2009
S.Giovanni. (Puerto Rico)
One of the earliest obtainable separate maps of Puerto Rico. Also shows the Virgin Islands, with a large St. Croix (Croce). Includes decorative cartouche, four sea monste...
Place & Date: Venice, 1620
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2013
America Meridionalis.
Gerard Mercator's stunning map of South America.The Strait of Magellan is shown, but Tierra Del Fuego is part of the large southern continent. Eastern Brazil is depicted ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1620
Selling price: $1200
Sold in 2016
Descripcion del audiencia del nuevo Reino 9
Rare map of Venezuela from Novus Orbis, sive Descriptio Indiae Occidentalis. This collection of voyages is often referred to as an edition of Herrera, which is not strict...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1622
Selling price: $200
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Descripcíon del Audiencía de Guatimala
Rare Spanish map with some place names along the coast, but scant internal detail, reflecting the official policy of protecting Spanish knowledge of the New World. This m...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1622
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2011
![[Title page] Description des Indes Occidentales Qu'on appelle aujourdhuy Le Nouveau Monde. . .](/uploads/cache/37040-250x250.jpg)
[Title page] Description des Indes Occidentales Qu'on appelle aujourdhuy Le Nouveau Monde. . .
Title page from Antonio de Herrera y Tordesillas Description des Indes Occidentales Qu'on appelle aujourdhuy Le Nouveau Monde. . . Herrera was the official historian of C...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Michel Colin, 1622
Selling price: $850
Sold in 2017
Descripcion De Las Yndias Del Norte.
Map of the Southern United States, Mexico, Central American and the Caribbean, from his Description des Indes Occidentales Qu'on appelle aujourdhuy Le Nouveau Monde. . fi...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Michel Colin, 1622
Selling price: $700
Sold in 2017
Descripcion De la Provincia de Chile. 13
Rare early map of the province of Chile, locating rivers and settlements, the earliest map to include information from the previously secret manuscript maps of the Spanis...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Michel Colin, 1622
Selling price: $375
Sold in 2017
Descripcion Del Audiencia Del Quito. (Colombia & Ecuador)
Rare early map of now Ecuador and Quito. From Antonio de Herrera y Tordesillas Description des Indes Occidentales Qu'on appelle aujourdhuy Le Nouveau Monde. .. This map i...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Michel Colin, 1622
Selling price: $450
Sold in 2017
Descripcion Del Audiencia De los Charcas (Chile, Bolivia, Peru)
The earliest map to include information from the previously secret manuscript maps of the Spanish cosmographer, Juan López de Velasco, showing the Audiencia of the New K...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Michel Colin, 1622
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2017
Descripcion del audiencia de Panama.
Rare early map of the Audiencia of Panama. The earliest map to include information from the previously secret manuscript maps of the Spanish cosmographer, Juan López de ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1622
Selling price: $380
Sold in 2017
Hoornse Eijlandt Isle de Hoorn.
Scarce print on French text sheet showing the bay and coast of the South Seas island of Futuna (Hoorn). The bay shown was named after the ship Eendrachts (Unity Bay). Wil...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1622
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2018
Untitled map of Port Desire (today's Puerto Deseado, Argentina)
Scarce untitled map of Port Desire (today’s Puerto Deseado, Argentina).From a description of the voyage of Le Maire and Schouten included in first French text edition o...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1622
Selling price: $400
Sold in 2018
Descripcion de las Yndias de Mediodia. 7.
The earliest map to include information from the previously secret manuscript maps of the Spanish cosmographer, Juan López de Velasco, showing South America with the pap...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Michel Colin, 1622
Selling price: $400
Sold in 2017
Descripcion del destricto del audiencia de nueva Espana 4.
Rare map of the southern part of Mexico. From Antonio de Herrera y Tordesillas Description des Indes Occidentales Qu'on appelle aujourdhuy Le Nouveau Monde. .. Herrera se...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1622
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2021
Exquilita.. Freti Magellanici Facies.
A highly decorative and sought after copperplate engraving of the Straights of Magellan from the Mercator-Hondius atlas. This example depicts creatures believed to inhabi...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1623
Selling price: $750
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SEPTENTRIONALIUM Terrarum descriptio. Per Gerardum Mercatore
State 2. This is the first map devoted to the Arctic, a hemispherical one on a North Polar projection with an attractive floral design surrounding it. In the corners are ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1623
Selling price: $2100
Sold in 2016
SEPTENTRIONALIUM Terrarum descriptio. Per Gerardum Mercatore
State 2. This is the first map devoted to the Arctic, a hemispherical one on a North Polar projection with an attractive floral design surrounding it. In the corners are ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1623
Selling price: $1500
Sold in 2019
![[Unmounted gores from a very rare Dutch Globe]](/uploads/cache/46309-250x250.jpg)
[Unmounted gores from a very rare Dutch Globe]
These rare gores are very possibly the only surviving examples from a 17 inch (44cm) diameter globe by Hondius and Janssonius. It is believed that only four of five examp...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca 1623
Selling price: $7600
Sold in 2020
Aenwysinge van de Stadt Salvador, ende de Baya de Todos Los Santtos.
Extremely rare map of Salvador and Baia de Todos os Santos (Bay of Saints) published by the The Hague publisher Henricus Hondius (not to confuse with the Amsterdam H.Hond...
Place & Date: The Hague, 1624
Selling price: $2100
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Americae Pars Magis Cognita.
A beautiful map focusing on the Spanish possessions in the Americas, this map covers what is the present-day southern United States through South America. It was publishe...
Place & Date: Low Countries, 1624
Selling price: $3800
Sold in 2019
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
![A Mapp of the Sommer Islands..[Mappa Aestivarum Insularum]..](/uploads/cache/15769-250x250.jpg)
A Mapp of the Sommer Islands..[Mappa Aestivarum Insularum]..
Title in both English and Latin. English text on verso. The map was beautifully engraved by Abraham Goos in Amsterdam for Speed's Prospect Of The Most Famous Parts Of The...
Place & Date: London 1626
Selling price: $3525
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Virginia.
One of the most important printed maps of America ever produced and certainly one of the greatest influence. It became the prototype for the area for half a century. Firs...
Place & Date: Frankfurt 1627
Selling price: $4600
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![[Two items] Abbildung Welcher Gestalt die Spanische Silberflota von dem Hollandischen / Das Eylandt Cuba mit Deroselben Gelegenheit](/uploads/cache/23421-250x250.jpg)
[Two items] Abbildung Welcher Gestalt die Spanische Silberflota von dem Hollandischen / Das Eylandt Cuba mit Deroselben Gelegenheit
An etching showing Piet Heyn going ashore at Cuba on a sheet with letterpress. Together with a scarce engraving of the Dutch and Spanish fleets in Patanca Bay, Cuba illus...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1627
Selling price: $650
Sold in 2008
Carte de L'Amerique, corrigée et augmentée desus toutes les aultres cy deuant faictes par P.Bertius.
Rare map of America in a first state. The map itself is derived from the Jodocus Hondius map of 1618, however the southern coast of Tierra del Fuego now completed. The en...
Place & Date: Paris, 1627
Selling price: $1750
Sold in 2018
AMERICA
An stunning example of this monument to early cartography. This is one of a handful of the early foundation maps of North and South America. It has the famed inset of the...
Place & Date: Amsterdam (1606 ) - 1628
Selling price: $3400
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America.
Jodocus Hondius's fine delineation of the Americas is probably the most attractive map of the Western Hemisphere in the Mercator/Hondius/Janssonius succession. A clarity ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1628
Selling price: $4100
Sold in 2011