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Val Parysa.
Scarce print with a German text sheet. In the June of 1615, the Dutch fleet reached the town of Valparaíso. The natives were dressed as shown (I). The fleet (D) anchored...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
Selling price: $70
Sold in 2017
![[Drake capturing of St. Augustine in Florida].](/uploads/cache/39913-250x250.jpg)
[Drake capturing of St. Augustine in Florida].
Scarce print with a German text sheet showing Drake's men overrunning the settlement of St. Augustine. Fleet is anchored in the bay. From de Bry's "Great American Vo...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M. Merian, 1633
Selling price: $210
Sold in 2017
![[Drake reaches the Rio de la Plata].](/uploads/cache/39915-250x250.jpg)
[Drake reaches the Rio de la Plata].
Scarce print with a German text sheet showing Drake’s fleet of five ships reaching the Rio de la Plata in April, 1578. One of the ships in poor repair had been slowing ...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
Selling price: $100
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Aquapolque.
Scarce print with a German text sheet. The Dutch had already captured many Spaniards and, in October 1615 when their fleet reached Acapulco, they exchanged them for provi...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
Selling price: $60
Sold in 2020
![[Spilbergen's fleet lands near Manzanillo].](/uploads/cache/39918-250x250.jpg)
[Spilbergen's fleet lands near Manzanillo].
Scarce print with a German text sheet. A few miles north of Manzanillo is the natural harbour of Santiago,(St. Jago) where Spilbergen’s fleet, marked (A), anchored. A s...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
Selling price: $100
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![[The French reach Port Royal].](/uploads/cache/39919-250x250.jpg)
[The French reach Port Royal].
Scarce print with a German text sheet. When the French arrived, they called it Portuus Regalis or Port Royal because of its size and beauty. There they brought in the sai...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
Selling price: $220
Sold in 2018
![[Sebald de Weert arriving in South America].](/uploads/cache/40158-250x250.jpg)
[Sebald de Weert arriving in South America].
Scarce print (150x175mm.) showing Sebald de Weert making landfall in South America on a German text sheet taken from a first edition of Johann Ludwig Gottfried's "Ne...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2017
![[Mexican history plate].](/uploads/cache/40175-250x250.jpg)
[Mexican 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...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2017
![[American history plate].](/uploads/cache/40178-250x250.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...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2018
![[The Spanish capture Fort Caroline].](/uploads/cache/40183-250x250.jpg)
[The Spanish capture Fort Caroline].
The Spanish capture Fort Caroline in Florida. Fort Caroline was an attempted French colonial settlement in Florida, located on the banks of the St. Johns River in present...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
Selling price: $140
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![[Itzcoatl, fourth emperor of the Aztecs, entering town].](/uploads/cache/40184-250x250.jpg)
[Itzcoatl, fourth emperor of the Aztecs, entering town].
Scarce print (150x177mm.) Itzcoatl, fourth emperor of the Aztecs, entering town at the head of an army, on a German text sheet taken from a first edition of Johann Ludwig...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2018
![[American history plate].](/uploads/cache/40185-250x250.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...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2018
![[The Portuguese settlement in Brazil, at the Island of St. Vincent].](/uploads/cache/40186-250x250.jpg)
[The Portuguese settlement in Brazil, at the Island of St. Vincent].
Panoramic view of the Portuguese settlement in Brazil, at the Island of St. Vincent. Scarce print (150x177mm.) on a German text sheet taken from a first edition of Johann...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2020
![[Dutch fleet reaches Rio de Janeiro.]](/uploads/cache/40062-250x250.jpg)
[Dutch fleet reaches Rio de Janeiro.]
In 1599, the Dutch fleet, under the command of Oliver van Noort, reached an island in the natural harbour of Rio de Janeiro. On this island there was a town, as marked (C...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
Selling price: $100
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![[Indian Cannibalism.]](/uploads/cache/40063-250x250.jpg)
[Indian Cannibalism.]
While Staden was still in captivity, he witnessed more cannibalism. Because the Tupinamba Indians said he was too ugly, they cut off the head and threw it away. They also...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2017
![[Straden is captured by Indians.]](/uploads/cache/40064-250x250.jpg)
[Straden is captured by Indians.]
In 1552, while Staden was out hunting with his guide, not far from the fort at Bertioga, he found himself surrounded by shouting Indians. Although the guide escaped, Stad...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2018
![[Vespucci visits Paria.]](/uploads/cache/40068-250x250.jpg)
[Vespucci visits Paria.]
In his letters, Vespucci describes the natives of this region, as tawney, going about naked and with no pubic hair. They eat whatever the land provides naturally for them...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2017
![[Human sacrifice. Aztec.]](/uploads/cache/40070-250x250.jpg)
[Human sacrifice. Aztec.]
On sacrificial days, the Mexicans would take a prisoner up the steps of the ‘Round Hill of Skulls’, where the high-priest, with his feathered head-dress, would place ...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2018
![[Aztec's hunt game.]](/uploads/cache/40071-250x250.jpg)
[Aztec's hunt game.]
At dawn hunters would gather together in the town, accompanied with their bows, arrows and netting for hunting purposes. They would then march out of town, blowing their ...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2018
![[Aztec priests do penance.]](/uploads/cache/40072-250x250.jpg)
[Aztec priests do penance.]
On certain days, the holy men of Mexico would gather around their god, Vitzliputzli. While playing shawms and sprinkling incense on their idol, their leader would pierce ...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2018
![[The origin of Mexico City.]](/uploads/cache/40073-250x250.jpg)
[The origin of Mexico City.]
The Mexican god, Vitzliputzli, said the Indians would find their promised land when they found the ‘Tunal Tree’ (Prickly Pear) which grows out of a stone near a river...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2018
![[Montezuma's brother prefers death than disloyalty.]](/uploads/cache/40074-250x250.jpg)
[Montezuma's brother prefers death than disloyalty.]
During Montezuma’s reign, many Mexicans were captured after a fierce battle with the Chalco Indians. When the Calco found out that one of their prisoners was the brothe...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
Selling price: $80
Sold in 2018
![[Vespucci lands on Colombian shores.]](/uploads/cache/40077-250x250.jpg)
[Vespucci lands on Colombian shores.]
Perhaps the first Europeans ever to reach Colombian shores where Alonso de Ojeda and his crew during their voyage in 1499-1500. Amerigo Vespucci was reputed to be among t...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
Selling price: $125
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![[Venezuelan Indians kill Spanish Monks.]](/uploads/cache/40079-250x250.jpg)
[Venezuelan Indians kill Spanish Monks.]
Some monks crossed from Cubagua to the Venezuelan mainland to spread the message of Christianity to the Indians. Along with them went other Spaniards who wanted to barter...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
Selling price: $80
Sold in 2018
![[First Spanisn colony at Buenos Aires.]](/uploads/cache/40084-250x250.jpg)
[First Spanisn colony at Buenos Aires.]
In 1534 Pedro de Mendoza was sent to colonise the Rio de la Plata. The following year, several hundred men began to colonise the present day site of Buenos Aires. At firs...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2017
![[St. John's Harbour NFL.]](/uploads/cache/40357-250x250.jpg)
[St. John's Harbour NFL.]
St. John's Harbour, Newfoundland. In his Discourse and Discovery of Newfoundland, Richard Whitbourne recounts sighting a strange creature in St.John's harbour which he id...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2019
![[Pizarro forms a pact with Almagro.]](/uploads/cache/40363-250x250.jpg)
[Pizarro forms a pact with Almagro.]
On his way back from Spain with the royal consent to conquer Peru, Pizarro forms a pact with Almagro in Panama. In order to ensure the pact was binding, they both swore a...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
Selling price: $150
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![[Plans in Panama for the conquest of Peru.]](/uploads/cache/40364-250x250.jpg)
[Plans in Panama for the conquest of Peru.]
Having sworn co-operation and agreement to share between them the riches they hoped to find in Peru, Francisco Pizarro, Diego de Almagro and the priest Hernando de Luque,...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
Selling price: $80
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![[Inca gold goes to Panama.]](/uploads/cache/40365-250x250.jpg)
[Inca gold goes to Panama.]
Much of the gold stolen from the Incas was taken to the Town of Panama, where it was transported by mules across the Isthmus to Nombre de Dios, on the Caribbean coast, to...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
Selling price: $80
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![[The English are attacked on St. Lucia.]](/uploads/cache/40366-250x250.jpg)
[The English are attacked on St. Lucia.]
During Oliver Leagh’s voyage to Guiana in 1605, Captain St. John went ashore with a number of the crew. There they built a settlement by the sea and for some weeks trad...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
Selling price: $95
Sold in 2017
![[Sir Francis Drake attacks the town of Santa Domingo.]](/uploads/cache/40367-250x250.jpg)
[Sir Francis Drake attacks the town of Santa Domingo.]
The town of Santo Domingo on the island of Hispaniola was once the capital of Spanish America but in 1586, when Drake arrived, it had deteriorated somewhat in stature. Be...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2017
![[Fate of certain prisoners]](/uploads/cache/39912-250x250.jpg)
[Fate of certain prisoners]
A certain person was selected and held in a prison at night-time. During the day, he dined with the nobility and was accompanied by guards. He could go wherever he wanted...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2019
![[The retaking of Fort Caroline by the French / Indians from the Spanish.]](/uploads/cache/40469-250x250.jpg)
[The retaking of Fort Caroline by the French / Indians from the Spanish.]
A lively battle scene with cannons roaring, dead bodies strewen all over the ground, boats and soldiers crossing a river. This is the epic battle scene of the combined fo...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
Selling price: $90
Sold in 2018
![[Alvarado dies at Guadalajara]](/uploads/cache/40470-250x250.jpg)
[Alvarado dies at Guadalajara]
The Chichimecs Indians had been terrorising the Spanish at Guadalajara for some time, so, while Alvarado was on his way north to search for the Seven Cities of Cíbola, h...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2020
![[How the Aztecs treat their dead.]](/uploads/cache/40471-250x250.jpg)
[How the Aztecs treat their dead.]
When an Aztec of distinction died, his corpse was laid out in a chamber so that his friends, followers and relations could go to pay their respects. Sometimes they would ...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2020
![[Vespucci lands on the Island of Giants.]](/uploads/cache/40474-250x250.jpg)
[Vespucci lands on the Island of Giants.]
In 1499-1500, when Antonio de Ojeda and his crew, including Vespucci, landed on an island known today as Curaçao, they saw giant footprints in the sand. These they follo...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2017
![[How the Tupi Indians roasted their meat.]](/uploads/cache/40476-250x250.jpg)
[How the Tupi Indians roasted their meat.]
The Indians set up a grill, consisting of four posts set in the ground. They were as thick as a man’s arm and had a fork at the top, across which sticks were laid to fo...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
Selling price: $85
Sold in 2020
![Guame. [Spilbergen's fleet reaches Huarmey] / Payta [Spilbergen's fleet reach Paita].](/uploads/cache/41088-250x250.jpg)
Guame. [Spilbergen's fleet reaches Huarmey] / Payta [Spilbergen's fleet reach Paita].
Two engravings. [500] The town of Huarmey was situated about 150 miles north of Lima. It was conveniently located for ships because there was a natural harbour nearby wit...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
Selling price: $60
Sold in 2021
![[Fort Caroline] / [Indians worship the stone column].](/uploads/cache/41089-250x250.jpg)
[Fort Caroline] / [Indians worship the stone column].
Two engravings. [375] When this fort was completed, the French named it Fort Caroline. The sides facing westward were defended by a ditch and ramparts built up with soil ...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
Selling price: $95
Sold in 2018
![[How the Indians treat their sick] / [The sacrifice of the first born].](/uploads/cache/41096-250x250.jpg)
[How the Indians treat their sick] / [The sacrifice of the first born].
Two engravings. [385] They lay the sick person down upon a wooden bench. Then they cut the skin of his forehead with a sharp shell and sucked out the blood with their own...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
Selling price: $72
Sold in 2020
![[Sir W. Ralegh in Trinidad] / [The origin of the legend of El Dorado].](/uploads/cache/41097-250x250.jpg)
[Sir W. Ralegh in Trinidad] / [The origin of the legend of El Dorado].
Two engravings. [553] .When Ralegh arrived with his ships at Port-of-Spain in Trinidad, he was courteous and friendly to the local Spanish people who had already colonise...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
Selling price: $75
Sold in 2018
![[Indians of the Orinoco Delta, who live in trees] / [Sea monsters from Ralegh's expedition to Guyana].](/uploads/cache/41098-250x250.jpg)
[Indians of the Orinoco Delta, who live in trees] / [Sea monsters from Ralegh's expedition to Guyana].
Two engravings. [430] In the Orinoco delta, during the rainy season, no one could live at ground level because the river rose about 30 feet. During this time the Indians ...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
Selling price: $125
Sold in 2018
![[Alvarado's greed in Mexico City] / [Spanish are attacked by Indians in Costa Rica].](/uploads/cache/41099-250x250.jpg)
[Alvarado's greed in Mexico City] / [Spanish are attacked by Indians in Costa Rica].
Two engravings [084] Cortés and his men marched into, and occupied Mexico City in 1520. Some time later Cortés was needed elsewhere, so he left Alvarado in charge. Whil...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
Selling price: $75
Sold in 2019
![[Sir F. Drake crowned by the Indians of Nova Albion] / [Europeans, Drake, and the King of Ternate].](/uploads/cache/41100-250x250.jpg)
[Sir F. Drake crowned by the Indians of Nova Albion] / [Europeans, Drake, and the King of Ternate].
First engraving: Native Americans approach European soldiers and offer gifts. A native king or ruler wearing a feathered headdress puts a crown on a man's head who holds ...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
Selling price: $90
Sold in 2018
![[The Chickahominy make peace with the English].](/uploads/cache/41102-250x250.jpg)
[The Chickahominy make peace with the English].
When friendly trade sprung up between Powhatan’s people and the English, a neighbouring tribe, known as the Chickahominy, sent two men with gifts to Thomas Dale as a to...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2018
![[Ralph hamor visits Chief Powhaton].](/uploads/cache/41107-250x250.jpg)
[Ralph hamor visits Chief Powhaton].
After the successful marriage of John Rolf to Pocahontas, Thomas Dale thought he would like to marry the youngest of Powhatan’s daughters. He sent Hamor to the Indian v...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2018
![[A truce between the Indians and the English].](/uploads/cache/41108-250x250.jpg)
[A truce between the Indians and the English].
Not having heard anything for some time from Powhatan, the English sailed again up the river with one hundred and fifty men, along with Powhatan’s daughter, to one of t...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
Selling price: $75
Sold in 2018
![[Powhaton's daughter is abducted].](/uploads/cache/41109-250x250.jpg)
[Powhaton's daughter is abducted].
In 1613, Captain Argall managed to bribe some Indian friends of Pocahontas to visit his ship with them. When she was aboard, he kept her hostage and sailed back down rive...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2018
![[John Smith is saved by Pocahontas].](/uploads/cache/41110-250x250.jpg)
[John Smith is saved by Pocahontas].
Within a few months of establishing the Jamestown colony in 1607, forty-six English had died from disease and starvation, so Smith went to try to obtain food from the Ind...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2018
![[Black slaves work the sugar plantations].](/uploads/cache/41111-250x250.jpg)
[Black slaves work the sugar plantations].
After the veins of precious ore became depleted on Hispaniola, the Spanish set the Black slaves to work on the sugar plantations. This soon became a highly profitable ven...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2019
![[L'Hermite reaches the Juan Fernandez Islands].](/uploads/cache/41112-250x250.jpg)
[L'Hermite reaches the Juan Fernandez Islands].
After rounding the Horn, the Dutch fleet sailed north-east and, on 5th April 1624, landed on the more easterly island of the Juan Fernandez Islands. On the north-east of ...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
Selling price: $80
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![[A broth is made from the intestines].](/uploads/cache/41113-250x250.jpg)
[A broth is made from the intestines].
The women make a thick soup from the intestines and the head, which is shared it out among themselves and their children. After killing the prisoner, the chief gave himse...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2018
![[Chart of the Nassau fleet in Tierra del Fuego].](/uploads/cache/41115-250x250.jpg)
[Chart of the Nassau fleet in Tierra del Fuego].
L’Hermite’s fleet reached the Tierra del Fuego on 17th February 1624. Because of bad weather, inexperience and bad compass readings, they anchored in a bay, which the...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2023
![[The massacre of Jamestown].](/uploads/cache/41118-250x250.jpg)
[The massacre of Jamestown].
A brutal and violent scene of native Indians massacring the new inhabitants of the recently established English colony of Jamestown in VA.In 1631 Johann Ludwig Gottfried,...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2018
Freti Magellanici ac novi Freti vulgo Le Maire. . .
A fine map of Tierra del Fuego. With a Dutch translation of the explanatory text of the passage by Barent Jansz. Potgieter who accompanied captain Sebald de Weert to the ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1633
Selling price: $130
Sold in 2018
Freti Magellanici.
Decorative small map of Tierra del Feugo showing both the Strait of Magellan and the newly discovered Strait le Maire. Engraved by Petrus Kaerius. Strapwork title cartouc...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1634
Selling price: $150
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Nova Virginiae Tabula.
A decorative small version of John Smith's map of Chesapeake Bay region. It is the only regional map of North America to appear in the Atlas Minor. Engraved by Pieter van...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1634
Selling price: $625
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Das Norder theil des Lands Brasilien.
The map, displayed on a roll above, shows the coastal contours, with place-names along the Brazilian coast near Recife, and below is a bird?s-eye view of the siege with s...
Place & Date: Frankfurt 1633-1634
Selling price: $460
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\"Olinda\" and \"Olinda de Phernambuco\".
Above, this shows a view of the town of Olinda, with two figures in the foreground displaying a cloth on which are displayed fourteen places by name. Below an offshore vi...
Place & Date: Frankfurt 1633-1634
Selling price: $350
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Tabula Geographica vnova omnium oculis exibens et proponens venssimam descriptionem..
De Bry's important map of the Orinoco Basin and El Dorado, including Venezuela and Guiana. The islands of Aruba, Curaçao, Bonaire, etc in upper left corner.The map inclu...
Place & Date: Frankfurt 1633-1634
Selling price: $1250
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Die Landschafft Gvaiana Inhaltende alle die Prouincien awischen dem Fluss AMAZONVM und dem wasser YVIAPARI oder ORINOQVE
This map appeared in the "Historia antipodvm sive Novi Orbis, qvi vvlgo Americae et Indiae Occidentalis. . ., edited by J.L. Gottfried and published by Matthas Meria...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M. Merian, 1633-1634
Selling price: $290
Sold in 2018
Nova Hispania et Nova Galicia.
FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE OF THIS MAP. Fine map of New Spain and New Galicia shows the city of Mexico situated by a large lake, as well as the location of many silver an...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1634
Selling price: $300
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Peru.
FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE OF THIS MAP. Decorated with ships and monsters in the sea. Orientated with east at the top. With the signature of G. Blaeuw lower right corner....
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1634
Selling price: $450
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Novus Brasilia Typus.
Glorious map of Brazil by Willem Blaeu. Originally engraved for Jodocus Hondius II, at his death in August 1629 this map was, among 39 other copper plates,purchased by Wi...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1634
Selling price: $800
Sold in 2017
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 eight tribes and lots, and below the map itself appear the nam...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1634
Selling price: $1500
Sold in 2015
![Insulae Americanae in Oceano Septentrionali, cum terris adjacentibus [Rare Blaeu West Indische Pascaert Wall Map Section]](/uploads/cache/36201-250x250.jpg)
Insulae Americanae in Oceano Septentrionali, cum terris adjacentibus [Rare Blaeu West Indische Pascaert Wall Map Section]
On 11 February 1634 Willem Blaeu announced the publication of a world atlas in four languages. He was able to complete only the German edition in that year. In order to g...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1634
Selling price: $11500
Sold in 2015
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
Selling price: $2525
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Nova Hispania et Nova Galicia.
Based on Ortelius' map of 1579 which became the basis for many of the seventeenth century maps of the area. A splendid and colored title cartouche with two allegorical fi...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1635
Selling price: $350
Sold in 2022
Peru.
Decorated with ships and monsters on the sea. Orientated with east at the top. A most attractive item.
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1635
Selling price: $320
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Virginiae Partis Australis, et Floridae Partis Orientalis.
This beautifully engraved map is based on the Mercator-Hondius work of 1606, with a significant number of geographic changes / improvements, particularly along the Caroli...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1635
Selling price: $2000
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Freti Magellanici ac novi Freti vulgo Le Maire..
Early impression of this fine map of Tierra del Fuego. Hondius added a Dutch translation of the explanatory text of the passage by Barent Jansz. Potgieter who accompanied...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1635
Selling price: $475
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PERU.
Decorative map of Peru, shows the Pacific coast of South America from Ecuador (at the left-hand side) as far south as the Atacama desert in the northern reaches of Chile....
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1635
Selling price: $190
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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
Selling price: $1951
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Nova Virginiae Tabula.
The map is based on the first state of Smith's map, 1612, and is slightly larger and more expertly engraved. In 1629 the Hondius plate was purchased by Blaeu who deleted ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1635
Selling price: $1900
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Americae Nova Tabula.
The delineation of the coast and the nomenclature on both the Pacific and Atlantic coasts are basically Spanish in origin and follow the maps of Ortelius and Wytfliet. To...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1635
Selling price: $4500
Sold in 2010
Novus Brasiliae Typus.
A decorative map with a title cartouche of two natives: in the interior is an inset of Baya de todos os Sanctos (Salvador), indigenous wild life and cannibal scenes. Orig...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1635
Selling price: $750
Sold in 2022
Guiana sive Amazonum Regio.
Nice map extending from the Isla Margarita in the northwest to the coast of northern Brazil near Sao Luis east of the Amazon delta. The map locates at its center a large ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, c.1635
Selling price: $325
Sold in 2011
Freti Magellanici ac novi Freti vulgo Le Maire. . .
Early impression of this fine map of Tierra del Fuego. Hondius added a Dutch translation of the explanatory text of the passage by Barent Jansz. Potgieter who accompanied...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1635
Selling price: $500
Sold in 2017
Freti Magellanici ac novi Freti vulgo Le Maire. . .
Early impression of this fine map of Tierra del Fuego. Hondius added a Dutch translation of the explanatory text of the passage by Barent Jansz. Potgieter who accompanied...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1635
Selling price: $700
Sold in 2012
Guiana Siue Amazonu, Regio
Striking. 1635 map of the northwestern part of South America including Lake Parima (Parime Lacus), and the route to El Dorado. The map covers from Isla Margarita and the ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1635
Selling price: $170
Sold in 2016