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Brasil.
A fantastic pictorial map of Brazil, shown north to the right. This graphic woodblock map, prepared by the great Venetian cartographer Giacomo Gastaldi and is filled with...
Place & Date: Venice about 1556
Selling price: $650
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Brasil.
A fantastic pictorial map of Brazil, shown north to the right. This graphic woodblock map, prepared by the great Venetian cartographer Giacomo Gastaldi and is filled with...
Place & Date: Venice ca. 1556
Selling price: $1000
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Brasil nuova tavola.
Uncommon first edition of this early map of Brazil. West to the top.Girolamo Ruscelli's edition of Ptolemy's Geographia included newly engraved copperplates by Giulio and...
Place & Date: Venice, 1561
Selling price: $350
Sold in 2020
Brasilia
A map of Brazil from "Descriptionis Ptolemaicae Augmentum, sive Occidentis Notitia" published in 1597. First edition, paper size 30 x 37 cm, map size: 28.4 cm x...
Place & Date: 1597
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2016
Brasilia.
Very rare sixteenth century map of Brazil.Published in the German edition of José de Acosta's De Natura Nova Orbis, first published in Salamanca, 1588. Acosta was a Span...
Place & Date: Cologne 1598
Selling price: $470
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Descriptio Brasiliae / Brasilia.
A rare miniature map of Brazil. Title cartouche on the lower right corner.First published in 1598 in his Caert-Thresoor, the plates were executed by the most famous engra...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Cornelis Claes, 1606
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2016
![[The battle between rival indians near Bertioga].](/uploads/cache/39414-250x250.jpg)
[The battle between rival indians near Bertioga].
An epic struggle between theTupinambá tribe and their enemy - the Tupiniki tribe.The battle lasted about two hours, during which time both sides howled at each other lik...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1607
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2018
![[A Portuguese ship comes to look for Staden].](/uploads/cache/39416-250x250.jpg)
[A Portuguese ship comes to look for Staden].
Hans Staden was a German soldier and explorer, who travelled to South America during the mid 16th century. Whilst there he was captured by native Indians in Brazil. He su...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1607
Selling price: $130
Sold in 2018
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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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
![[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
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![[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
![[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
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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
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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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
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
S. Salvator in Brasilien
Cooper engraved view of Salvador, Bahia in Brazil from D. Meissner "Sciographia Cosmica" printed 1638 in Nuremberg. With Latin and German aphorism and sailing b...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 1638
Selling price: $160
Sold in 2009
Abbildung der Statt und Festung Parayba in der Landschaft Brasilia.
A splendid map of the region of Paraiba and the forts at the mouth of the Paraiba. The map illustrates the Dutch incursion into the Portuguese territory and shows the Dut...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1639
Selling price: $400
Sold in 2015
Accuratissima BRASILIAE Tabula.
A decorative map with a title cartouche of two natives, in the interior is an inset of Baya de Todos os Sanctos (Salvador) and "Villa d'Olinda de Pernambuco", i...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1639
Selling price: $750
Sold in 2013
Grondt-Tekening van het Eylandt ANTHONY VAAZ het Reciff ende vaste Landt aen de haven van PERNAMBUCO in Brasil..
EXTREMELY RARE MAP engraved by Willem Hondius and published by Claes Jansz. Visscher.A detailed map of the Island of Anthony Vaaz. In upper left corner an inset of Fort d...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1640
Selling price: $3025
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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 1640
Selling price: $800
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Accuratissima Brasiliae Tabula.
Early map of Brazil showing settlements, coastal features, and the hereditary captaincies of the 17th century. The named cities include Sao Sebastian (Rio de Janeiro), Sa...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, c.1640
Selling price: $1750
Sold in 2011
Acuritisima Brasilia Tabula.
A very decorative, desirable map of Brazil. The work is filled with native scenes depicting various activities, including a cannibalism ritual and villagers tending to a ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1642
Selling price: $850
Sold in 2008
Áfbeeldinge vande Cabo St. Augustin Met haer forten.
The taking of the Portuguese settlement at Cape St. Augustin by a Dutch fleet. From I. Commelin's work on the history of the Dutch in Brasil.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, c. 1645
Selling price: $380
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t' Neemen van de Suyker Prysen in de Bay de Tode los Santos Anno 1627.
Nice copper engraving of the Dutch fleet under command of Piet Heyn capturing the fort at the entrance to the Baia de Todos os Santos, in northeastern Brazil. Large inset...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, c. 1645
Selling price: $330
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Brasilia.
An important map of Brazil by the famous Dutch publishing house of Blaeu.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1645
Selling price: $750
Sold in 2019
Brasilia.
Fine copy of this map by Krystof Arciszewski, a Polish general who worked for the Dutch West Indian Company. The map perpetuates various myths including the Parime Lago ,...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1647
Selling price: $630
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Praefecturae Paranambucae pars Meridionalis.
EXTREMELY RARE issue, printed for C.Barlaeus, and before included in the Blaeu Atlas Major. Extends from the Rio San Francisco to the Rio Gujaraigacu.This map is one the ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1647
Selling price: $2000
Sold in 2008
Boa vista.
EXTREMELY RARE issue, printed for C.Barlaeus.This plate is one the first views of Brazil based on Dutch rather than Portuguese interest. The drawing was made by Frans Pos...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1647
Selling price: $2000
Sold in 2008
Loanda S.Pauli.
Attractive coastal view of the island of Luanda (Angola). The name means "flat land" as the island has no mountains and is comprised only of sand deposited by t...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1647
Selling price: $3100
Sold in 2008
Praefecturae de ciriii vel seregippe delrey cum Itapuama.
EXTREMELY RARE issue, printed for C.Barlaeus, and before included in the atlas. This map is one the first maps of Brazil based on Dutch rather than Portuguese interest. T...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1647
Selling price: $2000
Sold in 2008
![[Lot of a portrait of Johan Maurits Count of Nassau-Siegen and title page both from Rerum per octennium in Brasilia. ]](/uploads/cache/48309-250x250.jpg)
[Lot of a portrait of Johan Maurits Count of Nassau-Siegen and title page both from Rerum per octennium in Brasilia. ]
Title page and portrait taken from the rare work about Brasil "Rerum per octennium in Brasilia et alibi nuper gestarum, sub præfectura illustrissimi comitis J. Maur...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1647
Selling price: $160
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Civitas Loandae S. Pauli.
Map of the city of Luanda. Taken from Archontologia Cosmica... Primo opera & studio Jo. Ludovici Gotofredi, ex gallico per nobiliss. D.T.V.Y.... nunc continuati a G.C...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1649
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2008
Capitaniarum de Phernambuca, Itamaraca, Paraiba..
Rare map of part of the coast of Brazil. Much information is derived from maps drawn for the Dutch West Indian Company.Published by the famous Amsterdam publisher Johanne...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1650
Selling price: $700
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Capitaniae de cirii et Parnambuco.
Rare map of part of the coast of Brazil. From Janssonius' 'Atlas Novus'. Rare. Title in a decorated frame at top right, flanked by allegorical figures, and scale bars in ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1650
Selling price: $1150
Sold in 2009
Capitaniae de cirii et Parnambuco.
Rare map of part of the coast of Brazil. From Janssonius' 'Atlas Novus'. Rare. Title in a decorated frame at top right, flanked by allegorical figures, and scale bars in ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1650
Selling price: $1200
Sold in 2013
Accuratissima Brasiliae Tabula.
Reduced version of Jansson's famous map of Brazil. Filled with coastal information but no inland detail. Decorative title cartouche and compassrose. German edition with t...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1651
Selling price: $140
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Capitaniarum de Phernambuca, Itama Raca, Paraiba, et Pio Grande Nova Delineatio.
Rare map of part of the coast of Brazil. From Janssonius' 'Atlas Novus'. Rare. Title in cartouche at upper left, scale bars in frame at lower left, and legend in frame at...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1652
Selling price: $1150
Sold in 2009
Afbeeldinghe van Pariba ende Forten.
The Dutch fleet before the entrance of the Rio de Paribo. From Isaac Commelin's description of the life and acts of Prince Frederik Hendrik van Nassau (the 'Brasilian').
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1656
Selling price: $350
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Le Perou et le cours de la Riv.re Amazone ...
Standard map of Peru and the River Amazon prepared by N. Sanson.
Place & Date: Paris, 1657
Selling price: $65
Sold in 2011
Brasilia.
A mint copy of this map by Krystof Arciszewski, a Polish general who worked for the Dutch West Indian Company. The map perpetuates various myths including the Parime Lago...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1658
Selling price: $900
Sold in 2009
Accuratissima Brasiliae Tabula..
A decorative map with a title cartouche of two natives: the interior features scenes of native life, among napping in a hammock, warfare, cannibalism and indigenous wild ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1660
Selling price: $1025
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Accuratissima Brasiliae Tabula.
A decorative map of Brazil with a title cartouche of two natives: the interior features scenes of native life, among napping in a hammock, warfare, cannibalism and indige...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1660
Selling price: $450
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S. SALVADOR.
Charming view of Salvador de Bahia, in Brazil, seen from the ocean. In lower left inset map of Baia de todos os Sanctos.
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1660
Selling price: $110
Sold in 2008
Accuratissima Brasiliae tabula.
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.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1660
Selling price: $900
Sold in 2009
Praefecturae Paranambucae pars Borealis, una cum praefectura de Itamaraca.
This map is one the first maps of Brazil based on Dutch rather than Portuguese interest. The Dutch West India Company, appointed Count Johan Maurits Governor-General of D...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1660
Selling price: $2200
Sold in 2009
S. SALVADOR.
Charming view of Salvador de Bahia, in Brazil, seen from the ocean. In lower left inset map of Baia de todos os Sanctos.
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1660
Selling price: $75
Sold in 2020
Olinda
This is a reduced version of the famous view of Olinda (Pernabuco, north east of Brazil) derived by the famous work of Barlaeus entitled "Rerum per octennium in Bras...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca 1660
Selling price: $260
Sold in 2022
Boa Vista
This is a reduced version of the famous view of Boa Vista derived by the famous work of Barlaeus entitled "Rerum per octennium in Brasilia et alibi gestarum..."...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca 1660
Selling price: $260
Sold in 2022
Parayba
This is a reduced version of the famous view of Parayba derived by the famous work of Barlaeus entitled "Rerum per octennium in Brasilia et alibi gestarum...", ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca 1660
Selling price: $260
Sold in 2022
Acapitania de Paranambuca
This is a reduced version of the famous view of the Captaincy of Pernambuco or New Lusitania, derived by the famous work of Barlaeus entitled "Rerum per octennium in...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca 1660
Selling price: $260
Sold in 2022
Carta Particolare dell? Rio d?Amazone con la costa sin al fiume Maranhan
Dudley?s magnificent map shows the mouth of the Amazon River. One of the smaller scale, more specific (?Carta Particolare?) maps and include sailing ships, notes on preva...
Place & Date: Florence 1661
Selling price: $1250
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Nova et Accurata Brasiliae totius tabula.
First edition of the last part of the Latin "Atlas maior" dedicated to America. Original color.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1662
Selling price: $1500
Sold in 2010
Sinus Omnium Sanctory.
Shows the area of Bahia de Todos Sanctos in north-east Brazil with an inset plan of San Salvador.First edition of the last part of the Latin "Atlas maior" dedic...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1662
Selling price: $830
Sold in 2009
Praefecturae Paranambucae Pars Borealis. . . / Praefecturae Paranambucae Pars Meridionalis... / Praefectura de Ciriii ... / Praefecturae de Paraiba ...
Matching set of four maps covering the Brazilian Capitanias. Latin text on verso. First edition of the last part of the Latin "Atlas maior" dedicated to America...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1662
Selling price: $8100
Sold in 2009
Praefecturae Paranambucae Pars Meridionalis
Original map of the coast of Pernambuco, Brazil, from the Rio de S. Francisco to Paripueira.Title in a cartouche at top right, below is a nice scene with fishermen pullin...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1662
Selling price: $350
Sold in 2022
Praefectura de Ciriji.
Full title: 'Praefecture de Ciriji vel Seregippe Del Rey cium Itapuama'. Showing a large part of the river de S. Francisco and further south to Aracaju, province of Sergi...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1662
Selling price: $340
Sold in 2022
Sinus Omnium Sanctoru. Bahia de Todos os Sanctos.
First Atlas Major issue: originally issued by Blaeu in Casper van Baarle's 'Rerum per Octennium in Brasilia' (1647) dedicated to the former Governor of the Dutch colony, ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1664
Selling price: $900
Sold in 2012
Le Perou et le cours de la Riviere Amazone. . .
Standard map of Peru and the River Amazon prepared by N.Sanson and published by Pierre Mariette.Published in an early edition of the small Sanson atlas L'Europe Dediée a...
Place & Date: Paris, P. Mariette, 1667
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2009
Le Bresil don't la coste est. . .
Map of Brazil. Published in an early edition of the small Sanson atlas L'Europe Dediée a Monseigneur . . . Le Tellier Secret. D'Estat &c."The ...
Place & Date: Paris, P. Mariette, 1667
Selling price: $190
Sold in 2009
Olinda de Phernambuco.
View of the town of Olinda, north of present-day Recife in Pernambuco with extensive shipping in the foreground.This plate is taken from Ogilby's An Accurate Description ...
Place & Date: London, 1671
Selling price: $700
Sold in 2009
Obsidio et Expugnatio Portus Calvi.
Copper engraving of the Dutch fort at Porto Calvo (Alagoas). The foreground is filled with people, carts, and farmers. Title in banner style cartouche.This print is taken...
Place & Date: London 1671
Selling price: $300
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Fluvius Grandis.
A finely engraved view of a heavily armed fort along the Amazon delta. In the foreground soldiers and natives can be seen unloading goods from small boats that have come ...
Place & Date: London 1671
Selling price: $200
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I. Tamaraca.
A superb view of the Dutch Forte Oranje on the Brazilian island of Itamaracá, with small-craft shipping and local products being hauled along the waterfront. A small let...
Place & Date: London, 1671
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2008
Urbs Salvador.
Fine copper engraving of the walled city of San Salvador, with numbered key at the top. Ships and boats fill the harbor in the foreground.This map is taken from Ogilby's ...
Place & Date: London 1671
Selling price: $315
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Arx Principis Guiljelmi.
Uncommon folio sheet 17th-century engraved view of the Dutch Fort William with its central church and strong palisades.Olinda is located on a hill in the background. A de...
Place & Date: London 1671
Selling price: $265
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Sinus Omnium Sanctoru.
Fine impression of Ogilby?s dramatic view of the Bay of All Saints in Brazil. Known as Sao Salvador, or Bahia, the town was first founded by the Portuguese in 1549 and wa...
Place & Date: London 1671
Selling price: $265
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I. Tamaraca.
A superb view of the Dutch Forte Oranje on the Brazilian island of Itamaracá, with small-craft shipping and local products being hauled along the waterfront.A small lett...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1671
Selling price: $190
Sold in 2008
Urbs Salvador.
Fine copper engraving of the walled city of San Salvador, with numbered key at the top.Ships and boats fill the harbor in the foreground.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1671
Selling price: $220
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Obsidio et Expugnatio Portus Calvi.
Copper engraving of the Dutch fort at Porto Calvo (Alagoas), with numbered key in the upper right corner.The foreground is filled with people, carts, and farmers. Title i...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1671
Selling price: $200
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Alagoa ad Austrum.
Superb view of Alagoa (Maceio) with native fishermen in the foreground and a religious procession in the background. A small letter key at the bottom left identifies majo...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1671
Selling price: $200
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Ostium Flumines Paraybae.
Fine copper engraving illustrating the entrance to the Paraiba River in Brazil. With small letter key in the upper left corner.In the left background is a large fort (Cas...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1671
Selling price: $180
Sold in 2008
Castrum Mauritij ad Ripam Fluminis S. Francisci.
Impressing copper engraving depicting Fort Maurice, which controlled the ferry on the Rio Francisco.With small letter key at the bottom.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1671
Selling price: $200
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Olinda de Phernambuco.
View of the town of Olinda, north of present-day Recife in Pernambuco with extensive shipping in the foreground.With small letter key in the upper left corner.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1671
Selling price: $180
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Serinhaim.
Fine view of a fort in Serinhaim, Brazil. With numbered key in the upper left corner and title enclosed in large ribbon banner style cartouche.A procession of Portuguese ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1671
Selling price: $200
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Brasila.
Map of Brazil extending from C. Nasou and Parime Lago to the Mouth of the Rio de la Plata.Oriented with West on top.The cartography of the region is quite primitive. The ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1671
Selling price: $400
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