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Tierra Nova
Gastaldi's map of South America from Giacomo Gastaldi's Atlas of 1548 which has been called the most comprehensive atlas, produced between Martin Waldseemüller's Geograp...
Place & Date: Venice, 1548
Selling price: $700
Sold in 2022
Tierra Nova.
Uncommon first edition of this early map of South America.Girolamo Ruscelli\'s edition of Ptolemy\'s Geographia included newly engraved copperplates by Giulio and Livio S...
Place & Date: Venice, 1561
Selling price: $650
Sold in 2009
Tierra Nova.
Scarce FIRST edition of this map depicting South America, extending from Labrador to Jamaica. The map is based upon a map published by Giacomo Gastaldi in 1548. One of th...
Place & Date: Venice, 1561
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2017
Tierra Nova.
Scarce FIRST edition of this map depicting South America, extending from Labrador to Jamaica. The map is based upon a map published by Giacomo Gastaldi in 1548. One of th...
Place & Date: Venice, Vincenzo Valgrisi, 1561
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2018
Americae Pervvi aqve ita vt postremvm detecta traditvr recens delineatio.
Map of Central and South America from the extremely rare first edition.. This map shows South America, part of Mexico, Caribbean and the southern tip of Florida. In lower...
Place & Date: Antwerp 1578
Selling price: $11625
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Brevis exactaq totius novi orbis eiusq insularum descriptio recens edita
Woodcut map of the Americas, which was published in three states. The first in Antwerp by Iuan Steelsio in 1554 in “La Historia General de las Indias”, written by the...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1566, 1567 or 1583
Selling price: $4100
Sold in 2023
Americae Pars Magis Cognita. Chorographia nobilis & opulentae Peruanae Provinciae, atque Brasiliae, . . . MDXCII
Although a map of South America it does include much of what is now the southern United States. There are two elaborate, strap-work cartouches with the one at lower right...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1592
Selling price: $1350
Sold in 2014
![[South America] Delineatio omnium orarum totius Australis partis Americae..](/uploads/cache/16740-250x250.jpg)
[South America] Delineatio omnium orarum totius Australis partis Americae..
A particularly decorative example of Dutch cartography boasting two intricate strapwork cartouches. Exotic animals and bellicose indians populate the continent, while in ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1593
Selling price: $4000
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Brasilia et Peruvia.
A rare map of south America and the Caribbean with sea monsters and five sailing ships decorating the sea and small vignettes of natives, some with bow and arrow, others ...
Place & Date: Antwerp 1593
Selling price: $5275
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![[South America] Delineatio omnium orarum totius Australis partis Americae..](/uploads/cache/21304-250x250.jpg)
[South America] Delineatio omnium orarum totius Australis partis Americae..
A particularly decorative example of Dutch cartography boasting two intricate strapwork cartouches. Exotic animals and bellicose indians populate the continent, while in ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1593
Selling price: $4400
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![[South America] Delineatio omnium orarum totius Australis partis Americae. . .](/uploads/cache/34876-250x250.jpg)
[South America] Delineatio omnium orarum totius Australis partis Americae. . .
A particularly decorative example of Dutch cartography boasting two intricate strapwork cartouches. Exotic animals and bellicose Indians populate the continent, while in ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1593
Selling price: $5100
Sold in 2014
![[South America] Delineatio omnium orarum totius Australis partis Americae. . .](/uploads/cache/35162-250x250.jpg)
[South America] Delineatio omnium orarum totius Australis partis Americae. . .
A particularly decorative example of Dutch cartography boasting two intricate strapwork cartouches. Exotic animals and bellicose Indians populate the continent, while in ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, after 1593
Selling price: $5500
Sold in 2017
![[South America] Delineatio omnium orarum totius Australis partis Americae. . .](/uploads/cache/94145-250x250.jpg)
[South America] Delineatio omnium orarum totius Australis partis Americae. . .
A particularly decorative example of Dutch cartography boasting two intricate strapwork cartouches. Exotic animals and bellicose Indians populate the continent, while in ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, after 1593
Selling price: $2600
Sold in 2015
![[South America] Delineatio omnium orarum totius Australis partis Americae. . .](/uploads/cache/41496-250x250.jpg)
[South America] Delineatio omnium orarum totius Australis partis Americae. . .
A particularly decorative example of Dutch cartography boasting two intricate strapwork cartouches. Exotic animals and bellicose Indians populate the continent, while in ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, after 1593
Selling price: $4900
Sold in 2019
Brasilia et Peruvia.
VERY RARE. THE EARLIEST DUTCH MAP OF SOUTH AMERICA. A nice example of De Jode's important map of South America, based largely upon Petrus Plancius' wall map of the World....
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1593
Selling price: $8000
Sold in 2020
Nova Et Exacta Delineatio Americae Partis Australis Que Est : Brasilia, Caribana, Guiana ?
Very rare map of South America, published by Hulsius. First issue. One of the two maps of Central and South América published in "Brevis & admiranda descriptio ...
Place & Date: Nuremberg 1599
Selling price: $1650
Sold in 2010
Descripcion de las yndias de mediodia.
Rare map depicting South America by Antonio de Herrera Y Tordesillas. He was the official historian of Spain and the Indies. This simply engraved map of the continent was...
Place & Date: 1601
Selling price: $750
Sold in 2013
![Nova et exacta delineatio Americae partis australis.. [2 maps]](/uploads/cache/21606-250x250.jpg)
Nova et exacta delineatio Americae partis australis.. [2 maps]
Very rare map of South America, published by Hulsius. The map is arrayed with wildlife throughout the land, a battle scene in Brazil and mythological figures. The seas ar...
Place & Date: Nuremberg 1602
Selling price: $1600
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Descriptio Regni Chili / Chili et Patago num regio.
A rare miniature map of Southern part of South America, including Chili,, Brasil, Argentina. Title cartouche on the lower right corner.First published in 1598 in his Caer...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Cornelis Claes, 1606
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2016
Descriptio Americae Australis.
An attractive miniature map of South America, published by Petrus Bertius, in Amsterdam at the turn of the seventeenth century. Brazil is still seen as a little misshapen...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1606
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2021
![[Title page] Das sechste Theil der nieuwen Welt oder Der Historien Hieron. Benzo von Meylandt. . .](/uploads/cache/36981-250x250.jpg)
[Title page] Das sechste Theil der nieuwen Welt oder Der Historien Hieron. Benzo von Meylandt. . .
Title page from a German text edition "Das sechste Theil der nieuwen Welt oder Der Historien Hieron. Benzo von Meylandt. . ." being part VI of the Grand Voyages...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1607
Selling price: $220
Sold in 2016
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
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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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
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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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
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 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
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
America Meridionalis.
The eastern part of Brazil is depicted as an island: a huge Rio de la Plata extends from the Atlantic in the south to a large lake, Eupana Lacus. From this lake the Rio G...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1630
Selling price: $1250
Sold in 2019
America meridionalis.
Map of South America the rare Cloppenburg edition "Atlas Sive Cosmographicae Meditationes De Fabrica Mundi Et Fabricati Figura", slightly larger format and more...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1630
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2019
Olinda de Phernambuco
Cooper engraved view of Olinda the historical city in the Brazilian state of Pernambuco from D. Meisner "Sciographia Cosmica" printed 1638 in Nuremberg. With La...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 1638
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2009
Americae Pars Meridionalis.
Decorated with several ships and sea monsters, and a cartouche flanked by engravings of six Indians, netted hammocks and South American fauna.
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1640
Selling price: $980
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Americae Pars Meridionalis.
Finely engraved map of South America. Decorated with several ships and sea monsters, and a cartouche flanked by engravings of six Indians, netted hammocks and South Ameri...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1640
Selling price: $500
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America Meridionalis.
Detailed miniature map of South America, from a German text edition of his Atlas Minor. Engraved by Petrus Kaerius.
Place & Date: Amsterdam (1628) 1648
Selling price: $80
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Americae pars meridionalis.
Decorated with several ships and sea monsters, and a cartouche flanked by engravings of six Indians, netted hammocks and South American fauna.
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1650
Selling price: $1200
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Americae Pars Meridionalis.
Finely engraved map of South America. Decorated with several ships and sea monsters, and a cartouche flanked by engravings of six Indians, netted hammocks and South Ameri...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1650
Selling price: $750
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Americae Pars Meridionalis.
Finely engraved map of South America. Decorated with several ships and sea monsters, and a cartouche flanked by engravings of six Indians, netted hammocks and South Ameri...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1650
Selling price: $1000
Sold in 2013
America Meridionalis.
Gerard Mercator's stunning map of South America with Latin text on the verso. The Strait of Magellan is show but Tierra Del Fuego is part of the large southern continent....
Place & Date: Amsterdam, c 1650
Selling price: $1750
Sold in 2013
Americae Pars Meridionalis.
A finely engraved map of South America. One of the earliest separate maps of South America, and one of the first decorative maps of South America to appear in a Dutch Atl...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1650
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2019
Amerique Meridionale . . .
A fine large map of South America. The relatively unknown Amazon region is left without speculation. However, Sanson includes the mythical Lac de Parime with Manoa del Do...
Place & Date: Paris, 1650-1659
Selling price: $290
Sold in 2013
AMERIQUE MERIDIONALE.
A map of South America as prepared by N.Sanson and published by Pierre Mariette. Published in an early edition of the small Sanson atlas 'L'Europe Dediée a Monseigneur ....
Place & Date: Paris, 1667
Selling price: $60
Sold in 2020
Amérique Méridionale divisée en ses principales Parties.
A very impressive large-scale map. The large decorative title cartouche is balanced by an equally large cartouche around the scale bars, surrounded by Indian figures and ...
Place & Date: Paris, 1674
Selling price: $340
Sold in 2009
Nova Hispaniae, Chili, Peruviae, et Guatimalae Littorae...
An early edition of this superb chart of the Pacific Ocean, oriented with north to the left of the sheet, showing the coasts of Peru, Chili, Ecuador, Colombia, Honduras, ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1675
Selling price: $850
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Amerique Meridionale, Par P. Du Val . . .
Map of the Southern Hemisphere showing South America, New Zealand, the southern coasts of Australia, and route of Le Maire across the Pacific. Published by P. Du-Val betw...
Place & Date: Paris, 1676
Selling price: $550
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L'America Meridionale Nuovamente corretta et accresciuta . . .
Giacomo Giovanni Rossi's map of South America, based upon Sanson's map, but with revised Italian nomenclature. From his 'Mercurio Geografico'. The engraver was Giorgio Wi...
Place & Date: Rome, 1677
Selling price: $350
Sold in 2012
Amerique Meridionale.
Map of South America, embellished with scenes of local customs inland, 5 vessels and a title cartouche.From the French text edition of Description d'Univers, 1683. by All...
Place & Date: Paris 1683
Selling price: $110
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Païs qui sont aux Environs de la Riviere de la Plata et du Païs des Patagons.
Map of South America, centred on the basin drained by the main tributaries of the Río de la Plata. Embellished by many vessels and a decorative title cartouche surrounde...
Place & Date: Paris 1683
Selling price: $50
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Païs qui sont aux Environs de la Riviere de la Plata et du Païs des Patagons.
Map of South America, centered on the basin drained by the main tributaries of the Río de la Plata. Embellished by many vessels and a decorative title cartouche surround...
Place & Date: Paris, 1683
Selling price: $95
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(Two engravings of South American interest from Description de l'Univers)
Finely etched maps entitled "Detroit de Magelan" and "Bresil".From the French text edition of Description d'Univers.. , published in 5 volumes in 1683...
Place & Date: Paris, 1683
Selling price: $15
Sold in 2015
Païs qui sont aux environs de la Riviere de la Plata et du Païs des Patagons.
A charming miniature map of southern South America, River de la Plata and Pategonia. Title in top. French text on verso.From the original 1683 text edition of "Descr...
Place & Date: Paris, 1683
Selling price: $30
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Amerique Meridionale.
A charming late 17th century French map of South America. Decorative cartouche and ships throughout the seas. Several indigenous scenes in the interior of the map showing...
Place & Date: Franckfurt 1684
Selling price: $120
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A Description of The South Sea & Coasts of America Containing ye whole Navigation and all those places at which Capt. Sharp and his Companions were in the years 1680 &1681
Very rare map of South America only published in one edition of Exquemelin's famous account: Bucaniers of America! The rare books which contain this map are currently off...
Place & Date: London, 1684
Selling price: $1440
Sold in 2014
L'America Meridionale..
Second edition of Rossi's map of South America, based upon Sanson's map, but with revised Italian nomenclature. From Rossi's Mercurio Geographico..Engraved by Giorgio Wid...
Place & Date: Rome 1687
Selling price: $750
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L'America meridionale...
Rossi's map of South America, based upon Sanson's map, but with revised Italian nomenclature. Showing the mythical Lag. Di Parime, with Manoa Dorado (city of gold) on its...
Place & Date: Rome, 1677-1688
Selling price: $400
Sold in 2015
![De kust der Zuyd zee.. [4 maps]](/uploads/cache/15730-250x250.jpg)
De kust der Zuyd zee.. [4 maps]
Four sheets covering the coasts from Southern Mexico until Chilli. Each maps is clearly engraved and belongs to an text page as each map has a page reference.Rare.
Place & Date: Amsterdam c.1690
Selling price: $150
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A New Map of South America Showing its General Divisions Chief Cities & Towns: Rivers, Mountains dedicated to his highness William Duke of Gloucester
Striking map of South America showing mainly large rivers and lakes but with notes about discovery, has A very large elaborate title cartouche and colored by regions. Thi...
Place & Date: Oxford, 1690
Selling price: $500
Sold in 2011
America meridionale . . .
Gorgeous example of Coronelli's famous map of South America. The outline of South America is well charted and every port and bay has been identified and named in detail. ...
Place & Date: Venice, 1690
Selling price: $2000
Sold in 2017
South America.
A rare miniature map of South America from John Seller's 'A New Systeme of Geography'. With a decorative title cartouche.
Place & Date: London, 1690
Selling price: $50
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Amerique Meridionale..
From Jaillot's Atlas Nouveau. A very impressive large scale map: the large decorative title cartouche is balanced by an equally large cartouche around the scale bars, sur...
Place & Date: Paris 1691
Selling price: $800
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L'Amerique meridionale divisée en ses principales parties ou sont distingués les vns des autres les estats suivant qu'ils appartiennent présentement aux François, Castillans, Portugais, Hollandois, &c
Very good impression of Jaillot's large map of South America. With additional title in top. The map include lines of latitude and longitude, some topographical details, l...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, c.1692
Selling price: $1800
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L'Amérique Méridionale.
An interesting small map of South America by Nicolas de Fer. From his rare "Petit et Nouveau Atlas". The first edition was published in 1697 and was republished...
Place & Date: Paris, 1692
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2018
L'Amerique Meridionale Divisee en ses Principales Parties. . .
A handsome large-format map of South America by Jaillot, based upon the earlier maps of Nicholas Sanson. From: 'Atlas Royal', Amsterdam, 1694.Jaillot’s map is well-fram...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1694
Selling price: $350
Sold in 2021
America meridionale Auttore Il P.M. Coronelli M.C. Cosmografo della Serenissima Repub. Di Venetia..
Matching set of 2 attractive large folio maps depicting all of South America in the grand Coronelli style. Splendid large ornate cartouche with Coronelli's normal flouris...
Place & Date: Venice 1696
Selling price: $2300
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Amerique meridionale divisee en ses principales.
An attractive large-format map of the South American continent, embellished with two large cartouches. Newly engraved for the counterfeited edition of the 'Atlas Nouveau'...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1696
Selling price: $260
Sold in 2022
America australis dei parae Multas Sacras Aedes..
A map from the series of maps by the Jesuit mathematician. A general map of south America, produced by Scherer to show the spread of Catholicism in the continent. This de...
Place & Date: Munich c.1702
Selling price: $150
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Pelineatis anarium Peru cujus Metropolis Lima : In qua vicarus Regis, Archie piscopusque . . . .
Uncommon map of the central part of South America with Peru, Brasil. Only coastal names.From a travel book describing the early Dutch voyages by René Augustin Constantin...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, E. Rogers, 1702
Selling price: $90
Sold in 2016
America Ausralis.
A charming and boldly engraved map of South America. This is the bottom part of a map of the Americas by Scherer. With major lakes, rivers and mountains shown, as well as...
Place & Date: Munich, 1702
Selling price: $60
Sold in 2017
Amerique meridionale.
A small map of South America with an interestingly shaped of coast line. It shows a few dates and fictional islands. A large "Terres Inconnues" is shown in the ...
Place & Date: Paris, ca 1710
Selling price: $38
Sold in 2019
SOUTH AMERICA. Corrected from the Observations comunicated to the Royal Societys of London & Paris.
A lovely extra large map of South America, dedicated by Senex to the famous Astronomer and Mnathematician Edmund Halley LLD Savilian Professor of Geometery in Oxford and ...
Place & Date: London, 1710
Selling price: $450
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Nouvelle Carte de Geographie de la Partie Meridionale de l'Amerique Suivant les Plus Nouvelles Observations
A striking large map of South America, with information about various discoveries, expeditions, and colonies. In the Pacific, the routes of Magellan, Schouten & Le Ma...
Place & Date: Paris, 1713
Selling price: $130
Sold in 2016
L' Amerique Meridionale qui fait l' autre Partie des Indes Occidentales, Dressée tres Exactement Suivant les Observations..
Charming small map of the South American continent with good detail. Decorated with a title cartouche with two natives in the Atlantic and a sea battle being waged in the...
Place & Date: Paris 1719
Selling price: $300
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L' Amerique Meridionale qui fait l' autre Partie des Indes Occidentales, Dressée tres Exactement Suivant les Observations..
Charming small map of the South American continent with good detail. Decorated with a title cartouche with two natives in the Atlantic and a sea battle being waged in the...
Place & Date: Paris, 1719
Selling price: $300
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L'Amérique Méridionale..
Fine and uncommon map of south America. Very decorative title cartouche on the lower left corner. The map is printed within a large, elaborately engraved mock-frame borde...
Place & Date: Leiden 1720
Selling price: $270
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Carte du Paraguay, du Chili, du Detroit de Magellan &c.
A finely engraved, detailed map of the southern half of South America. Prepared by de l'Isle.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1720
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2014
Carte de la Terre Ferme, du Perou, du Bresil, et du Pays des Amazones. . .
Handsome map of the northern part of South America based on the cartography of Guillaume Delisle.It is filled with place names and notations speculating about the Indian ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1720
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2017
Amerique Meridionale.
A nice small map of South America.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1721
Selling price: $110
Sold in 2008
Carte du Perou, du Fleuve des Amazones et du Bresil.
Appealing map focusing on the Amazon Basin, therefore including large part of the Brazilian Peruvian and Bolivian territories. Relief shown pictorially.From "Voyages...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1722
Selling price: $140
Sold in 2010
AMERICA MERIDIONALIS.
Very attractive map of the continent of South America with typical 18th century cartography, much of it fanciful. The large pictorial title cartouche features the peoples...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 1724
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2012
Pelineatis anarium Peru cujus Metropolis Lima : In qua vicarus Regis, Archie piscopusque . . . . ( Tome 2 Page 48)
Uncommon map of the central part of South America with Peru, Brasil. Only coastal names.From the French reissue of the account of early Dutch voyages first published in 1...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, F. Bernard, 1725
Selling price: $75
Sold in 2017