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Americae Sive Novi Orbis, Nova Descriptio.
This is the second copperplate of Ortelius'.
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- Maker :
- ORTELIUS, A.
- Place :
- Antwerp
- Date :
- 1579
- Color :
- Colored
- Height mm.:
- 355
- Width mm.:
- 495
- Condition :
- Excellent condition. Latin text on verso. According to Van den Broecke published in 1579.
- Bibliography :
- Burden, America 39.
- Seller's ref. :
- 35810
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This is the second copperplate of Ortelius' map showing the western hemisphere, showing the prominent bulge in the South American coastline. An important map because of its influence on the European perceptions of America. When the map was first published by Abraham Ortelius at Antwerp in 1570, it was the best map of the Americas available.
It was in fact the first of its kind to achieve-wide circulation through an atlas. Lower California is correctly shown as a peninsula and America is separated from Asia in the north west. In this state the name of the Azores corrected to Las Açores .
Britain's Empire on the Sea. Dedicated to Captain the Right Honourable Lord Charles Beresford...
A very decorative and large chromolithographed plate showing all the effective strength of the British navy with the name and class of each ship shown beneath, except for the torpedo boats destroyers denoted by numbers.The pate is dedicated to the Right Honourable Lord Charles William de la Poer Beresford (10 February 1846 – 6 September 1919). He was a British admiral and Member of Parliament. He combined the two careers of the navy and a member of parliament, making a reputation as a hero in ...
$1.000
Maker : JOGHNSON and LOGAN
Place : Portsea, ca. 1897
Date : Portsea, ca. 1897
Grenada.
A delightfully detailed map the West Indian island Grenada by John Thomson. The map displays excellent detail concerning roads, rivers, towns, bays, harbours and other interesting topographical details.Thomson (1777-c1840) was a Scottish cartographer from Edinburgh, celebrated for his 1817 New General Atlas, published by himself in Edinburgh, John Cumming in Dublin, and Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy in London.
$50
Maker : THOMSON, J.
Place : Edenburgh
Date : 1821
Compass.
A sloop compass in the original wooden box with lit. The compass with floating rose (Cardan system). Slung in gimbals, the east point is decorated and graduated in half points and decorated N & E points.The cardan suspension system, also called a gimbal, is a pivotal support that allows the rotation of an object about a single axis. If simultaneously assembled three rings, one on another by orthogonal rotation axes, an object placed inside the third ring always remains horizontal, regardless of...
$650
Maker : ANONYMOUS
Place : c. 1890-1900
Date : c. 1890-1900
![[How the Inca nobility are buried] / [Bridge of Huaynacapaco]](/uploads/cache/41094-(1)-500x500.jpg)
[How the Inca nobility are buried] / [Bridge of Huaynacapaco]
Two engravings. [470] The funeral of an Inca king was a ceremony of great splendor. After digging a large pit, the Indians would decorate the corpse with gold and silver then bury it with many fine ornaments, along with good food and wine to help it on its way into the next world. Benzoni so described the burial of Huayna-Capac, whose grave he said was on the border of the province of Quito. When the Spanish first went to Peru, they discovered and pillaged many such graves.[469] Much of Ecuador ...
$80
Maker : GOTTFRIED, J.L. / DE BRY.
Place : Frankfurt, M.Merian
Date : 1633
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