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[The strange sheep-like creatures that carried the silver .]
When the Spanish discovered the silver mines of Potosí, they organised the transport of the rich ore westward by llama trains across the Altiplano and down to Arica on the coast, where it would be transported by ship to Panama. These strange creatures would sit down when angered or overburdened and, neither beatings nor kind words would make the animals get up again. If any of them ran away, they had to be shot to recover their valuable cargo.In 1631, Johann Ludwig Gottfried inherited Theodor D...
€80

Maker : GOTTFRIED, J.L. / DE BRY.
Place : Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
Date : 1633
[Another Dutch fleet reaches Lima].
In 1624 a heavily armed Dutch fleet sailed from the Juan Fernandez Islands to Lima. The leader of the fleet, Jacob l’Hermite, was in such poor health that he had to hand over command to Admiral Jacobson. The fleet anchored outside the harbour near the island of San Lorenzo (‘I. de Lima’). The port was full of Spanish ships and was too well protected for a direct confrontation so, on the night of 11th May, the Dutch carried out a daring and devious plan. In 1631 Johann Ludwig Gottfried, inh...
€80

Maker : GOTTFRIED, J.L. / DE BRY.
Place : Frankfurt, M.Merian
Date : 1633
Carte du Canada ou de la Nouvelle France.
Fourth state of the map of Canada published by Delisle with the imprint "sur le Quai de l’Horloge a l’Aigle d’Or avec Privilege pour 20 ans, 1703". Beneath the title, Renard’s imprint is erased.Including the fictitious discoveries of Baron de Lahoutan: the legendary River Longue etc. The north west corner of Hudson Bay is left open, leaving the possibility of a north west passage open. De l'Isle's map was the first to show Detroit (founded by Cadillac) and the first to mention a settleme...
€500

Maker : DE L'ISLE, G.
Place : Paris
Date : 1703
Savoye.
A charming map of Savoy. Title in a curtain draped at top. French text on verso.From the original 1683 text edition of "Description d'Univers. . ." by Allain Manesson Mallet (1630-1706), a well travelled military engineer and geographer who worked in 17th century France under King Louis XIV.Published by Denys Thierry.
€50

Maker : MANESSON MALLET, A.
Place : Paris
Date : 1683
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