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Plants Lantor, Assa, Pimenta, Mangostan and Pepper.
Lantor is a kind of coconut palm (or Indian nut) with fronds as long as a human body. These fronds are used as paper. Pimenta del Rabo (or cubebe) grows grape-like on trees and is held in such esteem by the Indians that they cook and preserve them, rather than sell them to other countries. Also shown is the Tamarind tree or Assa, the plant Talasse grows in Java, and the Mangostan fruit and the black pepper is called ‘Sahang’ in Java.Theodore de Bry, a German engraver and book dealer, began a...
€80
Maker : DE BRY, Th.
Place : Frankfurt
Date : 1598
Freti Magellanici ac novi Freti vulgo Le Maire. . .
A fine map of Tierra del Fuego. With an explanatory text of the passage by Barent Jansz. Potgieter who accompanied captain Sebald de Weert to the Straits in 1599/1600, being the first Dutch vessels to sail through the Strait of Magellan, in Latin and Dutch.After various English voyages, the Dutch appeared in the Strait of Magellan in 1599. One of the Dutch pioneering voyages to the Southwest was the one by Jacques Mahu and Simon de Cordes, who were sent out by Rotterdam merchants. The five ships...
€800
Maker : HONDIUS, H.
Place : Amsterdam
Date : ca. 1633
Nova Hispania et Nova Galicia.
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 and gold mines. The map's elaborate cartouche is surmounted by the Spanish Royal coat of arms. Based on Ortelius map of 1579 which became the basis for many of the seventeenth century maps of the area. From early on Willem Jansz. Blaeu aimed of publishing an atlas to compete with the Hondius-Jansson Atlas. By 1630, he had published at least 17 folio size maps. Blaeu was ab...
€850
Maker : BLAEU, W.
Place : Amsterdam
Date : 1644
Paraguayo prov. de Rio de La Plata cum regionibus..
A beautiful map of Paraguay, and parts of Peru, Chile, Argentina, Brazil and Bolivia. Much of the area was still "Terra Incognita" so there are few towns and cities shown. The Andes are clearly shown to the west as well as the river systems.The Renaissance cartouche adds a special decorative accent to the map. The small cartouche in the lower right gives the name of the publisher. From early on Willem Jansz. Blaeu aimed of publishing an atlas to compete with the Hondius-Jansson Atlas. By 1630, ...
€600
Maker : BLAEU, W.
Place : Amsterdam
Date : 1644
Venezuela cum parte Australi Novae Andalusiae.
A finely engraved, decorative map of Venezuela. The islands of Trinidad and Tobago, Margarita, Aruba and Curaçao are shown. Local animals are depicted, sheep, birds, monkeys.With a decorative title cartouche held aloft by a pair of winged cherubs and a handsome pair of compass roses, galleon etc. From early on Willem Jansz. Blaeu aimed of publishing an atlas to compete with the Hondius-Janssonius Atlas. By 1630, he had published at least 17 folio size maps. Blaeu was able to realize his plan s...
€800
Maker : BLAEU, W.
Place : Amsterdam
Date : 1644
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. 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. "As early as 1520, Spanish settlers in Panama had heard tales of a powerful civilization rich in gold that lay to the south, and in 1522 an expedition was organized to find this land...
€900
Maker : BLAEU, W.
Place : Amsterdam
Date : 1644
Brasilia.
Striking old color example of Blaeu's second map of Brazil prepared by Krystof Arciszewski, a Polish general who worked for the Dutch West Indian Company. The map perpetuates various myths, including the Parime Lago , although it is generally more accurate than its predecessors. The map includes the region from the mouth of the Amazon River to the La Plata. Orientated with west to the top. Including the mouth of the Amazon.Brasil was first discovered by Pedro Álvares Cabral in 1500 while en rou...
€750
Maker : BLAEU, J.
Place : Amsterdam, 1647
Date : 1647
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 , although it is generally more accurate than its predecessors. Orientated with west to the top. Including the mouth of the Amazon.
€700
Maker : BLAEU, J.
Place : Amsterdam
Date : 1647
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
Haven van Aquapulco in ' Coninkryk van Nova Spagnien in de Zuyd Zee.
A finely engraved plan of the harbor, fort and village of Acapulco drawn from a hilltop vantage point looking out to sea. Several galleons are pictured approaching or anchored in the harbor. After Johannes Vingboons.François Valentijn (1666-1727), a missionary, worked at Amboina from 1684 to 1694 and 1705 to 1713 and traveled extensively in the VOC's lands. He is best known for his monumental history and description, "Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indiën" which remains one of the most important primary so...
€650
Maker : VALENTIJN, F.
Place : Amsterdam
Date : 1726
Carte qui contient..Iles & Terres..L'Amerique..Jamaique..
Eight maps on one sheet. From Chatelain's Atlas Historique et Méthodique . Including maps of Bermuda, Jamaica, New England with Long Island, Carolina, Chesapeake and Delaware Bay, Nova Scotia and a map of the Caribbean.
€500
Maker : CHATELAIN, H.
Place : Amsterdam
Date : 1728
Dominia Anglorum in America Septentrionali.
Four maps on one sheet (New Found land/ New England/ Virginia and Carolina/Florida) based on J.B.Homann's map, showing British possessions in North America. The upper left shows territory in Newfoundland and around the Bay of St. Lawrence, with portions of the ‘lost’ colony of New Scotland. The Grand Banks are prominently noted as well. The map immediately to the right shows claims in New York and New England, with large areas in Pennsylvania noted as belonging to the Iroquois. The lower lef...
€750
Maker : HOMANN HEIRS.
Place : Nuremberg 1740
Date : 1740
Amérique Méridionale.
Nice small map of South America. Dated 1748. From Atlas Portatif Universel, by Robert de Vaugondy.Page 105 outside border top right. Mary Sponberg Pedley does not mention a state without date.
€75
Maker : VAUGONDY, R. de
Place : Paris
Date : later than 1748
Terre de Sainte Croix, nommée à présent Bresil.
Detailed small map showing most part of the Brazilian seacoasts, from the mouth of the Amazon River as far as the island of Sao Sebastiao.From Atlas Portatif Universel, by Robert de Vaugondy. 111 outside border top right. Mary Sponberg Pedley does not mention a state without date.
€75
Maker : VAUGONDY, R. de
Place : Paris
Date : later than 1749
America Meridionalis.
This is the more scarce edition with the title cartouche lower left surrounded by Neptune and a native Indian.A rather accurate depiction and descriptions of South America. Brazil is slightly enlarged and bears mainly names of the costal zone. The inland was rather unknown at the time and regarded as both pagan and dangerous area like the Amazon.Argentina with Cape Horn and the Falkland Islands are merely deformed. The map was published by Matthäus Seutter's son in law Tobias Conrad Lotter, who...
€550
Maker : LOTTER, T.C.
Place : Augsburg
Date : c. 1760
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Carte de la Guyane Françoise et l'Isle de Cayenne..
A well engraved and highly detailed chart of French Guiana and the island of Cayenne. Made in 1763 by Jacques Bellin (1703-72), a prolific cartographer assigned the Ministry of the French Navy. It shows soundings, anchorage's, channels, shoals, navigational sightings. Engraved by Croisey, engraver for the Depot Générale de la marine is noted as such on the map.
€500
Maker : BELLIN, J. N.
Place : Paris
Date : 1763
Partie De L'Amerique Septentrionale... Le Cours De L'Ohio, La N.lle Angleterre, a Nlle York, le New Jersey , La Pensyvanie, Le Maryland, Le Virginie, La Carolina...1755
From the Atlas Universel , a detailed map extending the length of the east coast from Penobscot Bay to Cape Fear and, in an inset, from Cape Fear to Fort St.Georges.This state with a dotted border of Treaty of Paris, 1763, with Virginie and Caroline Sept. Et Merid. Extended west to Mississippi. New-Hemp-Shire" and Prov. De Sagadahock" now added.The Atlas Universel of Gilles and Didier Robert de Vaugondy was first published in 1755. The maps were detailed, precisely engraved and not given to the ...
€800
Maker : DE VAUGONDY, R. de
Place : Paris
Date : 1768
Mappa geographica Provinciæ Nova Eboraci ab Anglis New-York . . .
Lower part of the two sheets map of Homann Heirs' edition of Sauthier's celebrated map of New York and New Jersey, made during the Revolutionary War. Appears in Homann's Atlas geographicvs maior. 1759-[1784].
€750
Maker : HOMANN HEIRS.
Place : Nuremburg
Date : 1778
Carte de la Dominique Prise par les Francois le 7 Septembre 1778. Avec le Plan du Debarquement et de l'Attaque des Forts et Batteries par les Troupes et Les Fregates de sa Majeste
A rare map of St. Dominica, with insets of Charlotteville with its attack by the French on 7 September 1778 on the British. Also small inset map of the Caribbean islands from Antigua till Grenada. With dedication to de Sartine, a French official.
€500
Maker : BUACHE, S.
Place : Paris
Date : 1780
Karte der Magellanischen-Strasse. . .
Very detailed map of Strait of Magellan, with in top inset map of Southern tip of South America with the Falklands. Prepared by Don Juan de La Cruz of Spain.Engraved by Jos. Gestner.
€600
Maker : SCHRAEMBL, F.A.
Place : Vienna
Date : 1787