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Ferdinand Magellanus

Striking portait of Magellan, with a sextant in hand and globe in hand. Richly embellished.

Price: $295.00

Novissima et Accuratissima Totius Americae Descriptio per N. Visscher. [The most recent and most accurate description of the whole of America by N. Visscher.] (California shown as an island)

Nice example of Visscher's famous map of the Western Hemisphere, showing California as an Island and a small slice of New Zealand at the lower left corner, next to the title cartouche.

Price: $2,200.00

Mapa de America Razas, Indumentaria, Banderas, Escudos y Producciones

This mid-20th-century pictorial map of the Americas—titled Mapa de América: Razas, Indumentaria, Banderas, Escudos y Producciones—was issued in Barcelona as a promotional piece by Chocolates Jaime Boix, a Spanish confectionery brand. Designed in a vibrant illustrative style, the map offers a sweeping and idealized portrayal of the ethnic, cultural, and economic diversity of the Western Hemisphere.

Price: $750.00

(Sir Francis Drake) Franciscus Draeck Nobilissimus Eques Angliae Ano. Aet. Sue 43.

Rare contemporary portrait of Sir Francis Drake, celebrating his circumnavigation of the World, engraved by Jodocus Hondius during his residency in London and later finished by George Vertue in the early 18th Century.

Price: $4,500.00

America

Rare late edition of Magini's scarce map of the Western Hemisphere, first published in Venice in 1596. The present example appeared in Raphael Savonarola's Universus Terrarum Orbis Scriptorum.

Price: $395.00

(Early Mapping of America) Die Entdeckung Amerika's in ihrer Bedeutung für die Geschichte des Weltbildes [with:] Atlas

Konrad Kretschmer's Die Entdeckung Amerikas in ihrer Bedeutung für die Geschichte des Weltbildes, published in 1892, along with its accompanying atlas, is a landmark study in the field of historical cartography and geography.

Price: $2,400.00