VALEGIO, Francesco. [Bird's-eye view of the Inca city of Cuzco]
Cusco Venice, c.1595, 82 x 134mm Very fine impression.
An attractive miniature town view of the City of Cuzco, Peru, showing its layout and fortifications, with figures in the foreground including a noble being carrried in a palaquin. Valegio's signature appears at the lower edge of the plate. This was published as part of a bound series of bird's eye town views by Valegio and Rota, called "Raccolta di le piu Illustri et Famose Citta di tutto il Mondo"
[Ref: 9805]    £280.00 ($431 • €339 rates)

BERTIUS, Petrus. [Brazil]
Brasilia. Amsterdam, 1603, Latin text edition. 85 x 125mm.
In the interior of Brazil is a vignette of cannibals preparing supper. KOEMAN: Lan 5.
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BERTIUS, Petrus. [Descriptio Americæ Australis.] Amsterdam, 1603. Latin text. 90 x 130mm.
From the 'Tabularum Geographicarum Contractarum'. The title is from the moveable type above the map.
[Ref: 10129]    £220.00 ($339 • €266 rates)

RAMUSIO, Giovanni Battista. [Cusco]
Il Cuscho Citta Principale Della Provincia del Peru. Venice, 1606. Woodcut, printed area 270 x 370mm. Centerfold tear restored.
A bird's-eye view of the now European city of Cusco, published in Ramusio's 'Raccolta di Navigationi et Viaggi'. This example was printed from the second block, cut in 1565 after the first was destroyed by a fire in the printing house of Thomaso Guinti after only a year's use. The 1606 edition is recognisable by evidence of woodworm damage to the printing block and the pagination numbers '344.2º' and '344.3º'.
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HONDIUS, Jodocus. [Early 17th Century Map of Cape Horn / Magellan Straits]
Exquisita & magno aliquot mensium periculo lustrata etiam retecta Freti Magellanici... Amsterdam, 1613, French edition. coloured. 345 x 460mm. Good impression, wide margins, centerfold reinforced on verso.
An early example of this map of the Magellan Straits, first issued 1606. Orientated with north to the bottom, there are strapwork cartouches for title, scale & costal profiles, a large compass rose and vignette ships, whale and sea-lions. At the time of publication Cape Horn had still not been discovered. It was only in 1616 that Le Maire and Shouten rounded the tip of South America. KOEMAN: Me 23a.
[Ref: 11005]    £700.00 ($1,078 • €847 rates)

HONDIUS, Jodocus. [Classic 17th C. Dutch Map of South America]
America Meridionalis. Amsterdam, Henricus Hondius, 1613, French text edition. Original colour with later additions. 360 x 495mm. Lower centerfold repaired. Good impression.
An elegant map of South America. The large strapwork cartouches, for the title, scale and inset prospect of Cusco, make this a very decorative item. KOEMAN Me 23a.
[Ref: 11004]    £980.00 ($1,509 • €1,186 rates)

HONDIUS, Henricus. [17th Century Dutch Map of Chile]
Chili. Amsterdam, 1633, French text. Original colour with additions. 360 x 485mm.
Central Chile, orientated with north to the left, from Copiapo south to the Isla de Chiloé and the City of Castro. With such a long, thin country, ingenuity with decoration was stretched to the limit: a title cartouche, compass rose, a large scale cartouches and a 5-point key on a scroll are all used to fill the empty space on the far side of the Andes. The sea has rhumb lines, two galleons, two sea monsters, another compass rose and a publisher's cartouche. KOEMAN: Me 35.
[Ref: 11032]    £450.00 ($693 • €545 rates)

MERIAN, Mattheus. [The Dutch attack on Olinda, 1630]
Das Norder Theil des Lands Brasilien. Darinn die fürnemsten Hasen angedeütet werden, als zu Parayba, Pernambuco, Todos os Santos, und andere. Frankfurt, 1634. 355 x 455mm. Binding folds flatttened as usual.
A scene of the Dutch attack on the Portuguese colony of Olinda, in the state of Pernambuco, Brazil, in 1630. With a trompe-l'oil inset chart of the coast of Brazil displayed on a roll above, showing the coastal contours near Recife
[Ref: 11244]    £850.00 ($1,309 • €1,029 rates)

MERCATOR, Gerard. [Straits of Magellan]
Fretum Magellani. London, T. Cootes for Michael Sparke & Samuel Cartwright, 1635, English text version, coloured, 125 x 175mm Very good condition.
The Straits of Magellan between Patagonia and Tierra Del Fuego, published in the English version of the "Atlas Minor". KOEMAN Me 209
[Ref: 10904]    £220.00 ($339 • €266 rates)

BLAEU, Willem Janszoon. [Paraguay]
Paraguay, ó Prov. de Rio de la Plata cum regionibus adiacentibus Tucuman et Sta. Cruz de la Sierra. Amsterdam, 1635, Dutch edition. Coloured. 380 x 480mm.
Uruguay and northern Argentina, with the course of the Rio de la Plata. One of its tributaries reaches Cusco in Peru. KOEMAN: Bl 27a.
[Ref: 10089]    £340.00 ($524 • €411 rates)