The Earliest Printed Map of Le Maire's Voyage Around Cape Horn and Across The Pacific Nice example of Joris van Spilbergen's rendering of Willem Schouten and Jacob Le Maire's map / sea chart of a portion of his circumnavigation of the world, showing...
Rare Golden Age Dutch Sea Chart of the Island of California and Western Pacific Rare Johannes Van Loon sea chart of the Western Pacific. The map appeared in the first edition of Van Loon's Zee Atlas. It derives from Doncker's map of the Western...
Theodore De Bry's edition of this rare view of settlement on the Island of Mocha in Chile, including an indigenous chiliquenes (Llama), copied from Olivier Van Noort's expedition narrative. The island was historically inhabited by an indigenous...
A Remarkable Early Sea Chart of the Strait of Magellan and Tierra del Fuego Important early map of the Straits of Magellan and the Straits of Le Maire, the latter of which was first discovered by Jacob Le Maire and Willem Schoten only 30 years prior...
A Rare Separately Published Example From A Storied English Country Mansion. Striking two-sheet, engraved map of South America below the Rio de La Plata, produced by Thomas Kitchin in London in 1772. Attractively-engraved by Kitchin, the map features...
Finely engraved map of the central part of South America, from Santini's Venetian edition of d'Anville's map from "Atlas Universel," printed in 1776-84. The map includes much of Brazil, Peru, Chile and Paraguay.
Chile on the Eve of Complete Independence Nice example of Buchon's map of Chile, published in Paris in 1825, the year before last Spanish troops surrendered and the Chiloé Archipelago was incorporated into the Chilean Republic. The map covers Chile...
Fine set of 4 dissected maps of South American regions, in a custom slip case, formerly owned by Admiral Sir Edwin Gennys Fanshawe of the British Admiralty. E.G. Fanshawe is perhaps best remembered for a series of over 100 watercolors in the...
Nice example of this important early map of the Straits of Magellan, predating the discovery of the Straits of Le Maire. Mercator's map is the earliest map of the Straits of Magellan to appear in a commercial atlas. It is also a rare example of a...
Striking map of the Straits of Magellan, with a large decorative compass rose. The map appeared in an early edition of the Mercator Hondius Atlas Minor.
Fine map illustrating the discovery of the Straits of Le Maire, as discovered in January 1616 by Le Maire and Schouten. This is De Bry's edition of the first printed map to detail the strait, showing the Magellan Strait and, further south, the route...
Rare early map of the area around the Straits of Magellan.
The Land of Giant Patagonians! Fine example of Willem Blaeu's map of the Straits of Magellan, Le Maire Strait, Fire Lands and the southern tip of Patagonia. The map is one of the earliest obtainable atlas maps of the Straits, preceded only by a map...
Nice example of the English edition of Hondius' map of the Straits of Magellan, Le Mair Strait, Fire Lands and the southern tip of Patagonia. The coastlines of Tierra del Fuego are incomplete. Fully engraved to show the mountainous terrain with no...
Blaeu’s Influential Map of Tierra del Fuego Showing the Important Strait of Le Maire Fine example of Willem Janszoon Blaeu's map of the Straits of Magellan and Tierra del Fuego (Magellanica)—the gateway to the Pacific during the seventeenth and...
The Most Decorative Image of the Strait of Magellan from the Golden Age Fine example of the first state of Jansson's sea chart of the Southern tip of South America, illustrating Magellan's Strait and the recent discoveries of Jacques Le Maire. The...