Catégorie : Americas

Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Coloured Condition: Very Good Date Acquired: Nov 2025 Dealers ID No.: 10234 (Barry Ruderman) Description: This finely engraved hemispheric map of the Americas was engraved by Michael Mercator, grandson of Gerard Mercator, and is the only map known to have been engraved by him, making it a work of particular…

Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Coloured Condition: Good Confirmed: No Date Acquired: 29/05/2023 Dealers ID No.: 19211 Description: Sebastian Münster was a German mapmaker, cosmographer and professor of Hebrew at the University of Basel. Among his publications was a Latin edition of Claudius Ptolemys Geographia, first published in Basel in 1540. In it, he included…

Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Uncoloured Condition: Excellent Confirmed: 4/10/2024 Date Acquired: 25/11/2015 Dealers ID No.: WBL028 Description: In 1571, King Philip II commissioned Juan Lopez de Velacso to compile a comprehensive account of Spains overseas territories. Four years later, Velacso completed his Universal geography and description of the Indies (Geografía y descripción universal de…

Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Coloured Condition: Very Good Confirmed: No Dealers ID No.: 17356 Description: In 1583 Jan Huygen van Linschoten, a Dutch explorer, travelled to Goa, India where he served as secretary to João Vicente da Fonseca, the newly appointed Portuguese Archbishop. At the time, Goa was the capital of the Estado da…

Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Uncoloured Condition: Very Good Confirmed: 3/10/2024 Date Acquired: 3/4/2021 Description: Around 1584, Pieter van den Keere fled religious persecution in Ghent (now Belgium) and sought refuge in London. His sister, Colette van den Keere (View Record (#113)), also relocated to London, where she married renowned mapmaker Jodocus Hondius (View Record…

Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Uncoloured Condition: Very Good Confirmed: 3/10/2024 Date Acquired: 21/4/2019 Description: This map by Giovanni Battista Mazza is one of three significant maps illustrating the connection between the Americas, Asia, and the vast expanse of the Pacific Ocean. The other two maps Abraham Ortelius's Maris Pacifici (1589) (View Record (#221)) and…

Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Coloured Condition: Very Good Confirmed: 1/10/2014 Date Acquired: 2/7/2014 Dealers ID No.: 33195 Ruderman Description: Frans Hogenberg, a skilled Flemish-German engraver, mapmaker, and painter, collaborated with renowned mapmaker Abraham Ortelius in Antwerp during the 1550s. Together, they worked on Ortelius' groundbreaking first atlas, published in Antwerp in 1570 (for 1584…

Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Uncoloured Condition: Very Good Confirmed: Yes Date Acquired: 17/2/2011 Description: This is the first published edition of Jodocus Hondiuss rare map of the Americas, Americae Novissima Descriptio. It forms part of a group of six maps engraved by Hondiustwo world maps and four continental mapslater published between 1602 and 1605…

Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Coloured Condition: Excellent Confirmed: 29/09/2024 Date Acquired: 25/11/2015 Description: Metellus' map of the Pacific is among the rarest of the 16th Century maps of the Pacific Ocean. Unlike the other maps in De Acosta's work, this map is an entirely new production and is not derived from Cornelis Wytfliet's atlas…