The West Indies, from Florida to Trinidad and across to Honduras. This handsome and finely engraved chart of the Caribbean shows the colonial possessions of the French, British and Spanish. The map covers from the southern tip of Florida, naming Cape Canaveral through to the northern coastline of South America and also part of the coastline of Costa Rica and Honduras. Good details of the Bahamas and Caribbean Islands. The lower part of Florida is a vast group of islands separated by wide sea channels. A large pictorial title cartouche fills the upper right corner. From “Atlante Novissimo, illustrato ed accresciuto sulle osservazioni, e scoperte fatte dai piu’ celebri e piu’ recenti cartografi” by Antonio Zatta published in Venice in 1779. [cod.1172/15]
Stabilimenti de Francesi, Inglesi e Spagnoli nelle Isole Antille
The West Indies, from Florida to Trinidad and across to Honduras. This handsome and finely engraved chart of the Caribbean shows the colonial possessions of the French, British and Spanish. The map covers from the southern tip of Florida, naming Cape Canaveral through to the northern coastline of South America and also part of the coastline of Costa Rica and Honduras. Good details of the Bahamas and Caribbean Islands. [cod.1172/15]
- Year: 1779
- Dimension: 310 x 410 mm
- Place of publication: Venice
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- Year: 1779
- Dimension: 300 x 400 mm
- Place of publication: Venice
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Lovely postcard showing the meeting at Panama between the Pacific and Atlantic oceans as a kiss. Published by Curt Otto Teich in 1935 for Sucesion de Maduro a hats and parfumes shop in Panama. Curt Teich who immigrated to the United States from Lobenstein, Germany, in 1896, founded the Curt Teich Company of Chicago, which operated from 1898 to 1978 as the world’s largest printer of view and advertising postcards.
- Dimension: 90 x 140 mm
- Place of publication: Chicago
- Year: 1935
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Out of stockLovely copper engraved maps of Cuba above Hispaniola, with smaller insets of Havana, Jamaica, Puerto Rico and Margarita. Usual printer?s defect for this edition at right where border did not print due the damage of the copper. Otherwise very good. From the Mercator Hondius “Atlas Minor” published in Amsterdam in 1648 at Jannsonius with german text on verso. In 1607 Jodocus Hondius published a reduced size version of Mercator’s “Atlas”, itself suitably titled “Atlas Minor”. The maps were copied
- Year: 1648
- Dimension: 180 x 143 mm
- Place of publication: Amsterdam
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Paraguay o Prov. De Rio De La Plata cum regionibus adiacentibus Tucuman et Sta. Cruz De la Sierra
More Info € 140,00Early pocket map of the Rio de La Plata region in Uruguay showing also part of Argentina from the Mercator Hondius “Atlas Minor” published in Amsterdam in 1648 at Jannsonius with german text on verso. In 1607 Jodocus Hondius published a reduced size version of Mercator’s “Atlas”, itself suitably titled “Atlas Minor”. The maps were copied from those of the great cartographer Mercator of around 1580-90 or were reductions of Hondius’ own maps of 1606. Almost 20 years later Joannes Janssonius commi
- Year: 1648
- Dimension: 193 x 145 mm
- Place of publication: Amsterdam
