Newly Added Antique Map Inventory

Selection of Rare and Antique Maps recently added to the South America category of Geographicus Antique Map Gallery.

1763 Vanni Map or Plan of Cartagena, Colombia

350.00 USD — Fri, 5 June 2015 16:17:00 +0000

This is an attractive 1763 plan of the city of Cartagena, Colombia by Violante Vanni. It covers the fortified city of Cartagena, located on the northern coast of Colombia. The map is exceptionally detailed and includes a numbered key along the left border identifying twenty six locations on the map. These include forts, churches, cathedrals bastions, etc. The map also notes roads, islands and fortifications throughout, with beautifully rendered surroundings. This is an attractive 1764 Map of the Cispata Bay, Columbia by Jacques Nicolas Bellin. Oriented with north in the east, the map covers the Cispata Bay located near San Antero in Cordoba on the Colombian Caribbean Coast. Part of the Morrosquillo Gulf, Cispata beaches are popular tourist destinations, famous for their crystal clear beaches and white sands. The map notes several rivers, points and other topographical features. Some oceanic depths are indicated and coastal features noted. This is G. Blaeu's remarkable c. 1635 map of the northwestern parts of South America, Lake Parima (Parime Lacus), and the route to El Dorado. Blaeu initially issued this map in 1630 and variants were published well in to the 1660s. This example dates to the 1635 German edition of Blaeu's atlas. The map covers from Isla Margarita and the Orinoco Delta eastward as far as Tampico and southwards as far as the Amazon River. This is a beautiful example of the 1845 Thomas Ewing map of South America. It covers the entire continent from the Caribbean to Tierra del Fuego and from the Pacific to the Atlantic, including the Falkland Islands. Depicts the continent in impressive detail â especially the interior, which at the time was largely unknown. Throughout, the map identifies various cities, towns, rivers, mountain passes and an assortment of additional topographical details. This is a stunning 1747 decorative map of the Western Hemisphere by the English cartographer Emanuel Bowen. It covers North and South America as well as much of the Pacific and the Atlantic as far as Spain and the Canary Islands. The map details America during the Colonial Period. In North America, England controls the colonies along the eastern coast of the continent and surrounding the Hudson Bay. France occupies Louisiana, parts of Canada, and the Great Lakes region. An attractive c. 1588 edition of Sebastian Henric Petri's Americae Sive Novi Orbis published in the 1628 edition of Sebastian Munster's Cosmographia . This map covers all of north and South America from a mysterious inland lake (Conibas?) to Tierra del Fuego, and from New Guiana to beyond the easternmost coast of Brazil. This map is Petri's major revision of Sebastian Munster's original 1540 map of America and is based almost entirely on Ortelius' 1570 map of the same region. This is a beautiful c.1635 map of the Strait of Magellan and Tierra del Fuego by Willem Blaeu. Centered on the Straits of Magellan, it covers the southern portions of Chile and Tierra del Fuego. The map beautifully renders the mountainous coastline, while the interior remains unmapped. The Strait of Magellan was discovered in 1520 by the Portuguese sailor Ferdinand Magellan, the first explorer to circumnavigate the globe. This is a scarse 1701 map of North America and South America by Herman Moll. Centered on the American continent, this map covers from the Arctic Circle to Tierra del Fuego. The map features much of note including a presentation of California as an Island, the early speculative mappings of New Zealand an the inclusion of Lake Parima and Xarayes in South America. This is one of the few maps to represent California as an island. This is a scarce 1701 map of Brazil by Herman Moll. It depicts Brazil and eastern South America and covers from the mouth of the Amazon south to Paranagua. It depicts the various captainships including Para, Maragnan, Siara, Rio Grande, Paraiba, Tamaraca, Pernambuco, Seregipe, Bahia (de todos os Santos), Isleos, Porto Seguro, Spiritu Santo, Rio de Janeiro, Santo Vincente and the Amazon basin. This is a fine 1701 map of Peru, Bolivia, Brazil and Ecuador by Herman Moll. It covers the western parts of South America from the mouth of the Amazon south to Chile. Includes the modern day nations of Peru, Ecuador (here called Quito), Bolivia, and parts of adjacent Brazil, Columbia, Chile and Argentina. Though by this point in history, the general outlines of South America are well established by regular circumnavigations of the continent, the interior is entirely speculative. This is a scarce 1701 map of the West Indies and northern South America by Herman Moll. It covers from Cuba south as far as the Amazon River. Includes the modern day nations of Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Guyana and Brazil. Moll notes the city of Manoa and the location of El Dorao west of the Prime or Parima Lake. This is a beautiful 1701 map of Uruguay, Paraguay, northern Argentina and southern Brazil by Herman Moll. It covers from the Rio de la Plata north well into Brazil and the Amazon. Includes the modern day nations of Uruguay, Paraguay, and parts of adjacent Brazil and Argentina. Perhaps the most interesting element of this map is the representation of the apocryphal Lake of Xarayes at the northern terminus of the Paraguay River. This is a beautiful 1701 map of southern South America by Herman Moll. It covers from Paraguay south to the Strait of Magellan and Tierra del Fuego, and includes the modern day nations of Paraguay, Chile, Uruguay and Argentina, with the southern portions of Brazil and Bolivia. The map renders the entire region in extraordinary detail offering both topographical and political information with the Andes Mountains beautifully rendered in profile. A nice example of John Speed's 1626 map of America here in its fourth or 1676 state. One of the most iconic maps of America ever made, this map is surrounded by decorative vignettes illustrating the indigenous peoples and cities of the Americas. This map is both beautiful and important. It features a number of first, including being the first atlas map to depict California as an island and to accurately depict the east coast of North America. A fascinating and extremely rare 1668 nautical chart or maritime map depicting the northern Atlantic Ocean by Hendrick Doncker. Oriented with the East, this map covers from Newfoundland south to modern day Paraiba, Brazil; east as far as the Azores and Cape Verde Islands; and west as far as Hispaniola. Doncker derived this map from similar map issued in 1650 by Theunis Jacobsz. This is a fine 1874 map of South America by Ambroise Tardieu. It covers the entire continent from the Panama to Cape Horn and from the Pacific to the Atlantic. The Falkland and South Georgia island groups are included. It shows surprisingly accurate detail of the interior of Brazil and the Amazon Basin. Bolivia is shown with an outlet to the Sea and Patagonia as separate from the Argentine Republic and Chile. This is a fine example of Thomas Cowperthwait and S. A. Mitchell's 1854 map of Chile, Argentina (La Plata) and Uruguay. The whole is engraved and colored in Mitchell�s distinctive style with green border work and vivid pastels. Political and topographical features are noted and color coded with elevation rendered by hachure. Aconcagua, Chuapa, Santiago, and a number of other Andes volcanoes are noted. Shows Bolivia with an outlet to the Sea. This is a beautiful 1860 elephant folio map of South America by A. H. Dufour. It covers the entire continent from Panama to Tierra del Fuego. Depicts the continent in impressive detail � especially the interior, which at the time was largely unknown. Shows Bolivia with an outlet to the Sea. Throughout, the map identifies various cities, towns, rivers and assortment of additional topographical details. This is a fine example of Thomas Cowperthwait and S. A. Mitchell's 1854 map of Venezuela, Colombia (New Grenada) and Ecuador. The whole is engraved and colored in Mitchell's distinctive style with green border work and vivid pastels. Political and topographical features are noted and color coded with elevation rendered by hachure. The railroad across the Isthmus of Darien (Panama) is shown via an inset in the lower right quadrant. This map was prepared by S. A. This is a fine example of the legendary American map publisher Samuel Augustus Mitchell Jr.'s 1866 map of South America. It depicts the whole continent from Panama to Cape Horn, it includes the Falkland and South Georgia island groups in considerable detail. Mitchell offers limited but surprisingly accurate detail of the interior of Brazil and the Amazon Basin.

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1763 Vanni Map or Plan of Cartagena, Colombia