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161 ORTELIUS, Abraham.
Hispaniolae, Cubae, Aliarumque Insularum Circumiacentium, delineatio; Culianae, Americae Regionis Descriptio. Antwerp: Plantin, 1612, Spanish text edition. Original colour. 350 x 490mm. Small creased area.
Two maps on one sheet: the West Indies and Bahamas, prepared by Ortelius himself; and Culican in south west Mexico. VAN DEN BROECKE: 14, state 2 of 3.		 £990

162 JANSSON, Jan.
Insulæ Americanæ in Oceano Septentrionali, cum Terris Adiacentibus. Amsterdam, c.1650, French edition. Original colour. 380 x 515mm.
The West Indies and the coastline of America north to Chesapeake, decorated with three large cartouches in full colour. 		£1,300

163 [Havana View] DAUMONT.
A View General of the City de Havana of Amerique. Vue Generalle de la Ville de Havanne en Amerique. Paris, Daumont, c.1760. Original colour. 209 x 370mm.
A 'vue d'optique' of Havana, designed to be looked at through a zograscope, with the title in reverse above the view. The naive style of colouring is standard for these prints, although the English version of the title is unusually inept.In the foreground are a number of ships, including a galleon firing its cannon. The chain boom can be seen across the entrance of the harbour.		 £450

164 LOTTER, Tobias Conrad.
Mappa Geographica Regionem Mexicanam et Floridam Terrasque Adjacentes, ut et Anteriores Americae Insulas Cursus Itidem et Reditus Navigantium versus Flumen Missisipi et Alias Colonias . Augsburg, c.1750. Original body colour. 460 x 580mm. Very fine example.
Map of the United States, Central America and West Indies with four small inset maps of harbours. Scale of miles cartouche and a battleship scene bottom left corner. 		£1,200

165 BUACHE, Philippe.
Carte du Golphe du Mexique et des Isles Antilles Reduite de la grande Carte Angloise de Popple. Paris, Dezauche, c.1780. Original outline colour. Two sheets conjoined, total 500 x 940mm.
Central America and the West Indies, derived from Henry Popple's 20-sheet map of America of 1733. The countries are coloured to reflect which European country controlled them. 		£1,650

166 RIZZI-ZANNONI, Giovanni Antonio.
Carte Geo-Hydrographique du Golfe du Mexique et de ses Isles. Paris, Lattré, 1782. Original colour. 320 x 455mm.
The Gulf of Mexico and the West Indies, with a rococo title cartouche. Rizzi-Zannoni had a distinguished career: in 1757 he had assisted in the surveying of the boundary of the French and English possessions in North America; he became Chief Hydrographer of the Dépôt de la Marine and later the Geographer to the Republic of Venice. 		£250

167 DE LA ROCHETTE, Louis Stanislas d'Arcy.
A General Chart of the West India Islands With the Adjacent Coasts of the Spanish Continent. London, William Faden, 1796. Original colour. 535 x 780mm.
A very detailed chart of the West Indies and Bahamas drawn by Louis Stanislas Delarochette, and published by William Faden in 1796. Delarochette, who was active between about 1753 and 1808, was the leading cartographer employed by Faden in the period 1780 to 1808, and produced many important maps and charts for him. William Faden was the most active and important British map publisher of the period between 1773 and 1823, honoured by being appoiinted Geographer to King George III in 1783. This is one of the most detailed and popular maps of the West Indies published in the last quarter of the eighteenth century, issued in Faden's 'General Atlas'. 		£550

168 CASSINI, Giovanni Maria.
Le Isole Antille Delineate sulle ultime Osservazioni. Rome, 1798. Coloured. 365 x 500mm.
The West Indies and Bahamas, published in the 'Nuovo Atlante Geografico Universale', with a decorative title cartouche. 		£600

169 [The First Printed Map of Cuba, with Jamaica on verso] BORDONE, Benedetto.
Cuba; Jamaiqua . Venice, 1528, woodcut, coloured, 85 x 150mm set in text.
Two early maps of the islands of Cuba and Jamaica from Bordone's "Isolario".
Depicting the two islands more or less accurately, both with a mountainous interior depicted. These islands were amongst the first in the New World to be colonised by the Spanish and were used as a platform from which the major conquests of the mainland by Pizarro and Cortes, were launched.The text into which the woodcuts are set describes Cuba, its topographical characteristics and notable curiosities. 		£1,200

170 [Cuba & Jamaica] SANTINI, Paolo.
L'Isle de Cuba et de la Jamaïque. Venice, c.1780. Coloured. 250 x 360mm.
A very close copy of Bonne's map of Cuba, Jamica and the surrounding islands. An uncommon edition.		 £200

171 CLOPPENBURG, Johannes.
Cuba Insula; Hispaniola Insula; Ins.Iamaica; Ins.S.Ioannis; I.S.Margareta. Amsterdam, 1630, French text edition. First Edition. 190 x 260mm. Fine impression.
Five maps on one sheet: Cuba (with an inset of Havana), Hispaniola, Jamaica, Puerto Rico and Margarita Island (off the coast of Venezuela). Published in Cloppenburg's version of the Mercator 'Atlas Minor', probably engraved by Van den Keere. KOEMAN: Me 198.		 £300

172 [Lesser Antilles] BLAEU, Johannes.
Canibales Insulæ. Amsterdam, 1662, Latin edition. Original colour with additions. 420 x 530mm.
The Lesser Antilles, orientated with north to the right, showing from eastern Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands to Trinidad and the Venezuelan coast. As the map only appeared from 1662 in the Americas volume of Blaeu's final atlas, the 'Atlas Major', it is comparatively uncommon. KOEMAN: Bl 56.		 £1,100

173 [Antilles] DE L'ISLE, Guillaume.
Carte Des Antilles Françoises et des Isles Voisins. Paris, 1717. Original outline colour. 650 x 370mm. Slight offset , marginal dampstain top right margin.
Guadeloupe, Dominica, Martinique, St. Lucia, St Vincent, Barbados, Mustique and Grenada etc. 		£350

174 [Decorative Chart of Barbados] BELLIN, Jacques-Nicolas.
Carte de L'Isle de la Barbade... Paris, Dépôt de la Marine, 1758. Coloured. 610 x 440mm.
A large chart of Barbados, with the island divided into its parishes. 		£725

175 [Jamaica & Barbados] SPEED, John.
A Map of Jamaica ... [on sheet with] Barbados. London, Bassett & Chiswell, 1676. Coloured. 2 Printer's crease, otherwise a fine example.
Two maps, Jamaica in the top half and Barbados in the bottom. Each has its own decorative title cartouche with a coat of arms, scale of miles, compass rose, and vignettes of sailing vessels and sea monsters. Engraved by Francis Lamb. 		£800

176 [Bermuda] BLAEU, Willem Janszoon.
Mappa Æstivarum Insularum, alias Barmudas dictarum... Amsterdam, 1662, Latin edition. Original colour. 400 x 530mm. Small rust spot in sea area.
A large paper copy of this fine map of the islands, based on the Speed map of 1627. A miniature version of the map has been inserted just under the title cartouche to show the position of the islands against the American mainland, seen across the top. This led later cartographers, including Moll, Le Rouge and Zatta (in 1778!) to include the miniature as an extra island. KOEMAN: Bl 56; PALMER: p.8, plate III.		 £1,700

177 [Bermuda] MONTANUS, Arnoldus.
Mappa Æstivarum Insularum, alias Barmudas dictarum... London: John Ogilby, 1670. Coloured. 295 x 350mm.
A fine map of the islands from Ogilby's 'America', an English edition of Montanus' 'De Nieuwe En Onbekende Weereld', published the same year by Meurs. A German edition by Dapper used the same plate in 1673. Based on the Speed map of 1627, but with a more decorative cartouche. PALMER: p.19, plate XXI.		 £1,200

178 [One of the Earliest Maps of Cuba] GASTALDI, Giacomo.
Isola Cuba Nova. Venice, G.B.Pedrezano, 1548. Neat line 130 x 170mm, with extra printing plate extending 2cm on the right, off the edge of the paper. Split in centrefold repaired.
Rare map of Cuba, published in the only edition of Gastaldi's 'Geografia di Claudio Ptolemeo Alexandrino', which contained the first regional maps of America. CUETO: Cuba in Old Maps, 4. (Illustration transposed with the Ruscelli)		 £1,250

179 [Hispaniola] RAMUSIO, Giovanni Battista.
Isola Spagnvola. Venice, 1565. Woodcut, printed area 190 x 270mm. Slight age-toning.
Hispaniola, surrounded by galleons and seamonsters, from 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. A noticeable difference is that the original had no decoration or waves. The 1606 edition is recognisable by evidence of woodworm damage to the printing block. 		£350

180 [Description of St Kitts] CHÂTELAIN, Henri Abraham.
Particularitez Curieuses de L'Ile de St. Christophle et de la Province de Bemarin dans les Antille. Amsterdam, 1720. Coloured. 385 x 490mm.
A sheet of views, illustrations and engraved text relating to St. Kitts and Bemarin. 		£160

181 [Hispaniola] CORONELLI, Vincenzo Maria.
La Spagnuola. Venice, c.1696. 230 x 300mm, set in text.
Hispaniola, from the 'Isolario'. 		£325

182 [Jamaica] SEUTTER, George Matthäus.
Nova Designatio Insulæ Jamaicæ ex Antillanis Americæ Septentrion. non postremæ Secundum Gubernationes suas accuratas... Augsburg, J.M.Probst, c.1770. Original colour. 490 x 560mm. Brown spot in sea area.
An unusual later issue of Seutter's large map of Jamaica, here published by Johann Michael Probst, who had worked as an engraver for Seutter before becoming a publisher in his own right. Jamaica is shown divided into Precincts, and the large title cartouche shows natives harvesting the various products of the island, including sugar cane. 		£400

183 [Jamaica] ZATTA, Antonio.
La Giammaica. Venice, 1784. Original outline colour. 335 x 435mm.
An attractive map, with Jamaica printed within a trompe-l'œil 'scroll', and the parish borders highlighted with colour. Published as an inset on Zatta's 12-sheet map of the new United States. 		£220

184 [Kingston, Jamaica] ARROWSMITH, John..
Map Of The Environs & Harbour Of Kingston In Jamaica. London, c. 1850, original colour, 275 x 410mm.
Taken from a copy of the report Made By Dr Milroy to the Colonial Office, on the Cholera Epidemic in Jamaica, 1850, London, House of Commons. 		£90

185 [Jamaica] BOWEN, Emanuel.
A New and Accurate Map of the Island of Jamaica Divided into its Principal Parishes..... London, 1744, original colour, 345 x 425mm.
Comprising the island of Jamaica, with the parish borders heightened with colour, with inset maps of the harbours of Ports Antonio and Francis and of Port Royal in the lower left and right hand corners respectively. Published in "A Complete System of Geography". 		SOLD

186 [St Lucia] NORIE, J.W.
The Island of St Lucia... London, J.W.Norie & Co, 1827. 645 x 460mm. Some restoration to the edges.
 £650

187 [Extremely Rare Miniature Map] FRESCHOT, Casimir Don.
Antille (7) Isole nel.America, delli Spagnoli. Francesi, Ingilesi, Ollandesi, e de naturali del paese. Published by Giovanni Pare' in Venice, c. 1680 . 52 x 52 mm. Trimmed from a large broadsheet. Very fine condition.
Don Casimir Freschot was a Benedict Priest . He was an author of about 50 books mainly on history subjects and a few dedicated to Venice and its nobility. While in Venice  he also composed a goos game to facilitate "the teaching of geography to the young venetian nobility". This game is probably the earliest geographical game ever published. The copper plate was engraved by Lucini and comprised 4 larger maps of the continents and 153 smaller maps of other areas and with a prospect of Venice at the center of it. There is only one known example in existance of the full broadsheet at the Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana in Venice. Hence the rarity of this map.  "Charta Geographica" vol.1,  page 76; plus insert with facsimile broadsheet. 		£650
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188 [Mexico] SANSON, Nicolas.
Audience de Mexico, Par N.Sanson d'Abbeville Georg Ordin du Roy. Paris, c. 1657, coloured, 170 x 280mm. A very fine example.
Showing Mexico south to Guatemala and divided into its various regions, with towns and cities marked, the title contained in a decorative cartouche in the top right hand corner. From Sanson's "L'Amerique en Plusieurs Cartes". 		£125

189 [Central America Gore] CORONELLI, Vincenzo Maria.
[Central America Gore]. Venice, 1696. Map plate size approx 230 x 290mm, set in text.
Originally engraved to be pasted onto a globe in 1688, this edition was printed with a text underneath it. It shows central America, with the Yucatan, Cuba, Nicaragua, Panama, and, on the southern edge of the plate, the Galapagos Islands. Under the map and on verso is an Italian text. 		£325

190 [Central America and West Indies] TALLIS, John.
Central America. London, c.1851. Original outline colour. Printed area 265 x 335 mm. Trimmed into a printed border at top, as issued. Ink pagination in margins.
From one of the last decorative atlases, a map of Central America with three decorative vignette views of The Antigua, Belize and Volcano of Isalco. 		£70

191 [Mexico] HONDIUS, Jodocus.
Hispaniæ Novæ Nova Descriptio. Amsterdam 1619, French text edition. Coloured. 350 x 490mm. Some marginal restoration.
Highly decorative, with an ornate cartouches around the title, scale and key, a twin-spouted sea-monster and a galleon. KOEMAN: Me 26a.		 £500

192 MARZOLLA, Benedetto.
Messico E Stati Dell' America Centrale. Naples, 1854, original colour, 445 x 605mm.
A large, detailed and attractive map of the Southern United States and Mexico extending down to Panama, with extensive explanatory texts giving geographical historical and political information about each country. With an inset of the Isthmus of Panama marking the road from the Atlantic to the Pacific that preceded the Panama Canal.		 £425

193 [Mexico] BLAEU, Willem Janszoon.
Nova Hispania et Nova Galicia. Amsterdam, 1640, Latin edition. Coloured. 385 x 500mm. Some spotting.
Central America, with Mexico City and Guadalajara. The title cartouche is particularly decorative. KOEMAN: Bl 22.		 £350

194 [Mexico] LAPIE, Alexander..
Carte des États-Unis du Méxique.. Paris, Eymery Fruger & Co., 1829. Original outline colour. 550 x 400mm.
Large and detailed map of Mexico, also showing California, Nevada and Utah. An inset shows Honduras, Nicaragua, etc. 		£280

195 [A Scarce Two-Sheet Map of Mexico] CASSINI, Giovanni Maria.
La Parte Occidentale dell'Antico, e Nuovo Messico con la Floria e la Bassa Luigiana Delineata sulle ultime osservazioni; La Parte Orientale... Rome, 1798. Coloured. Two sheets, each c. 510 x 370mm.
Two sheet map of Mexico, published in the 'Nuovo Atlante Geografico Universale', with a decorative title cartouche on each sheet. Also shown are Santa Fé, Louisiana & Florida, Panama and Cuba and Jamaica. 		£1,800

196 [Mexico] CLOPPENBURG, Johannes.
Hispaniæ Novæ Descriptio. Amsterdam, 1630, French text edition. First Edition. 190 x 260mm. Fine impression.
Western Mexico,  published in Cloppenburg's version of the Mercator 'Atlas Minor', probably engraved by Van den Keere. KOEMAN: Me 198. 		£180

197 [Mexico City] MONTANUS, Arnoldus.
Vetus Mexico. London: John Ogilby, 1671. 295 x 355mm. Repaired tear in centrefold, just entering printed area.
View of Mexico City. This example comes from Ogilby's 'America', an English edition of Montanus' 'De Nieuwe En Onbekende Weereld', published the same year by Meurs. 		£280

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199 [Spanish Tyranny] AA, Pieter van der.
Tyrannie des Espagnols dans les Indes Occidentales. Leiden, c.1720. 215 x 300mm. Old ink page number just outside platemark.
The treatment of the native Americans at the hands of Pedro de Alvarado, the chief lieutenant of Hernán Cortés in the conquest of Mexico. They are depicted being shot, roasted on spits and impaled, with their bodies being thrown to the dogs. In the background is Guatemala, of which Alvarado was governor, being destroyed by fire and flood. Having themselves suffered under the control of the Spanish the Dutch always depicted the negative aspects of Spanish colonialism. 		£240

200 [Religious Practices] AA, Pieter van der.
Prêtres mendians et Sacrifians aux Divinitiez des Mexiquains. Leiden, c.1720. 200 x 310mm. Old ink page number just outside platemark.
Religious practices from around the world. 		£100

201 [Panama Canal Prospect] PEVERELLI, Prof. Giosellino.
Panama Del Canale Di Panama. Livorno & Pisa: Giuseppe Meucci, c.1890. Lithograph with original hand colour. Printed area 610 x 670, with wide margins. Contemporary photographic portrait of Peverelli (?) pasted on. Some minor wear to edges of wide margins.
An unusual and rare 'map-view' of the Panama Canal, probably published as a publicity exercise before the Canal was finished. A table under the world map lower left gives the distances from London, Le Havre & Genova to San Francisco, Valparaiso & Sydney, via Cape Horn and the Canal (and, in the case of Sydney, the Cape of Good Hope). We have seen an identical print, publsihed by Cesare Vimercati, a publisher also in Livorno. 		£850

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202 [The First Map of South America] GASTALDI, Giacomo.
Tierra Nova. Venice, G.B.Pedrezano, 1548. 130 x 175mm. Centrefold split expertly repaired.
A rare map of South America, published in the only edition of Gastaldi's 'Geografia di Claudio Ptolemeo Alexandrino', which contained the first regional maps of America. The Straits of Magellan appear, less than thirty years after their discovery. BURDEN: 17, 'beautifully engraved on copper'.		 £750

203 [Two-Sheet Map] JAILLOT, Alexis-Hubert.
Amerique Meridionale. Amsterdam, Pieter Mortier, c.1705. Original outline colour. Two sheets conjoined, total 585 x 900mm.
A large and decorative map of South America after Sanson, redrawn on a larger scale by Jaillot at the request of Sanson's heirs, and published in Mortier's edition of Jaillot's 'Atlas Nouveau'. Fine rococo cartouches for title and scale fill the bottom corners.		 £600

204 KIRCHER, Athanasius.
Tabula qua Hydrophylacium Andium exhibetur, quo universa America Australis innumeris fluvius lacubusque irrigatur. Amsterdam, c.1665 345 x 205mm.
An early hydrographical map of South America, published in the 'Mundi Subterranei'. Kircher, a Jesuit scholar, was one of the first compilers of knowledge of the physical features of the world. This map marks rivers, the Andes and a huge lake as the source of the Amazon. 		£260

205 PETRINI, Paolo.
America Meridionale. Naples, c.1766, original colour, 400 x 540mm. Originally folded inside a book, hence folding lines have been flattened. Good heavy paper.
A scarce and decorative map of South America, showing the continent in detail, with major rivers and towns marked, as well as geographical features such as the Andes. This map was engraved by Antoine Donzel and was first issued by Petrini in 1700, and is after a map by the Frenchman, Sanson. 		£425

206 [Sea-Chart of The Atlantic and Brasil] MORTIER, Pieter.
Carte de la Mer Meridional contenant une partie des Costes de L'Afrique et de l'Amerique Meridionale... Amsterdam, 1700. Original outline colour,  480 x 605mm.
From Mortier's 'Suite du Neptune Francois', a large format sea-atlas compiled largely from Portuguese sources and navigational charts. 		£380

207 CLOPPENBURG, Johannes.
America Meridionalis.. Amsterdam, 1630, French text edition. First Edition. 190 x 255mm. Fine impression.
South America from Cloppenburg's 'Atlas Minor'. KOEMAN: Me 198. 		£250

208 [Early Map of Brazil] RAMUSIO, Giovanni Battista.
[Brasil.] Venice, 1606. Woodcut, printed area 270 x 380mm. Narrow margin at top.
Brazil, from Ramusio's 'Raccolta di Navigationi et Viaggi', orientated with north to the right. This is an example of the second block, cut in 1565 after the first was destroyed by a fire in the printing house of Thomaso Guinti in 1557, after only a year's use. Almost identical, this second block has "Terra non Descoperta" written top centre; the first block has "Discoperta." The 1606 edition is recognisable by evidence of woodworm damage to the printing block and the pagination numbers '356' and '357'. 		£1,000

209 [Uncommon Miniature Map of Brazil] MULLER, Johann Ulrich.
Brasilia.. Ulm, 1692. 70 x 80mm, set in text
Charming miniature map, with a letterpress text in German. 		£150

210 [Derived from the Blaeu Wall map of Brazil] BLAEU, Johannes.
Præfectura de Cirîlì, vel Seregippe del Rey cum Itâpuáma. Amsterdam, 1663, French edition. Original colour. 420 x 540mm. Pair of small wormholes in map area.
Sergipe in Brazil, decorated with a a garland of fruit and depictions of animals including a Jaguar and tapir. In 1646-7 Johannes Blaeu published a nine-sheet wall map of north-west Brazil, 'Brasilia qua parte paret Belgis', with the unexplored interior filled with scenes of the sugar industry (then supplying Europe with 70% of its sugar) For the 1662 issue of the 'Atlas Major' the four coastal sheets were re-engraved with new titles and issued as separate maps, as this example. Because they only appeared as separate maps from 1662 the maps are comparitively rare for Blaeu's atlas maps. KOEMAN: Bl 58; See Map Collector 28, p. 2-3 for Helen Wallis's description of the wall map in the British Library.		 £1,000

211 [Brazil] ALBRIZZI, Giovanni Battista.
Carta Geografica del Bresil. Venice, c.1742. Colour. 340 x 440mm. Narrow margins.
Brazil, with a large title cartouche, published in the 'Stato presente de tutti paese'. 		£300

212 [Brazil] BERTIUS, Petrus.
Brasilia. Amsterdam, 1603, Latin text edition. 85 x 125mm.
In the interior of Brazil is a vignette of cannibals preparing supper. KOEMAN: Lan 5		 £125

213 [Brazil] TALLIS, John.
Brazil. Steel engraving, drawn and engraved by John Rapkin, for the Illustrated Atlas, 1851, original outline colour. Printed area 355 x 250mm. Ink pagination in margins. Trimmed into a printed border at top, as issued.
From one of the last decorative atlases, a map of Brazil. With decorative printed border and vignettes showing views of Montevideo, St. Catharina, Rio De Janeiro and Cape St. Antonio in Bahia. 		£80

214 [Fernando de Noronha] BUACHE, Philippe.
Carte de la Partie de l'Ocean Vers l'Equateur entre les Cotes d'Afrique et d'Amerique...; Plan de l'Isle de Fernand de Noronha Située sur les cotes du Bresil.. Paris, 1737. Original outline colour. 495 x 650mm. Two small tears bottom margin, originally folded .
Two maps on one sheet: a general chart of the Atlantic between West Africa and Brazil, and a detailed map of the island of Fernando de Noronha. Discovered as early as 1500 it was visited by Americo Vespucci in 1502. Despite his description of the island as "Paradise", it defied attempts by the Portuguese and Dutch  to populate them for over two centuries. The "French Companie des Indes" found it uninhabited and completely abandoned in 1734, at which time an officer of the company compiled this map. Two years later they returned, took the island and renamed it "Isle Dauphine", hoping to use it as a base for the slave trade. The Portuguese sent a force to dispossess the French in 1737, the year of publication of this map, and then spent a fortune fortifying it to prevent their return, guaranteeing the island remained populated by making it a prison colony. In 1832 Charles Darwin visited the islands on the voyage that inspired his "Origin of the Species".Also of interest are the two inset profiles showing the sea depths around the island and across the Atlantic between Africa and Brazil. Buache was an early proponent of the theory that the continents were connected. 		£580

215 [Chile] MONTANUS, Arnoldus.
Chile. London: John Ogilby, 1671. Coloured. 290 x 360mm.
This example comes from Ogilby's 'America', an English edition of Montanus'  'De Nieuwe En Onbekende Weereld', published the same year by Meurs. 		£300

216 [Falkland Islands] TALLIS, John.
Falkland Islands and Patagonia. Steel engraving, drawn and engraved by John Rapkin, for the Illustrated Atlas, 1851, original outline colour. Printed area 355 x 255mm. Trimmed into a printed border at top, as issued. Ink pagination in margins. Original binding folds flattened.
Two maps on one sheet; Falkland Islands with vignettes of penguins and sea eagles; and Patagonia with a vignette of Christmas Sound. From one of the last decorative atlases, with a printed border. 		£70

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[Chile and Argentina] TALLIS, John.
Chile and La Plata. London, John Tallis & Co., c.1851. Original outline colour. Steel engraving, 355 x 250mm. Ink pagination in margins.
With five vignette views including a view of the Grand Square, Buenos Ayres.

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218 [The Falkland Islands] PHILIPPE DE PRETOT, Etienne André.
Carte des Isles Malouines Nommées par les Anglois, Isles Falkland. Paris, c.1775. Coloured. 240 x 355mm.
The map marks English possessions on the smaller islands south of Pebble Island on West Falkand, and the French settlement in Berkeley Sound, "occupied now by the Spanish", according to the caption. The French took the islands in 1764, but were expelled by the Spanish, who ceded control to the English in 1771. 		£180

219 [Guyana & Surinam] DE LA ROCHETTE, Louis Stanislas d'Arcy.
The Coast of Guyana from the Oroonoko to the River of Amazons and The Inland Parts as far as the have been Explored by the French and Dutch Engineers With the Islands of Barbadoes Tobago &ca. From the Observations of Captain Edward Thompson made in the Hyæna, in the Year 1781, when he Commanded in the Rivers Berbice, Essequebo, and Demerari, and Governed those colonies after their Conquest from the Dutch. London, William Faden, 1783. Original colour. 530 x 700mm.
The coasts of Guyana, Surinam and French Guiana, with four insets of river mouths. Captain Thompson was sent to Guyana to take control of the colonies of Demerara and Essequibo, after they had been taken from the Dutch. After preparing as much of the defences as he could with limited resources he sailed back to England to protect a convoy of English merchants. However, while he was gone a French squadron captured the colonies, so he was subjected to a courtmartial for leaving his post without orders. The court, held in April 1782, found him blameless and acquitted him. This map is dedicated to the 'merchants of Barbadoes and Guyana' for whom he risked so much. Throughout his career in the Navy he also wrote plays, songs and poetry: his writing has appeared in anthologies about slavery and naval sea-shanties. 		£240

220 [Paraguay & Uruguay] MONTANUS, Arnoldus.
Paraquaria Vulgo Paraguay Cum adjacentibus. London: John Ogilby, 1671. Coloured. 290 x 365mm
This example comes from Ogilby's 'America', an English edition of Montanus'  'De Nieuwe En Onbekende Weereld', published the same year by Meurs. 		£300

221 [Bird's-eye view of the Inca city of Cuzco] VALEGIO, Francesco.
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". 		£280

222 [The Jewish Settlement of Joden Savanna in Surinam] OTTENS, Joachim.
Nieuwe Kaart van Suriname vertonende de Stromen en land-streken van Suriname, Comowini, Cottica, eu Marawini... Amsterdam, c.1710. Original body colour. 405 x 515mm.
As early as 1639 Spanish, Dutch and Italian Jews had found sanctuary from persecution in the English colony along the Surinam River, in the old capital, Torarica, on the left bank. As the French and Portuguese increased their influence in South America, more Jewish settlers arrived; and in 1652 a group of English Jews arrived and founded their own township further upstream near the Cassipora creek. In an unusual display of tolerance the British colonial government granted to the Jewish community privileges including freedom of religion, the right to form a private militia and permission to build synagogues and schools. In 1667 the Dutch commander Abraham Crijnssen captured Surinam, but left the privileges intact. Most of Joden Savanna was destroyed by fire in 1832 and the inhabitants moved away. In a bizarre twist the area was used as an internment camp for Dutch Nazis during World War II. The map is marked with 'Joods Dorp', and the location of the Synagogue consecrated in 1671. The names of the plantation owners are also marked, including 'Abraham de Pina', 'Elias Ely', and several 'da Costas' and 'Nassys'. 		£875

223 [A classic 17th C. Map of Peru] BLAEU, Willem Janszoon.
Peru. Amsterdam, 1662, Latin text.Original colour with additions. 380 x 490mm. Wide margins.
Despite the title, the map also shows most of Equador, Peru and northern Chile. KOEMAN: BI 56. 		£425
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