[Miniature map of South America]

Petrus Bertius.
[Descriptio Americæ Australis.]

Amsterdam, c.1602, Latin text edition. 90 x 135mm. Coloured.
Untitled map of South America, engraved by Pieter van den Keere. This is the earliest of two plates used to illustrated the Bertius atlas, without longitude and latitude scales. It was replaced by a new plate by Jodocus Hondius in 1616.
BERT0102

[Map of South America]

John Walker.
South America.

London, 1801. 200 x 235mm. Coloured.
Published in 'Walker's Geography'.
WALK0003

[Map of South America]

Robert Wilkinson.
South America. (Reduced from the Sheet Map.)

London: 1825. 300 x 235mm. Original colour.
A précise of a six-sheet map.
WILK0003

[Map of the Amazon and Peru]

Nicolas Sanson.
Le Perou et le cours de la Rivi.re Amazone.

Paris, c.1692. Sheet 220 x 320mm. Coloured.
Peru and the course of the Amazon, with the mythical Lac Parime and El Dorado. Engraved by A. de Winter for the quarto edition of Sanson's atlas.
SANS0076

[Chart of the Rio de la Plata]

Jacques Nicolas Bellin.
Carte de la Riviere de la Plata.

Paris, c.1760. 200 x 300mm. Coloured. Small marginal tear.
With Buenos Aires & Montevideo.
BELL0063

[Early view of Buenos Ayres.]

John Byrne.
View of Buenos Ayres.

n.d., c.1800. Engraving, printed area 170 x 220mm.
The Argentinian capital.
BYRN0001

[Map of Chile, Argentina and Uruguay]

John Cary.
Viceroyalty of La Plata, and Government of Chili.

London, 1815. 315 x 250mm. Original colour.
At the time of publication the Viceroyalty had already broken up, with Spanish control disrupted by the Peninsular War. By 1810 Argentina and Paraguay were self-governing,
CARY0022

[Map of Argentina and Chile]

John Tallis.
Chili and La Plata.

London: John Tallis & Co., c.1851. Steel-engraving, original outline colour. 355 x 250mm.
Decorative map of Chile and Argentina, before the two countries expanded south into Patagonia, with decorative vignettes including a view of the Grand Square of Buenos Ayres.
TALL0063

[Chart of the Le Maire Straits]

Jacques Nicolas Bellin.
Charte du Détroit de la Maire.

Paris, c.1760. 210 x 285mm. Coloured.
The Le Maire Straits were discovered in 1616, as the Dutch explorers Jacob Le Maire and Willem Schouten were attempting to find a better route from the Atlantic to the Pacific than the dangerous Magellan Straits. They discovered Cape Horn shortly afterwards.
BELL0132

[Map of Brazil]

Nicolas Sanson.
Le Bresil, dont la coste est possedée par les Portugais et diviseé en Quatorze Capitaineries.

Paris, c.1692. Sheet 220 x 320mm. Coloured.
Brazil, showing the Portuguese administrative divisions on the coastline. Engraved by A. de Winter for the quarto edition of Sanson's atlas.
SANS0045

[Map of Brazil]

Jan Luyts.
Brasil waar van de Kust door de Portugeezen... Door N.Sanson d'Abbeville...

Utrecht, 1705. 205 x 280mm. Coloured. Narrow top margin.
Map of Brazil, with a garland title cartouche filling the interior.
LUYT0004

[The Travels of Jean de Léry to Brazil]

Pieter van der Aa.
Brasilaanze Scheepvaard, door Johan Lerius Gedaan uit Vrankryk in' t Jaar 1556.

Leiden, 1707. 165 x 235mm.
A map of the environs of Rio de Janeiro, published to illustrate Jean de Léry's account of his experiences in Brazil as a member of the Chevalier de Villegaignon's attempt to colonise Brazil for France. de Léry (1536-1613), a Protestant, joined the expedition expecting religious freedom in the new colony of 'France Antarctique', but religion split the colony, making it easy for the Portuguese to defeat it. The title cartouche features a well-filled gallows, perhaps illustrating the religious strife. Returning to France de Léry published his 'History of a Voyage to the Land of Brazil', which van der Aa included in a collection of important voyages, with this map.
AAAA0018

[Map of Northern Brazil]

Jacques Nicolas Bellin.
Carte du Bresil Prem. Partie Depuis la Riviere des Amazones jusqua la Baye de Tous les Saints.

Paris, 1757. 250 x 345mm. Coloured. Narrow lower margin.
North-east Brazil.
BELL0010

[Map of Brazil]

Carey & Lea.
Brazil.

Philadelphia, 1822 or London, 1823. 350 x 310mm, set in text. Original colour.
From the 'Complete Historical, Chronological and Geographical American Atlas'.
CARE0001

[Map of southern Brazil and Uruguay]

Jacques Nicolas Bellin.
Suite du Bresil pour servir a l'Histoire Generale des Voyages.

Paris, c.1757. 240 x 175mm. Coloured.
Map of Rio Grande so Sul in southern Brazil & Uruguay to the mouth of the Rio de la Plata.
BELL0012

[Chilean native costume]

Alain Manesson Mallet.
P.les du Chili.

Paris, c.1683. 150 x 115mm. Coloured.
A Chilean couple with their villiage in the background, published in Mallet's 'Description de l'Univers'.
MALL0119

[Chart of a harbour in Chile from Anson's Voyage.]

Admiral George Anson.
Plan d'une Bay et d'un Havre Sur la Côte du Chili dans la Mer du Sud. Découverte par la Flutte l'Anne qui servoit de Magazin à l'Escadre de Mr. Anson en 1741.

Amsterdam, c.1750. 270 x 330mm.
Engraved by Schley for a Dutch edition of Anson's account of his circumnavigation, one of the last great buccaneering voyages. He captured a Spanish galleon laden with so much silver that they needed thirty-two wagons to transfer it to the Tower of London.
ANSO0002

[Map of Santiago de Chile]

Jacques Nicolas Bellin.
Plan de la Ville de Santiago Capitale du Royaume de Chile.

Paris, c.1756. 195 x 280mm. Coloured.
Plan of Santiago, capital of Chile, before the construction of the Calicanto Bridge began in 1767.
BELL0189

[Large, detailed map of Chile]

John Pinkerton.
Chili.

London, Cadell & Davies, 1809. 760 x 550mm. Original colour. Crack in lower platemark.
Large and detailed map of Chile, with an inset of Juan Fernandes Island.
PINK0008

[The Chilean island of Chiloé, marking Castro]

Herman Moll.
The Gulf of Ankaos or the Great Inlets of Chili.

London c.1732. 140 x 170mm, set in text. Coloured.
Most of this map is filled with Chiloé Island (despite it being marked as 'The Main Land of Chili'), with Casto, the region's capital city, marked. Published within the text of Churchill's "Collection Of Voyages And Travels"
MOLL0017

[Chart of Juan Fernandez Island in Chile]

Jacques Nicolas Bellin.
Coste du Nord Est de l'Isle de Juan Fernandez.

Paris, 1755. 210 x 290mm. Coloured.
The north east coast of the island on which Alexander Selkirk was marooned, inspiring Robinson Crusoe. With a costal profile of Cumberland Bay.
BELL0038

[Map of Columbia]

Johannes Jansson.
Terra Firma et Novum Regnum Granatense et Popayan.

Amsterdam, c.1647. 385 x 495mm. Original colour.
The north west part of South America, showing Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia and Venezuala as far east as Curaçao.
JANS0014

[Map of Colombia and Venezuela]

Nicolas Sanson.
Terre Ferme, Nouveau Roy.me de Grenade, &c.

Paris, c.1692. Sheet 220 x 320mm. Coloured.
North-west South America, engraved by A. de Winter for the quarto edition of Sanson's atlas.
SANS0074

[Colombia, with Panama]

Thomas Kitchin.
Map of the Countries on the South Sea.

London: Strahan & Cadell, 1795. 370 x 245mm. Later colour.
From the Rev. Dr. Robertson's History of America.
KITC0013

[Plan of Cartagena in Colombia]

Jacques Nicolas Bellin.
Plan de la Ville de Carthagene des Indes.

Paris, 1755. 200 x 335mm. Coloured.
Plan of the port city, with a 29-point key.
BELL0109

[Plan of an Incan royal palace near Cuenca, Equador.]

Jacques Nicolas Bellin.
Plan du Palais et Citadelle des Rois Incas, la quelle subsiste encore en partie prés du Village de Cañar Jurisdiction du Corregiment de Cuenca Province de Quito Royaume du Perou

Paris, c.1755. 210 x 150mm. Coloured.
A palace belonging to the Incan kings, with an extensive key.
BELL0188

[Map of the Falkland Islands]

Benard.
Carte de Maidenland ou de la Virginie de Hawkins, découverte par Sir Richard Hawkins en 1574, et du Canal Falkland ainsi appellé par le Cap.ne Jean Strong qui le traversa en 1689 sur le Farewell vaisseau de Londres.

Paris, c.1775. 235 x 320mm. Coloured.
A map of the early voyages around the Falkland Islands.
BENA0015

[Early map of the Falkland Islands.]

Etienne André Philippe de Pretot
Carte des Isles Malouines Nommées par les Anglois Isles Falkland.

Paris, c.1775. 240 x 355mm. Coloured.
Early map of the Falkland Islands, still with much of the coast of West Falkland blank. English possessions on the smaller islands south of Pebble Island on West Falkand are marked with 'B'; and the French settlement in Berkeley Sound ('occupied now by the Spanish', according to the caption) with 'A'. The French took the islands in 1764, but were expelled by the Spanish, who ceded control to the English in 1771.
PRET0001

[Map of the Falklands and Patagonia]

John Tallis.
Falkland Islands and Patagonia.

London: John Tallis & Co, c.1851. Steel-engraving, original outline colour. 370 x 260mm.
Decorative map of the Falkland Islands, printed a little over a decade after Britain decided to establish a permanent colony there. The second map shows Patagonia, orientated with north to the left.
TALL0066

[Map of Cayenne]

Alain Manesson Mallet.
Isle de Cayenne.

Paris, 1683. 145 x 110mm. Coloured.
After their first two attempts were defeated by attacks, the French finally established a permanent colony at Cayenne in 1664, less than twenty years before this map was printed. However in its first decade Cayenne was captured by both the Dutch and English, commemorated here by the vignette sea-battles under the title.
MALL0077

[Map of Guiana]

Nicolas Sanson.
Guiane divisée en Guiane et Caribane.

Paris, c.1692. Sheet 220 x 320mm. Coloured.
Guyana, Surinam and French Guyiana, with the mythical Lac Parime and El Dorado. Engraved by A. de Winter for the quarto edition of Sanson's atlas.
SANS0075

[Early view of Cayenne]

Churchill.
The Prospect of the Fort and Town St Lewis At Cayanne. as it sheweth from ye Road.

London: Awnsham and John Churchill, 1746 260 x 410mm.
View of the town of Cayenne (in present-day French Guiana) showing the fort, here named Fort Saint Lewis. A key names the Governor's House and the King's Warehouse, etc. Also shown are several native American boats or pirogues. Engraved by John Kip for Churchill's 'A collection of voyages and travels'.
CHUR0008

[Map of the colony of Cayenne in French Guiana]

Thomas Jefferys.
The Island and Colony of Cayenne, Subject to the French, on the Continent of South America.

London, 1760. 370 x 450mm. Top edge trimmed just to platemark top left.
Published during the Seven Years' War (1756-63), Cayenne was a potential target for British forces intent on driving the French from America.
JEFF0004

[Map of French Guiana]

Jacques Nicolas Bellin.
Carte de la Guyane Françoise et l'Isle de Cayenne.

Paris, Depot de la Marine, 1763. 420 x 600mm.
Chart of French Guiana, with a detailed inset of Cayenne, published by the French equivalent of the British Admiralty.
BELL0088

[Chart of the Coasts of Guiana]

Jacques Nicolas Bellin.
Carte de la Guyane.

Paris, 1757. 240 x 330mm.
The Guyanas.
BELL0025

[Guyana]

John Tallis.
British Guayana.

London & New York, John Tallis & Co., c.1855. Steel-engraving, original outline colour. 360 x 250mm.
Guyana map with engraved vignette scenes, including a prospect of Georgetown.
TALL0042

[Important Map of the Straits of Magellan.]

Jodocus Hondius.
Exquisita & magno aliquot mensium periculo lustrata etiam retecta Freti Magellanici Facies.

Amsterdam, 1623. 355 x 470mm. Coloured.
Detailed chart of the Magellan Straits, reflecting their importance at the time, being the only known sea route from the Atlantic to the Pacific. It is decorated with three large strapwork cartouches, one each for the title, scale and coastal profile, a large compass rose over Terra del Fuego, sealions (with manes) ships and sea-monsters. A classic map.
HOND0044

[Chart of the Straits of Magellan]

Jacques Nicolas Bellin.
Carte Réduite du Détroit de Magellan.

Paris, c.1753. 210 x 360mm. Coloured.
Detailed chart of the Straits. after the survey of Labat, who spent seven months in the area with Beauchesne in 1699.
BELL0102

[Map of Paraguay, Uruguay and Argentina]

Nicolas Sanson.
Le Paraguay Subdivisé en ses principales parties...

Paris, c.1692. Sheet 220 x 320mm. Coloured.
Paraguay, Uruguay and Argentina. Engraved by A. de Winter for the quarto edition of Sanson's atlas.
SANS0077

[Map of Uruguay]

Jacques Nicolas Bellin.
Carte de Paraguay et des Pays Voisins.

Paris, 1756. 220 x 320mm. Coloured.
Uruguay and part of Argentina, with Montevideo & Buenos Aires.
BELL0059

[Map of Patagonia]

Gilles Robert de Vaugondy.
Partie Meridionale du Perou.

Paris, 1749. 170x 200mm. Original outline colour.
Southern Chile, Argentina and the partial outline of the Falklands.
ROBE0044

[Map of Tierra del Fuego, with the Straits of Magellan]

Rigobert Bonne.
Extrémité Méridionale de l'Amerique.

Paris: 1778. 250 x 360mm. Coloured.
With five insets, including one of Le Maire's Strait after Captain Cook, 1769.
BONN0028

[Cook's Magellen's Strait map]

Cornelis van Baarsel.
Kaart van het Zuidlyk Eind van Amerika. 1775.

Amsterdam, c.1780. 420 x 490mm.
Patagonia, also marking the Falklands, published to illustrate Cook's rounding of Cape Horn in the 'Resolute', 1774.
BAAR0001

[Cook's Chart of Christmas Sound]

Benard.
Canal de Noël sur la côte S.O. de la Terre de Feu.

Paris, c.1785. 230 x 185mm.
Cook reached Christmas Sound near Tierra del Fuego on 25th & 26th December 1774, returning to England on his Second Voyage. His manuscript log notes that 'except those little tufts of shrubbery, the whole country was a barren Tack (i.e Rock) doomed by Nature to everlasting sterility'. Engraved by Benard for a French edition of Cook's Voyages.
BENA0009

[Argentina map & Bolivia, Paraguay and Uruguay]

John Arrowsmith.
The Provinces of La Plata, the Banda Oriental del Uruguay and Chile, Chiefly from M.S. documents communicated by Sir Woodbine Parrsh, K.C.H., Late H.M. Chargé d'Affaires &c. at Buenos Ayres.

London, 1842. 640 x 520mm. Original colour. Trimmed to platemark top left and bottom left for atlas 'tabs'.
Detailed map of South America from southern Bolivia, Paraguay and Uruguay to Patagonia, with an inset of Tierra del Fuego. Issued in the 'London Atlas' by the foremost British cartographer of his generation.
ARRO0006

[Miniature map of Peru]

Petrus Bertius.
Peru.

Arnhem, Jan Jansson snr., 1610. 90 x 120mm. Coloured.
A miniature map of Peru, orientated with north to the left. KOEMAN: Lan 4.
BERT0017

[Miniature map of Peru]

Alain Manesson Mallet.
Perou.

Paris, c.1683. 145 x 115mm. Coloured.
Also including Ecuador.
MALL0070

[Peruvian native costume]

Alain Manesson Mallet.
P.les du Perou.

Paris, c.1683. 150 x 115mm. Coloured.
Two Peruvian warriors, published in Mallet's 'Description de l'Univers'.
MALL0117

[Map of southern Peru and Bolivia]

Gilles Robert de Vaugondy.
Partie Meridionale du Perou.

Paris, 1749. 170x 200mm. Coloured.
Southern Peru and Bolivia.
ROBE0043

[Map of the Environs of Lima]

Jacques Nicolas Bellin.
Suite du Peru. Audience de Lima.

Paris, 1755. 230 x 315mm. Coloured.
Detailed map of Peru, also marking Cusco.
BELL0103

[Map of Peru]

Rigobert Bonne.
Carte du Pérou avec une partie des Pays qui en sont a l'Est.

Paris, 1788. 350 x 230mm. Coloured.
Also showing parts of Equador, Chile & Bolivia.
BONN0042

[Detailed map of Peru]

John Cary.
Peru.

London, c.1815. 250 x 315mm. Original colour.
A colourful map of Peru.
CARY0026

[Map of the Peru-Bolivian Confederation]

Anonymous.
Pérou et Bolivia.

French, c.1840. 210 x 275mm. Coloured.
A map of the short-lived Peru-Bolivian Confederation, linking the 'Republic of South Peru' with Bolivia, 1836-39. It collapsed after an invasion by Chile.
ANON0024

[Map of Peru and Bolivia]

John Tallis.
Peru & Bolivia.

London: London Printing and Publishing Company, c.1855. Steel-engraving, original outline colour. 370 x 260mm.
Decorative map of Peru and Bolivia, still showing the Bolivian corridor to the sea, lost during the War of the Pacific (1879-83). The decorative vignettes include views of Lima and Potosi, Bolivia's mountain of silver.
TALL0065

[Miniature map of Cusco]

Alain Manesson Mallet.
Cusco.

Paris, c.1683. 145 x 115mm. Coloured.
The Inca city of Cusco.
MALL0068

[View of South Georgia]

W. Hodges.
Possession Bay in the Island of South Georgia.

London: Strahan & Cadell, 1777. 240 x 390mm. Coloured. Small abrasion in sky area.
View of the glaciers on South Georgia, drawn by Hodges, the offical artist on Captain Cook's second voyage around the world.
HODG0001

[Early view of South Georgia]

Capt. James Cook.
Gezigt van Bezitneeming-Baai aan het Eiland Zuid-Georgie.

Amsterdam, c.1785. 230 x 375mm.
A view of Possession Bay on South Georgia, with the glaciers, drawn 1775. This illustration comes from a Dutch edition of the official account of Cook's Second Voyage, on which he circumnavigated the island, made the first landing, claiming the territory for Britain and naming it in honour of King George III.
COOK0021

[View of Paramaribo in Suriname]

John Gabriel Steadman.
View of the Town of Paramaribo, with the Road & Shipping; from the opposite Shore.

London: J. Johnson, 1794. Aquatint. 220 x 450mm.
View of Paramaribo from across the Suriname River, published in Captain Steadman's ' Expedition to Surinam, being the Narrative of a Five Year Expedition Against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam in Guiana on the Wild Coast of South America from the Year 1772 to 1777 '.
STED0001

[Map of Venezuela]

Henricus Hondius.
Venezuela, cum parte Australi Novæ Andalusiæ.

Amsterdam, Jan Jansson, 1636. 380 x 495mm. Coloured. Bottom right corner of margin made up, not affecting printed surface.
Venezuela, with Trinidad & Tobago, Tortuga and Curaçao marked.
HOND0073

[Venezuela and the Lesser Antilles]

Johannes Jansson.
Venezuela cum parte Australi Novæ Andalusiæ.

Amsterdam, c.1650. 375 x 490mm. Coloured.
Venezuela and the Lesser Antilles, including Trinidad and Curaçao.
JANS0062