[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

[South America]

Nicolas Sanson.
Amerique Meridionale.

Paris, Sanson & Pierre Mariette, c.1650. 400 x 540mm. Original colour. Some age toning.
Map of South America, with 'El Dorado' on the shores of 'Lac de Parime'. Tierra del Fuego is yet to be fully mapped.
SANS0011

[Map of South America]

Johannes Cloppenburg.
America Meridionalis.

Amsterdam, Jan Jansson van Waesberger, 1676. 195 x 260mm.
South America, engraved by van der Keere. Waesberger was Jan Jansson's son-in-law.
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[Map of South America]

John Gibson
South America.

London, c.1785. 290 x 340mm. Coloured.
South America, with a rococo title cartouche.
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[Map of South America]

John Walker.
South America.

London, 1801. 200 x 235mm. Coloured.
Published in 'Walker's Geography'.
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[Map of South America]

Carey & Lea.
South America.

Philadelphia, 1822 or London, 1823. 440 x 330mm, set in text. Original colour. Split in lower centrefold repaired.
From the 'Complete Historical, Chronological and Geographical American Atlas'.
CARE0006

[Map of South America]

Clark.
South America.

London: J. Souter, 1824. 240 x 200mm. Original colour.
Published for 'Clark's New School Maps'.
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[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.
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[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.
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[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

[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

[An Early Plan of Buenos Aires]

Jacques Nicolas Bellin.
Plan de la Ville de Buenos-Ayres.

Paris, c.1770. 175 x 285mm. Coloured.
Argentina's capital, here little more than a settlement building up around the fort guarding the mouth of the Rio de la Plata.
BELL0013

[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.
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[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

[Early exploration of the Amazon]

William Smyth & Frederick.Lowe.
Plan of the Rivers Ucayali and Amazon from the Mission of Sarayacu to the Rio Negro, from the Observations of Lieut W.m Smyth & Mr Fred.k Lowe. R.N. 1835.

London: John Murray, 1836. Two sheets conjoined, total 205 x 820mm, laid on linen as issued.
Smyth and Lowe of the Royal Navy followed the Amazon into Peru looking for the source. While some believe the River Maranon to be the source river they decided on the Ucayali.
SMYT0001

[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

[Map of Chile]

Nicolas Sanson.
Le Chile...

Paris, c.1692. Sheet 320 x 220mm. Coloured.
Central Chile, from Copiapo south to Castro. Engraved by A. de Winter for the quarto edition of Sanson's atlas.
SANS0078

[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

[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

[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 & Prospect of Cartagena]

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

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

[Map of Quito, Equador]

Charles Marie de la Condamine.
Carte de la Province de Quito au Perou...

Paris, D'Anville, 1751. 600 x 370mm. Coloured.
Map of Quito, now Equador, marked with the triagulation lines used to measure the distances between mountains. Condamine (1701-74) was a member of the French Geodesic Mission to Peru (1735-9), which set out to measure both the roundness of the Earth and the length of a degree of longitude at the Equator. Due to differences with the other members, he split from the expedition and travelled to Quito, where he made this map. He then travelled down the Amazon, the first scientific expedition. He is credited as the first Westerner to see rubber collection, and his reports on curare, quinine and the Casiquiare canal are of great importance.
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[An early plan of Quito]

Jacques Nicolas Bellin.
Plan de la Ville et Cité de St. Francisco de Quito...

Paris, c.1760. 195 x 335mm. Coloured.
Plan of the city of Quito, with an extensive key.
BELL0106

[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

[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.
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[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.
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[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

[Patagonian Indians crossing Rivers.]

Theodore de Bry.
Quo Compendio Indi, naviculus seu scaphis aut pontibus carentes, flumina traiiciant.

Frankfurt, 1590 [-1630?]. 140 x 180, set in text. Coloured.
An illustration from the Voyage of Sebald de Weert, 1598, which included a traverse of the Straits of Magellan. Waiting four months for unfavourable winds to subside the crew studied the Patagonian natives, and here show their methods of crossing rivers. They also reported meeting a hostile race of giants; other expeditions also mention them, although none later that 1764.
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[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.
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[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.
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[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 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 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.
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[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.
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[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.
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[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.
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