Latin America & the Caribbean
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For 250 years, beginning in 1565, this city on Mexico's west coast served as the chief port for Spanish trade with Manila and the far east.
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| Size: 11¼" x 13¾" - Black & White, Cover-stock Paper: $25.00 |
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Founded in 1549 by Thom de Sousa, Bahia or San Salvador is one of the oldest cities of Brazil. For two centuries, it was the most important urban settlement of that country, serving as the center of Portuguese colonization.
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| Size: 11½" x 13¾" - Black & White, Cover-stock Paper: $25.00 |
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Our colored map of Bermuda is from Laurie & Whittle's West-India Atlas, an engraving re-issued by them from a plate first used by Thomas Jefferys in 1775. It includes many sailing directions, shows good anchorages, and contains an interesting note on the history and geography of the island.
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| Size: 15¼” x 20½” - Colored, Text Weight Paper: $10.00 |
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Herman Moll's large and attractive map shows the Caribbean, the Gulf of Mexico, and the surrounding mainland and islands in great detail. Several inset harbor charts and a handsome view of Mexico City add to the beauty and interest of this distinctive engraving.
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| Size: 15¼” x 26½” - Colored, Text Weight Paper: $10.00 |
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The powerful Spanish base in Columbia is shown under attack by Drake in this engraving from the German edition of Theodore De Bry's great work on America. The plans of Santo Domingo and St. Augustine listed below are from the same source and are similar in format.
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| Size: 8½" x 8½" - Black & White, Cover-stock Paper: $25.00 |
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Founded in 1533, this Columbian city became the most important port of the Spanish Main. Its elaborate fortifactions are depicted in our attractive view.
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| Size: 10¼" x 13¾" - Black & White, Cover-stock Paper: $25.00 |
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Cuzco, the ancient Inca capital of Peru, is shown in this fascinating view shortly after its conquest by the Spanish. The original, published in Cologne by Braun and Hogenberg, is now virtually unobtainable.
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| Size: 9½" x 10½" - Black & White, Cover-stock Paper: $25.00 |
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Cuba's capital was one of the earliest of the Spanish colonial cities in the New World and the most important center of naval power. This French chart by Bellin shows the city, the harbor, and its major defenses as they existed in 1762.
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| Size: 15¾" x 22" - Black & White, Cover-stock Paper: $30.00 |
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Columbus discovered this island on his first voyage, and on its northern coast he established two short-lived settlements. Later, at Santo Domingo, the Spanish in 1502 founded the oldest town of European origin in the Western Hemisphere. Our map by Delisle, the greatest French geographer of the 18th century, is both handsome and accurate.
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| Size: 15¼” x 19¼” - Colored, Text Weight Paper: $10.00 |
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This meticulously engraved bird's-eye view was the work of John Rocque. He recorded from Spanish sources the vast and beautiful capital of Peru which had been established by the Spanish early in the 16th century.
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| Size: 14¼" x 20¾" - Black & White, Cover-stock Paper: $25.00 |
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