de Bry: Vespucci on Lake Maracaibo, Venezuela

Vespucci arrives on Lake Maracaibo In this magnificent and beautifully preserved engraving from Volume X of the Grands Voyages, de Bry's landmark collection of early discovery narratives, Vespucci rea

This superb and beautifully preserved engraving from Volume X of the Grands Voyages, de Bry's landmark collection of early discovery narratives, describes the encounter between Vespucci and the native

[Vespucci visits an Indian village near Cumana, Venezuela]. In an engraving from a later German edition of de Bry's landmark collection of early discovery narratives, Indian women are presented to Ves

Map Title: Carte de l'Emboucheure du Lac de Maracaye jusqu'a Gibraltar Cartographer: Roussel/Exquemelin Place & Date: Paris / 1686 Size: 11 3/4" x 8 3/4" Condition: old color; overall age toning and s

John Pike (1911-1979) ''Lago de Maracaibo, Venezuela'' watercolor on paper, signed John Pike lower left, good condition. 21 x 29''

How the natives of Paria coped with illness In this fascinating and beautifully preserved engraving from Volume X of the Grands Voyages, de Bry's landmark collection of early discovery narratives, the

The Spanish persuade the natives of Cubagua to defend the island from the French In this scene from Book V of the Grands Voyages, de Bry's landmark collection of early discovery narratives, a French p

The wife of a cacique of Cumana In this scene from Book IV of the Grands Voyages, de Bry's landmark collection of early discovery narratives, a meeting between the historian and voyager Benzoni and th

Domestic: Free Shipping Print Title: Killing Invaders in Venezuela Maker: Theodore de Bry Date: Late 16th century Materials: Hand colored woodcut engraving Text and another image of an Spanish sailing

Diego de Ocampo avenges the death of Spanish monks in Cumana In this scene from Book IV of the Grands Voyages, de Bry's landmark collection of early discovery narratives, Diego de Ocampo and his force

Domestic: Free Shipping Print Title: Vespucci in Haiti Maker: Theodore de Bry Date: Late 16th century Materials: Hand colored woodcut engraving, highlighted with gold leaf paint Text on back Theodore

Coulier: Maracaibo (Venezuela) Lighthouse Chart A superbly detailed chart of the Gulf of Venezuela and part of Lake Maracaibo, identifying the location of the "Proposed Maracaibo Lighthouse," from Phi

Columbus discovers pearls off Cubagua This fascinating and beautifully preserved engraving from the Grands Voyages, de Bry's landmark collection of early discovery narratives, depicts Columbus' vessel

Description: A finely engraved and highly detailed map of the northeastern South America from Lake Maracaibo to the mouth of the Amazon, from Thomson's New General Atlas. Cartographer: Thomson Place &

the 2-sheet map of Africa and Asia, from the east coast of Brazil to Japan, charting the first Dutch voyage to the East Indies by Houtman, large titlecartouche upper centre of right sheet, ships, comp

ABRAHAM ORTELIUS and THEODORE DE BRY (Belgian, 1527-1598), (German, 1528 - 1598), Maris Pacifici quod vulgo Mar del Zud, 1601, and Hispaniae Novae Sive Magnae, Recens et Vera Descriptio, 1595, two vin

James Gillray (1757-1815) British, 'French Taylor, Fitting John Bull with a Jean de Bry', hand-coloured etching, annotated in pencil 'Nov 1799', 13.75" x 10.5" (35 x 26.5cm).

From the book "Newe Welt und Americansche Historian." 15 graphic woodcuts showing the capture of Hans Stadens (1525-1576) and the cannibalism he claims to have witnessed in Brazil. Woodcuts removed fr

de Bry, Johann Theodor. German (1561-1623). Five botanical plates from "Recueil de Plantes Desinnees," published in Frankfurt by the Merian family, c.1770. Hand-colored copper-plate engravings. Unfram

de Bry: Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden The scarce temptation of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden plate from the second (Latin) edition of Part III of DeBry's landmark compilation of travel and d

One of the earliest depictions of slavery in the New World, this scene of massacre and mayhem perpetrated by Spanish colonizers on black slaves in Hispaniola is from deBry's edition of Benzoni's Histo

de Bry: The Dutch Pillage Chorrera, Cuba, near Havana A dramatic scene from deBry's landmark collection of American travel narratives in which the town of Chorrera, 5 miles west of Havana, is pillaged

Cartographer: deBry/Benzoni Place/Date: Frankfurt / 1595 Size: 7 1/4'" x 6" (image only) Condition: b&w; overall age toning; a tiny wormhole in text and a two wormholes and some fraying along edges of

Antique 1627 hand-colored map of Virginia by Matthaus Merian after John Smith's 1612 map, from Theodore de Bry's "Grand Voyages". Good condition overall, with age-appropriate wear, repairs (see photos