de Bry: Collecting Gold in Appalachia, 1590

Title/Content of Map: Mode of Collecting Gold in Streams Running From the Apalatcy Mountains Cartographer: Theodor de Bry Place & Date: Frankfurt / 1590 Size: 9" x 13 1/4" (overall sheet) Condition: b

Plate XLI from Part II of de Bry's Grands Voyages chronicling the French colonial attempts in Florida in the 1560s. The plates are based on Le Moyne's famous drawings of the French expeditions and the

Map: The French Commander Erects a Column with the Arms of the King of France Cartographer: Theodor de Bry Place & Date: Frankfurt / 1590 Size: 9" x 13 1/4" (overall sheet) Condition: b&w as published

Map: The French Left in Fort Charles Suffer from Scarcity of Provisions Cartographer: Theodor de Bry Place & Date: Frankfurt / 1590 Size: 9" x 13 1/4" (overall sheet) Condition: b&w as published; marg

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

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

The French Select a Place for Building a Fort Plate IX from Part II of de Bry's Grands Voyages chronicling the French colonial attempts in Florida in the 1560s. The plates are based on Le Moyne's famo

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

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

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

Both from "Les Grands Voyages", in identical frames. Dimensions:Each frame is 11" x 14 1/2". Provenance:From a Philadelphia Collection.

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

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

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

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

This beautifully rendered and preserved engraving from Book VIII of the Grands Voyages, de Bry's landmark collection of early discovery narratives, depicts the rock- and tree-top dwellings built by th

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

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

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

[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

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

de Bry: The Spanish Seize a French Ship off Hispaniola This beautifully preserved engraving from the Grands Voyages, de Bry's monumental collection of history and travel narratives, depicts the Spanis

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