de Bry: Columbus on the Isle of Pearls, Venezuela

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

Prima Columbi in India navigatio In the presence of Isabella of Castille and Ferdinand of Aragon, Christopher Columbus departs from Palos on his first voyage to the New World in this scene set in a pa

On his return to Hispaniola, Columbus punishes the seditious Spanish Cartographer: Theodor de Bry Place & Date: Frankfurt / 1594 Size: 8 3/4" x 12 1/2" (overall sheet) Condition: b&w; overall age toni

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

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

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

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

Map: Columbus in India primo appellens, magnis excipitur muneribus ab Incolis Cartographer: de Bry/Benzoni Place & Date: Frankfurt / 1594 Size: 8" x 6 1/2" (image); 9" x 13 3/4" (page) Condition: b&w;

Map: Carte des Isles qui sont a l'Entree de la Riviere de Canton Cartographer: Bellin Place & Date: Paris / 1764 Size: 6 3/4" x 8 5/8" Condition: full color; light overall age toning Bellin's wonderfu

Carte des Isles qui Sont a L'Embouchure de la Riviere de Canton Bellin's boldly designed chart of the islands "at the mouth of the Canton River" (Pearl River Delta), encompassing parts of Lantau islan

Isles d'Amerique dites Caribes et Antilles et de Barlovento. A beautifully colored exemplar of Du Val's uncommon map of the Lesser Antilles from the Virgin Islands to Margarita Island off the coast of

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

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

Un des Rois de la Floride, consultant son Magicien An early 18th century version of deBry's famous print of a Florida king consulting his seer. Cartographer: Picart (after de Bry) Place & Date: Paris

Isle-de-France, early 15th century A.D. A large carved stone sculpture depicting Mary Magdalene kneeling as a young penitent lady and holding a perfume bottle in a cylindrical box in her left hand; he

Charles de Temple - A pearl and diamond 'Wrapped' bracelet, together with a matching single earring, first, the bracelet with three rows of eight cultured pearls, each seperated by two claw set round