Dimensions (W x H): 50 x 38 / 19½ x 15

A beautiful map with West to the bottom. The decorative cartouche depicts natives with a llama and some strange looking animals. The scale is decorated with flags, cannons etc. and has mer-people frolicking underneath

Dimensions (W x H): 35.5 x 29.7 / 14 x 11½

Handsome map of part of South America, between 5 and 45 degrees south showing Peru, Chile and the country of La Plata, that included much of present-day Bolivia, Paraguay, Uruguay and northern Argentina. The New General Atlas was one of the most accurate and best produced atlases of the day. ...

Dimensions (W x H): 50 x 61 / 19½ x 24

Attractive map of Peru. Decorated title cartouche and scales at lower right.

Dimensions (W x H): 27 x 37.5 / 10½ x 15

This map, with the Amazon (‘Maranon’) along its top edge, and the Atacama Desert on the lower edge, covers the area approximating to modern day southern Peru, title at lower left.

Dimensions (W x H): 53 x 43 / 21 x 17

A fascinating early map of the Amazon basin, from its mouth, to its source. The map includes Peru and the Pacific coast from Ecuador to the Atacama Desert. Maps by Sanson in original colour are rare. Nicolas Sanson was founder of the French school of mapmakers, at a time when the leadership in ...

Dimensions (W x H): 27.5 x 20 / 11 x 8

An interesting map of the coastline of Peru, Equador and Colombia along the Pacific ocean. A library stamp on the reverse is slightly visible at the top centre.

Dimensions (W x H): 18.7 x 17.6 / 7½ x 7

An extremely detailed map of Peru with the Amazon rain forest shown of which it says “This Country and its Inhabitans are very little known”. Library stamp on reverse has been removed and does not show through the image.

Dimensions (W x H): 17.4 x 25.7 / 7 x 10

This map could have been reproduced for the Bonne Atlas after it was originally produced by Frizt circa 1684. Fritz was a Jesuit missionary noted for his exploration of the Amazon river. It shows what is now known as the Amazon river from it’s sources and tributaries including Cusco in Peru to ...

Dimensions (W x H): 17.3 x 16.3 / x

Map of Peru with pictorial cartouche showing title on stone tablet, with fruit scattered in the ground. Antonio Zatta was one of the leading cartographers and publishers of the time, and his Atlante Novissimo was one of the most beautifully produced of 18th century atlases. He drew on the work of ...

Dimensions (W x H): 33 x 42 / 13 x 16½

A detailed map with delicate cartouche

Dimensions (W x H): 32 x 44 / 12½ x 17½

Map of western part of central South America. In the unexplored inland areas, texts such ‘Inhabited by various Tribes of unsubdued Indians’ augment the sparse geographical detail. John Arrowsmith constantly revised and improved his popular London Atlas and it ran to many editions.

Dimensions (W x H): 59 x 47.5 / 23 x 18½

An attractive map, with coasts and rivers in detail

Dimensions (W x H): 40.5 x 33 / 16 x 13

This beautiful map, accurate and concise, is from John Cary’s Universal Atlas. This was a compact version of his General Atlas, and shows the high standard of design, printing, and geographical accuracy that has led many to consider Cary as the finest of English map-makers.

Dimensions (W x H): 28 x 23 / x

A detailed chart of the coastline with depth soundings.

Dimensions (W x H): 49 x 26.4 / 19½ x 10½

A Highly decorative map for the period with vignettes showing towns and local scenes, the whole enclosed in an elegant border

Dimensions (W x H): 25 x 35 / 10 x 14

A detailed chart of the coastline with depth soundings

Dimensions (W x H): 48.8 x 22.5 / 19 x 9