Americas, South, Central & Islands

A theory developed at the beginning of the 17th century that California was an island. The maker of this map, Willem Blaeu, resisted that idea and ...

This map of Central America was engraved by John Rapkin for John Tallis' popular ‘Illustrated Atlas’; it includes black and white vignettes of Beli...

Mexico achieved independence in 1821, and became a republic in 1823. Between 1823 and 1825 Stephen Austin successfully renegotiated with the new go...

This is one of the most detailed mid-19th Century American atlas maps of Cuba and the region, set within Colton’s distinctive style of border, by o...

The 'Revoltas da Armada', the Brazilian naval mutinies of 1893-1894, were linked with the Federalist Rebellion against the recently-formed First Br...

Americae Mappa Generalis Our map of the Americas was prepared for the Homann firm by Johann Matthias Hase, professor of mathematics in Wittenberg, ...

Terra Firma et Novum Regnum Granatense et Popayan Copper engaving, 38 x 49 cm, original hand colour, trivial spotting, French text on verso. Region...

Guiana sive Amazonum Regio Copper engraving, 37.5 x 49.5 cm, original hand-colour, blank verso. A late issue of Blaeu’s map of Guiana, with full-bo...

Dominia Anglorum in praecipuis Insulis Americae ut sunt Insula S. Christopheri, Antegoa, Iamaica, Barbados nec non Insulae Bermudes vel Sommers Cop...

West Indies – Tobago – Scarborough – Rockly Bay This chart of Rockly Bay shows soundings etc, with interior detail of relief, roads and settlements...

West Indies – Jamaica This chart of Jamaica shows soundings etc, with interior detail of relief, roads and settlements, and inset of Morant Cays. F...

Antilles – Ile de la Grenade This detailed chart of Grenada was derived from British Admiralty surveys. Condition & Materials French naval char...

Antilles – Ile de Culebra ou du Passage This detailed chart of Isla Culebra (now an island-municipality of Puerto Rico) was derived from British Ad...

L’Amerique Meridionale qui fait l’autre partie des Indes Occidentales Copper engraving, 17 x 22 cm, original hand colour in outline, slight spottin...

With vignettes including a view of Potosi Steel engraving, 34.5 x 25 cm, original hand-colour in outline, numbered in an old hand in upper margin, ...

South America – British Guiana – Georgetown and mouths of Demerara and Essequibo Rivers Engraved British chart of Georgetown, sheet size 70 x 103 c...

The Bahamas Lithograph, 50 x 63 cm, original colour, blank verso; map of the Bahamas with inset of Nassau, from the second trade edition of Stanfor...

The Falkland Islands, surveyed by Captains Robert Fitz Roy R.N., William Robinson R.N. and Bartholomew James Sulivan R.N. Lithograph, 50 x 63 cm, ...

Antilles – Ile Sainte Croix This detailed chart of Saint Croix in the US Virgin Islands (then the Danish West Indies) was derived from a British Ad...

West Indies – Santa Cruz [Saint Croix] This chart of Saint Croix shows soundings etc, with interior detail of relief, roads and settlements, coasta...

Karte von der Insel St Lucia Copper engraving, 20.5 x 30 cm, original hand-colour, blank verso. Map of the Caribbean island of St Lucia published i...

A man, a plan, a canal… Pictorial map of Panama, sheet size 31.5 41.5 cm, printed in colours, a couple of short splits to folds, text on verso. A U...

Carte des Isles de Cuba et de la Jamaique Copper engraving, 24 x 34.5 cm, original hand colour in outline, blank verso. A map of Cuba and Jamaica p...

South America – Magellan Strait – Western part from Punta Arenas to Cape Pillar US naval chart of the Magellan Strait, sheet 445, sheet size 69.5 x...

West Indien – Haïti bis Martinique Imperial German Naval Office chart, sheet size 74 x 108 cm, engraved by F. Müllhaupt, black and white, centrefol...

Océan Pacifique – Ile Juan Fernandez – Mouillage de San Juan Bautista French naval chart, sheet 3068, sheet size 36 x 53 cm, engraved by Régnier, b...

West Indies – St Croix Island – Christiansted Harbour US naval chart, sheet 1058, sheet size 47 x 38.5 cm, a couple of light vertical creases, blac...

Carte de l’Isle de St. Domingue une des Grandes Antilles, Colonie Francoise et Espagnole Copper engraving, 23 x 34.5 cm, modern hand colour, blank ...

From The Gentleman’s Magazine Copper engraving, 24.5 x 20 cm, modern hand colour, lower margin trimmed affecting neatline, blank verso. A map of Do...

Preliminary Chart – West Indies – Barbados Engraved chart of Barbados, 102 x 68.5 cm, engraved by Davies and Company after H. Sharbau, black and wh...

Mappa Geographica, complectens I. Indiae Occidentalis Partem Mediam Circum Isthmum Panamensem […] Carte des Isles de L’Amerique et Deplusieurs Pays...