Emperor Charles V

Signed Imperial diploma on vellum

"Emperor of the Indies Islands and the Mainland across the Ocean Seas"

Ruler of the Americas

.. Rex Indiarum ac terre firme maris Oceani .. [ Emperor of the Americas ]

Ghent, 1540

Stock#: 19867

$ 16,000.00

Jan Huyghen van Linschoten

Itinerario

the supreme edition

the ultimate book on Portuguese India and polar exploration

Navigatio ac Itinerarium Iohannis Hugonis Linscotani in Orientalem Sive Lusitanorum Indiam, descriptiones eiusdem terræ ac tractuum littoralium: Item, descriptio totius Guineæ tractus, Congi, Angolæ, & Monomotapæ, nec non navigationum Batavorum in Septentrionem, & descriptio totius Americæ & Occidentalis Indiæ, etc.

Amsterdam, 1599

Stock#: 19859

$ 120,000.00

Giovanni Antonio Magini

the World

Universi Orbis Descriptio ad Usum Navigantium

Venice, 1597

Stock#: 19937

$ 1,250.00