Americas – Kircher, Athanasius. (1602-1680).

Mappa fluxus et refluxus rationes in isthmo Americano, in Freto Magellanico, cæterisque Americæ litoribus exhibens.

Amsterdam, Kircher, [c.1665]. Original copper engraving. Plate Size: 40.2 cm x 34.1 cm. Sheet Size: 37 cm x 39.1 cm. Original Map. Very good condition of an increasingly rare map. Very minor traces of browning to outer margins.

Mee, Margaret.

In Search of Flowers of the Amazon Forests. Diaries of an English Artist reveal the beauty of the vanishing rainforest. Edited by Tony Morrison. Foreword by H.R.H. The Duke of Edinburgh.

Suffolk, Nonesuch Expeditions, 1989. 22.5 cm x 28 cm. 302 pages. Several hundred colour botanical drawings and photographs throughout. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear. Previous owner’s name in ink pen on endpaper.

South America. Kircher, Athanasius. (1602-1680).

Tabula qua Hydrophylacium Andium Exhibetur, quo Universa America Australis Innumeris Fluviis Lacubusque Irrigatur.

Amsterdam, Kircher, [c.1665]. Original Engraving. Plate Size: 20.1 cm x 33.9 cm. Sheet Size: 24.7 cm x 39 cm. Original Map. Very good condition. Very minor instance of foxing to cartouche. Map is orientated to the North. Dutch text on reverse.