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Carthage, etc. [Foliu XL ]

VERSO: Portraits of scholars, and an imaginary view on Carthage in Tunisia (12x17cm.) Page from the famous Liber chronicarum of Hartmann-Schedel 1493, the first and Latin...

$100 / ≈ €85
Maker / Publisher: SCHEDEL, H.
Place & Date: Nuremberg 12 July 1493

 


Tabula Prima Africa.

The map apart from depicting Morocco also shows southern Spain and the Balearic Islands. In north Africa the map extends eastwards toward modern day Algeria and to the we...

$4500 / ≈ €3847
Maker / Publisher: PTOLEMY, C. / WALDSEEMÜLLER, M.
Place & Date: Strasbourg, 1513

 


.Tabu nova partis Aphri.

This is Laurent Fries' 1535 edition of the earliest acquirable modern mapping of Africa north of the Equator.Based on Waldseemüller's map. The maps show Northern Africa ...

$1800 / ≈ €1539
Maker / Publisher: WALDSEEMÜLLER, M. / FRIES, L.
Place & Date: Lyons, M. Servetus, 1535

 


Africa Tertia pars Terrae.

This map of Africa has an unusual shape, tapering to a narrow angle in the south. Numerous rivers appear in West Africa and as tributaries to the Nile, and mountain chain...

$750 / ≈ €641
Maker / Publisher: BÜNTING, H.
Place & Date: Magdeburg, ca 1597

 


The Dutch are attacked by giant crabs.

During their return voyage, the Portuguese were wrecked on a sandbank (the Seychelles?) From the debris they began building a smaller ship in which they hoped to return t...

$100 / ≈ €85
Maker / Publisher: DE BRY, Th.
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1598

 


Insulae et arcis Mocambique descriptio ad fines Melinde sita ebano puriss.

Attractive bird's-eye view of Melinde harbor in Mozambique showing the fortifications with numerous ships at anchor in the protected harbor. The map is finely engraved an...

$200 / ≈ €171
Maker / Publisher: DE BRY, Th.
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1607

 


Africae nova Tabula.

A second state of this very rare "carte à figures"- map. Decorated with the four decorative borders by Jodocus Hondius Jr.This remarkable map of Africa was fir...

$4500 / ≈ €3847
Maker / Publisher: HONDIUS, J.Jr. / JANSSONIUS, J.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1623

 


Nova Africae Tabula.

An attractive map of the continent, added by Hondius when he took over publication of Mercator's Atlas. Although it is based on Mercator's map, Hondius improved the outli...

$2000 / ≈ €1710
Maker / Publisher: MERCATOR, G. / HONDIUS, J.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1630

 


Africa nova Tabula.

Very rare map of Africa separately published. This derivative map by Nicolas Picart is based upon the second state of Janssonius' map of 1623, after the lower border had ...

$3000 / ≈ €2565
Maker / Publisher: HONDIUS, J. / PICART, Nicolas.
Place & Date: Paris, 1644
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Carta particolare che comincia con il c.apo Aldea è Finisce con il capo Degortam. . .

Dudley’s magnificent chart shows the south west coast of Africa with the Tropic of Capricorn, located at about 23.5 degrees south. Without the privilege, but with "...

$1250 / ≈ €1069
Maker / Publisher: DUDLEY, R.
Place & Date: Florence, 1645

 


Nova Africa descriptio.

A beautifully engraved and most attractive "carte à figures"- map of the African continent. Bordered, above, by panels showing panorama's of Cairo, Alexandria,...

$2500 / ≈ €2137
Maker / Publisher: DE WIT, F.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, after 1660

 


Tractus Littorales Guineae a Promontorio Verde usque ad sinum Catenbelae.

Chart of the West coast of Africa from Mauritania up to Angola. In top centre a very decorative title cartouche.

$1000 / ≈ €855
Maker / Publisher: DE WIT, F.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1675

 


Bocche del Fiume Negro et Isole di Capo Verde.

Double-page engraved map of the Cape Verde Islands and part of the coast of Senegal, with large decorative cartouche. One with inset of the island Goree. During three cen...

$1500 / ≈ €1282
Maker / Publisher: CORONELLI, V.M.
Place & Date: Venice, 1690

 


L'Africa divisa nelle sue Parti secondo le pui moderne . . .

A beautiful and rare two-sheet map of Africa. The title cartouche is depicted on a drape surrounded by native animals.A most noticeable feature of the decoration on the m...

$4500 / ≈ €3847
Maker / Publisher: CORONELLI, V. M.
Place & Date: Venice, 1690

 


Loandas St.Paulo [Luanda]

Engraved by Thomas Doesburgh (active between 1683 and 1714) for Carolus Allard's Orbis habitabilis oppida et vestitus, the print shows a distant view of the Angolese ci...

$150 / ≈ €128
Maker / Publisher: ALLARD, C.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, c. 1685-1690

 


Isola di Madagascar o di S. Lorenzo Scoperta dà Portoghesi nell anno 1506. . .

Decorative and highly detailed map of Madagascar, including 2 decorative cartouches and other embellishments.The remarkable Vincenzo Coronelli (1650-1718), was a Francisc...

$900 / ≈ €769
Maker / Publisher: CORONELLI, V.M.
Place & Date: Venice, 1690

 


Carte de La Barbarie de La Nigritie et de la Guinée.

A detailed engraved map of northwest Africa, including the Canary and Cape Verde Islands. Engraved by Inselin. Address and date changed, now with the imprint "A Pari...

$75 / ≈ €64
Maker / Publisher: DE L'ISLE, G.
Place & Date: Paris, August 1707

 


Carte de L'Egypte de la Nubie de L'Abissinie..

Including the Arabian Peninsula. Giving good detail on Egypt. Engraved by Desrosiers. Address and date changed, now with the imprint "A Paris Chez l’Auteur sur le ...

$100 / ≈ €85
Maker / Publisher: DE L'ISLE,G.
Place & Date: Paris, November 1707

 


Carte du Congo et du Pays des Cafres.

Large map of the Southern part of Africa, including Madagascar. With the imprint "Chez l’Auteur sur le Quai de l’Horloge (imprint erased after Horloge) avec Priv...

$150 / ≈ €128
Maker / Publisher: DE L'ISLE.
Place & Date: Paris, January 1708

 


Ceuta Ville d'Afrique au D'estroit de Gibraltar.

A very RARE panoramic view of the city of Ceuta, including a numbered legend in both lower corners.Published by the brothers Chéreau, active in Paris at rue st.Jacques a...

$200 / ≈ €171
Maker / Publisher: CHÉREAU,F. & J.
Place & Date: Paris c.1720

 


Nouvelle carte du Roiaume D'Alger divisée en toutes ses provinces, avec une partie due cotes D'Espagne . . .

Rare and detailed map of the coast of Algeria. Large inset map of the Bay of Alger (El-Jazir). Shows a coastline of Spain around Alicante. Two compass roses in the Medite...

$550 / ≈ €470
Maker / Publisher: OTTENS, R. / J.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1720

 


Genehoa Jaloffi et Sierraliones regna.

Decorative and detailed map of the West African Coast, from Senegal to Sierra Leone. In the center the river Gambia to the mouth in the Atlantic. Upper left a dedication ...

$600 / ≈ €513
Maker / Publisher: SCHENK, P. / VALK, G.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1670 / 1720

 


Carte de L\'Egypte de la Nubie de L\'Abissinie. . .

Prepared by G.de l'Isle. Uncommon issue by Hendrik de Leth. Very detailed map of northeastern Africa, the Red Sea and the Arabian peninsula shows the political divisions ...

$500 / ≈ €427
Maker / Publisher: DE LETH, H.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1740

 


Carte particulière de la côte d'Afrique depuis le cap des Courans jusqu'à la baye de Ste Hélène. . .

Large and detailed sea chart of South Africa.Engraved by Guillaume-Nicolas Delahaye (1727-1802).Latitude and longitude scales, compass rose and system of rhumb lines, sou...

$900 / ≈ €769
Maker / Publisher: D'APRES DE MANNEVILLETTE.
Place & Date: Paris, 1745

 


Plan du Cap de Bonne-Esperance et ses environs..

Large and detailed sea chart of the Cape of Good Hope from Saldahna Bay to False Bay.Engraved by Guillaume-Nicolas Delahaye (1727-1802).Latitude and longitude scales, com...

$900 / ≈ €769
Maker / Publisher: D'APRES DE MANNEVILLETTE.
Place & Date: Paris, 1745

 


Pas-Kaat vaneen gedeelte van de Aethiopische Zee behelsende de Kusten Zanguebar, Ajan en Abex, en een gedeelte van de Arabische Kust. . .

A finely engraved and detailed chart of the most eastern tip of Africa, including Somalia, Djibouti, Yemen, Mauritius, and many other islands in the Indian Ocean.Very rar...

$4500 / ≈ €3847
Maker / Publisher: VAN KEULEN, J.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1753

 


Le cours entier du grand et Fameux Nil. . .

Scarce. A splendid map of ancient Egypt. West is at the top and the Nile bisects Egypt. A inset shows modern Egypt to good detail. With the Red Sea and part of the Arabia...

$600 / ≈ €513
Maker / Publisher: LOTTER, C.
Place & Date: Augsburg, 1760

 


Africa juxta navigationes et observat recentissimas. . .

Miniature map of Africa, a reduction of the Seutter folio map based on Homann''s cartography of 1715. Very detailed - much of it fictitious. The Nile is shown not only or...

$350 / ≈ €299
Maker / Publisher: SEUTTER, M.
Place & Date: Augsburg, J.M.Will, 1778

 


L'Afrique divisée en ses principaux Etats, assujettie aux observations astronomique.

Rare and attractive map of Africa, ornated with a decorative title cartouche showing luxuriant nature and a lion. With two inset maps : "Carte particulière du Cap ...

$350 / ≈ €299
Maker / Publisher: JANVIER, Sr.
Place & Date: Paris, Lattré, 1788

 


Carte d'Afrique divisée en ses Principaux Etats.

A rare and detailed map of Africa prepared by Jean-Baptiste Poirson (1761-1831). Includes an inset stating the European Possessions in Africa.Deserts are well highlighted...

$350 / ≈ €299
Maker / Publisher: POIRSON, J.B.
Place & Date: Paris, chez Jean, An VI 1798

 


Carte d'Afrique Dressée pour l'instruction par Guillaume DeLisle. . .

The map is a rare re-issue of the Delisle map of 1722. In his first map of the continent in 1700, Delisle re-measured the Mediterranean, being the first to establish its ...

$750 / ≈ €641
Maker / Publisher: DELISLE, G . / BUACHE, Ph. / DEZAUCHE, J.
Place & Date: Paris, J.Dezauche, 1819

 


Islands in the Atlantic.

Decorative steel engraved map of Islands showing the Azores, Madeira, Bermuda, the Canaries and the Cape Verdes. Interlocking border design. Taken from "The illustra...

$150 / ≈ €128
Maker / Publisher: TALLIS, J.
Place & Date: London, ca. 1851

 


Cape Colony.

A decorative steel engraved map from the famous Victorian publisher John Tallis and Company, published ca.1851. Drawn and engraved by J Rapkin, while the four corner vign...

$150 / ≈ €128
Maker / Publisher: TALLIS, John.
Place & Date: London, Edinburgh, Dublin, 1851

 


Algérie, Colonie Française. N°87.

Map of Algeria.Lovely map from one of the last decorative atlases of the nineteenth century.The rather simple map is framed by medallion portraits and coats of arms, and ...

$90 / ≈ €77
Maker / Publisher: LEVASSEUR, V.
Place & Date: Paris, A. Combette, 1852

 


L'Art arabe d'après les monuments du Kaire depuis le VIIe siècle jusqu'à la fin du XVIIIe.

Prisse d’Avennes was one of the foremost scholars of Arabic art and architecture of the 19th century; this work represents the summation of his studies. From the aspect...

$10000 / ≈ €8550
Maker / Publisher: PRISSE D'AVENNES, Achille Constant.
Place & Date: Paris, Morel, 1877

 


Art arabe. - Mosquée d'el-Bordeyny. . .

Lithographed by Daumont. From the author's "L'Art Arabe d'après les monuments du Kaire…". Emile Prisse d'Avennes, Orientalist and Muslim convert, obsessive i...

$60 / ≈ €51
Maker / Publisher: PRISSE D'AVENNES, E.
Place & Date: Paris, 1877

 


Art arabe. - [No tittle]

Lithographed by Daumont. From the author's "L'Art Arabe d'après les monuments du Kaire...". Emile Prisse d'Avennes, Orientalist and Muslim convert, obsessive i...

$75 / ≈ €64
Maker / Publisher: PRISSE D'AVENNES, E.
Place & Date: Paris, 1877

 


Sibyl d'Ahmed Hoceyn Margouch.

Lithograph by Fichou. From the author's "L'Art Arabe d'après les monuments du Kaire...". Emile Prisse d'Avennes, Orientalist & Muslim convert, obsessive in...

$150 / ≈ €128
Maker / Publisher: PRISSE D'AVENNES, E.
Place & Date: Paris, 1877

 


Tombeau de Soultan Qalaoûn.

Lithograph by Bernard Schmidt representing the tomb of sultan Ibn Qalaoun, founder of the mamluk dynasty during the 13th century. The tomb has some rich stained glass and...

$150 / ≈ €128
Maker / Publisher: PRISSE D'AVENNES, E.
Place & Date: Paris, 1877

 


[Africa].

A detailed map from Учебный Географический Атлас published by the very successful St. Petersburg publisher "Cartographic institution A.Ilin...

$75 / ≈ €64
Maker / Publisher: ILYIN, A.
Place & Date: St. Petersburg, 1899

 


Carte des Missions Catholiques du Sud Africain.

Map of the Catholic Missions in South Africa. Inset map of L'Ile St. Hélène.Published as supplement of the Les Missions Catholiques. To the lower right an inset key to ...

$250 / ≈ €214
Maker / Publisher: LES MISSIONS CATHOLIQUES
Place & Date: Paris, Monrocq, 1902

 


Schaubild von Afrika mit bildlicher Darstellung der wichtigsten Bodenschätze und Wirtschaftgüter.

Decoratively designed economic map of Africa with pictorial representation of the most important mineral resources and economic goods for the respective area.In right han...

$750 / ≈ €641
Maker / Publisher: SCHAUBILD VERLAG
Place & Date: München, ca. 1939
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Confiance... Ses Amputations se Poursuivent Methodiquement.

Propaganda map, produced under the NAZI collaborating Vichy French regime and designed to inspire revulsion and hatred of the English among the French, while frequently d...

$1200 / ≈ €1026
Maker / Publisher: SPK.
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1941

 


Manoeuvres executées du 7 au 13 mai sous le Commandement du général Koeltz,par le XIXe Corps d'Armée. . .

Poster by Gaston Ry [aka René Rostagny] (1902-1978) showing the allied manouvers in Tunesia. On May 4, 1943, the nineteenth CA offensive drew most of the German tanks to...

$750 / ≈ €641
Maker / Publisher: RY, G.
Place & Date: Alger, Bacconnier, 1943

 


Untitled wartime propaganda map poster depicting Roosevelt & Churchill stuggling between each other over the African Continent.

This powerful image shows US President Franklin D. Roosevelt and UK Prime Minister Winston Churchill in a tug-of-war over Africa. This original war poster was created by ...

$2750 / ≈ €2351
Maker / Publisher: FORT, Jean
Place & Date: Paris, Bedos et Cie, 1942-1943

 


Niger.

Very decorative, informative map of Nigeria. The map is filled with buildings, animals, figures and two locals. With a large compass rose in upper right corner.In lower l...

$90 / ≈ €77
Maker / Publisher: JYLBERT
Place & Date: France, 1943

 


Madagascar.

Very decorative, informative map of Madagascar. The map is filled with buildings, animals, figures and two locals in their typical dress.In lower left corner "Imprim...

$90 / ≈ €77
Maker / Publisher: JYLBERT
Place & Date: France, 1943

 


[Planisphère] - Crédit Lyonnais - Fondé en 1863. Afrique du Nord à Union Française.

Original pictorial lithographed advertising poster showing the western part of Africa. Published by the French bank Crédit Lyonnais.Design by Lucien_Boucher who is a fam...

$1000 / ≈ €855
Maker / Publisher: BOUCHER, L.
Place & Date: Paris, 1950