Browse Listings in Africa
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 ...
Place & Date: Paris, J.Dezauche, 1819
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...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1720
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...
Place & Date: Augsburg, 1760
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...
Place & Date: Paris, 1745
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 ...
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 ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1740
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...
Place & Date: Augsburg, J.M.Will, 1778
L'Enfance de Paul et Virginie.
Fine engraving of Paul and Virginie.Paul et Virginie (or Paul and Virginia) is a novel by Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, first published in 1787. The novel's ti...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1790
Aphricae Tabula I. (Mauritania - present-day Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia.)
Double-page woodcut Ptolemaic-style map by Sebastian Münster figuring Mauritania, present-day Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia, published in the edition of Strabo by Henri ...
Place & Date: Basle, Henri Petri, 1571
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 ...
Place & Date: Paris, Monrocq, 1902