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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 / ≈ €88
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 / ≈ €3942
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 / ≈ €1577
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 / ≈ €657
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 / ≈ €88
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 / ≈ €175
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 / ≈ €3942
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 / ≈ €1752
Maker / Publisher: MERCATOR, G. / HONDIUS, J.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1630

 


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. A first edition without the privilege...

$1250 / ≈ €1095
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 / ≈ €2190
Maker / Publisher: DE WIT, F.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, after 1660