Blader # Kavels in Africa
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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...
Date: Paris, 1877
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 ...
Date: Paris, A. Combette, 1852
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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...
Date: Nuremberg 12 July 1493
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...
Date: Frankfurt, 1598
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...
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...
Date: Paris, 1877
Guinea.
Samuel Purchas' edition of the Mercator/Hondius Atlas Minor . Map of Guinea published in his famous collection of voyages His Pilgrimes . With descriptive text in English...
Date: London, 1645
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 ...
Date: Paris, Monrocq, 1902
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 ...
Date: Basle, Henri Petri, 1571
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...
Date: Paris, ca. 1790