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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 / ≈ €3942
Maker / Publisher: VAN KEULEN, J.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1753

 


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 / ≈ €79
Maker / Publisher: LEVASSEUR, V.
Place & Date: Paris, A. Combette, 1852

 


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

 


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 / ≈ €438
Maker / Publisher: DE LETH, H.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1740

 


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

 


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 / ≈ €131
Maker / Publisher: TALLIS, John.
Place & Date: London, Edinburgh, Dublin, 1851

 


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

 


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 / ≈ €79
Maker / Publisher: JYLBERT
Place & Date: France, 1943