Browse Listings in Africa
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...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1941
[West Africa]
Second block. West Africa, from the Tropic of Cancer south to St Thomas. The interior is filled with lions, elephants, monkeys and camels, with a fenced native village. O...
Place & Date: Venice, 1563
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...
Place & Date: Venice, 1690
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 ...
Place & Date: Paris, Bedos et Cie, 1942-1943
Loandas St.Paulo [Luanda]
Engraved by Thomas Doesburgh (active between 1683 and 1714) for Carolus Allard's for his Orbis habitabilis oppida et vestitus the print shows a distance view of the Angol...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, c.1685-1690
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...
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...
Place & Date: Paris, 1877
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...
Place & Date: Paris, Morel, 1877