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L'Africa divisa nelle sue Parti secondo le più moderne . . .
An extremely decorative, very large (if joint together), rare two-sheet map of Africa. The title cartouche is depicted on a drape surrounded by native animals.A most noti...
Starting Bid: $3000
BidAsk spread:
$3900 - $5500
Date: Venice, 1690
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Africae nova descriptio.
Much of the geographical information contained in this rare, extremely decorative map of Africa is still based on the Ptolemaic maps, with the Nile shown with its source ...
Starting Bid: $1760
BidAsk spread:
$2200 - $3000
Date: Amsterdam, 1635
Africae Nova Descriptio
This is a superb example of the second state of Blaue’s important map of Africa, one of the iconic maps of the era by the leading map publisher of the Dutch Golden Age ...
Starting Bid: $1600
BidAsk spread:
$2000 - $3000
Date: Amsterdam, 1635
Regnum Monomotapae.
An important and rare map of Southern Africa and Madagascar. Southern Africa is filled with place names and rivers.On Madagascar there are only a few places on the coast ...
Starting Bid: $672
BidAsk spread:
$840 - $1450
Date: Cologne, ca 1598
L'Afrique Divisee en Ses Empires, Royaumes, et Etats, Dressees. . .
A decorative and large map of the African continent, based on Jaillot’s map first published on 1674. The cartography is typical for the 17th century, with the Nile orig...
Starting Bid: $650
BidAsk spread:
$800 - $1000
Date: Amsterdam, 1792
Africa iuxta navigationes et observationes ...
Title and impressum in an elaborate cartouche with many figures, typical animals and pyramids at bottom left.From: 'Atlas Novus', Matthaeus Seutter, Augsburg 1732.
Starting Bid: $640
BidAsk spread:
$800 - $1100
Date: Augsburg, 1732
A New Mapp of Africa…
Very rare and decorative map of Africa continent, based on Sanson’s map first published in 1650, the first general map of Africa engraved and published in England. The ...
Starting Bid: $640
BidAsk spread:
$800 - $1000
Date: London, 1682
Paskaart van Guinea van C.Verde tot R. deGalion.
Rare edition of Doncker's sea chart of Guinea coast. From an atlas printed in 1668, "l'Atlas de MER ou MONDE AQUATIQUE, Remontrant toutes lescôtes de la Mer…"...
- Highest Bid:
- $600 / ≈ €564
BidAsk spread:
$750 - $1000
Date: Amsterdam, 1660-1668
1 bid
Africa ex magna orbis terre descriptione Gerardi Mercator. . .
Map of Africa. Much of the interior of Africa defers to the traditions of Ptolemy. The Nile river is shown with the two lakes and the Mountains of the Moon across souther...
- Highest Bid:
- $600 / ≈ €564
BidAsk spread:
$750 - $1500
Date: Amsterdam, 1630
1 bid
L'Afrique, Dresse selon les dernieres Relations. . .
A scarce map of Africa, by Nicolas de Fer, after H. van Loon. Full title in a cartouche bottom right: 'L'Afrique, Dresse selon les dernieres Relations et suivant les Nouv...
Starting Bid: $600
BidAsk spread:
$750 - $1000
Date: Paris, 1705
Novissima et Perfectissima Africae Descriptio…
Attractive and very detailed map of the Africa, derived from Frederick de Wit’s map. The decorative cartouche includes Moorish traders, Black Africans, a child riding a...
Starting Bid: $500
BidAsk spread:
$700 - $850
Date: Amsterdam, 1690
Africa Accurate in Imperia. . .
A very nice folio size map of Africa. This is revised map by Covens and Mortier that De L’Isle first issued in 1722. It comes from De L’isle’s “Atlas Nouveau, Con...
Starting Bid: $480
BidAsk spread:
$600 - $850
Date: Amsterdam, 1750
Aethiopia inferior, vel exterior comprehendens Monomotapæ et Monoemugi Imperia et ora Caffaria Correctore et Editore F. de Witt Amstelodami cum Privilegio
A very rare variation of the famous map of Blaeu as issued by De Wit and sold by Christopher Browne (see photo). The copper plate seems to have belonged to several differ...
Starting Bid: $450
BidAsk spread:
$590 - $950
Date: Amsterdam/ London, ca 1690
.Caarte voor een gedeelte der Canarise Eylanden als Canaria, Tenerifa, Forteventura, etc.
Very rare chart of the Canaries. Showing Palma, Ferro, Tenerife, Gran Canaria, Forteventura, Lancerota. In upper right hand corner inset of harbour of Lancerota.
- Highest Bid:
- $400 / ≈ €376
BidAsk spread:
$500 - $1000
Date: Amsterdam, 1666
1 bid
Afrique Divisée en ses Grandes Régions et Subdivisée. . .
A rare map of Africa, originally prepared by J.B. Nolin and re-issued by J. F. Daumont. It comes with two columns on left and right hand sides, describing the different r...
Starting Bid: $400
BidAsk spread:
$500 - $720
Date: Paris, 1754
Aethiopia Inferior vel Exterior. Partes magis Septentrionales, quae hic desiderantur, vide in tabula Aethiopiae Superioris.
A rather uncommon specimen of the map, originally published by Blaeu, which depicts part of Central Africa and South Africa. Here in the rare version of Valk and Schenk, ...
Starting Bid: $392
BidAsk spread:
$490 - $690
Date: Amsterdam, ca 1720
Guinea.
An attractive map covered with intersecting rhumb lines and decorated with monkeys, lions, elephants and native figures. With a dedication to Dr. Nicolas Tulp.As Willem B...
Starting Bid: $360
BidAsk spread:
$450 - $550
Date: Amsterdam, 1638
A chart of the coast of Africa from Cape Virde to Cape Bona Esperansa.
Rare and attractive chart of the western part of Africa.
Starting Bid: $350
BidAsk spread:
$450 - $800
Date: London, 1748
Aethiopia inferior, vel exterior.
The standard map of South Africa throughout the 17th century. The lake out of which the 'Zambere' -the Zambesi- flows is probably based on reports of Lake Ngami, undiscov...
Starting Bid: $350
BidAsk spread:
$450 - $575
Date: Amsterdam, 1645
Bocche del Fiume Negro et Isole di Capo Verde. . .
This is a splendid map of the northwestern coast of Africa and the Cape Verde Islands.The map provides details of the various Portuguese discoveries in the region in the ...
Starting Bid: $320
BidAsk spread:
$400 - $600
Date: Venice, 1696
Guineae Nova Descriptio.
The map shows the West African coast from Senegal (the 'Rio Senega' is the Senegal River) to Cape Lopez on the Gulf of Guinea just below the equator. The island of St. Th...
Starting Bid: $300
BidAsk spread:
$350 - $450
Date: Amsterdam, 1630
![[Lot of 14 maps] Carte Generale de la Coste de la Guinée. Plus a map of the Gulf of Guinea on 2 sheets by Rigobert Bonne and 6 other maps of the Gulf of Guinea](/uploads/cache/18246-500x500.jpg)
[Lot of 14 maps] Carte Generale de la Coste de la Guinée. Plus a map of the Gulf of Guinea on 2 sheets by Rigobert Bonne and 6 other maps of the Gulf of Guinea
Jaques Nicolas Bellin (1702-720) was the most important French hydrographer of the 18th century. Sea-atlas 'Hydrographique Français' , 1756-65, atlas to accompany Prévo...
Starting Bid: $280
BidAsk spread:
$350 - $500
Date: Paris, 1750
Alexandria antiqua juxta mentem . . .
Manuscript hand colored map of the ancient city of Alexandria, probably carried out by P.N. Bonamy. With an inset map. The book "Description of the City of Alexa...
- Highest Bid:
- $250 / ≈ €235
BidAsk spread:
$300 - $400
Date: Paris, 1741
1 bid
Aethiopia inferior, vel exterior.
The standard map of South Africa throughout the 17th century. The lake out of which the 'Zambere' -the Zambesi- flows is probably based on reports of Lake Ngami, undiscov...
Starting Bid: $240
BidAsk spread:
$300 - $575
Date: Amsterdam, 1645
![[Lot of 13 maps/ views of Guinea] Guineae Nova Descriptio](/uploads/cache/18139-(1)-500x500.jpg)
[Lot of 13 maps/ views of Guinea] Guineae Nova Descriptio
[Lot of 13 maps/ views of the area]- Guineae Nova Descriptio. (Hondius) circa 1620- Carte de l'Entree de la Rieviere de Sierra Leona (J. N. Belin) Circa 1750- 't Ko...
Starting Bid: $240
BidAsk spread:
$280 - $400
Date: Amsterdam, c, 1610
Afrika Tabula Nova
Woodcut map of the African continent: Münster second map of Africa, based upon Ortelius' map of 1570, from the German edition of Sebastian Münster's 'Cosmographey: das ...
Starting Bid: $184
BidAsk spread:
$230 - $350
Date: Basel, 1598
![[ Lot of 10 maps / prints of South Africa] Partie de L' Afrique audelàde l' Equateur, comprenant Le Congo, La Cafrerie &c.](/uploads/cache/IMG_2309-500x500.jpg)
[ Lot of 10 maps / prints of South Africa] Partie de L' Afrique audelàde l' Equateur, comprenant Le Congo, La Cafrerie &c.
[Lot of 10]
Starting Bid: $180
BidAsk spread:
$200 - $320
Date: Paris, c, 1750
North Africa & South Africa.
A fine, hand-colored, 1817 Thomson map that is two maps in one: North Africa and South Africa. Thomson's focus on these two parts of Africa makes sense as these were the ...
Starting Bid: $161
BidAsk spread:
$201 - $375
Date: Edinbourgh, 1815
Barbaria. / Egypt / Tunesia.
Three maps on one sheet. Upper part, it shows the coast of Barbaria from Morocco to Egypt: the map on the left corner of Tunis includes a plan of Goletiae, and the right ...
Starting Bid: $160
BidAsk spread:
$200 - $300
Date: Amsterdam, 1641
Africa Vetus.
Sanson's map of ancient Africa, with a wonderful cartouche adorned with eagles at top right, in great condition. The map is richly engraved and highly detailed, with nice...
Starting Bid: $160
BidAsk spread:
$200 - $300
Date: Paris, 1650
Carte de l'Egypte Ancienne et Moderne, dressee sur celle du R.P. Sicard et autres, assujetties aux observations astronomiques.
A detailed map of the Nile river, from Alexandria to Aswan. With both historical and contemporary details. Also the Sinai desert is depicted. Legends at bottom right. Ti...
Starting Bid: $144
BidAsk spread:
$180 - $270
Date: Paris, 1757
Barbariae et Biledulgerid, nova descriptio.
North-West Africa. Koeman speculated: In view of the important trading relationship between Antwerp and Africa, it is not impossible that the original was a manuscript ma...
- Highest Bid:
- $130 / ≈ €122
BidAsk spread:
$150 - $300
Date: Antwerp, 1587
2 bids
Nouvelle description d'Afrique.
Rare map of Africa published by Jollain in 1667. Published in "Trésor Des Cartes Geographiques Des Principaux Estats de Lunivers".This atlas is based upon Bois...
Starting Bid: $125
BidAsk spread:
$150 - $250
Date: Paris, 1667
Carte de l'Egypte de la Nubie de l'Abissinie. . .
Detailed copper-engraved map of North-East Africa showing Guinea in the southwest through Ethiopia , the Red Sea to the Persian Gulf.In the northwest, Tunis through Egypt...
Starting Bid: $120
BidAsk spread:
$150 - $250
Date: Amsterdam, 1745
Camp à Duywen Hock Riviere. (Tom.1er. Pag.131.)
Camp Duywen Hock River engraved view, from Francois Levaillant’s Voyage dans l’interieur de l’Afrique. Text in French reads “Tom. 1er. Pag. 131. Atlas pl. 5. 1er ...
Starting Bid: $120
BidAsk spread:
$150 - $250
Date: Paris, 1798
Egypt & Abyssinia
This is a fine map of Egypt and Abyssinia by John Thomson. It includes two maps on a single sheet, with Egypt and Abyssinia featured. The map of Egypt covers from the Nil...
Starting Bid: $100
BidAsk spread:
$125 - $225
Date: Edinbourgh, 1817
Carte de l'Afrique Françoise ou du Senegal. . .
Large map of the African West coast covering present-day Senegal and Gambia. It provides extensive detail along the Senegal River. The outline hand coloring shows the ext...
Starting Bid: $96
BidAsk spread:
$120 - $300
Date: Amsterdam, c. 1745
Egitto nuova tavola.
Fine early map of Egypt and the Nile delta. Extends east to the Upper Red Sea and West to "Deserto De Marmarica". Nice detail in the lower Nile regions. Page ta...
Starting Bid: $80
BidAsk spread:
$100 - $200
Date: Venice, 1561
Cafrerie et Monomotapa.
Uncommon miniature map of South Africa from Pierre Duval's "La Geographie Universeille" dated 1676. Following his Cartes de géographie in 1657, Pierre Duval pu...
Starting Bid: $80
BidAsk spread:
$100 - $150
Date: Paris, 1676
L'Africa : Nuovamente corretta, et accresciuta secondo le relationi piv moderne da Guglielmo Sansone geografo di S. M. Christianissima. E data in luce Da Gio : Giacomo de Rossi in Roma nella sua stameria alla Pace l'Anno 1687.
Giacomo Rossi's late 17th century map of Africa. Based on map by Sanson, who is giving credit in the title cartouche. Issued in Il Mercurio geografico In upper right corn...
Starting Bid: $80
BidAsk spread:
$100 - $250
Date: Rome, 1687
Colonies Françaises (en Afrique.)
A very decorative 19th century map of western coast of Africa and includes a map of the coast of Madagascar. The map is surrounded by portraits, animals, vegetation, etc....
Starting Bid: $64
BidAsk spread:
$80 - $100
Date: Paris, 1850
Royaume de Fez. . .
Map of Morocco prepared by N.Sanson and published by Pierre Mariette.Published in an early edition of the small Sanson atlas L'Europe Dediée a Monseigneur . . . Le Telli...
Starting Bid: $64
BidAsk spread:
$80 - $120
Date: Paris, P. Mariette, 1667
Cafrerie et Monomotapa.
Uncommon miniature map of South Africa, from Pierre Duval's "La Geographie Universeille" dated 1676. Following his Cartes de geographie in 1657, Pierre Duval pu...
Starting Bid: $60
BidAsk spread:
$75 - $200
Date: Paris, 1676
L'Afrique divisée en ses principaux etats par le Sr. Janvier Geographe.
A neatly engraved example of Jean Janvier's 1762 map of Africa. Covers the entire continent as well as the Island of Madagascar and adjacent parts of Persia and Arabia. D...
Starting Bid: $60
BidAsk spread:
$75 - $200
Date: Paris, ca. 1765
Fessae Regnum.
Charming small map of the northwestern tip of Africa with Fez showing as the principal city. Decorative title cartouche.From a Latin-text edition of Jodocus Hondius' Atla...
Starting Bid: $50
BidAsk spread:
$80 - $120
Date: Amsterdam, 1608
'T Koninkryk van Marocco, verdeelt in Zeven Landschappen, enz. . .
A Dutch edition of this finely engraved map of Morocco filled with mountain ranges, oases and cities. The map is adorned with a decorative cartouche.
Starting Bid: $48
BidAsk spread:
$60 - $90
Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1705
Partie de la Barbarie ou est le royaume d'Alger. . .
Coastal map of North Africa prepared by N.Sanson and published by Pierre Mariette.Published in an early edition of the small Sanson atlas L'Europe Dediée a Monseigneur ....
Starting Bid: $40
BidAsk spread:
$50 - $80
Date: Paris, P. Mariette, 1667
Partie de la Barbarie ou sont les royaumes de Tunis et Tripoli. . .
Coastal map of Tunisia and Libya prepared by N.Sanson and published by Pierre Mariette.Published in an early edition of the small Sanson atlas L'Europe Dediée a Monseign...
Starting Bid: $40
BidAsk spread:
$50 - $750
Date: Paris, P. Mariette, 1667
Arabesques. - Ornementation d'un Qoran du tombeau de Soultan El-Ghoury.
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...
- Highest Bid:
- $40 / ≈ €38
BidAsk spread:
$50 - $90
Date: Paris, 1877
1 bid
Carthaginensis Sinus.
A beautifully miniature map by Petrus Bertius of the ancient city of Carthage and the more modern town of Tunis, first published in 1598. There are numerous features tha...
Starting Bid: $40
BidAsk spread:
$50 - $100
Date: Amsterdam, 1606
Royaume et desert de Barca, et Aegypte divisee. . .
Map of Egypt prepared by N.Sanson and published by Pierre Mariette.Published in an early edition of the small Sanson atlas L'Europe Dediée a Monseigneur . . . Le Tellier...
Starting Bid: $40
BidAsk spread:
$50 - $100
Date: Paris, P. Mariette, 1667
![Plants found in the island of S. Laurenti [Madagascar].](/uploads/cache/41368-500x500.jpg)
Plants found in the island of S. Laurenti [Madagascar].
‘ A’ denotes a tree with only a few twigs on the top. From this tree, canoes and boats are made. ‘B’ is a bush that the Dutch frequently encountered and was calle...
Starting Bid: $40
BidAsk spread:
$50 - $80
Date: Frankfurt, 1598
Aegyptus.
A fine miniature map of Egypt, published by Petrus Bertius in Amsterdam early in the seventeenth century. The lovely map and has a strap-work title, in the lower left cor...
Starting Bid: $40
BidAsk spread:
$50 - $100
Date: Amsterdam, 1606
Barbaria.
A nice miniature map of the north African region known as 'Barbary', published by Petrus Bertius in Amsterdam early in the seventeenth century. This lovely map also depic...
Starting Bid: $40
BidAsk spread:
$50 - $100
Date: Amsterdam, 1606
Le Royaume de Fez.
Rare map of Morocco published by Jollain in 1667. Published in "Trésor Des Cartes Geographiques Des Principaux Estats de Lunivers".This atlas is based upon Boi...
Starting Bid: $30
BidAsk spread:
$50 - $150
Date: Paris, 1667
Le Royaume de Marroc.
Rare map of Morocco published by Jollain in 1667. Published in "Trésor Des Cartes Geographiques Des Principaux Estats de Lunivers".This atlas is based upon Boi...
Starting Bid: $30
BidAsk spread:
$50 - $100
Date: Paris, 1667
Barbarie.
Rare map of the Barbary Coast of Africa published by Jollain in 1667. Published in "Trésor Des Cartes Geographiques Des Principaux Estats de Lunivers".This atl...
Starting Bid: $25
BidAsk spread:
$50 - $100
Date: Paris, 1667
Partie Orientale de la Haute Guinée.
Nice small map centered on the Gulf of Guinea. Showing Sao Tomé and Principe. From Atlas Portatif Universel, by Robert de Vaugondy. "80" outside border top rig...
Starting Bid: $20
BidAsk spread:
$25 - $75
Date: Paris, later than 1749
Congo ou Basse Guinée.
Nice small map showing a long stretch of the central Africa west coast and its hinterland. Centered on Luanda.From Atlas Portatif Universel, by Robert de Vaugondy. "...
Starting Bid: $20
BidAsk spread:
$25 - $75
Date: Paris, later than 1748
Les Isles du Cap-Verd. . .
Charming small map of the archipelago of Cape Verde. From Atlas Portatif Universel, by Robert de Vaugondy.From Atlas Portatif Universel, by Robert de Vaugondy.Page 87 out...
Starting Bid: $20
BidAsk spread:
$25 - $75
Date: Paris, later than 1748
Charta exhibens Situm antiquum Carthaginis, Uticae. . . / A Bird's View of the Situation of Antient Carthage.
A pair of engravings of ancient Carthage in North Africa, from Charles Rollins' "The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, medes &...
Starting Bid: $20
BidAsk spread:
$25 - $50
Date: London, ca 1768
Nubie, Abissinie et Cote D'Ajan.
A fine map of Abyssinia, Sudan and the Red Sea covering Arabia, Egypt south to Mogadishu. It was published in the 1748 edition of the de Vaugondy's "ATLAS PORTRATIF ...
- Highest Bid:
- $17 / ≈ €16
BidAsk spread:
$1 - $185
Date: Paris, 1748
3 bids
Egypt & Abyssinia.
A fine map of Egypt and Abyssinia by Thomson. It includes two maps on a single sheet, namely, Egypt and Abyssinia.The map of Egypt covers the area from the Nile Delta sou...
- Highest Bid:
- $15 / ≈ €14
BidAsk spread:
$1 - $275
Date: Edinbourgh, 1817
9 bids