Browse Listings in Africa

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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...

$400 / ≈ €374
Maker / Publisher: LE GRAND, A.
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1790

 


Genehoa Jaloffi et Sierraliones regna.

Decorative and detailed map of the West African Coast, from Senegal to Sierra Leone. In the center the river Gambia to the mouth in the Atlantic. Upper left a dedication ...

$600 / ≈ €561
Maker / Publisher: SCHENK, P. / VALK, G.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1670 / 1720

 


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...

$150 / ≈ €140
Maker / Publisher: PRISSE D'AVENNES, E.
Place & Date: Paris, 1877

 


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 / ≈ €1871
Maker / Publisher: MERCATOR, G. / HONDIUS, J.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1630

 


Fessae et Marocchi Regna.

One of the new maps added by Hondius, when he took over publication of the Atlas, a finely engraved and decorative map of north-west Africa, with the Canaries. With an in...

$1200 / ≈ €1123
Maker / Publisher: MERCATOR, G./ HONDIUS, J.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1630

 


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...

$150 / ≈ €140
Maker / Publisher: PRISSE D'AVENNES, E.
Place & Date: Paris, 1877

 


Africa juxta navigationes et observat recentissimas. . .

Miniature map of Africa, a reduction of the Seutter folio map based on Homann''s cartography of 1715. Very detailed - much of it fictitious. The Nile is shown not only or...

$450 / ≈ €421
Maker / Publisher: SEUTTER, M.
Place & Date: Augsburg, J.M.Will, 1778

 


Isola di Madagascar o di S. Lorenzo Scoperta dà Portoghesi nell anno 1506. . .

Decorative and highly detailed map of Madagascar, including 2 decorative cartouches and other embellishments.The remarkable Vincenzo Coronelli (1650-1718), was a Francisc...

$900 / ≈ €842
Maker / Publisher: CORONELLI, V.M.
Place & Date: Venice, 1690

 


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 / ≈ €94
Maker / Publisher: SCHEDEL, H.
Place & Date: Nuremberg 12 July 1493

 


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...

$230 / ≈ €215
Maker / Publisher: HONDIUS, J. / PURCHAS, S.
Place & Date: London, 1645