A rare and monumental wall map of Africa, with original outline color, of four joined sheets, surrounded by text and vignettes printed on separate sheets.Created in 1739 ...
Publisher: [NOLIN, Jean-Baptiste / Jean-Baptiste NOLIN II Date: Paris, 1739
A finely engraved and detailed chart of most eastern tip of Africa, including Somalia, Djibouti, Yemen, Mauritius, and many other islands in the Indian Ocean.Very rare: o...
Publisher: VAN KEULEN, J. Date: Amsterdam, 1753
The map apart from depicting Morocco also shows southern Spain and the Balearic Islands. In north Africa the map extends eastwards toward modern day Algeria and to the we...
Publisher: PTOLEMY, C. / WALDSEEMÜLLER, M. Date: Strasbourg, 1513
A beautifully engraved and most attractive "carte à figures"- map of the African continent. Bordered, above, by panels showing panorama's of Cairo, Alexandria,...
Publisher: DE WIT, F. Date: Amsterdam, after 1660
This interesting and impressive wall map of Africa was most probably published in celebration of the delivery of a new steamship. Philip, Son Nephew, published the wall m...
Publisher: ANONYMOUS Date: c. 1906
Double-page engraved map of the Cape Verde Islands and part of the coast of Senegal, with large decorative cartouche. One with inset of the island Goree. During three cen...
Publisher: CORONELLI, V.M. Date: Venice, 1690
This map of Africa has an unusual shape, tapering to a narrow angle in the south. Numerous rivers appear in West Africa and as tributaries to the Nile, and mountain chain...
Publisher: BÜNTING, H. Date: Magdeburg, ca 1597
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...
Publisher: MERCATOR, G./ HONDIUS, J. Date: Amsterdam, 1630
Chart of the West coast of Africa from Mauritania up to Angola. In top centre a very decorative title cartouche.
Publisher: DE WIT, F. Date: Amsterdam, 1675
Decorative and highly detailed map of Madagascar, including 2 decorative cartouches and other embellishments.The remarkable Vincenzo Coronelli (1650-1718), was a Francisc...
Large and detailed sea of South Africa.Engraved by Guillaume-Nicolas Delahaye (1727-1802).Latitude and longitude scales, compass rose and system of rhumb lines, sounding...
Publisher: D'APRES DE MANNEVILLETTE. Date: Paris, 1745
The map is a rare re-issue of the Delisle map of 1722. In his first map of the continent in 1700, Delisle re-measured the Mediterranean, being the first to establish its ...
Publisher: DELISLE, G . / BUACHE, Ph. / DEZAUCHE, J. Date: Paris, J.Dezauche, 1819
Original copper engraving, hand colored in outline, when published. Double page chart covering detailed the Cap Verde Islands in the Atlantic Ocean (Isla de San Antonia, ...
Publisher: JANSSONIUS, J. Date: Amsterdam, 1655
Decoratively designed economic map of Africa with pictorial representation of the most important mineral resources and economic goods for the respective area.In right han...
Publisher: SCHAUBILD VERLAG Date: München, ca. 1939
Rare and detailed map of the coast of Algeria. Large inset map of the Bay of Alger (El-Jazir). Shows a coastline of Spain around Alicante. Two compass roses in the Medite...
Publisher: OTTENS, R. / J. Date: Amsterdam, 1720
North to the right. A finely engraved, decorative map, who influenced subsequent maps for the rest of the century.
Publisher: BLAEU, W. Date: Amsterdam, 1658
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 ...
Publisher: SCHENK, P. / VALK, G. Date: Amsterdam, 1670 / 1720
Scarce. A splendid map of ancient Egypt. West is at the top and the Nile bisects Egypt. A inset shows modern Egypt to good detail. With the Red Sea and part of the Arabia...
Publisher: LOTTER, C. Date: Augsburg, 1760
Large and detailed sea of the Cape of Good Hope from Saldahna Bay to False Bay.Engraved by Guillaume-Nicolas Delahaye (1727-1802).Latitude and longitude scales, compass ...
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 ...
Publisher: DE LETH, H. Date: Amsterdam, 1740
Fine and detailed map of Africa, engraved and published by H.S. Tanner in Philadelphia. From his "American Atlas", printed in several editions from 1823 until 1...
Publisher: TANNER, Henry S. Date: Philadelphia, Henry Tanner, ca. 1823
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...
Publisher: SEUTTER, M. Date: Augsburg, J.M.Will, 1778
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...
Publisher: LE GRAND, A. Date: Paris, ca. 1790
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...
Publisher: ORTELIUS, A. Date: Antwerp, 1598
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 ...
Publisher: STRABO / MUNSTER, S. Date: Basle, Henri Petri, 1571
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...
Publisher: PRISSE D'AVENNES, E. Date: Paris, 1877
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...
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 ...
Publisher: LES MISSIONS CATHOLIQUES Date: Paris, Monrocq, 1902
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...
Publisher: HONDIUS, J. / PURCHAS, S. Date: London, 1645
Map showing the southern part of Africa with decorative rococo-style cartouche.Left and right box with geographical information for each part of the area. Printed on 2 pa...
Publisher: DESNOS / BRION Date: Paris, 1790
Post card size map in Ottoman script of the continent of Africa from Mehmet Eşref’s ‘Küçük Atlas’, a rare portfolio of loose-leaf maps with tex...
Publisher: EŞREF, Mehmet Date: Istanbul, Şirket-i Mürettibiye ve Karacoğlu Matbaas&#
Map of Africa.Left and right a box with geographical information for Africa.Prepared by Buy de Mornas, who was a professor of geography and history and published by Louis...
Publisher: DESNOS, L.C. / DE MORNAS, B. Date: Paris, 1762
Post card size map in Ottoman script of Ethiopia from Mehmet Eşref’s ‘Küçük Atlas’, a rare portfolio of loose-leaf maps with text in Ottoman Tu...
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...
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...
Publisher: SCHEDEL, H. Date: Nuremberg 12 July 1493
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...
Publisher: DE BRY, Th. Date: Frankfurt, 1598
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 ...
Publisher: LEVASSEUR, V. Date: Paris, A. Combette, 1852