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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
Tabula Prima Africa.
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...
Place & Date: Strasbourg, 1513
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
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...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1753
Africa ex magnae Orbis Terrae Descriptione.
Very rare separately published "Lafreri" map of Africa. The title in typical Italian scrollwork surmounted by two Cupids in the lower Atlantic. A dedication to ...
- $6000 / ≈ €5614
Place & Date: Venice, ca. 1590
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
Nova Africa descriptio.
A beautifully engraved and most attractive "carte à figures"- map of the African continent. Bordered, above, by panels showing panorama's of Cairo, Alexandria,...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, after 1660
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...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1630
L'Affrique En Plusieurs Cartes Nouvelles, et exactes, &c.
Edition illustrated with 18 maps in original outline colors dated 1656. No date and title page and maps not numbered (according to Pastoureau 1 C, maps are numbered).Nico...
Place & Date: Paris, l'Auteur, after 1662
Bocche del Fiume Negro et Isole di Capo Verde.
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...
Place & Date: Venice, 1690
Africa ex magna orbis terre descriptione Gerardi Mercator. . .
A classic map of Africa. The map first appeared in Gerard Mercator’s Atlas sive Cosmographicae..., published posthumously in 1595. As stated in the title, this map is b...
- $2200 / ≈ €2059
Place & Date: Duisburg and then Amsterdam, (1595) 1609 or 1619
Africa Tertia pars Terrae.
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...
Place & Date: Magdeburg, ca 1597
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...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1630
Fortezza di Gerbi.
Rare and early plan the fortress in present-day Jarbah Hawmat-as on the Tunisian island of Djerba, the largest African island in the Mediterranean.The fortress is still o...
- $2200 / ≈ €2059
Place & Date: Rome, 1586 / 1602
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
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[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
Tractus Littorales Guineae a Promontorio Verde usque ad sinum Catenbelae.
Chart of the West coast of Africa from Mauritania up to Angola. In top centre a very decorative title cartouche.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1675
Carte particulière de la côte d'Afrique depuis le cap des Courans jusqu'à la baye de Ste Hélène. . .
Large and detailed sea chart of South Africa.Engraved by Guillaume-Nicolas Delahaye (1727-1802).Latitude and longitude scales, compass rose and system of rhumb lines, sou...
Place & Date: Paris, 1745
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...
Place & Date: Venice, 1690
Nieuwe Pascaert van al de Carnarisse Eylanden. . .
So-called "Blue-back" sea- charts of the Canary Islands.Latitude scale, compass rose and system of rhumb lines, soundings, anchorage's, etc. A wealth of cities ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1700
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[Planisphère] - Crédit Lyonnais - Fondé en 1863. Afrique du Nord à Union Française.
Original pictorial lithographed advertising poster showing the western part of Africa. Published by the French bank Crédit Lyonnais.Design by Lucien_Boucher who is a fam...
Place & Date: Paris, 1950
.Tabu nova partis Aphri.
Based on Waldseemüller's map. The maps show Northern Africa as it was known to Europeans at the first part of the 16th century. There is great details across north Afric...
Place & Date: Lyons, M. Servetus, 1535
Manoeuvres executées du 7 au 13 mai sous le Commandement du général Koeltz,par le XIXe Corps d'Armée. . .
Poster by Gaston Ry [aka René Rostagny] (1902-1978) showing the allied manouvers in Tunesia. On May 4, 1943, the nineteenth CA offensive drew most of the German tanks to...
Place & Date: Alger, Bacconnier, 1943
Carta particolare che comincia con il c.apo Aldea è Finisce con il capo Degortam. . .
Dudley’s magnificent chart shows the south west coast of Africa. A first edition without the privilege..Engraved by Lucini.Sir Robert Dudley's Dell'Arcano del Mare is t...
- $1250 / ≈ €1170
Place & Date: Florence, 1645
Carte d'Afrique Dressée pour l'instruction par Guillaume DeLisle. . .
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 ...
Place & Date: Paris, J.Dezauche, 1819
Insulae de Cabo Verde olim Hesperides sive .. Zoute Eylanden.
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, ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1655
Confiance... Ses Amputations se Poursuivent Methodiquement.
Propaganda poster, produced under the NAZI collaborating Vichy French regime and designed to inspire revulsion and hatred of the English among the French, while frequentl...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1941
Nouvelle carte du Roiaume D'Alger divisée en toutes ses provinces, avec une partie due cotes D'Espagne . . .
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...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1720
Afrique Occidentale Française AOF.
Beautiful and decorative lithograph pictorial map of Equatorial Africa, showing animals in a beautiful design… Made for Agence de la France d'Outre-Mer. The artist Alai...
- $1100 / ≈ €1029
Place & Date: Imprimerie Raidot, Paris, ca. 1950
Plan du Cap de Bonne-Esperance et ses environs..
Large and detailed sea chart of the Cape of Good Hope from Saldahna Bay to False Bay.Engraved by Guillaume-Nicolas Delahaye (1727-1802).Latitude and longitude scales, com...
Place & Date: Paris, 1745
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 ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1670 / 1720
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…"...
- $1000 / ≈ €936
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1660-1668
Pascaart van de zee-custenvan Angola, en Cimbedas van Rivier de Galion tot C. de Bona Esperanca.
Rare Doncker's sea chart of the West Coast of Africa, from Angola to the Cape of Good Hope, with a larger inset map of the area from St. Martin's Bay to the Cape of Good ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1660-1668
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Tabula IIII Aphricae. [with Prester John]
Early Ptolemaic woodcut map of the regions of Africa that were known to the ancients. The twin lake sources of the Nile are located near the Mons Lune (Mountains of the M...
- $950 / ≈ €889
Place & Date: Vienna, 1522- 1535
Le cours entier du grand et Fameux Nil. . .
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...
Place & Date: Augsburg, 1760
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...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1630
Selling price: $1500
Sold in 2015
Isle D'Auphine, communement Nommée pae les Europeens Madagascar. . .
One of the most UpToDate maps of Madagascar, also showing the Comoros Islands in the North West and the Reunion Island in the South East.With decorative title cartouche r...
- $900 / ≈ €842
Place & Date: Paris, 1667
Carte Particuliere d'une Partie d'Asie ou sont Les Isles D'Andemaon, Ceylan, Les Madives . . .
An impressive large sheet chart including the Red Sea, the coasts of Somali, Yemen, east coast of the Arabian peninsula. One of the early maps to focus on this area. Nume...
- $1000 / ≈ €936
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1720
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 ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1740
Guinea.
A close copy of the map by Blaeu. Covers the Guinea and Benin coast. A very decorative map with a large title cartouche. At bottom right two putti area carrying an elepha...
- $1100 / ≈ €1029
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1680
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...
- $1000 / ≈ €936
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1644
Aethiopia Superior vel Interior vulgo Abissinorum.
An attractive map of the Eastern African and the fictitious kingdom of Prester John. The map shows a major section of central and eastern Africa including Mozambique nort...
- $900 / ≈ €842
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1644
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...
Place & Date: Augsburg, J.M.Will, 1778
.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.
- $1000 / ≈ €936
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1666
Isola di Madagascar o di S. Lorenzo Scoperta dà Portoghesi nell anno 1506. . .
A beautiful and flamboyantly engraved large-scale map of Madagascar, Bourbon and part of the coast of Mozambique. On verso a smaller map Madagascar (170x123mm) The map is...
- $650 / ≈ €608
Place & Date: Venice, ca. 1696
Presbiteri Johannis, sive Abissinorum Imperii descriptio.
Depicting Africa from the Mediterranean to the Mountains of the Moon placed just below Mozambique. Dare to go in Black. All early maps were printed in black and white,...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1598
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...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1790
![[Map of Madagascar, Mauricius island and Réunion island, in Cyrillic ].](/uploads/cache/42567-250x250.jpg)
[Map of Madagascar, Mauricius island and Réunion island, in Cyrillic ].
A map of the south eastern coast of Africa and the island of Madagascar, comprehending 2 insets of the island of Bourbon (today Reunion) and Mauritius.The title appears i...
- $750 / ≈ €702
Place & Date: Paris / St.Petersburg, ca. 1790
Cimbebas et Caffariae Littora a Catenbela ad Promontorium. . .
The coast of Angola, South-West Africa and South Africa up to Port Elizabeth. Classic sea chart of Dutch school with excellent baroque embellishment. North oriented to th...
- $750 / ≈ €702
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1675
Boer-en Rooinekspel.
Design by E.G.Schlette. This is a board game similar to the famous "snakes and lessons". The game takes the players through various historical battles. Success ...
- $600 / ≈ €561
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Koster, ca. 1890
Natoliae.. Aegypti recentior.. Carthaginis ( 3 maps on 1 sheet)
Three maps on one sheet. Map to the left east to the top. Detailed map Turkey, including Cyprus and Crete. Also map of the Nile delta and another map of Tunis. From "...
- $750 / ≈ €702
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1587
Guinea.
An attractive map covered with intersecting rhumb lines and decorated with monkeys, lions, elephants and native figures. With a dedication to Amsterdam anatomist and phys...
- $750 / ≈ €702
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1644
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.
- $750 / ≈ €702
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1640
Insula D.Helenae sacra coeli Clementia . . .
A fine perspective view of the Island of St.Helena in the South Atlantic. The location of the Island directly on the navigation route from Europe to the Cape of Good Hope...
- $750 / ≈ €702
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1609
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...
- $750 / ≈ €702
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1638
Fezzae et Marocchi regna Africae celeberrima.
North to the right. Showing the Atlas Mountains in the south to the southern coast of Spain, along the coast at Ceuta, Tangiers, and Arzilla.A finely engraved, decorative...
- $650 / ≈ €608
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1644
A chart of the coast of Africa from Cape Virde to Cape Bona Esperansa.
Rare and attractive chart of the western part of Africa.
- $800 / ≈ €749
Place & Date: London, 1748
L'Afrique divisée suivant l'estendue de ses principales parties ou sont distingués les vns des autres . . .
A second state of this fine mile-stone map of Africa with a decorative title and scale cartouche. As the title indicates, this map is based on the geography of Guillaume ...
- $750 / ≈ €702
Place & Date: Paris, 1685
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...
- $575 / ≈ €538
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1645
Africa nuova tavola.
Uncommon first edition of this early map of South Africa. Madagascar is called Isola de S. Lorenzo and is oddly shaped.The origin of the Nile conforms to the Ptolemaic co...
- $550 / ≈ €515
Place & Date: Venice, Vincenzo Valgrisi, 1561
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Red Sea - Strait of Jubal.. [2838]
Large chart focused on the Strait of Jubal in the Gulf of Suez. With the Juzur Tawilah Islands at the center and an inset plan of the Tur Harbour (At Tur, South Sinai) o...
- $500 / ≈ €468
Place & Date: London (1853) corrected for 1862
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 ...
- $600 / ≈ €561
Place & Date: Venice, 1696
Tingis, Lusitanis, Tangiara. / Tzaffin. / Septa. / Arzilla/ Sala.
Views of the five northern and western African coastal town-view on one sheet: Latin text.From the greatest publication in this genre!. The Civitates was compiled and wri...
- $600 / ≈ €561
Place & Date: Cologne, 1580
Tingis, Lusitanis, Tangiara. / Tzaffin. / Septa. / Arzilla/ Sala.
Views of the five northern and western African coastal town-view on one sheet: Latin text.From the greatest publication in this genre!. The Civitates was compiled and wri...
- $600 / ≈ €561
Place & Date: Cologne, 1580
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...
- $800 / ≈ €749
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1660
Aphricae Tabula I. (Mauritania - present-day Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia.)
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 ...
Place & Date: Basle, Henri Petri, 1571
.Aphricae Tabula secunda continet.
An important early map of the northern coast of Africa and including parts of the islands of Sicily and Sardine.
Place & Date: Vienne, 1541
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...
- $450 / ≈ €421
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1630
De Cust van Barbaryen van out Mamora tot Capo Blanco..
Six charts on one sheet. The two upper charts covering an area from Cape Blanc to Casablanca. In lower part four insets with detailed charts of islands as Madera, Porto S...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1666
Pas-Caart van Guinea en den Custen daer aen gelegen Van C..
A decorative chart of the southwest coast of Africa, embellished with an elaborate, finely colored title-cartouche, and 2 compass-roses. Pieter Goos (ca. 1616-1675) was o...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1666
De Cust van Barbaria, Gualata, Arguyn, en Gene..heo, van Capo S.Vincente tot Capo Verde.
An eye-catching chart of the north western coast of Africa. Including Canary Islands, Cape Verde Islands and Azores.Pieter Goos (ca. 1616-1675) was one of the most import...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1666
British South Africa.
With the signature of Alan Sillitoe (1928-2010), who was England’s best writer of proletarian fiction. From an early age, geography and maps were a very important part ...
- $450 / ≈ €421
Place & Date: London, 1923
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. Tho...
- $700 / ≈ €655
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1628
L'Afrique divisée en ses principaux Etats assujettie..
Excellent copper engraved map of the continent showing the extent of knowledge in the mid-18th century.While mostly accurate, it does have remnants of fantasy such as the...
- $400 / ≈ €374
Place & Date: Venice, 1776 - 1784
Carte des Missions Catholiques du Sud Africain.
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 ...
Place & Date: Paris, Monrocq, 1902
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...
- $750 / ≈ €702
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1640
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...
- $575 / ≈ €538
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1645
Ile de S. Laurens, ou Madagascar, située dans L'Ocean Ethiopien, sur les Côtes de L'Afrique.
Detailed map of Madagascar and Réunion. Published by Pieter van der Aa in "Galérie agréable du monde", completed in 1729. The Galerie was a sixty-six volume ...
- $450 / ≈ €421
Place & Date: Leiden, 1729
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[2 sheets] Carte particuliere de la Cote Occidentale de l'Afrique...
A large 2 sheet map of a part of the west coast of Africa that covers The Gambia and Senegal. (When joined the map would measure approx. 1010 x 1400 mm) D'anville's maps ...
- $400 / ≈ €374
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1751
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...
Place & Date: London, 1645