[Lot of 25 leaves of Africa and Egypt]
Twenty-five text leaves with wood block illustrations relating to Africa and Egypt illustrated with maps, animals, plants.... From the 1552 Latin text edition of Münster...
- $100 / ≈ €94
Place & Date: Basel, 1552
L'Afrique Divisée en ses Principaux Etats.
Map of Africa, from Atlas de la Géographie de toutes les parties du monde.. Ouvrage destiné pour l'education, et nécessaire aux négocians, aux voyageurs, aux fonction...
Place & Date: Paris, Prudhomme, Levrault, Debray, 1806
XII. Delineatio Venationum, quomodo Nimir um Omnis Generis feras capiant. (How the hunters catch animals: 1603-1604)
A: shows a leopard walking into a cage with a trap door. B: is an antelope, killed by natives, using ‘assagais’. C: shows rabbits being caught. They are frightened ou...
- $125 / ≈ €117
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1609
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...
- $200 / ≈ €187
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1765
Afrique.
A decorative 19th century map of the continent colored to show the colonial possessions and major tribal kingdoms. The interior is mostly void of detail. The map is surro...
Place & Date: Paris, 1850
L'Afrique . . .
Map of the African continent, from Atlas moderne portatif composé de vingt-huit cartes sur toutes les parties du globe terrestre .. A l'usage des Colléges, des Pensions...
- $200 / ≈ €187
Place & Date: Paris, Prudhomme, Levrault, Debray, 1806
Africae Descriptio.
Map of Africa from the first French-text edition of Jodocus Hondius' Atlas Minor.Shortly after the publication of the big folio-atlases the need was apparently felt for a...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1608
L' Afrique Dressee suivant les Auteurs les plus nouvea. . .
Charming map of the African continent with some interesting cartography and filled with notations.The Nile is correctly shown with its origins in Abyssinia. A large Lac d...
- $300 / ≈ €281
Place & Date: Paris, 1719
Africa.
A lovely miniature map of the continent of Africa, published by Petrus Bertius, in Amsterdam at the beginning of the seventeenth century. There is a small strap-work titl...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1606
Femina indica Orientalis - Indus Africanus - Singava vulgo dicta sive erratica femina Ori.
Beautiful engraving by Abraham de Bruyn showing inhabitants of Asian and African people with captions in Latin, French and German.Abraham de Bruyn, a Flemish engraver and...
Place & Date: Cologne, c.1577