[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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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