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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...

$2400 / ≈ €2246
Maker / Publisher: SANSON, N.
Place & Date: Paris, l'Auteur, after 1662

 


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...

$1200 / ≈ €1123
Maker / Publisher: SPK.
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1941

 


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...

Maker / Publisher: MERCATOR, G. / HONDIUS, J.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1630
Selling price: $1500
Sold in 2015

 


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
Maker / Publisher: BELLIN, J.N. / ARKSTEE / MERKUS
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1765

 


Nouvelle description d'Afrique.

Rare map of Africa published by Jollain in 1667. Published in "Trésor Des Cartes Geographiques Des Principaux Estats de Lunivers".This atlas is based upon Bois...

$250 / ≈ €234
Maker / Publisher: JOLLAIN, G.
Place & Date: Paris, 1667

 


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
Maker / Publisher: SANTINI, P. / REMONDINI, M.
Place & Date: Venice, 1776 - 1784

 


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
Maker / Publisher: JAILLOT, H.
Place & Date: Paris, 1685

 


Carte générale de L'Afrique divisée en ses principaux états par Fx Delamarche. . .

Uncommon map of Africa prepared by Felix Delamarche, after R.de Vaugondy. The "Zahara ou Grand désert" and Congo and Zambia "Contrée tout-a-fait Inconnue...

$300 / ≈ €281
Maker / Publisher: DELAMARCHE, F.
Place & Date: Paris, 1820

 


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
Maker / Publisher: CHIQUET, J.
Place & Date: Paris, 1719

 


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
Maker / Publisher: DE BRY, Th.
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1609

 


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
Maker / Publisher: MAZZA, Giovanni Battista / RASCIOTTI, Donato.
Place & Date: Venice, ca. 1590

 


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
Maker / Publisher: MERCATOR, G./ HONDIUS, J.
Place & Date: Duisburg and then Amsterdam, (1595) 1609 or 1619

 


[Lot of 3 maps] Le Coste Dell' Alta Guinea… [with] Carta del Basso Egitto [with] Le Coste di Barbaria.

A lot of three maps of nort and eastern Africa. Published by Pazzini, Carli (1707-1769) and prepared by Bartolomeo Borghi (1750-1821). Features decorative title cartouche...

$300 / ≈ €281
Maker / Publisher: PAZZINI, C.
Place & Date: Siena, 1796

 


L'Africa divisa nelle sue principali parti…

Rare map of Africa. Published by Pazzini, Carli (1707-1769) and prepared by Bartolomeo Borghi (1750-1821). Features decorative title cartouche. Included in "Atlante ...

$300 / ≈ €281
Maker / Publisher: PAZZINI, C.
Place & Date: Siena, 1796

 


[Title in Ottoman Turkish: SOUTHERN AFRICA].

A fine Ottoman map of Southern Africa from Ali Şeref Paşa’s rare "Yeñi coġrafya aṭlası", published by the press of Matbaa-i Amire, the successor of İb...

$350 / ≈ €328
Maker / Publisher: Ali ŞEREF PAŞA (also Hafız Ali Eşref, d. 1907).
Place & Date: Beyazit, Istanbul: Matbaa-i Amire 1311 or 1895

 


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
Maker / Publisher: DE LAPORTE, L'Abbé.
Place & Date: Paris, Prudhomme, Levrault, Debray, 1806

 


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...

$250 / ≈ €234
Maker / Publisher: LANGENES, B. / BERTIUS, P.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1606

 


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...

$175 / ≈ €164
Maker / Publisher: LEVASSEUR, V.
Place & Date: Paris, 1850

 


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...

$120 / ≈ €112
Maker / Publisher: DELAPORTE,L'Abbé.
Place & Date: Paris, Prudhomme, Levrault, Debray, 1806

 


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...

$250 / ≈ €234
Maker / Publisher: DE BRUIJN, A.
Place & Date: Cologne, c.1577

 


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...

$300 / ≈ €281
Maker / Publisher: MERCATOR, G./ HONDIUS, J.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1608

 


[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
Maker / Publisher: MÜNSTER, S.
Place & Date: Basel, 1552

 


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...

$1250 / ≈ €1170
Maker / Publisher: BÜNTING, H.
Place & Date: Magdeburg, ca 1597

 


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 ...

$750 / ≈ €702
Maker / Publisher: DELISLE, G . / BUACHE, Ph. / DEZAUCHE, J.
Place & Date: Paris, J.Dezauche, 1819

 


[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...

$900 / ≈ €842
Maker / Publisher: BOUCHER, L.
Place & Date: Paris, 1950

 


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...

$1200 / ≈ €1123
Maker / Publisher: SPK.
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1941

 


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...

$4500 / ≈ €4211
Maker / Publisher: CORONELLI, V. M.
Place & Date: Venice, 1690

 


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,...

$2500 / ≈ €2339
Maker / Publisher: DE WIT, F.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, after 1660

 


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 ...

$2750 / ≈ €2573
Maker / Publisher: FORT, Jean
Place & Date: Paris, Bedos et Cie, 1942-1943

 


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

 


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