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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
Art arabe. - Mosquée d'El-Bordeyny.
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...
Place & Date: Paris, 1877
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
.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
.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
Monument Sépulcral près de Kymân El-Gyouchy. (XVIIIe. siècle)
Highly decorative lithography by Asselineau, representing a mausoleum. From the author's "L'Art Arabe d'après les monuments du Kaire?". Emile Prisse d'Avennes,...
Place & Date: Paris, 1877
Art arabe. - Mosquée cathédrale de qous assemblage & détails des pièces du mimbar. . .
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...
Place & Date: Paris, 1877
Art arabe. - Séances de Hariry.
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...
Place & Date: Paris, 1877
Arabesques. - Pages jumelles d'un qorân mauresque. (XVIIIe siècle)
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...
Place & Date: Paris, 1877
Barbariae et Biledulgerid, nova descriptio.
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 manuscr...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1598
Carte de La Barbarie de La Nigritie et de la Guinée.
A detailed engraved map of north west Africa including the Canary and Cape Verde Islands. Engraved by Inselin. Address and date changed, now with the imprint "A Pari...
Place & Date: Paris, 1781
Beyt El-Emyr.
Lithograph by Mouilleron representing a young woman looking over a beautiful moucharabieh. From the author's "L'Art Arabe d'après les monuments du Kaire?". Emi...
Place & Date: Paris, 1877
Porte du Palais du Soultan Beybars. (XIIIe. siècle)
Highly decorative lithography by Ch. Fichot, showing the walled-up entrance of Sultan Beybars' palace. From the author's "L'Art Arabe d'après les monuments du Kaire...
Place & Date: Paris, 1877
Arabesques. - Ornementation d'un Qoran Mauresque (XVIIIe siècle)
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...
Place & Date: Paris, 1877
Congo Regnum Christian. In Africa.
Small map illustrating the western seashores of Central Africa, surrounded by text in Dutch.Nicolaes de Clerck (de Klerc) was active as engraver and publisher in Delft fr...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Cloppenburch, 1621
Abissinorum Imperium. / Acomath .I. Turcarum Imperator .XIIX. Ex Stirp. Ottomannica.
Map of central Africa. Copperplate engraving on text leaf with letterpress on verso. The engraving depicts a half length oval portrait of "Acomath I".Nicolaes d...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Cloppenburch, 1621
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
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
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
Nieuwe Paskaert van de Custen Zee Loango en Angoy van C. de Lopo Gonzalves tot R. de Zaire os Congo vertoonende alle desselfs gelegenteden.
Sea-chart of the coast of Gabon, Loango, Angoy and Angola to Zaire (Congo) River. In lower right side title and two coastal profiles. In upper left corner inset charts of...
- $300 / ≈ €281
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1715 -1751
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
![Loandas St.Paulo [Luanda]](/uploads/cache/48500-250x250.jpg)
Loandas St.Paulo [Luanda]
Engraved by Thomas Doesburgh (active between 1683 and 1714) for Carolus Allard's for his Orbis habitabilis oppida et vestitus the print shows a distance view of the Angol...
- $150 / ≈ €140
Place & Date: Amsterdam, c.1685-1690
Description des piramides d'Egypte tant au départ qu'au dehors . . .
Engraved text page with 5 views of the pyramids and an image of the Sphinx. From Chatelain's monumental 7 volume "Atlas Historique".Henri Abraham Chatelain (168...
- $36 / ≈ €34
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1720
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
Camp à Duywen Hock Riviere. (Tom.1er. Pag.131.)
Camp Duywen Hock River engraved view, from Francois Levaillant’s Voyage dans l’interieur de l’Afrique. Text in French reads “Tom. 1er. Pag. 131. Atlas pl. 5. 1er ...
- $250 / ≈ €234
Place & Date: Paris, 1798
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
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
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
Carthaginensis Sinus.
A beautifully miniature map by Petrus Bertius of the ancient city of Carthage and the more modern town of Tunis, first published in 1598. There are numerous features tha...
- $100 / ≈ €94
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1606
Barbaria.
A nice miniature map of the north African region known as 'Barbary', published by Petrus Bertius in Amsterdam early in the seventeenth century. This lovely map also depic...
- $100 / ≈ €94
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1606
Aegyptus.
A fine miniature map of Egypt, published by Petrus Bertius in Amsterdam early in the seventeenth century. The lovely map and has a strap-work title, in the lower left cor...
- $100 / ≈ €94
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1606
Charta exhibens Situm antiquum Carthaginis, Uticae. . . / A Bird's View of the Situation of Antient Carthage.
A pair of engravings of ancient Carthage in North Africa, from Charles Rollins' "The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, medes &...
- $50 / ≈ €47
Place & Date: London, ca 1768
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Plants found in the island of S. Laurenti [Madagascar].
‘ A’ denotes a tree with only a few twigs on the top. From this tree, canoes and boats are made. ‘B’ is a bush that the Dutch frequently encountered and was calle...
- $80 / ≈ €75
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1598
Barbarie.
Rare map of the Barbary Coast of Africa published by Jollain in 1667. Published in "Trésor Des Cartes Geographiques Des Principaux Estats de Lunivers".This atl...
- $100 / ≈ €94
Place & Date: Paris, 1667
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
Place & Date: Paris, 1667
Le Royaume de Marroc.
Rare map of Morocco published by Jollain in 1667. Published in "Trésor Des Cartes Geographiques Des Principaux Estats de Lunivers".This atlas is based upon Boi...
- $100 / ≈ €94
Place & Date: Paris, 1667
Le Royaume de Fez.
Rare map of Morocco published by Jollain in 1667. Published in "Trésor Des Cartes Geographiques Des Principaux Estats de Lunivers".This atlas is based upon Boi...
- $150 / ≈ €140
Place & Date: Paris, 1667
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
Cafrerie et Monomotapa.
Uncommon miniature map of South Africa from Pierre Duval's "La Geographie Universeille" dated 1676. Following his Cartes de géographie in 1657, Pierre Duval pu...
- $150 / ≈ €140
Place & Date: Paris, 1676
Carte de l'Egypte de la Nubie de l'Abissinie. . .
Detailed copper-engraved map of North-East Africa showing Guinea in the southwest through Ethiopia , the Red Sea to the Persian Gulf.In the northwest, Tunis through Egypt...
- $250 / ≈ €234
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1745
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 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
'T Koninkryk van Marocco, verdeelt in Zeven Landschappen, enz. . .
A Dutch edition of this finely engraved map of Morocco filled with mountain ranges, oases and cities. The map is adorned with a decorative cartouche.
- $90 / ≈ €84
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1705
Egitto nuova tavola.
Fine early map of Egypt and the Nile delta. Extends east to the Upper Red Sea and West to "Deserto De Marmarica". Nice detail in the lower Nile regions. Page ta...
- $200 / ≈ €187
Place & Date: Venice, 1561
Fessae Regnum.
Charming small map of the northwestern tip of Africa with Fez showing as the principal city. Decorative title cartouche.From a Latin-text edition of Jodocus Hondius' Atla...
- $120 / ≈ €112
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1608
Les Isles du Cap-Verd. . .
Charming small map of the archipelago of Cape Verde. From Atlas Portatif Universel, by Robert de Vaugondy.From Atlas Portatif Universel, by Robert de Vaugondy.Page 87 out...
Place & Date: Paris, later than 1748
Selling price: $120
Sold in 2011
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
Colonies Françaises (en Afrique.)
A very decorative 19th century map of western coast of Africa and includes a map of the coast of Madagascar. The map is surrounded by portraits, animals, vegetation, etc....
- $100 / ≈ €94
Place & Date: Paris, 1850
Carte de l'Afrique Françoise ou du Senegal. . .
Large map of the African West coast covering present-day Senegal and Gambia. It provides extensive detail along the Senegal River. The outline hand coloring shows the ext...
- $300 / ≈ €281
Place & Date: Amsterdam, c. 1745
Cafrerie et Monomotapa.
Uncommon miniature map of South Africa, from Pierre Duval's "La Geographie Universeille" dated 1676. Following his Cartes de geographie in 1657, Pierre Duval pu...
- $200 / ≈ €187
Place & Date: Paris, 1676
Barbaria. / Egypt / Tunesia.
Three maps on one sheet. Upper part, it shows the coast of Barbaria from Morocco to Egypt: the map on the left corner of Tunis includes a plan of Goletiae, and the right ...
- $300 / ≈ €281
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1641
Barbariae et Biledulgerid, nova descriptio.
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...
- $300 / ≈ €281
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1587
Partie Orientale de la Haute Guinée.
Nice small map centered on the Gulf of Guinea. Showing Sao Tomé and Principe. From Atlas Portatif Universel, by Robert de Vaugondy. "80" outside border top rig...
- $75 / ≈ €70
Place & Date: Paris, later than 1749
Congo ou Basse Guinée.
Nice small map showing a long stretch of the central Africa west coast and its hinterland. Centered on Luanda.From Atlas Portatif Universel, by Robert de Vaugondy. "...
- $75 / ≈ €70
Place & Date: Paris, later than 1748
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
Royaume et desert de Barca, et Aegypte divisee. . .
Map of Egypt prepared by N.Sanson and published by Pierre Mariette.Published in an early edition of the small Sanson atlas L'Europe Dediée a Monseigneur . . . Le Tellier...
- $100 / ≈ €94
Place & Date: Paris, P. Mariette, 1667
Royaume de Fez. . .
Map of Morocco prepared by N.Sanson and published by Pierre Mariette.Published in an early edition of the small Sanson atlas L'Europe Dediée a Monseigneur . . . Le Telli...
- $120 / ≈ €112
Place & Date: Paris, P. Mariette, 1667
.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
Partie de la Barbarie ou sont les royaumes de Tunis et Tripoli. . .
Coastal map of Tunisia and Libya prepared by N.Sanson and published by Pierre Mariette.Published in an early edition of the small Sanson atlas L'Europe Dediée a Monseign...
- $750 / ≈ €702
Place & Date: Paris, P. Mariette, 1667
Partie de la Barbarie ou est le royaume d'Alger. . .
Coastal map of North Africa prepared by N.Sanson and published by Pierre Mariette.Published in an early edition of the small Sanson atlas L'Europe Dediée a Monseigneur ....
- $80 / ≈ €75
Place & Date: Paris, P. Mariette, 1667
XIII. Repraesentatio Bestiarum ferarum Omnis Generis, quales in Guinea reperiuntur.
Fine engraving of Elephant and other wild animals. Theodore de Bry, a German engraver and book dealer, began a compilation of early voyages in 1590 and had published six ...
- $100 / ≈ €94
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1609
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
Aethiopia Superior vel Interior vulgo Abissinorum.
An attractive map of Eastern Africa and the fictitious kingdom of Prester John. The map shows a major section of central and eastern Africa including Mozambique north to ...
- $450 / ≈ €421
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1638
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
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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
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
Place & Date: Paris, 1820
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
XXI. Repraesentatio Bellorum, Quae Aethiopes Invicem . . .
A fight between Ethiopian warriors.Theodore de Bry, a German engraver and book dealer, began a compilation of early voyages in 1590 and had published six parts at the tim...
- $75 / ≈ €70
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1609
XVI. Delineatio Solennitatis, qua Nobiles Creari Solent.
Fine print of a Ceremony of electing or appointing a Nobleman in Guinea. Text below the engraving with an explanation in Latin : "During this ceremony there is a gre...
- $90 / ≈ €84
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1609
Partie septentrionale de l'Afrique contenant l'Egipte. . .
Scarce map of northern part of Africa, prepared by Nolin and published by L.J. Mondhare for his Atlas Général a l'usage des colleges et maisons d'education.. Louis Jose...
- $150 / ≈ €140
Place & Date: Paris, 1783
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
XIV. Repraesentatio Agriculturae et Fructuum Variorum exterra nafcentium.
Agriculture. Theodore de Bry, a German engraver and book dealer, began a compilation of early voyages in 1590 and had published six parts at the time of his death in 1598...
- $100 / ≈ €94
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1609
XV. Aedificiorum, et Rei Familiaris Administandae Ratio.
A village-scene in Guinea.Theodore de Bry, a German engraver and book dealer, began a compilation of early voyages in 1590 and had published six parts at the time of his ...
- $100 / ≈ €94
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1609
Partie meridionale de l'Afrique ou se trouvent le Congo. . .
Scarce map of south of Africa with Madagascar, prepared by Nolin and published by L.J. Mondhare for his Atlas Général a l'usage des colleges et maisons d'education.. Lo...
- $200 / ≈ €187
Place & Date: Paris, 1783
XI. Repraesentatio Pecorum et animalium in Guinea cicuratorum.
Various animals and birds from Africa. Engraved and published by Theodore de Bry, a German engraver and book dealer, began a compilation of early voyages in 1590 and had ...
- $100 / ≈ €94
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1609
L'Egypte. . .
Scarce map of Egypt, prepared by Nolin and published by L.J. Mondhare for his Atlas Général a l'usage des colleges et maisons d'education.. Louis Joseph Mondhare was ac...
- $75 / ≈ €70
Place & Date: Paris, 1783
Isola della Guinea. / Isola Gore.
Fine map of Guinea, from Isolario Dell'Atlante Vento.On verso a map of the island Goeree (130x172mm). The sheet dimension is 485x350mm
- $300 / ≈ €281
Place & Date: Venice, 1690
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
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
Arabesques. - Couronnement de la porte du Minbar de Gama Sysaryeh.
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...
- $50 / ≈ €47
Place & Date: Paris, 1877