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Algercum munita Metropolis Regni Algeriani…
Scarce bird's-eye plan of Algiers and its harbour, with two large galleons, and a panoramic view below, from "Atlas Novus", engraving with very fine strong hand...
Date: Augsbourg, 1730
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Carthage, etc. [Foliu XL ]
VERSO: Portraits of scholars, and an imaginary view on Carthage in Tunisia (12x17cm.) Page from the famous Liber chronicarum of Hartmann-Schedel 1493, the first and Latin...
Date: Nuremberg 12 July 1493
Nieuwe Pascaert vande Kust van Maroca en Zanhaga beginnend van C. Cantin tot C. Bajador, waer in ook te sien is 't I. Lancerota en 't I. Forteventura. . .
A very fine sea chart of the west coast of Morocco between C.Cantin tot C.Bajador and the Canary Islands, Lanzerote and Fuerteventura. With a very large decorative title-...
Date: Amsterdam, 1700
L'Afrique divisée en ses principaux Etats, assujettie aux observations astronomique.
Rare and attractive map of Africa, ornated with a decorative title cartouche showing luxuriant nature and a lion. With two inset maps : "Carte particulière du Cap ...
Date: Paris, Lattré, 1788
Colonies Françaises (en Afrique). N°91.
Handsome map divided into two sections shows a section of the coast of French West Africa titled 'Senegambie' (Senegal & Gambia) with a drawing of the Senegal River a...
Date: Paris, A. Combette, 1852
Algerie, Colonie Francaise.
A decorative 19th century map of the French colony Algeria. The map is surrounded with fully colored steel engravings depicting the countryside, battles, weaponry and pro...
Date: Paris, 1850
Paskaart van de kust van Maroca beginnende van Larache tot aan C. Cantin. . .
A nautical sea chart of the coast of Morocco. Insert at top right: 'Nieuwe Afbeelding van de Rivier Rio Rebata in 't Groot".Bottom right: chart number '32'. Compass ...
Date: Amsterdam, ca.1682
Paskaart van de Kuste van, Gualate en Arguyn. Beginnende van C. Bajador tot C. Blanco. . .
A nautical showing the northwestern coast of Africa, along Western Sahara from Cape Bojador to Cape Blanc. Ornate title cartouche in top right corner shows two main figur...
Date: Amsterdam, ca.1682
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 &...
Date: London, ca 1768
Map of Madagascar.
An old antique map of Madagascar by Tomaso Porcacchi (1530-85). L' Isole del Monde, 1572-1686. Maps engraved by Girolamo Porro. An early map of Madagascar, embellished wi...
Date: Italy, ca. 1580
The Work of Two of History's Greatest Geographers. Morocco/ Algeria/ Tunisia/ Spain. Afr: I Tab:
A very attractive example of an early edition, the second, from Mercator’s definitive edition of Ptolemy’s geography. The map shows the area as it was known in the Ro...
Date: Cologne, 1584
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 ...
Date: Amsterdam, 1660-1668
Mauritana et Africa Proria nunc Barbaria.
A pleasantly engraved map of the north-western part of Africa with the Canary Islands by Phillip Clüver after Strabo. With one cartouche.Phillip Cluver was a German geog...
- $50 / ≈ €43
Date: Leiden, 1697
Sénégambie et Guinée.
Detailed map of the western part of Africa, prepared by Charles V. Monin (fl.1830-1880) a French cartographer of Caen and Paris. Published in Atlas Universel de Géograph...
- $45 / ≈ €39
Date: Paris, 1845
Afrique Septentrionale.
Detailed map of the Northern part of Africa, prepared by Charles V. Monin (fl.1830-1880) a French cartographer of Caen and Paris. Published in Atlas Universel de Géograp...
- $45 / ≈ €39
Date: Paris, 1845
Aegyptus Et Cyrene.
A fine coastal region of Libya, also known as Pentapolis in antiquity. From "Introductio in Universam Geographicam" and edited by Johann Friedrich Heckel Philli...
- $50 / ≈ €43
Date: London, 1697
Carte particuliere de la cote septentrionale d'Afrique. (13eme feuille)
A fine French Service Hydrograhique de la Marine chart no. 3424, showing Cape Rose and Cap Nègre, in Algeria, drawn in 1873 by E. Mouchez, updated to 1913. Chart engrave...
- $80 / ≈ €69
Date: Paris, 1873 / 1913
Madagascar.
Very decorative, informative map of Madagascar. The map is filled with buildings, animals, figures and two locals in their typical dress.In lower left corner "Imprim...
- $90 / ≈ €77
Date: France, 1943
Barbaria.
Small map illustrating the eastern part of the Mediterranean Basin, namely the African side. Surrounded by text in Dutch.Nicolaes de Clerck (de Klerc) was active as engra...
- $75 / ≈ €64
Date: Amsterdam, Cloppenburch, 1621
Aegyptus.
Small map focused on the Nile Delta, where the Nile divides into several branches.Nicolaes de Clerck (de Klerc) was active as engraver and publisher in Delft from 1599-16...
- $100 / ≈ €86
Date: Amsterdam, Cloppenburch, 1621
Tunetanum Regnum.
Small map representing Tunisia and Algeria, surrounded by text in Dutch.Nicolaes de Clerck (de Klerc) was active as engraver and publisher in Delft from 1599-1621.Include...
- $100 / ≈ €86
Date: Amsterdam, Cloppenburch, 1621
Isle de Magagascar . . .
Map of the island of Madagascar. Prepared by Jacques Nicolaas Bellin (1703-1772) who was one of the most important and proficient French cartographers of the mid-eighteen...
- $75 / ≈ €64
Date: Paris, 1750
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[Madagascar].
Two text engravings from "Premier livre de l'histoire de la navigation aux Indes Orientales, par les hollandois, et des choses a eux advenues . . . ", being the...
- $125 / ≈ €107
Date: Amsterdam, Cornille Nicolas, 1609
Vue du Bourg de St Denis dans l'Isle Bourbon. (together wit) Vue du Bourg de St.Paul dans l'Ile de Bourbon.
Two views from L'île de la Réunion on one plate. The upper part showing the town and harbour of St. Denis. From "Lettres Édifiantes et Curieuses. . Missionaires d...
- $45 / ≈ €39
Date: Lyon, J. Vernarel and Et. Cabin et C., 1780/1781
Alger, rue Bab-Azoun.
Decorative lithography taken from "Voyage pittoresque dans la régence d'Alger" printed in 1835 by Charles Motte. Prepared by WYLD William Wyld (1806-1889) and ...
- $50 / ≈ €43
Date: Paris, 1835
Alger.
Decorative lithography taken from "Voyage pittoresque dans la régence d'Alger" printed in 1835 by Charles Motte. Prepared by WYLD William Wyld (1806-1889) and...
- $50 / ≈ €43
Date: Paris, 1835
Alger, Mosquée rue de la percherie.
Decorative lithography taken from "Voyage pittoresque dans la régence d'Alger" printed in 1835 by Charles Motte. Prepared by WYLD William Wyld (1806-1889) and ...
- $50 / ≈ €43
Date: Paris, 1835
Alger, Marchand de la rue de Chartres.
Decorative lithography taken from "Voyage pittoresque dans la régence d'Alger" printed in 1835 by Charles Motte. Prepared by WYLD William Wyld (1806-1889) and ...
- $50 / ≈ €43
Date: Paris, 1835
Alger, Baib-El-Oued.
Decorative lithography taken from "Voyage pittoresque dans la régence d'Alger" printed in 1835 by Charles Motte. Prepared by WYLD William Wyld (1806-1889) and ...
- $50 / ≈ €43
Date: Paris, 1835
Alger, moulin arabe.
Decorative lithography taken from "Voyage pittoresque dans la régence d'Alger" printed in 1835 by Charles Motte. Prepared by WYLD William Wyld (1806-1889) and ...
- $50 / ≈ €43
Date: Paris, 1835
Alger, Mosquée à Bone.
Decorative lithography taken from "Voyage pittoresque dans la régence d'Alger" printed in 1835 by Charles Motte. Prepared by WYLD William Wyld (1806-1889) and ...
- $50 / ≈ €43
Date: Paris, 1835
VIII. Repraesentatio Commerciorum et Negotiationum, Quas Nigritae cum Batauis exercent.
Locals from Gold Coast trying to sell items to the crew of a Dutch vessel. Theodore de Bry, a German engraver and book dealer, began a compilation of early voyages in 159...
- $100 / ≈ €86
Date: Frankfurt, 1609
XXVI. Repraesentatio Capitum Praecipuarum Aliquot Personarum in Benyn.
Different types from Benin, in West Africa.Theodore de Bry, a German engraver and book dealer, began a compilation of early voyages in 1590 and had published six parts at...
- $75 / ≈ €64
Date: Frankfurt, 1609
Esclave More. (38)
Sought-after copper engraved plate of a Moor slave from North Africa. Plate from Laonikos Chalcocondyle’s "L'histoire de la décadence de l'empire grec et establis...
- $75 / ≈ €64
Date: Paris, Mathieu Guillemot, 1650
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[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 / ≈ €645
Date: Paris / St.Petersburg, ca. 1790
Le Pays des Hottentots . . .
Map of Good Hope Cape. Across the top is an extensive list of 22 important sites and locations keyed to the plan with tiny letters and numbers.Jacques Nicolas Bellin (170...
- $200 / ≈ €172
Date: Paris, 1750
La rade d'Annobon.
Fine print of the arrival of the Dutch fleet by Cornelis Matelief de Jonge at Annobon, September 7th 1605. Cornelis Matelief de Jonge made a trip for the V.O.C. to the Ea...
- $100 / ≈ €86
Date: Amsterdam, J.F. Bernard, 1725
Insulae S. Thomae.
Uncommon map of the Island of St. Thomas located in the Atlantic Ocean near West Africa. From the French reissue of the account of early Dutch voyages first published in ...
- $75 / ≈ €64
Date: Amsterdam, F. Bernard, 1725
Art arabe. - Tombeau du soultan qansou el-Ghoury.
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 / ≈ €43
Date: Paris, 1877
Art arabe. - Ecritoire du soultan Bahrite Schâban. . .
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 / ≈ €43
Date: Paris, 1877
Art arabe. - Mosquée cathédrale de qous Détails 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...
- $50 / ≈ €43
Date: Paris, 1877
Arabesques. - Miroirs a main en métail. . .
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...
- $75 / ≈ €64
Date: Paris, 1877
Arabesques. - Ornementation d'un Qorân mauresque. . .
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...
- $75 / ≈ €64
Date: Paris, 1877
Arabesques. - Lambris du tombeau de Barsabay. Détails des mosaïques.
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...
- $75 / ≈ €64
Date: Paris, 1877
Arabesques. - Reliure a recouvrement.
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...
- $75 / ≈ €64
Date: Paris, 1877
Arabesques. - Vase en Bronze damasquiné orné de martichores.
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...
- $90 / ≈ €77
Date: Paris, 1877
Arabesques. - Application de découpures en papier.
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...
- $75 / ≈ €64
Date: Paris, 1877
Art arabe. - Mobilier de soultan Mohammed Ben Qalaoûn coffret et plat damasquinés. . .
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 / ≈ €43
Date: Paris, 1877
Art arabe. - Mosquée de Qaytbay.
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 / ≈ €43
Date: Paris, 1877
Argumentum VI. De modis quibus de loco in locum, feruorum aut conductitiorum humeris transferri Folent. (How the Congolese are transported)
How the Congolese are transported. None of the horses (probably zebras) are tame enough to ride and the people seem incapable of training the oxen to pull wagons for the ...
- $100 / ≈ €86
Date: Frankfurt, 1598
Argumentum IV. Habitus tam magnatum quam plebeiorum descriptus lib. 2 cap. 7. (How the Congolese men dress)
This illustrates the traditional attire worn by the inhabitants of the Congo before the arrival of the Portuguese. The men had small square berets, usually red or yellow,...
- $100 / ≈ €86
Date: Frankfurt, 1598
Argumentum I. Primus Lufitanorum cum Sogni praefecto congreffus, eiusdemque Baptismus, de quibus lib. 2 cap 2. fit mentio. (The arrival of the Portuguese in the county Sogno)
The arrival of the Portuguese in the county Sogno. When the Portuguese first discovered the county and the inhabitants of Sogno, they were taken for gods and received wit...
- $100 / ≈ €86
Date: Frankfurt, 1598
XX. Repraesentatio Eorum Quae Praeterea in Cabo Lopo Gonfalues. . . (More inhabitants of Cabo Lopo Gonsalues)
Here we see more figures of Cabo Lopo Gonsalues and Rio de Gabon. A: a distinguished man decked out in his finery and carrying several types of knives in his belt. In his...
- $100 / ≈ €86
Date: Frankfurt, 1609
XIX. Repraesentatio Maiestatis, qua rex in Cabo Lopo Gonsalves . . . (How the chief of Cabo Lopo Gonsalues presents himself )
This describes the places they call Cabo Lopo Gonsalues and Rio de Gabon, where the chief receives his visitors. He sits on a chair placed upon a platform with two or thr...
- $100 / ≈ €86
Date: Frankfurt, 1609
Fille Moresque esclave en Alger ville de Barbarie. (63)
Sought-after copper engraved plate of a young slave from Algeria. Plate from Laonikos Chalcocondyle’s "L'histoire de la décadence de l'empire grec et establisseme...
- $45 / ≈ €39
Date: Paris, Mathieu Guillemot, 1650
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 / ≈ €215
Date: Paris, 1798
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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 / ≈ €69
Date: Frankfurt, 1598
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 / ≈ €172
Date: Paris, ca. 1765
Carte du Royaume d'Alger . . .
Uncommon map of the Algerian coast, with fine title and scale cartouches in the top.
Date: Paris, 1665
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…"...
Date: Amsterdam, 1660-1668
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Loandas St.Paulo [Luanda]
Engraved by Thomas Doesburgh (active between 1683 and 1714) for Carolus Allard's Orbis habitabilis oppida et vestitus, the print shows a distant view of the Angolese ci...
Date: Amsterdam, c. 1685-1690
The Dutch are attacked by giant crabs.
During their return voyage, the Portuguese were wrecked on a sandbank (the Seychelles?) From the debris they began building a smaller ship in which they hoped to return t...
Date: Frankfurt, 1598
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...
Date: Amsterdam, 1720
Tombeau du Soultan Tarabey. (XVIe. siècle)
Highly decorative lithography by Ch. Fichot, representing Sultan Tarabey's mausoleum. From the author's "L'Art Arabe d'après les monuments du Kaire?". Emile Pr...
Date: Paris, 1877
Carte du Congo et du Pays des Cafres. . .
Detailed copper-engraved map of southern Africa providing numerous particulars and comments concerning European trade, native kingdoms, and mineral wealth. Includes Madag...
Date: Amsterdam, c. 1730
Description du Nil, de ses sources, de son cours depuis les cataractes jusques le Caire . . .
Detailed map of the course of the Nile, from the cataracts of the Nile at the south (top of the image) to Caïro and Giza. At the right, one of the Pyramids is shown (140...
Date: Amsterdam, 1728
Arabesques. - Mosaïques Murales.
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...
Date: Paris, 1877
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,...
Date: Antwerp, 1598
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...
Date: Paris, 1850
Colonies Françaises (en Afrique). N°91.
Handsome map divided into two sections shows a section of the coast of French West Africa titled 'Senegambie' (Senegal & Gambia) with a drawing of the Senegal River a...
Date: Paris, A. Combette, 1852
Vue et description de la Ville de Lovango dans le Royaume du Congo. . .
On top a large view of the fabled city of Lovango, text surrounded by ten vignettes of the people and ceremonies of the Kingdom of Congo.Zacharie Chatelain (d.1723) was t...
Date: Amsterdam, 1720
Habillemens Des Arabes & Des Juifs qui sont au Caire avec une partie de leurs divertissements & quelques restes de L'Ancien Idolatrie des peuples D'Egipte.
Decorative set of images the costumes of the Arab and Jewish inhabitants of Cairo, with French text, from Chatelain's monumental 7 volume Atlas Historique. Henri Abraham ...
Date: Amsterdam, 1728
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[Africa].
A detailed map from Учебный Географический Атлас published by the very successful St. Petersburg publisher "Cartographic institution A.Ilin...
Date: St. Petersburg, 1899
Carte de la barbarie, Nigritie et de la Guinée avec les pays voisins . . .
Showing the imaginary island of ''Borondon'' or Saint Brendan's Island, also known as Saint Brendan's Isle, supposedly situated in the North Atlantic somewhere west of No...
Date: Amsterdam, 1720
Carte de la Barbarie de la Nigritie et de la Guinée..
Showing the imaginary island of ''Borondon'' or Saint Brendan's Island, also known as Saint Brendan's Isle, supposedly situated in the North Atlantic somewhere west of No...
Date: Amsterdam c. 1745
Africae nova Tabula.
A second state of this very rare "carte à figures"- map. Decorated with the four decorative borders by Jodocus Hondius Jr.This remarkable map of Africa was fir...
Date: Amsterdam, 1623
Souvenir Guide Map of Cairo.
A lovely small colored plan of central Cairo, published by Groppi in Cairo. Plan is housed within the original red and gold printed paper covers, with advertisements for ...
Date: Cairo, 1920-1950
Cape Colony.
A decorative steel engraved map from the famous Victorian publisher John Tallis and Company, published ca.1851. Drawn and engraved by J Rapkin, while the four corner vign...
Date: London, Edinburgh, Dublin, 1851
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...
Date: Amsterdam, 1630
Carte de L'Egypte de la Nubie de L'Abissinie..
Including the Arabian Peninsula. Giving good detail on Egypt. Engraved by Desrosiers. Address and date changed, now with the imprint "A Paris Chez l’Auteur sur le ...
Date: Paris, November 1707
