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VIII. Repraesentatio Commerciorum et Negotiationum, Quas Nigritae cum Batauis exercent.
Locals from the 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...
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 compiling early voyages in 1590 and published six parts by the time of...
Date: Frankfurt, 1609
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
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
Guinea.
An attractive map covered with intersecting rhumb lines and decorated with monkeys, lions, elephants and native figures. A coat of arms and a dedicatory cartouche in the ...
Date: Amsterdam, 1640
Congi regnu.
Samuel Purchas' edition of the Mercator/Hondius Atlas Minor . Early map of Congo published in his famous collection of voyages His Pilgrimes . With descriptive text in En...
Date: London, 1645
Carte de l'Egypte de la Nubie de L'Abissinie &c..
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...
Date: Amsterdam, c. 1745
Carte de l'Egypte de la Nubie de l'Abissinie..
Map of east Africa showing South Arabia.
Date: Paris, 1780
VII. Repraesentatio Processus in Iudiciis Civilibus et Criminalibus Ufitati. (Courts and Administration of Justice)
A depiction of the court and administration of justice. Seven features are identified : (A) the king or chief listening to a case presented to him, (B) the beheading of a...
Date: Frankfurt, 1609
Carte des Iles du Cap-Verd Dressée sur les remarques et les observations les plus exactes des Navigateurs.
French sea chart of the Cap Verde Islands, situated 570 kilometers off the coast of Western Africa.Latitude and longitude scales, compass rose and system of rhumb lines, ...
Date: Paris, Brest, chez Demonville, 1775
Nubia & Abyssinia.
A lovely looking steel engraved map of the portion of Africa that lies to the west of the Red sea. Mostly great deserts and the territories of nomadic African tribes are ...
Date: London, 1839
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 ...
Date: Amsterdam, 1638
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...
Date: Paris, later than 1748
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. "...
Date: Paris, later than 1748
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...
Date: Amsterdam, 1630
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 righ...
Date: Paris, later than 1749
