Browse Listings in Africa
Africa Vera Forma, et Situs.
This rare map is an interesting amalgamation of cartographical sources. Cornelis prepared this map for the second edition of the Speculum after his father's death in 1591...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1593
Selling price: $4350
Sold in 2009
Africae vera forma et situs.
This very rare map of Africa retains the continental outline from Gastaldi with the interior based primarily on Mercator's world map of 1569. This is evident in the river...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1593
Africae propriae Tabula..
The most beautiful early map of the northern coast of Africa that is available to the collector. Prepared by Ortelius himself based on modern information from Gastaldi's ...
Place & Date: Antwerp 1595
Selling price: $165
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Aegyptus Antiqua.
A splendid map of ancient Egypt, which appeared in Ortelius' Parergon. The map is based on his separately published map of Egypt, published in 1565, but with differences ...
Place & Date: Antwerp 1595
Selling price: $280
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Africae Tabula Nova Edita Antverpiae 1570.
Collectible example of one of the cornerstone maps of Africa. A beautiful map in original color. Ortelius' map was modern in appearance, compared to Munster and o...
Place & Date: Antwerp, (1570) 1595
Selling price: $2250
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Africa ex magna orbis terre descriptione Gerardi Mercatories desumpta studio & industria G.M. Juniorius
A classic and important map of Africa, especially as it is directly based on Gerard Mercator’s rare wall map of the world of 1569. The map first appeared in Gerard Merc...
Place & Date: Duisburg and then Amsterdam, 1595
Selling price: $1625
Sold in 2017
AEGYPTUS ANTIQUA. Terra suis contante bonis, non indiga mercis. . .
A splendid map of ancient Egypt, which appeared in Ortelius' Parergon. The map is based on his separately published map of Egypt, published in 1565, but with differences ...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1595
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2020
Presbiteri Johannis sive Abissinorum Imperii Descriptio
Very decorative example of Ortelius' famous map of the Kingdom of Prester John, from a Latin edition of Ortelius' Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, the first modern atlas of the w...
Place & Date: Amverpen, 1595
Selling price: $456
Sold in 2023
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[Lot of 9 maps/ prints of Egypt ] Aegypti Recentior Descriptio / Carthaginis Celeberrimi Sinus Typus.
Abraham Ortelius' maps of Egypt and Carthago on one sheet.Abraham Ortelius(1527-98), Dutch cartographer and publisher of the first modern atlas, ' Theatrum Orbis Terrarum...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1595
Selling price: $160
Sold in 2023
AFRICA.
This is Giovanni Magini's modern map of Africa from his edition of Claudius Ptolemy's Geographia. It is basically a slightly-reduced version of the D'Anania 1582 map of...
Place & Date: Venice, 1596
Selling price: $105
Sold in 2013
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...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1596
Selling price: $800
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Vera effigies et delineatio Insulae Ascenscio nuncupatae sitae in altitudine 8 graduum ad austrum lineae aequinoctialis.
This is Linschoten's map of Ascension Island in the south Atlantic, beautifully engraved by Baptista a Doetechum.Decorative print showing three coastal views of Ascension...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, c.1596
Selling price: $375
Sold in 2012
Insulae et arcis MOCAMBIQUE descriptio...Beschrijuinge des..
This is a finely executed copperplate engraved map of Mozambique Island, a strategically important re-supply point for the Portuguese empire in Asia during the 16th centu...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1596
Selling price: $130
Sold in 2013
Insulae et arcis Mocambique descriptio ad fines Melinde.
An attractive and rare bird's-eye view of Melinde harbour in Mozambique, engraved by Jan Deutecum for Linschoten's 'Itinerario', published between 1596 and 1644. Probably...
Place & Date: Amstrerdam, 1596
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2020
Africa.
Small map of Africa and the Arabian Peninsula showing part of Brazil as well.The rivers of central and north Africa feature prominently including the Ptolemaic concept of...
Place & Date: Cologne 1597
Selling price: $180
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Africa.
From "Geografia". Published in Venice by Galignani. Situated in a text page, with a gold leaf initial. Maps are engraved by Girolamo Porro.
Place & Date: Venice, ca. 1597
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2008
Africae Tabula Nova
From the Ortelius miniature atlas 'Epitome theatri Orteliani' published by Philip Galle. Colored in nice, period correct color. Printers crease running through West Afric...
Place & Date: Antwerp, ca 1598
Selling price: $220
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Affbeeldinghe der custen des landts...Terra do Natal.
A superbly decorative early chart engraved by Arnold van Langren showing the African coastline of the Indian Ocean from the Cape to Natal, Mozambique and Madagascar. From...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1598
Selling price: $3750
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Regnum Monomotapae.
Metellus Rare Map of Southern Africa, from a 1598 Latin edition of Botero's "Theatrum Principum Orbis Universi". Modelled on the southern section of Mercator's ...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1598
Selling price: $1850
Sold in 2008
Affbeeldinghe der custen des landts Guinea, Manicongo..
A superbly decorative early engraved by Arnold Van Langren. The ocean is filled with superbly engraved compass spurs, Dutch galleons and elaborate strapwork cartouches. ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1598
Selling price: $3700
Sold in 2008
Congi Regni Christiani in Africa.
A fine early miniature map of the West coast of Africa, this map is from the first edition of the Langenes atlas (later well known under the name of Bertius). Dutch text ...
Place & Date: Middelburg, 1598
Selling price: $55
Sold in 2014
Carthaginensis sinus.
Very fine early miniature map showing Tunis and its surroundings. The sea is embellished with a ship and a sea monster. The map depicts the ancient site of Carthage with ...
Place & Date: Middelburg, 1598
Selling price: $40
Sold in 2014
Filippo Pigafetta-De Bry Map of Africa.
This is the De Bry version of the Pigafetta map of Africa. It is a close copy of the Pigafetta map. Pigafetta wrote a book entitled Relatione del reame di Congo et del...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1598
Selling price: $2600
Sold in 2010
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[ Map of Africa ]
Extremly rare map of Africa, engraved by William Rogers and published by John Wolfe. The map occurs in the 1598 English edition of Jan Huyghen van Linschoten's Itinerario...
Place & Date: London, John Wolfe, 1598
Selling price: $8800
Sold in 2011
Affbeeldinghe der custen des landts...Terra do Natal.
A superbly decorative early chart engraved by Arnold van Langren showing the African coastline of the Indian Ocean from the Cape to Natal, Mozambique and Madagascar. From...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1598
Selling price: $850
Sold in 2011
Affbeeldinghe der custen des landts Guinea, Manicongo. . .
A superbly decorative early chart engraved by Arnold van Langren. The ocean is filled with superbly engraved compass spurs, Dutch galleons and elaborate strapwork cartouc...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1598
Selling price: $4200
Sold in 2011
Affbeeldinghe der custen des landts. . .Terra do Natal.
A superbly decorative early chart engraved by Arnold van Langren showing the African coastline of the Indian Ocean from the Cape to Natal, Mozambique, and Madagascar. Fro...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1598
Selling price: $1900
Sold in 2013
Aegyptus.
Very fine early miniature map of Egypt, showing the Nile delta . Title cartouche on the lower left corner. Scarce miniature map from the second series of miniature atlas ...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1598
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2015
Affbeeldinghe der custen des landts. . .Terra do Natal.
A superbly decorative early chart engraved by Arnold van Langren showing the African coastline of the Indian Ocean from the Cape to Natal, Mozambique and Madagascar. From...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1598
Selling price: $3500
Sold in 2015
Africa Tabula Nova.
Africa continent map by Ortelius, used in Giovanni Botero (1533–1617)'s work "RELATIONI UNIVERSALI DI GIOVANNI BOTERO BENESE" issued in Venice by Giorgio Ang...
Place & Date: Venice, c.1598
Selling price: $225
Sold in 2016
Argumentum II. Lufitani regem Congi falutant, eique legationem fuam exponunt. De quibus Vide lib. 2 cap 2.
The Portuguese appear before the king of the Congo. When the king of the Congo heard about his neighbor, the prince of Sogno, being converted to Christianity, he called t...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1598
Selling price: $60
Sold in 2019
Argumentum V. Armatura tam nobiliorum quam gregariorum militum descripta lib. 1. cap. 7. (How the Congolese dress for war and play)
The distinguished inhabitants of the Congo decorate their head-dresses with ostrich, peacock or other feathers and, wound cross-wise across their bare chests they have ch...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1598
Selling price: $90
Sold in 2016
Africae tabula nova / Africa, Lybia, Morenlandt, mit allen Königreichen so jetziger zeit darumb gefunden werden. . .
Attractive woodcut map showing the African continent. From the 1598-German edition of Cosmographia by Sebastian Münster. German text on verso. This woodblock map is eleg...
Place & Date: Basle, 1598
Selling price: $450
Sold in 2016
Africae tabula nova / Africa, Lybia, Morenlandt, mit allen Königreichen so jetziger zeit darumb gefunden werden. . .
Attractive woodcut map showing the African continent. From the 1598-German edition of Cosmographia by Sebastian Münster. German text on verso. This woodblock map is eleg...
Place & Date: Basle, 1598
Selling price: $750
Sold in 2018
Delineatio orarum maritimarum, terræ vulgo indigetatæ terræ do Natal, item Sofalæ, Mozambicæ & Melindæ, insulæque Sancti Laurentii. . . / Affbeeldinghe der custen des landts genaempt terra do Natal, item van alle de custen...
A superbly decorative early chart engraved by Arnold van Langren showing the African coastline of the Indian Ocean from the Cape to Natal, Mozambique and Madagascar. Tool...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1598
Selling price: $4000
Sold in 2022
Africa Nuova Tavola.
Fine 1598 edition of this early map of southern Africa. Girolamo Ruscelli first published the map in his "La Geographi di Claudio Tolomeo" (Venice, 1561), with ...
Place & Date: Venice, 1598
Selling price: $175
Sold in 2021
Provincia Cartaginese. Tunigi.
An attractive small map of the environs of Tunis in Northern Africa. It is from the "Relationi Universale" by Botero, published in Venice in 1598. Woodcut in pa...
Place & Date: Venice, 1598
Selling price: $21
Sold in 2017
Fessae et Marocchi regna Africae celeberr.
Uncommon map, covering north-western Africa, with the Canaries and Madeira. With an inset of the Congo, after Filippo Pigafetta's famous map of the kingdom. Dare to go...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1598
Selling price: $550
Sold in 2020
Seaweed and birds seen approaching the Cape of Good Hope.
The sailors saw many plants floating on the surface of the sea during their voyage to India. Among these was the ‘trombas’, which was a pipe-like growth with its root...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1598
Selling price: $55
Sold in 2019
How the inhabitants catch whales off the east coast of Madagascar.
When the natives of Santa Marta, off the east coast of Madagascar see a whale, they row out in their little boats and throw out a rope with a large hook on the end. When ...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1598
Selling price: $85
Sold in 2022