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Presbiteri Iohannis, Sive, Abissinorum Imperii Descriptio.
Despite the title this map extends far beyond Prester John's supposed kingdom. It covers Africa from the fabled mountains of the moon in the centre of the continent north...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1575
Selling price: $1500
Sold in 2010
Presbiteri Iohannis.
Stunning map of the kingdom of the mythical Christian king who according to legend provided a stronghold against Barbarians and was an ally to the crusaders. Ortelius des...
Place & Date: Antwerp 1579
Selling price: $1000
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Presbiteri Iohannis, Sive, Abissin Orum Imperii Descriptio
Despite the title this map extends far beyond Prester John's supposed kingdom. It covers Africa from the fabled mountains of the moon in the center of the continent north...
Place & Date: Antwerp 1590
Selling price: $800
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Tabula Geogra Regni Congo
One of the most beautifully engraved maps of Africa ever produced, ornamented with numerous ships, sea monsters, and elaborate cartouches. One of few early maps to make a...
Place & Date: Frankfurt 1592
Selling price: $225
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Imperio Del Preste Gianni - Presbeteri Ioannis Sive Abissinorum Imperii Descriptio.
Charming map of the legendary land of the Christian king, Prester John, inset in Italian text (recto and verso). From "La seconda parte delle relazioni universali&qu...
Place & Date: Breschia c. 1599
Selling price: $130
Sold in 2011
Abiffinorum Imperium
After A. Ortelius.
Place & Date: Antwerp, c. 1600
Selling price: $170
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Abissinorum Regnu.
Early map of Central Africa with decorative strap work title cartouche. From the first French-text edition of Jodocus Hondius' Atlas Minor.Shortly after the publication o...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1608
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2019
Insulae et Ars Mosambique / Mozambique.
Very fine early miniature map of Mozambique. Title cartouche on the upper right side. Two ships and three men fishing on a small boat are depicted.First published in 1598...
Place & Date: Amsterdam/ Frankfurt 1609
Selling price: $120
Sold in 2015
Congo Regni Christiani in Africa / Manicongo.
Early miniature map of central part of Africa, from Guinea to Angola. Title cartouche in the lower left corner.First published in 1598 in his Caert-Thresoor, the plates w...
Place & Date: Amsterdam / Frankfurt 1609
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2009
Abissinorum regnu.
Early map of Central Africa published in Latin edition of the Mercator/Hondius Atlas Minor .It covers central Africa around the fabled mountains of the moon in the center...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1610
Selling price: $90
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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
Selling price: $140
Sold in 2009
Abyssinen / Acomath .I. Turcarum Imperator .XIIX. Ex Stirp. Ottomannica. / Abissinorum Imperium.
The engraving depicts a half length oval portrait of "Acomath I". Map of central Africa on verso.Nicolaes de Clerck (de Klerc) was active as engraver and publis...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Cloppenburch, 1621
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2013
Abissinorum sive Pretiosi Joannis Imperiu.
Despite the title this map extends far beyond Prester John's supposed kingdom. It covers Africa from the fabled mountains of the moon in the center of the continent north...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1628
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2016
Abissinorum sive Pretiosi Ioannis Imperiu
Hondius' Prester John Map. French text on verso.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1628
Selling price: $350
Sold in 2010
Abissinorum sive Pretiosi Joannis Imperiu.
Despite the title this map extends far beyond Prester John's supposed kingdom. It covers Africa from the fabled mountains of the moon in the center of the continent north...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1630
Selling price: $270
Sold in 2010
Abissinorum sive Pretiosi Joannis Imperiu.
Despite the title this map extends far beyond Prester John's supposed kingdom. It covers Africa from the fabled mountains of the moon in the center of the continent north...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1630
Selling price: $160
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Abissinorum sive Pretiosi Joannis Imperiu.
Despite the title this map extends far beyond Prester John's supposed kingdom. It covers Africa from the fabled mountains of the moon in the center of the continent north...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1630
Selling price: $475
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Abissinorum..
Nice map engraved by Petrus Kaerius. It depicts the kingdom of the fabled Christian king Prester John, with his fortified kingdom shown on a mountain. The Nile River eman...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1634
Selling price: $100
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Aethiopia Superior vel Interior vulgo Abissinorum.
An attractive map of Eastern African and the fictitious kingdom of Prester John, issued by Willem Janszoon Blaeu in 1635.The map shows a major section of central and eas...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1635
Selling price: $240
Sold in 2016
Aethiopia Superior vel Interior vulgo Abissinorum.
An attractive map of the Eastern African and the fictitious kingdom of Prester John. The map shows a major section of central and eastern Africa including Mozambique nort...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1638
Selling price: $600
Sold in 2014
Aethiopia Superior vel Interior; vulgo Abissinorum. 

An attractive map of the Eastern African and the fictitious kingdom of 'Prester John'. The map shows a major section of central and eastern Africa including Mozambique no...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1638
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2019
Aethiopia Superior vel Interior; vulgo Abissinorum.
An attractive map of the Eastern African and the fictitious kingdom of Prester John. The map shows a major section of central and eastern Africa including Mozambique nort...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1638
Selling price: $450
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Aethiopia Superior vel Interior vulgo Abissinorum.
An attractive map of the Eastern African and the fictitious kingdom of Prester John. The map shows a major section of central and eastern Africa including Mozambique nort...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1640
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2009
Abissinorum sive Pretiosi Ioannis Imperiu
Hand colored map of Central Africa by G. Mercator. With two beautiful colored cartouche and one inset map of the Congo. Showing the Kingdom of Prester John in central Afr...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1640
Selling price: $700
Sold in 2013
Aethiopia Superior vel Interior vulgo Abissinorum.
An attractive map of the Eastern African and the fictitious kingdom of Prester John. The map shows a major section of central and eastern Africa including Mozambique nort...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca 1640
Selling price: $400
Sold in 2022
Aethiopia Superior vel Interior vulgo Abissinorum.
An attractive map of the Eastern African and the fictitious kingdom of Prester John. The map shows a major section of central and eastern Africa including Mozambique nort...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1640
Selling price: $480
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Aethiopia superior vel interior.
An attractive map of the Eastern African and the fictitious kingdom of Prester John. The map shows a major section of central and eastern Africa including Mozambique nort...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1639-1649
Selling price: $195
Sold in 2014
Aethiopia Superior vel Interior vulgo Abissinorum.
An attractive map of the Eastern African and the fictitious kingdom of Prester John. The map shows a major section of central and eastern Africa including Mozambique nort...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1658
Selling price: $900
Sold in 2010
Le royaume d'Abyssinie ou l'Empire du Prete Iean. (14).
Scarce map of Abyssinia and Ethiopia published by Antoine de Fer in 1661 or 1662 in "Cartes de géographie revues et augmentées". With number 14 in lower right...
Place & Date: Paris, Antoine de Fer, 1657 but 1661 or 1662
Selling price: $40
Sold in 2020
Pas-Caart van Guinea en de Custen daer aen gelegen Van Cabo verde tot Cabo de Bona Esperanca
Beautiful seachart of the southwest coast of Africa by P. Goos from the famous sea atlas "De Zee-Atlas ofte Water-Weereld". Showing the coatlines of Guinea, Sie...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1666
Selling price: $800
Sold in 2008
Partie de la Haute Aethiopie. . .
Map of Ethiopia 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 Tell...
Place & Date: Paris, P. Mariette, 1667
Selling price: $210
Sold in 2008
Le Royaume Abyssin ou l'Empire du Presteiean.
Rare map of Central Africa with Ethiopia, published by Jollain in 1667. Published in "Trésor Des Cartes Geographiques Des Principaux Estats de Lunivers".This a...
Place & Date: Paris, 1667
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2021
Nigritie.
Uncommon miniature map of Guinea and Africa's Gold Coast, from Pierre Duval's La Geographie Universeille dated 1676. Following his Cartes de geographie in 1657, Pierre Du...
Place & Date: Paris, 1676
Selling price: $75
Sold in 2009
Le Biledulgerid ou Numidie et le Zaara autrement le Desert.
Uncommon miniature map of Sahara Dessert and Algeria, from Pierre Duval's La Geographie Universeille dated 1676. Following his Cartes de geographie in 1657, Pierre Duval ...
Place & Date: Paris, 1676
Selling price: $20
Sold in 2009
Abissinie ou Haute Ethiopie.
Uncommon miniature map of Ethiopia from Pierre Duval's La Geographie Universeille dated 1676. Following his Cartes de geographie in 1657, Pierre Duval published this smal...
Place & Date: Paris, 1676
Selling price: $25
Sold in 2008
The city of Loango from Dapper.
Copper engraved page view of Loango from Olfert Dapper. The view shows the city of Loango capital of the kingdom of the same name which lay in what is now the Republic of...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1686
Selling price: $15
Sold in 2019
Aethiopia inferior, vel exterior comprehendens Monomotapæ et Monoemugi Imperia et ora Caffaria Correctore et Editore F. de Witt Amstelodami cum Privilegio
A very rare variation of the famous map of Blaeu as issued by De Wit and sold by Christopher Browne (see photo). The copper plate seems to have belonged to several differ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam/ London, ca 1690
L'Abissinie.
Uncommon and delightful map of Equatorial Africa, extending from the Atlantic shores as far as the Horn of Africa.It is focused on the White Nile stream which bears the n...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1700
Selling price: $180
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Negres. Habitans de Nubie de Nigritie et de Guinée.
Decorative engraving representing people of Central Africa.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1700
Selling price: $10
Sold in 2008
Aethiopia Superior vel Interior vulgo Abissinorum.
An attractive map of the Eastern African and the fictitious kingdom of Prester John. The map shows a major section of central and eastern Africa including Mozambique nort...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1708
Selling price: $440
Sold in 2010
Aethiopia Inferior vel Exterior. Partes magis Septentrionales, quae hic desiderantur, vide in tabula Aethiopiae Superioris.
A rather uncommon specimen of the map, originally published by Blaeu, which depicts part of Central Africa and South Africa. Here in the rare version of Valk and Schenk, ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca 1720
Royaumes de Congo et d'Angola...
Scarce regional map centered on the Zaire river. Extends from about Port Gentil to Lobito. With several place names mainly along the Congo River. With a very large title ...
Place & Date: Leiden, 1720
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2018
Africa Interior.
Christoph Cellarius (1638-1707). Geographia Antiqua, 1686
Place & Date: Leipzig, Gledisch, 1732
Selling price: $70
Sold in 2019
A New and Accurate Map of Nubia....
Folding page map showing area from lower Egypt, through Sudan and Ethiopia and down to Somalia. The map also includes the Red Sea and what is now Yemen and South Arabia. ...
Place & Date: London 1747
Selling price: $100
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Empire du Monomotapa et Etats Voisins.
Jaques Nicolas Bellin (1702-720) was the most important French hydrographer of the 18th century. Sea-atlas 'Hydrographique Français' , 1756-65, atlas to accompany Prévo...
Place & Date: Paris, c. 1750
Selling price: $90
Sold in 2008
Pas caert vande cuften van Angola van Rio de Zaire...
This decorative sea chart shows Angola and is equipped with many place names along the coast. In the upper right corner we see figurative title cartouche and in the lower...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1751
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2016
Carte du Cours des Rivieres de Falemeet Sanaga Dans les Pays de Bamucet Tamba Awra.
Interesting original map of western Mali with the Senegal and Niger Rivers showing the important Bambuk region. This is the area that has Cameroon gold mining. Engraved b...
Place & Date: Paris, 1757
Selling price: $15
Sold in 2018
Plan de l'Isle de Patte et de son Port / Plan des Isles Querimbo, Oybo et Matemo.
Two finely colored sea charts of the coast of Africa on one sheet. Showing several Islands at the coast of Kenya and Mozambique. From the second revised and enlarged edit...
Place & Date: Paris, 1775
Selling price: $320
Sold in 2015
To My Worthy and Learned Friend the Honourable Daines Barrington This Plan of two Attempts to Arrive at the Source of the Nile is dedicated by his most Obliged and faithful Humble Servant James Bruce.
This is a significant, engraved, 1790 map of Ethiopia (Abyssinia) and the source of the Blue Nile by the Scottish adventurer James Bruce. Centered on Lake Tana (Tzana), t...
Place & Date: London, 1790
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2017
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...
Place & Date: Paris, A. Combette, 1852
Selling price: $80
Sold in 2009
Karte des Kongobeckens und der angrenzenden Gebiete, zugleich Darstellung der Ausdehnung des Kongostaates. Von Henry M. Stanley.
Detailed map in a scale of 1:2.900.000 of the Congo Basin and the bordering regions, also showing the expansion of the State of the Congo. By Henry M. Stanley. Sir Henry ...
Place & Date: Leipzig, 1877
Selling price: $325
Sold in 2020
Sketch Map of the Route of the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition
A complete extract from the Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of June 1890, p313 ? 331, with the folding map as called for on p.372, now bound in blue covers ...
Place & Date: London, 1890
Selling price: $360
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[Equatorial Africa - map with Ottoman script]
Postcard size map in Ottoman script of Equatorial Africa from Mehmet Eşref’s ‘Küçük Atlas’, a rare portfolio of loose-leaf postcard-sized maps with text in Ott...
Place & Date: Istanbul, Şirket-i Mürettibiye ve Karacoğlu Matbaası 1325 or 1909
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2022
Colonie du Dahomey Carte Routiere dressée au service Géographique de l'A.O.F. Dakar.
Dissected and mounted on linen road map of Dahomey colony, on witch the limits of the state, the colony, and the circle are indicated.
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1928
Selling price: $325
Sold in 2017
Niger.
Very decorative, informative map of Nigeria. The map is filled with buildings, animals, figures and two locals. With a large compass rose in upper right corner.In lower l...
Place & Date: France, 1943
Selling price: $60
Sold in 2016
Niger.
Very decorative, informative map of Nigeria. The map is filled with buildings, animals, figures and two locals. With a large compass rose in upper right corner.In lower l...
Place & Date: France, 1943
Selling price: $90
Sold in 2018
Oubangui-Chari.
Very decorative, informative map of Central Africa. The map is filled with buildings, animals, figures and two locals in their typical dress.In lower left corner "Im...
Place & Date: France, 1943
Selling price: $90
Sold in 2018