Tabu. Nova Partis Aphri.
Based on Waldseemuller's map. Border and ornament are by Hans Holbein and Graf. The reissued map includes three kings on their thrones, an elephant, a cockatrice and two ...
Place & Date: Lyon, 1535
Selling price: $950
Sold in 2009
![[Map of Northern half of Africa]](/uploads/cache/31511-250x250.jpg)
[Map of Northern half of Africa]
An early representation of North Africa with a prominent "Mountains of the Moon" (Montes Lunae), a mountain range in central Africa that is the source of the Wh...
Place & Date: Basle, Michael Isengrin, 1544
Selling price: $400
Sold in 2012
Totius Africae tabula & descriptio universalis etiam ultra Ptolemaei extensa.
A wonderfully decorative and extremely interesting map of the continent of Africa by Sebastian Munster. The map features a galleon, mountains, rivers, assorted kings crow...
Place & Date: Basle, 1550
Selling price: $2100
Sold in 2013
La table et description universelle de toute l'Afrique..
This is the first collectible map to show the entire continent of Africa. Prior maps by Waldseemüller, Fries, and Gastaldi showed either the northern or southern portion...
Place & Date: Basel 1552
Selling price: $460
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[Lot of 25 leaves of Africa and Egypt]
Twenty-five text leaves with wood block illustrations relating to Africa and Egypt illustrated with maps, animals, plants.... From the 1552 Latin text edition of Münster...
- $100 / ≈ €94
Place & Date: Basel, 1552
Totius Africae tabula, & descrptio…
This is the first collectible map to show the entire continent of Africa. Prior maps by Waldseemüller, Fries, and Gastaldi showed either the northern or southern portio...
Place & Date: Basle, ca 1552
Selling price: $1050
Sold in 2023
Afrika
A woodcut map of the African continent from an early German edition of Cosmographia by Sebastian Münster. The map shows most of Africa including the supposed source of t...
Place & Date: Basle 1556
Selling price: $385
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Delle navigationi et viaggi.
Wood block map by the Arabic geographer Leo Africanus, from his work Description de l'Afrique published in Lyons in 1556.It is strongly reminiscent of the map appearing i...
Place & Date: Lyons 1556
Selling price: $2025
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[Central Africa]
Wood block map of Central Africa. Extending south to the Tropic of Capricorn and Madagascar. South to the top and centered on the course of the Nile, which has its primar...
Place & Date: Venice, 1559
Selling price: $450
Sold in 2020
AFRICA MIT SEINEN BESUNDERN LÄNDERN, THIEREN, UND WUNDERBARLICHEN DINGEN
A small, attractive map of Africa from the famous 'Cosmographia', by Sebastian Münster. On a whole page of the book.
Place & Date: Basel, ca. 1560
Selling price: $80
Sold in 2016
![Al Ecc[ellentissi],mo Philosopho, Mathematico, Medico, et Cauallier aureato, beniemerito Guardiano grande della / Scola de .S. Marco...](/uploads/cache/25019-250x250.jpg)
Al Ecc[ellentissi],mo Philosopho, Mathematico, Medico, et Cauallier aureato, beniemerito Guardiano grande della / Scola de .S. Marco...
The first map of Africa from the Forlani school, in a first edition. Forlani appears to have largely drawn upon the earlier work of Gastaldi. Forlani shows additional pla...
Place & Date: Venice, 1562
Selling price: $45100
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![[East coast of Africa]](/uploads/cache/32499-250x250.jpg)
[East coast of Africa]
Scarce map of the eastern part of Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, and the western part of India. In the Indian Ocean Madagascar, Noah's Ark with a dove returning with its ...
Place & Date: Venice, G.H. Camocio, ca.1563
Selling price: $4600
Sold in 2012
(African flora and fauna)
One text page with a woodcut of an abandon flora and fauna in Africa from Münster's Cosmographia Universalis.The Cosmographia by Sebastian Munster from 1544 is the earli...
Place & Date: Basle, ca. 1564
Selling price: $10
Sold in 2019
Africae Tabula Nova.
The title is contained in a striking cartouche consisting of a panel flanked by caryatids and strap work. The sea is engraved in stipple-work, and features a sea-battle i...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1570
Selling price: $1800
Sold in 2009
Africae Tabula Nova.
The title is contained in a striking cartouche consisting of a panel flanked by caryatids and strap work. The sea is engraved in stipple-work, and features a sea-battle i...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1570
Selling price: $1350
Sold in 2010
Africae Tabula Nova Edita Antverpiae 1570.
This beautiful map is one of the cornerstone maps of Africa. This particular map does not have text on the verso. This example is not recorded by van den Broecke in his b...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1570
Selling price: $1850
Sold in 2017
Africae Tabula Nova.
The title is contained in a striking cartouche consisting of a panel flanked by caryatids and strapwork. The sea is engraved in stipple-work, and features a sea-battle in...
Place & Date: Antwerp 1572
Selling price: $2025
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Africae Tabula Nova.
The title is contained in a striking cartouche consisting of a panel flanked by caryatids and strapwork. The sea is engraved in stipple-work, and features a sea-battle in...
Place & Date: Antwerp 1572
Selling price: $1850
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Africae Descriptio...
Munster's smaller woodcut map of Africa, printed area 130 x 160mm, set in a large page of text. From an Italian edition of the Cosmography. One of the earliest obtainable...
Place & Date: Basle, 1572
Selling price: $200
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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...
Place & Date: Antwerp1573
Selling price: $880
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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, 1573
Selling price: $1000
Sold in 2008
Africae Tabula Nova.
Very decorative first state map of Africa by Ortelius. The title is contained in an elaborated cartouche consisting of a panel flanked by caryatids and strap work. The se...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1573
Selling price: $1550
Sold in 2016
Africae Tabula Nova.
The title is contained in a striking cartouche consisting of a panel flanked by caryatids and strap work. The sea is engraved in stipple-work, and features a sea-battle i...
Place & Date: Antwerp 1574
Selling price: $1200
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Mauritania Nuova Tavola
A very early map of Western Africa, after Ptolemy, including Gibraltar and the Canary Islands.Displays a rich system of rivers throughout, and a curious set of trees near...
Place & Date: Venice, 1574
Selling price: $110
Sold in 2016
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, 1575
Selling price: $1200
Sold in 2014
Africae ut terra mariq, lustrata est, proprijssima..
Map of the continent of Africa from the extremely rare first edition. With ''cum priuilegio'' added. Engraved by Joannes and Lucas van Deutecum, who's signature is in the...
Place & Date: Antwerp 1578
Selling price: $9050
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Africa
Strongly engraved woodblock map of the continent depicts the Nile's origins in twin lakes originating in the Motes Lunae, or Mountains of the Moon, based on Ptolemy's acc...
Place & Date: Basle, 1578
Selling price: $130
Sold in 2008
Africa / Libya / Mörenlandt / mit allen Königreichen / so zu unsern zeiten darin gefunden werden.
A wonderfully decorative and extremely interesting map of the continent of Africa by Sebastian Münster. The map features a galleon, mountains, rivers, assorted kings cro...
Place & Date: Basel, 1578
Selling price: $1200
Sold in 2018
Africa / Libya / Morenlandt / mit allen Königreichen / so zu unsern zeiten darin gefunden werden.
A decorative Münster's map of Africa, the first map of the African Continent. The map features a galleon, mountains, rivers, assorted kings crowns, denoting various king...
Place & Date: Basel, 1578
Selling price: $950
Sold in 2021
Africa mit seinen besundern Leandern / Thieren / und wunderbarlichen Dingen. (...)
A very early and attractively coloured map of Africa. A full leaf from the Cosmographei, published in Basel by Heinrich Petri in 1578. With a beautiful woodcut initial le...
Place & Date: Basel, 1578
Selling price: $120
Sold in 2021
Africae Tabula Nova.
From the 'Typus Orbis Terrarum', Latin Text - Striking continental map designed by Ortelius from elements of contemporary maps by Gastaldi, Mercator, and Forlani. It is c...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1579
Selling price: $1600
Sold in 2012
Africae Tabula Nova.
Beautifully colored map of Africa from the 1579 edition of Ortelius’ Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, the first modern atlas of the world. The map of Africa was one of the few...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1579
Selling price: $750
Sold in 2015
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No title [Africa]
"Attractive and very early wood block printed map of Africa, excluding the HornFrom a French text edition of his ""Geographia"", that great compe...
Place & Date: Basle 1550-1580
Selling price: $105
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[Africa].
Very early map of Africa. From his Cosmographia, that great compendium of Renaissance knowledge. An exciting print.Sebastian Münster was born in Nierder-Ingelheim, near ...
Place & Date: Basle, 1550-1580
Selling price: $70
Sold in 2008
Affricae tabula nova / Africa, Lybia, Morenlandt, mit allen K÷nigreichen so jetziger Zeit darumb gefunden werden
Attractive woodcut map showing the African continent. From a German edition of Cosmographia by Sebastian Munster printed from Petri in Basel 1580. \"This map ... was...
Place & Date: Basle, 1580
Selling price: $450
Sold in 2009
Africae. . .
Münster's smaller woodcut map of Africa, printed area 130 x 160mm, set in a large page of text. From an Latin text edition of the Cosmography. One of the earliest obtain...
Place & Date: Basle, c. 1580
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2009
Africa tertia pars terrae.
This exceptionally decorative map, is from Heinrich Bunting's "Itinerarum Sacrae Scripturae", and is based upon the map of Africa by Sebastian Munster which app...
Place & Date: Magdeburg, ca. 1580
Selling price: $690
Sold in 2018
Açores Insulae.
The importance of the Azores at that time of this map was connected with the observation of Columbus that compass variation (i.e. the difference between the real and the ...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1580
Selling price: $475
Sold in 2020
Africa Tertia pars Terrae.
This map of Africa has an unusual shape, tapering to a narrow angle in the south. Numerous rivers appear in West Africa and as tributaries to the Nile, and mountain chain...
Place & Date: Magdeburg, ca. 1581
Selling price: $1075
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Africa tertia pars terrae.
This map, from Heinrich Bunting's "Itinerarum Sacrae Scripturae", is based upon the map of Africa by Sebastian Munster that appeared in 1540. Substantially, it...
Place & Date: Magdeburg, 1581
Selling price: $1400
Sold in 2012