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]
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