Browse Listings in Africa > Southern Africa
Tabu nova partis aphri.
Ptolemy's double-page wood-engraved map of southern Africa. The map is a derivative of the Waldseemüller map of 1513, with the addition of three kings on their thrones, ...
Place & Date: Lyons, M. Servetus, 1535
Selling price: $4200
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Tabula nova partis Africae.
Wood block printed map of southern part of Africa, the second earliest map to focus on the southern part of the Continent. The map is prepared by Lorenz Fries after Marti...
Place & Date: Vienna, Trechsel, G., 1525 -1541
Selling price: $2200
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An early map of 'modern' southern Africa: Africa Nova Tabula.
An uncommon map showing all of Africa from the Horn of Africa and the Bight of Benin southward to the Cape of Good Hope. The information to produce this map was based on...
Place & Date: Venice, 1548
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2011
Africa nuova tavola.
Uncommon first edition of this early map of south Africa. Madagascar is called Isola de S. Lorenzo and is oddly shaped.The origin of the Nile conforms to the Ptolemaic co...
Place & Date: Venice, 1561
Selling price: $400
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Africa nuova tavola
Decorative colored 16th century map of South Africa by G. Ruscelli. From the latin Ptolemy edition of Gastaldi-Ruscelli by V. Valgrisi, printed in Venice 1562.
Place & Date: Venice, 1562
Selling price: $425
Sold in 2009
De Africae Regionibus
Munster's uncommon woodcut map of Southern Africa. Although numerous editions of the Cosmography were printed over the span of 50 years, this map appeared in only one edi...
Place & Date: Basle, 1572
Selling price: $400
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Dell ‘Isola Di San Lorenzo, Madagascar.
A beautiful map of Madagascar, from "L'Isole piu Famose del Mondo" - the most famous islands of the world by Thomas Porcacchi and engraved by Girolamo Porro. Th...
Place & Date: Padua, 1590
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2018
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
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
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
II. Delineatio Promontorii, qvod Cabo de bona Esperanca vulgo vocatur.
One of the earliest map of Cape of Good Hope region.
Place & Date: Frankfurt 1600
Selling price: $450
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The inhabitants of the Cape of Good Hope
This is the first print to show the inhabitants of the Cape together with Europeans, and one of the first large scale prints of the native peoples of the Cape..The plate ...
Place & Date: Frankfurt 1601
Selling price: $100
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Die Insul Madagascar, Laurenti Genand.
An attractive miniature copper-engraved map of Madagascar from the German edition of Abraham Ortelius' Epitome, With German title at the top, a ship, two sea-monsters and...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1604
Selling price: $140
Sold in 2015
St. Thomas.
A lovely miniature map of the one time Portuguese island of St. Thomas, published by Petrus Bertius, in Amsterdam at the beginning of the seventeenth century. The island ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1606
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2023
Africae pars meridionalior.
A fine miniature map of central and southern Africa, published by Petrus Bertius in Amsterdam early in the seventeenth century. The lovely map and has a strap-work title,...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1606
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2019
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I.S. Laurentij. [Madagasgar]
A nice miniature map of the Indian Ocean island of Madagasgar, published by Petrus Bertius in Amsterdam early in the seventeenth century. North is orientated to the left....
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1606
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2021
Insulae Capitis Viridis.
A nice early miniature map by Petrus Bertius of the Cape Verde islands in the Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of Africa. With a decorative, strap-work title cartouche, a g...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1606
Selling price: $60
Sold in 2021
Africae Pars Meridionalior.
Very fine early miniature map of southern Africa, including also Madagascar. Title cartouche on the lower right corner : a sea monster is depicted.First published in 1598...
Place & Date: Amsterdam/Frankfurt 1609
Selling price: $190
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Delineatio Promontorii, Quod Cabo.
Early map of Cape of Good Hope.Theodore de Bry, a German engraver and book dealer, began a compilation of early voyages in 1590 and had published six parts at the time of...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1609
Selling price: $500
Sold in 2010
Sequentes Hae Figurae Historiam Hollandicae Navigationis.
Dutch slaughtering a cow with locals of Cap Bonae Spei.Theodore de Bry, a German engraver and book dealer, began a compilation of early voyages in 1590 and had published ...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1609
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2016
Imago Incolarum Insulae Madagascar Seu.
Showing locals of Madagascar. With a explanatory text in Latin, underneath, explaining "The country-folk of the island of Madagascar often carry about with them thre...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1609
Selling price: $60
Sold in 2017
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[Fishes / Birds].
Text engraving with lettered key (A-I) showing fishes and birds, whale and Dutch vessels seen around the costs of Southern Africa from "Premier livre de l'histoire d...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Cornille Nicolas, 1609
Selling price: $40
Sold in 2017
I.S. Laurentii. / Rex Ins. S. Maria Indigenarum I.S. Laurentii imagines.
Johan Isaac Pontanus. Rerum et Urbis Amstelodamensium historia, with descriptions of the voyages made by the Dutch to Novoya Zemlya and the first voyage of the Dutch to t...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1611
Selling price: $180
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I.S. Laurentii. (Madagascar).
A highly detailed map of Madagascar with 4 insets with detail maps and a print on verso depicting the inhabitants of the island. Even though this map is much smaller than...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1611
Selling price: $90
Sold in 2014
I.S. Laurentii. (Madagascar).
A highly attractive and detailed miniature map of Madagascar with 4 insets embodying details of the map. A detailed etching on verso depicting the inhabitants of the isla...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1614
Selling price: $120
Sold in 2021
I.S. Lauretij sive Madagascar
Charming miniature map of Madagascar that the Portuguese named St. Laurence. North is oriented to the left and the Tropic of Capricorn cuts across the southern tip of the...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1616
Selling price: $80
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Africae pars meridional.
Small map illustrating the southern part of Africa, surrounded by text in Dutch.Nicolaes de Clerck (de Klerc) was active as engraver and publisher in Delft from 1599-1621...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Cloppenburch, 1621
Selling price: $230
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Africae pars meridional.
Small map illustrating the southern part of Africa, surrounded by text in Dutch.Nicolaes de Clerck (de Klerc) was active as engraver and publisher in Delft from 1599-1621...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Cloppenburch, 1621
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2016
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[A group of women piercing their hearts with daggers].
A group of women piercing their hearts with daggers. Scarce print (150x177mm.) on a German text sheet taken from a first edition of Johann Ludwig Gottfried's "Newe W...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
Selling price: $80
Sold in 2023
Aethiopia inferior, vel exterior.
The standard map of South Africa throughout the 17th century. The lake out of which the 'Zambere' -the Zambesi- flows is probably based on reports of Lake Ngami, undiscov...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1638
Selling price: $1140
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Aethiopia inferior, vel exterior. 

The standard map of South Africa throughout the 17th century. The lake out of which the 'Zambere' - the Zambesi flows is probably based on reports of Lake Ngami, undiscov...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1638
Selling price: $450
Sold in 2019
Aethiopia inferior, vel exterior.
The standard map of South Africa throughout the 17th century. The lake out of which the 'Zambere' -the Zambesi- flows is probably based on reports of Lake Ngami, undiscov...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1640
Selling price: $505
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Aethopia Inferior vel Exterior.
A very attractive map of southern Africa depicting the area just prior to the settlement of the Cape Province by the Dutch. The area shown is from the Congo River basin a...
Place & Date: Amstrdam, ca 1640
Selling price: $180
Sold in 2019
Pars Litorum Africae Antiquis ignota.
Claude Morisot's Scarce Map of the Cape of Good Hope. Map in page of text from Claude Barthélemy Morisot: Orbis Maritimi sive rerum in mari et littoribus gestarum genera...
Place & Date: Dijon, 1643
Selling price: $1000
Sold in 2008
Pars Litorum Africae Antiquis ignota.
A map 13.0 x 16.0 cm.(5.1 x 6.3 inches) set in a page of text from Claude Barthélemy Morisot: Orbis Maritimi sive rerum in mari et littoribus gestarum generalis historia...
Place & Date: Dijon, 1643
Selling price: $500
Sold in 2015
Aethiopia inferior, vel exterior.
The standard map of South Africa throughout the 17th century. The lake out of which the 'Zambere' -the Zambesi- flows is probably based on reports of Lake Ngami, undiscov...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1645
Selling price: $700
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Aethiopia Inferior vel Exterior Monomotapa...
Very attractive and decorative double page map of the southern half of Africa. This map is an reduced version of the Bleau and Jansson maps. The area shown is from the Co...
Place & Date: Frankfurt ca. 1645
Selling price: $475
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Aethiopia inferior, vel exterior.
A very decorative, large map of South Africa, which became the standard delineation of the region throughout the 17th century. The lake from which the 'Zambere' (the Zamb...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1645
Selling price: $260
Sold in 2020
Carta particolare che mostra il Capo buona Speranza.
A particularly rich example of the Dudley sea chart with several lush samples of Lucini’s remarkable engraving of calligraphic lettering. The chart, in addition to the ...
Place & Date: Florence, 1646
Selling price: $850
Sold in 2018
Aethiopia Inferior vel Exterior.
The standard map of South Africa throughout the 17th century. The map covers an area from Congo-Zanzibar to the Cape. It was published before Van Riebeeck settled at the ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1639-1649
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2014
Aethiopia Inferior vel Exterior Monomotapa
Nice engraved map of South Africa from M. Merian based on the Blaeu map. With a beautiful cartouche with turtles and monkeys. With several ships and animals.
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1650
Selling price: $190
Sold in 2009
Aethopia Inferior vel Exterior Monomotapa.
A very attractive map of the African region south of the Congo, probably derived from Blaeu, and based on Portuguese exploration. The interior is filled with indigenous ...
Place & Date: Frankfurt ca 1650
Selling price: $110
Sold in 2018
Aethiopie, qui Compren les Royaume de Congo, Coste et Pays des Cafres, Empires du Monomotapa et Monoemugi...Par N. Sanson... A Paris Chez P. Marieete...1655. I Somer Pruthenis sculp.
Nicolas Sanson (1600-67), 'father of the French cartography' and founder of the Sanson firm. Atlas ' Cartes générales de toutes les parties du Monde', 1658-70 and a poc...
Place & Date: Paris, P. Mariette, 1655
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2017
Pays, et Coste des Caffres: Empires du Monomotapa Monoemugi, &c.
Map of South Africa, from the first edition of the atlas L'Afrique en plusieurs cartes nouvelles, et exactes; & en divers traictés de Géographie, et d'Histoire.Nico...
Place & Date: Paris, 1657
Selling price: $120
Sold in 2014
Aethopia Superior vel Inferior vulgo Abissinorum sive.
An attractive map of Eastern Africa and the fictitious kingdom of Prester John. The map shows a large section of central and eastern Africa including Mozambique north to ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca 1657
Selling price: $180
Sold in 2018
ISLE DE MADAGASCAR ou de St. LAURENS.
Very fine map of Madagascar, first published by Sanson in 1657. A detailed map of Madagascar and near islands.Sanson notes the source of his map as Livio Sanuto and other...
Place & Date: Paris 1657
Selling price: $95
Sold in 2019
Aethiopia inferior, vel exterior.
The standard map of South Africa throughout the 17th century. The lake out of which the 'Zambere' -the Zambesi- flows is probably based on reports of Lake Ngami, undiscov...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1658
Selling price: $550
Sold in 2016
L'Empire du Monomotapa et coste des Caffres. (15).
Scarce map of Southern Africa published by Antoine de Fer in 1661 or 1662 in "Cartes de géographie revues et augmentées". With number 15 in lower right bottom...
Place & Date: Paris, Antoine de Fer, 1657 but 1661 or 1662
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2018
Cafrerie et Monomotapa.
Rare first state, 1663. While this map is generally well known from the 1676 edition, this first state, dated from the title page 1663 is rare. Table Bay isn\'t labeled,...
Place & Date: Paris, 1663
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2008
Hydrophylacium Africae precipuum, in montibus lunae situm.
Rare and Interesting map showing the sources of the Nile in a cavern beneath the Mountains of the Moon. From Kircher's "Mundus Subterranaeus". Top right Tomus I...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1665
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2020
Hydrophylacium Africae precipuum, in montibus lunae situm.
Rare and Interesting map showing the sources of the Nile in a cavern beneath the Mountains of the Moon. From Kircher's "Mundus Subterranaeus". Top right Tomus ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1665
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2022
Carte de l'Isle Madagascar dite autrement Madecale et de S. Laurens et aujourd'hui l'Isle Dauphine avec les Coste de Cofala et du Mozambique en Afrique . . .
Uncommon map of the island Madagascar with the African coast countries Mozambique and Cofala. Numerous place names, soundings and sand banks are shown round the island an...
Place & Date: Paris, 1666
Selling price: $375
Sold in 2013
Isle D'Auphine, communement Nommée pae les Europeens Madagascar. . .
Fine map of Madagascar, also showing the Comoros Islands in the North West and the Reunion Island in the South East.With decorative title cartouche representing some nati...
Place & Date: Paris, 1667
Selling price: $1500
Sold in 2013
Isle de Madagascar. . .
Map of Madagascar 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 Te...
Place & Date: Paris, P. Mariette, 1667
Selling price: $170
Sold in 2008
Pays et Coste des Caferes: Empres du Monomotapa Monoemugi. . .
Map of Southern Africa prepared by N.Sanson and published by Pierre Mariette.Published in an early edition of the small Sanson atlas L'Europe Dediée a Monseigneur . . . ...
Place & Date: Paris, P. Mariette, 1667
Selling price: $360
Sold in 2008
Insula S. Laurentii, vulgo Madagascar.
Map of the island of Madagascar and coastline of Mozambique. Title and impressum in a nice cartouche with figures and animals at bottom left. Shows also the islands arou...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1667
Selling price: $160
Sold in 2022
Aethiopia inferior vel Exterior.
The standard map of South Africa throughout the 17th century covering the region from Congo-Zanzibar to the Cape. Based on the map of Portuguese exploration and most deta...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1670
Selling price: $230
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Cimbebas et Caffariae Littora a Catenbela ad Promontorium..
The coast of Angola, South-West Africa and South Africa up to Port Elizabeth. Classic sea chart of Dutch school with excellent baroque embellishment. North oriented to th...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1675
Selling price: $1350
Sold in 2008
Cimbebas et Caffariae Littora a Catenbela ad Promontorium..
The coast of Angola, South-West Africa and South Africa up to Port Elizabeth. Classic sea chart of Dutch school with excellent baroque embellishment. North oriented to th...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1675
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2010
Cimbebas et Caffariae Littora a Catenbela ad Promontorium. . .
The coast of Angola, South-West Africa and South Africa up to Port Elizabeth. Classic sea of Dutch school with excellent baroque embellishment. North oriented to the lef...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1675
Selling price: $180
Sold in 2014
Cafrerie et Monomotapa.
Uncommon miniature map of South Africa from Pierre Duval's "La Geographie Universeille" dated 1676. Following his Cartes de geographie in 1657, Pierre Duval pub...
Place & Date: Paris, 1676
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2008
Isle de Madagascar dite de St.Laurens et aujourd'hui Isle Dauphine.
Uncommon miniature map of Madagascar from Pierre Duval's La Geographie Universeille dated 1676. Following his Cartes de geographie in 1657, Pierre Duval published this sm...
Place & Date: Paris, 1676
Selling price: $75
Sold in 2008
Insula Madagascar dicta St. Laurens.
Handsome miniature map of Madagascar and surrounding islands.Pierre Duval was Nicolas Sanson's nephew and pupil. He published a wide range of atlases and individual maps ...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 1679
Selling price: $135
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Insula S.Laurentii vulgo Madagascar.
Showing in great detail the island of Madagascar. In upper left hand corner part of Mozambique.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1680
Selling price: $230
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Cape of Good Hope Manuscript Landgrant, 1680.
A one-sheet 1680 Cape of Good Hope landgrant, in favour of Hans Calmbach(?), who had been a Corporal in the service of the VOC Company. Also mentions a Jacomina and Hend...
Place & Date: Cape of Good Hope, 1680
Selling price: $220
Sold in 2015
Caerte vande Cabo de Bona Esperança / En haer gelegentheyt daer omtrent.
Rare first state, 1682, showing the first land grants, with J.N. in the cartouche. An early Dutch map of the Cape of Good Hope map which first appeared in Johan Nieuhoff\...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1682
Selling price: $400
Sold in 2008
Paskaert Vertoonende van Cambebas en Caffaria streckende van Monte Negro tot Beooste Cabo de Bona Esperanca.
Extremely rare sea chart of the south west coast of Africa, south till Cape of Good Hope. With inset chart of Tafel Bay.
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1683
Selling price: $3000
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ISLE D' HORN
A charming late 17th century French view of Cape of Good Hope.
Place & Date: Paris 1683
Selling price: $120
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Isle de Madagascar dite de St Laurens ou L'isle Daufine.
Copper engraved map shows the Island of Madagascar. from Mallet's "Description de l'Univers" 1st edition. Blank verso.
Place & Date: Paris 1683
Selling price: $60
Sold in 2014
L'Ethiopieoù sont le Congo, La Cafrerie, Le Mono-Montapa et le Zanguebar.
Scarce map of the Southern part of Africa, including Madagascar, etc. Published by Pierre Du Val, who was "geographe de Roy.". Engraved by R. Michault.Part of a...
Place & Date: Paris, 1684
Selling price: $1350
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Isola di Madagascar o di S. Lorenzo Scoperta dà Portoghesi nell anno 1506..
Decorative and highly detailed map of Madagascar, including 2 decorative cartouches and other embellishments.The remarkable Vincenzo Coronelli (1650-1718), was a Francisc...
Place & Date: Venice 1690
Selling price: $450
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Caffraria und Monomotapa.
A miniature map of the southern part of Africa from the uncommon "Kurtzbuendige abbild-und vorstellung der gantzen weld". Johann Ulrich Müller?s (1633-1715) pu...
Place & Date: Ulm, 1692
Selling price: $250
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Isola di Madagascar o di S. Lorenzo Scoperta dà Portoghesi nell anno 1506. . .
A beautiful and flamboyantly engraved large-scale map of Madagascar, Bourbon and part of the coast of Mozambique. On verso a smaller map Madagascar (170x123mm) The map is...
Place & Date: Venice, ca. 1696
Selling price: $480
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C.D. Bona Esperance.
A couple of Bona Esperance, published in the very rare work Orbis habitabilis oppida (N° 59).
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1698
Selling price: $200
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Isola di Madagascar, o di S. Lorenzo . . .
A beautiful and flamboyantly engraved large-scale map of Madagascar, formerly named San Lorenzo by the discoverers, the Portuguese. Shows also in detail the Comorra Islan...
Place & Date: Venice, 1698
Selling price: $800
Sold in 2013
Isola di Madagascar, ò di S. Lorenzo scoperta dà Portoghesi nell'Anno 1506. . .
A striking, early map of the island of Madagascar, also showing part of the Mozambique coastline, the Comoros Islands and Reunion. The remarkable Vincenzo Coronelli (1650...
Place & Date: Venice, 1698
Selling price: $550
Sold in 2021
Pays, et Coste des Caffres : Empires de Monomatapa Monoemugi, &c.
Map of southern Africa. From Description de tout l'Univers, published by François Halma.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1700
Selling price: $80
Sold in 2011
Cartes des pays et des peuples du Cap de bonne Esperance nouvellemt decouverts par les Hollandois.
French manuscript map of Cape of Good Hope, as it was at about 1670. With a key (A-C) pointing to the Dutch fortress, Table Mountain and Lion's head.
Place & Date: France, ca. 1670-1700
Selling price: $600
Sold in 2012