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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...
Date: Basle 1556
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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...
Date: Lyons 1556
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[West Africa]
Rare first edition. West Africa, from the Tropic of Cancer south to St Thomas. The interior is filled with lions, elephants, monkeys and camels, with a fenced native vill...
Date: Venice, 1556
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Sold in 2014
De Africae Regionibus.
A very early Münster wood cut view of Algiers, showing its attempted storming during the Algiers Expedition.Sebastian Münster (1488-1552), was a famous German cartograp...
Date: Basel, 1558
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Sold in 2018
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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...
Date: Venice, 1559
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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.
Date: Basel, ca. 1560
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Sold in 2016
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...
Date: Venice, 1561
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Sinus Arabicus (North Africa)
Woodcut from P. Mela's "De Orbis Situ Libri tres". Published by Henric Perti. Almost a decade after the death of Sebastian Münster, his publisher and stepson H...
Date: Basle, 1561
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Sold in 2021
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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...
Date: Venice, 1562
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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.
Date: Venice, 1562
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Sold in 2009