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Tabula Aphricae II

Fine Ptolemaic style map of North Africa and including Sardinia, Sicily and the southern tip of Italy. It was published in 1562.

Maker: PTOLEMY/RUCELLI.
Date: Venice, 1562
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Sold in 2017

[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 ...

Maker: CAMOCIO, G.F. / FORLANI, P.
Date: Venice, G.H. Camocio, ca.1563
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Sold in 2012

[West Africa]

Second block. 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 village. O...

Maker: RAMUSIO, G. B.
Date: Venice, 1563
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Sold in 2025

(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...

Maker: MÜNSTER, S.
Date: Basle, ca. 1564
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Sold in 2019

Tabula Aphricae I.

Early map of north-west Africa. Girolamo Ruscelli first published the map in his "La Geographi di Claudio Tolomeo" (Venice, 1561). In 1574 a new plate was used ...

Maker: RUSCELLI, G.
Date: Venice, 1564
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NVOVA, ET / COPIOSA, DE= / SCRITTIONE / DI TVTTO / L'EGITTO / Pur hora da Paulo / Forlani Veronese / intagliata. in / Venetia l'anno / 1566.

Rare map of the northern part of Egypt. In the right-hand part of the Red Sea. The first of only two "Lafreiri-school" maps made of Egypt!North to the top.Engra...

Maker: FORLANI,P. / CAMOCIO,G.F.
Date: Venice 1566
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[Tripoli] Il vero disegno del porto,della citta, della fortezza, et del sito doue e posta Tripoli di Barbaria.

Extremely rare map of the environs of Tripoli with a fortification plan of Tripoli in the center. Extensive shipping in the sea.The print is addressed and dated Ven.l'an...

Maker: FURLANI,P. / ZALTIRIE,B.
Date: Venice 1568
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[Velez de la Gomera] Il vero natural sito della Villa di Velez de Gomera, et l'in' espugnabile forte et castello chiamato il Pignon, situato in Africa di Barbaria ..

Extremely rare bird's-eye plan of the siege of the town and fortress Velez de lab Gomera in Marocco. Extensive shipping in the sea.Engraved by Paolo Furlani (active 1561-...

Maker: FURLANI,P. / ZALTIRIE,B.
Date: Venice 1568
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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...

Maker: ORTELIUS, A.
Date: Antwerp, 1570
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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...

Maker: ORTELIUS, A.
Date: Antwerp, 1570
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Sold in 2010