Browse Listings in Africa
Marocchi regnum.
Miniature map showing Morocco. Decorated with two strap work cartouches. Mountains, cities and forests fill the land. The capital city of Marruecos (Marrakech) in the cen...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1607
Selling price: $15
Sold in 2011
Guinea.
This Hondius' map of Guinea is probably the most attractive map of this area. An inset with a elaborate strap work border depicts the island of S. Thomas.From the first F...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1608
Selling price: $230
Sold in 2010
Abissinorum Regnu.
Early map of Central Africa with decorative strap work title cartouche. From the first French-text edition of Jodocus Hondius' Atlas Minor.Shortly after the publication o...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1608
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2019
Barbaria.
Upper map showing the Northern African coast, including Cyprus, Greece and Sicily. Lower part maps of Tunis and Nile Delta.From the first French-text edition of Jodocus H...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1608
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2011
Fessae Regnum.
Charming small map of the northeast tip of Africa with Fez showing as the principal city. Decorative title cartouche.From the first French-text edition of Jodocus Hondius...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1608
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2011
AFRICAE PROPRIAE TABULA. In qua, Punica regna uides; Tyrios, et Agenoris urbem.
The most beautiful early map of the northern coast of Africa available to the collector. Prepared by Ortelius himself. This fine example is from the rare Italian edition ...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1608
Selling price: $280
Sold in 2021
Aegyptus.
Very fine early miniature map of Egypt, showing the Nile delta . Title cartouche on the lower left corner. First published in 1598 in his Caert-Thresoor, the plates were ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam/Frankfurt, 1609
Selling price: $80
Sold in 2010
Insula & Arx Mosambique.
Very fine early miniature map of Africa. Title cartouche on the upper left corner : surrounding the continent, three sea monsters and a ship are depicted. The map shows a...
Place & Date: Amsterdam/Frankfurt, 1609
Selling price: $185
Sold in 2008
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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Insulae et Ars Mosambique / Mozambique.
Very fine early miniature map of Mozambique. Title cartouche on the upper right side. Two ships and three men fishing on a small boat are depicted.First published in 1598...
Place & Date: Amsterdam/ Frankfurt 1609
Selling price: $120
Sold in 2015
Baixos de Iudia.
Early miniature view of a shipwreck on the islands located between Madagascar and Mozambique. In the foreground, a kind of big lobsters are catching shipwrecked passenger...
Place & Date: Amsterdam / Frankfurt, 1609
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2009
Congo Regni Christiani in Africa / Manicongo.
Early miniature map of central part of Africa, from Guinea to Angola. Title cartouche in the lower left corner.First published in 1598 in his Caert-Thresoor, the plates w...
Place & Date: Amsterdam / Frankfurt 1609
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2009
Ins. Sti. Thome.
Early miniature map of island of São Tomé.First published in 1598 in his Caert-Thresoor, the plates were executed by the most famous engravers in Amsterdam, including P...
Place & Date: Amsterdam/Frankfurt, 1609
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2009
Insulae Capitis Viridis.
Early miniature map of Cap Verde. First published in 1598 in his Caert-Thresoor, the plates were executed by the most famous engravers in Amsterdam, including Petrus Kaer...
Place & Date: Amsterdam/ Frankfurt, 1609
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2009
AFRICAE / PROPRIAE / TABULA / In qua, / Punica regna vides. / Tyrios, et Agenoris / urbem. / 1590.
A very decorative map of Northern Africa. Abraham Ortelius(1527-98), Dutch cartographer and publisher of the first modern atlas, ' Theatrum Orbis Terrarum' in 1570. Editi...
Place & Date: Antwerp, Robert Bruneau, 1609
Selling price: $260
Sold in 2021
Abissinorum sive Pretiosi Ioannis Inperiu / Coni Regni in Africa Christiani Nova descriptio.
Gerard Mercator's ' Atlas sive Cosmographica' was published and augmented between 1606 and 1641 by Jodocus Hondius, his son Hendrik and by Johannes Janssonius.A very deco...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1609
Selling price: $210
Sold in 2014
Aegyptus.
Very fine early miniature map of Egypt, showing the Nile delta . Title cartouche on the lower left corner. First published in 1598 in his Caert-Thresoor, the plates were ...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1609
Selling price: $45
Sold in 2011
Sancta Helena.
Early miniature map of central part of St Helena island. Title cartouche in the lower right corner. Surrounding the island, three sea monsters are depicted. On both upper...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1609
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2008
Carthaginensis Sinus.
Early miniature map of Tunisian northern coast. Title cartouche on the lower right corner. First published in 1598 in his Caert-Thresoor, the plates were executed by the ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam/Frankfurt 1609
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2008
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
Delineatio Navis Lusitanicae ab Hollandis expugnatae.
A Dutch fleet arriving at Mozambique. Engraved by G.KellerTheodore de Bry, a German engraver and book dealer, began a compilation of early voyages in 1590 and had publish...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1609
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2011
Quomodo Hollandi in Mavritii Insula Ingentes. (Dutch hunting parrots on Mauritius in 1598)
A picture of giant tortoises in Mauritius. In the background Dutch hunting parrots. The Dutch abandoned Mauritius after two unsuccessful attempts to colonize the island. ...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1609
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2013
I. Repraesentatio Virorum Quorundamin Avrifero. (Slave, Farmer, Fisherman at the Gold Coast.)
In the foreground, three men engaged in different activities: from right to left, a slave ("akoba") going out to gather wood, an "abaffra," a farmer c...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1609
Selling price: $60
Sold in 2018
III. Repraesentatio Vestimentorum Quibus Viri in Hoc littore Utuntur. (Male clothing styles at the Gold Coast)
In the foreground, from right to left, a "typical gentleman" wearing a hat and linen clothing. A merchant ("batafou"), with a dog skin hat and a rolle...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1609
Selling price: $60
Sold in 2018
IV. Repraesentatio Fori Celeberrimi in Cabo Corffo. (Market at Cabo Corso)
Market at Cabo Corso at the Gold Coast. Eighteen features, labeled from A to S, are identified in this illustration: (A) the home of the chief, (D) farmers selling palm w...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1609
Selling price: $105
Sold in 2013
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
Vera Duorum Indicorum in insula S. Maria.
Showing the village of St. Angela and Spakenburg on Madagascar.Theodore de Bry, a German engraver and book dealer, began a compilation of early voyages in 1590 and had pu...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1609
Selling price: $80
Sold in 2023
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
XXII. Regiae in Guinea Sepulturae Repraesentatio.
Headhunters scene in Guinea, according to Theodore de Bry, who was a German engraver and book dealer, began a compilation of early voyages in 1590 and had published six p...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1609
Selling price: $80
Sold in 2017
Vera effigies et delineatio Infulce Ascenstio. (St. Helena)
Striking view of the Island of Ascuncion (St. Helena).Theodore de Bry, a German engraver and book dealer, began a compilation of early voyages in 1590 and had published s...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1609
Selling price: $170
Sold in 2017
XXV. Delineatio Totius Insulae S. Thomae.
Beautiful untitled map of Sao Tome the principle island of Sao Tome and Principe in the Gulf of Guinea, boats are represented in the sea. Theodore de Bry, a German engrav...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1609
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2019
Vera effigies et delineatio Infulce Ascenstio. (St. Helena)
Striking view of the Island of Ascuncion (St. Helena).Theodore de Bry, a German engraver and book dealer, began a compilation of early voyages in 1590 and had published s...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1609
Selling price: $150
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
V. Repraesentatio Variarum Ceremoniarum, ad Religionem Ipsorum Pertinentium. (Early fetish print with West African natives.)
Pictorial narrative illustrating the fetish cult to be found along the West coast in what was then Guinea. The description says, the deity "Fetisso" (numinis se...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1609
Selling price: $80
Sold in 2019
X. Delineatio Piscationum Nocturnarum.
Fishing by night offshore at the coasts of Guinea. The engraving shows a scene of night fishing with nets and traps. The fishermen are in the water or are in a canoe. Som...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1609
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2021
XVIII. Repraesentatio Ceremoniarum, Quibus in Sepeliendis defunctis fuis Utuntur.
Funeral Rites of the Inhabitants of Guinea.Theodore de Bry, a German engraver and book dealer, began a compilation of early voyages in 1590 and had published six parts at...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1609
Selling price: $40
Sold in 2023
Presbiteri Iohannis, Sive Abissinorum Imperii Descrptio.
Antique map of East Africa. The very attractive map of the empire of the mythical Prester John, originally placed east of India later in East Africa. The geographical inf...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1609
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2021
Abissinorum regnu.
Early map of Central Africa published in Latin edition of the Mercator/Hondius Atlas Minor .It covers central Africa around the fabled mountains of the moon in the center...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1610
Selling price: $90
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Africa Ex Magna orbis terre descriptione Gerardi Mercatoris desumpta, Studio & industria.
This magnificent old color map of Africa was one of the most influential maps of the continent of its time. This atlas version of the map was engraved by Gerard Mercatorâ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca 1610
Selling price: $375
Sold in 2021
Araccensis in Africa, Munitionis catholico regi traditae..
Very rare so-called Einblatt druck of Morocco. In upper right hand corner inset map of Morocco and southern tip of Spain, Canaries and an over-sized Majorca. To the left ...
Place & Date: Augsburg 1611
Selling price: $1350
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