Browse Listings in Africa
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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Mauritius.
From J.A.Pontanus\' \'Rerum et urbis Amstelodamensium historia\'. Description of the first voyage of the Dutch to the East Indies under command of Houtman.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1611
Selling price: $125
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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
Carthaginen fis Finus.
This is a map of the Barbary area, subtitled "Le royaulme des Tunes".
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1612
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2015
Natoliae. . .Aegypti recentior..Carthaginis (3 maps on 1 sheet).
Rare. Three maps on one sheet. Map to the left east to the top. Detailed map Turkey, including Cyprus and Crete. Also map of the Nile delta and another map of Tunis.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1608-1612
Selling price: $95
Sold in 2020
Guinea and West Africa: Guinea nova Descriptio.
This is an early map of West Africa. It shows an area from the Senegal River and Cape Verde in the north to Cape Lopez below the Equator. There is a detailed inset map...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, (1606) 1613
Selling price: $210
Sold in 2012
Guineae Nova Descriptio
In 1611 Isaac Pontanus, published his “Rerum et urbis Amstelodamensium historia” in Amsterdam. This print comes out of the even rarer Dutch translation "Historis...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1614
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2019
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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Insulae Capitis Viridis
Attractive map of the Cape Verde islands and the Moroccan coast. Very detailed naming many cities, islands, and major rivers. Decorative map from a Hondius/Bertius pocket...
Place & Date: Amsterdam c. 1616
Selling price: $80
Sold in 2009
Fessae regnum.
Nice small map of the northeast tip of Africa with Fez showing as the principal city. Decorative title and distance scale cartouches. French text on verso.
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1617
Selling price: $20
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Marocchi Regnum.
A nice map of a part of Morocco with the city Marrakech.
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1617
Selling price: $25
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Tabula Aphricae I.
A fine Ptolemaic map, probably from the Jansson/Magini atlas of 1617. It shows parts of today's Morocco and Algeria. Includes also a part of southern Spain and the Balear...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1617
Selling price: $30
Sold in 2018
Tabula Africae III.
An interesting Ptolemaic map, probably from the Jansson/Magini atlas of 1617. It illustrates early Lybia and Egypt. With the Nile River and the Red Sea. Latin text on ver...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1617
Selling price: $55
Sold in 2018
Tabula Africae IIII.
A fine Ptolemaic map, probably from the Jansson/Magini atlas of 1617. It shows southern Europe, northern Africa, including Arabia in an early representation with curious ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1617
Selling price: $65
Sold in 2018
Carte de L'Afrique selon les auteurs Ancienne enrichie de remarques historiques. . .
A pleasant looking map of the continent of Africa, as it was in ancient times, surrounded by historical French text. Some places and regions named, but much is left blank...
Place & Date: Amsterdam ca 1617
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2018
Arabia-Mombaza, Quiloa and Cefala
The plates from Georg Braun and Frans Hogenberg's landmark Civitates Orbis Terrarum are the most valuable source for the study of Renaissance urban topography, and among ...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1572-1618
Selling price: $190
Sold in 2010
Appendix Tab. III. Africae, Aegyptum Inferiorem Exhibens.
Map of the Nile delta based on the Ptolemaic model. Mercator originally published this map in his 1578 edition of Ptolemy's great Geography. Although he is most renowned ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1618
Selling price: $40
Sold in 2020
Africa ex magna orbis terre descriptione Gerardi Mercatories desumpta studio & industria G.M. Juniorius
A classic map of Africa. The map first appeared in Gerard Mercator’s Atlas sive Cosmographicae..., published posthumously in 1595. As stated in the title, this map is ...
Place & Date: Duisburg and then Amsterdam, (1595) 1609 or 1619
Selling price: $2400
Sold in 2011
Africa ex magna orbis terre descriptione Gerardi Mercatories desumpta studio & industria G.M. Juniorius
A classic map of Africa. The map first appeared in Gerard Mercator’s Atlas sive Cosmographicae..., published posthumously in 1595. As stated in the title, this map is b...
Place & Date: Duisburg and then Amsterdam, (1595) 1609 or 1619
Selling price: $1500
Sold in 2011
Africae Nova Tabula.
FIRST STATE. This is the very rare, and separately issued, first state of the famous Hondius map. It was hugely influential, providing a milestone for later Africa maps b...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1619
Selling price: $2900
Sold in 2019
Fessae et Marocchi Regna
Richly embellished map of Morocco with a large inset titled Penon de Velez showing a fort on the Barbary coast. The map includes the Canary islands and Madera.Three strap...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1619
Selling price: $315
Sold in 2017
Congi regnu.
Early map of Congo published in the Mercator / Hondius Atlas Minor.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1620
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2022
Congi regnu.
Early map of Congo published in the Mercator / Hondius Atlas Minor.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1620
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2018
Abyssinen / Acomath .I. Turcarum Imperator .XIIX. Ex Stirp. Ottomannica. / Abissinorum Imperium.
The engraving depicts a half length oval portrait of "Acomath I". Map of central Africa on verso.Nicolaes de Clerck (de Klerc) was active as engraver and publis...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Cloppenburch, 1621
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2013
Canariae I.
Small map of the Canary Islands, surrounded by text in Dutch. Nicolaes de Clerck (de Klerc) was active as engraver and publisher in Delft from 1599-1621.Included in the r...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Cloppenburch, 1621
Selling price: $90
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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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Congo Regnum Christian. In Africa.
Small map illustrating the western seashores of Central Africa, surrounded by text in Dutch.Nicolaes de Clerck (de Klerc) was active as engraver and publisher in Delft fr...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Cloppenburch, 1621
Selling price: $140
Sold in 2009
Barbaria.
Small map illustrating the eastern part of the Mediterranean Basin, namely the African side. Surrounded by text in Dutch.Included in the rare book : Wereld Spiegel, waer ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Cloppenburch, 1621
Selling price: $95
Sold in 2013
Canariae I.
Small map of the Canary Islands, surrounded by text in Dutch. Nicolaes de Clerck (de Klerc) was active as engraver and publisher in Delft from 1599-1621.Included in the r...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Cloppenburch, 1621
Selling price: $90
Sold in 2016
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
Africae nova Tabula.
A second state of this very rare "carte à figures" map.Decorated with the four decorative borders by Jodocus Hondius Jr.This remarkable map of Africa was first...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1623
Selling price: $2200
Sold in 2009
Africae nova Tabula.
A second state of this very rare "carte à figures"- map. Decorated with the four decorative borders by Jodocus Hondius Jr.This remarkable map of Africa was fir...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1623
Selling price: $2500
Sold in 2017
Guineae Nova Descriptio.
This very decorative map shows the West African coast from Senegal (the 'Rio Senega' is the Senegal River) to Cape Lopez on the Gulf of Guinea just below the equator.The ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1623
Selling price: $395
Sold in 2017
Guinea Nova Descriptio
An uncommon map of Guinea with an inset depicting the island of St. Thomas, with an attractive later coloring. Decorated with sea monsters, ships, boats and a decorative ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1623
Selling price: $115
Sold in 2021
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Map of Egypt. From an uncommon edition of Kerckelycke Historie van Neder-Landt which was a Dutch text edition of Agostino Torniello's Annales Sacri et Profani by Heribert...
Place & Date: Holland, ca. 1625
Selling price: $80
Sold in 2008
AFRICAE DESCRIPTION.
This is the English re-issue of Jodocus Hondius' map of Africa.The year after publishing a folio edition of Mercator's atlas in 1606, Hondius prepared and published a set...
Place & Date: Amsterdam & London, (1607) 1626
Selling price: $85
Sold in 2011
Carte de L'Afrique, corrigée et augmentée desus toutes les autres cy deuant faictes par P.Bertius.
Rare map of Africa, no date. First state, issued by Melchoir Tavernier. Most probably engraved by Cornelis Danckerts (the elder), a highly skilled engraver. Most probably...
Place & Date: Paris, 1627
Selling price: $1400
Sold in 2019
BARBARIA.
With two insets: Map of the Siege of Tunis and map of the Nile Delta.From the tenth edition of the Mercator's Atlas Sive Cosmographicae completed and reissued by Henricus...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1628
Selling price: $200
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Nova Africae Tabula.
An attractive map of the continent, added by Hondius when he took over publication of Mercator\'s Atlas. Although it is based on Mercator\'s map, Hondius improved the out...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1628
Selling price: $650
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