Browse Listings in Africa
Fessae Regnum
Janssons desirable map of northern Morocco and Gibraltar, engraved for Mercators Atlas Minor. Very detailed with well engraved symbols representing towns, mountains, wood...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1628
Selling price: $60
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MAROCCHI REGNUM
Janssons desirable map of Morocco and the Atlas Mountains, engraved for Mercators Atlas Minor (page 579). Very detailed with well engraved symbols representing towns, mou...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1628
Selling price: $70
Sold in 2008
Marocchi Regnum.
Janssons beautiful map of Morocco and the Atlas Mountains, engraved for Mercators Atlas Minor (page 371-A22 2). Very detailed with a lot of topographical information and ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1628
Selling price: $70
Sold in 2008
Barbaria.
Excellent map by Jansson, engraved for Mercators Atlas Minor (page 575). The map is divided in three parts: the top part is showing Northern Africa with the Mediterranean...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, c.1628
Selling price: $70
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Abissinorum sive Pretiosi Ioannis Imperiu
Hondius' Prester John Map. French text on verso.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1628
Selling price: $350
Sold in 2010
Africa ex magna orbis terre descriptione Gerardi Mercator. . .
Map of Africa, based on Gerard Mercator's twenty-one sheet wall map of the World, first published in 1569. Much of the interior of Africa defers to the traditions of Ptol...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1628
Selling price: $2000
Sold in 2010
Guineae Nova Descriptio.
The 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 island of St. Tho...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1628
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2015
Abissinorum sive Pretiosi Joannis Imperiu.
Despite the title this map extends far beyond Prester John's supposed kingdom. It covers Africa from the fabled mountains of the moon in the center of the continent north...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1628
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2016
Barbaria. / Carthaginensis sinus / Aegyptus.
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, ca.1628
Selling price: $60
Sold in 2015
Abissinorum Sive Pretiosi Ioannis Imperium
A single page map of central and eastern Africa. This map depicts the mythical Christian kingdom of 'Prester John' on the African continent. Based on Mercator/ Hondius.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1628
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2018
Tunis
Woodcut of the Barbary town Tunis and outside the double walls a Women house (Harem) Botanical Garden (Hortus) an ancient Thermae (Therme). As well as the ruins of Cartha...
Place & Date: Basel, 1628
Selling price: $70
Sold in 2020
Civitas Acon sive Ptolomaida.
Rare town-plan of Acre, based upon the Vesconte-Sanuto plan, intended to illustrate a period when the town was under the control of the Knights of St. John. Shows extensi...
Place & Date: Paris, Michael Soly, 1629
Selling price: $750
Sold in 2013
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 outli...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1630
Selling price: $1000
Sold in 2013
Fessae et Marocchi Regna.
One of the new maps added by Hondius, when he took over publication of the Atlas, a finely engraved and decorative map of north-west Africa, with the Canaries. With an in...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1630
Selling price: $170
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Abissinorum sive Pretiosi Joannis Imperiu.
Despite the title this map extends far beyond Prester John's supposed kingdom. It covers Africa from the fabled mountains of the moon in the center of the continent north...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1630
Selling price: $475
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Guineae Nova Descriptio.
The 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 island of St. Tho...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1630
Selling price: $100
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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, 1630
Selling price: $130
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Abissinorum sive Pretiosi Joannis Imperiu.
Despite the title this map extends far beyond Prester John's supposed kingdom. It covers Africa from the fabled mountains of the moon in the center of the continent north...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1630
Selling price: $160
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Mombaza in Africa.
Early and important copper engraved view of the former Portugese colony Mombasa on Mombasa Island, in present day Kenya. Showing a large and beautifully illustrated saili...
Place & Date: Frankfurt , c 1630
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2011
Africa ex magna orbis terre descriptione Gerardi Mercator.
Map of Africa. Much of the interior of Africa defers to the traditions of Ptolemy. The Nile river is shown with the two lakes and the Mountains of the Moon across souther...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1630
Selling price: $900
Sold in 2016
Abissinorum sive Pretiosi Joannis Imperiu.
Despite the title this map extends far beyond Prester John's supposed kingdom. It covers Africa from the fabled mountains of the moon in the center of the continent north...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1630
Selling price: $270
Sold in 2010
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, 1630
Selling price: $260
Sold in 2010
Africa ex magna orbis terre descriptione Gerardi Mercator. . .
Map of Africa. Much of the interior of Africa defers to the traditions of Ptolemy. The Nile river is shown with the two lakes and the Mountains of the Moon across souther...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1630
Selling price: $1500
Sold in 2015
Fessae regnum.
Nice small map of the northeast tip of Africa with Fez showing as the principal city. Decorative title and distance scale cartouches. German text on verso.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, c. 1630
Selling price: $30
Sold in 2010
Barbaria
Three maps on one sheet. In upper half a map of North Africa with the Mediterranean and Cyprus. In lower part maps of the region around Tunis and map of the Nile Delta.Fr...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, c. 1630
Selling price: $20
Sold in 2011
Marocchi Regnum.
A nice map of a part of Morocco with the city Marrakech.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, c.1630
Selling price: $20
Sold in 2011
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 outli...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, c.1630
Selling price: $700
Sold in 2014
Barbaria.
Charming map of the whole of North Africa and the famed Barbary coast. Two large insets at bottom: Carthaginensis Sinus with the city of Tunis, and a map of the Nile Delt...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1630
Selling price: $45
Sold in 2015
Tab.II AFRICAE, Complectens AFRICAM Proprie dictam..
Decorative Ptolemaic map of Northern Africa with the southern part of Sardinia and Sicily and Malta. The sea is stipple engraved and contains two very fanciful sea monste...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1630
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2015
Nova Africae Tabula.
A splendid map of the African continent, heightened in Gold. Added by Hondius when he took over publication of Mercator's Atlas. Although it is based on Mercator's map, H...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1630
Selling price: $990
Sold in 2019
Africae nova Tabula . . .
Africa map from the rare Cloppenburg edition slightly larger format and more scarce edition of the Mercator/Hondius "Atlas Minor". Engraved by Pieter Van Den Ke...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1630
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2018
Africae nova Tabula.
Fine map of Africa, it's the issue of Jodocus Hondius map, without the decorative borders. There are six ships in full sail on the Atlantic and one to the south of Madaga...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1631
Selling price: $700
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Africae nova Tabula.
Fine map of Africa, it's the issue of Jodocus Hondius map, without the decorative borders. There are six ships in full sail on the Atlantic and one to the south of Madaga...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1631
Selling price: $500
Sold in 2012
Africae nova Tabula.
Fine "carte à figures"- map of Africa, it's the issue of Jodocus Hondius map, with decorative borders on three sides. There are six ships in full sail on the A...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1632
Selling price: $3000
Sold in 2019
Africa ex magna orbis terre descriptione Gerardi Mercator..
Map of Africa. The cartouche is circular, surrounded by decorative scrolls and surmounted by two satyrs. The beautiful calligraphy is a special feature of Mercator maps. ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1633
Selling price: $1025
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Africae nova tabula
Attractive colored map of Africa. Various animals appear in Africa, sea monsters and fishes in the ocean. It was publish first 1619 by Jodocus Hondius with four decorativ...
Place & Date: 1633
Selling price: $1400
Sold in 2009
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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
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[Dutch fleet attacking Spanish fortess of Gratiosa on Gran Canaria].
Scarce print with a German text sheet showing a fierce battle taking place between Spanish and Dutch forces. From de Bry's "Great American Voyages". Johann Theo...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
Selling price: $45
Sold in 2018
Abissinorum..
Nice map engraved by Petrus Kaerius. It depicts the kingdom of the fabled Christian king Prester John, with his fortified kingdom shown on a mountain. The Nile River eman...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1634
Selling price: $100
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Fessae Regnum.
Charming small map of the northeast tip of Africa with Fez showing as the principal city. Decorative title and distance scale cartouches.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1634
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2015