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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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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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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
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
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
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
Abissinorum sive Pretiosi Ioannis Imperiu
Hondius' Prester John Map. French text on verso.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1628
Selling price: $350
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
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
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
Sold
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
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
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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Guinea.
An attractive map, covering the coast from Sierra Leone to Gabon, filed with intersecting rhumb lines and decorated with monkeys, lions, elephants, sea monsters and two c...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1635
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2009
Aethiopia Superior vel Interior vulgo Abissinorum.
An attractive map of Eastern African and the fictitious kingdom of Prester John, issued by Willem Janszoon Blaeu in 1635.The map shows a major section of central and eas...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1635
Selling price: $240
Sold in 2016
Aethiopia Superior vel Interior; vulgo Abissinorum.
An attractive map of the Eastern African and the fictitious kingdom of Prester John. The map shows a major section of central and eastern Africa including Mozambique nort...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1638
Selling price: $450
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Aethiopia Superior vel Interior vulgo Abissinorum.
An attractive map of the Eastern African and the fictitious kingdom of Prester John. The map shows a major section of central and eastern Africa including Mozambique nort...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1638
Selling price: $600
Sold in 2014