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Aethiopis Vxor. (CLXXX)
A African woman standing with floor-length dress. Woodcut by Jost Amman after Weigel. From H. Weigel, "Trachtenbuch". - "The woodcuts have ... above Latin ...
Place & Date: Cologne, ca. 1577
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2019
Insulae et arcis MOCAMBIQUE descriptio...Beschrijuinge des..
This is a finely executed copperplate engraved map of Mozambique Island, a strategically important re-supply point for the Portuguese empire in Asia during the 16th centu...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1596
Selling price: $130
Sold in 2013
Insulae et arcis Mocambique descriptio ad fines Melinde.
An attractive and rare bird's-eye view of Melinde harbour in Mozambique, engraved by Jan Deutecum for Linschoten's 'Itinerario', published between 1596 and 1644. Probably...
Place & Date: Amstrerdam, 1596
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2020
Affbeeldinghe der custen des landts...Terra do Natal.
A superbly decorative early chart engraved by Arnold van Langren showing the African coastline of the Indian Ocean from the Cape to Natal, Mozambique and Madagascar. From...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1598
Selling price: $850
Sold in 2011
Affbeeldinghe der custen des landts...Terra do Natal.
A superbly decorative early chart engraved by Arnold van Langren showing the African coastline of the Indian Ocean from the Cape to Natal, Mozambique and Madagascar. From...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1598
Selling price: $3750
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Delineatio orarum maritimarum, terræ vulgo indigetatæ terræ do Natal, item Sofalæ, Mozambicæ & Melindæ, insulæque Sancti Laurentii. . . / Affbeeldinghe der custen des landts genaempt terra do Natal, item van alle de custen van Coffala, Mozambique. .
A superbly decorative early chart engraved by Arnold van Langren showing the African coastline of the Indian Ocean from the Cape to Natal, Mozambique and Madagascar. Tool...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1598
Selling price: $4000
Sold in 2020
Affbeeldinghe der custen des landts. . .Terra do Natal.
A superbly decorative early chart engraved by Arnold van Langren showing the African coastline of the Indian Ocean from the Cape to Natal, Mozambique and Madagascar. From...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1598
Selling price: $3500
Sold in 2015
Abissinorum Imperium.
A fine miniature map of the "Empire of Abyssinia", home to the mythical Christian king, Prester John, published by Petrus Bertius in Amsterdam early in the seve...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1606
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2019
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, Cornelis Claes, 1606
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2020
Insulae & Ars Mosambique.
An very attractive miniature map of the Portuguese island of Mozambique in east Africa, published by Petrus Bertius, in Amsterdam at the beginning of the seventeenth cent...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1606
Selling price: $45
Sold in 2023
Insulae et arcis Mocambique descriptio ad fines Melinde sita ebano puriss
Attractive bird's-eye view of Melinde harbor in Mozambique showing the fortifications with numerous ships at anchor in the protected harbor. The map is finely engraved an...
Place & Date: Frankfurt 1607
Selling price: $285
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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
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
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
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
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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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
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
Aethiopia Superior vel Interior vulgo Abissinorum...
Offered is a large, decorative, attractive map of Eastern African and the fictitious kingdom of Prester John. The map shows a major section of central and eastern Africa,...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1640
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2023
Occidentalior Tractus Indiarum Orientalium à Promotorio Bonae Spei ad C. Comorin.
Rare sea chart by Ottens of showing the coastlines of the Arabian peninsula and Africa up to Cape Town, with a splendid cartouche of royal figures and animals.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1645
Selling price: $1050
Sold in 2009
Carta Particolare della parte Tramontana dell Isola di San Lorenzo con la costa diripetto sino à Monbazza con l'Isole è Seccagne int.. Carta XIII I.
First state of Dudley?s magnificent chart showing the east coast of Africa including the northern half of Madagascar. Include a sailing ship, compass card, notes on preva...
Place & Date: Florence 1645
Selling price: $700
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Carta particolare che mostra il Capo buona Speranza con il mare....
The rare first state in a beautiful example.
Place & Date: Florence, 1646
Selling price: $850
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Pascaerte van 't Westelyckste Deel van Oost Indien, van Cabo de Bona Esperanca tot C.Comorin..
An eye-catching of the western part of the Indian Ocean and its adjacent coasts of East Africa, Arabia with the Red Sea and the Arabian Gulf, Iran, Pakistan and western ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1666
Selling price: $2500
Sold in 2009
Le Zanguebar Partie du Zanguebar ou sont les Costes d'AJAN et d'ABEX.
Two maps on one sheet showing the coasts of East Africa. The left hand map shows the Zanzibar coast, the right hand map shows the coast north from Zanzibar, round the Hor...
Place & Date: Paris, P. Mariette, 1667
Selling price: $170
Sold in 2008
Partie du ZANGUEBAR ou Sont les Costes d'AJAN et d' ABEX &c.
Two, maps on one sheet showing the coasts of East Africa. The left hand map shows the Zanzibar coast, the right hand map shows the coast north from Zanzibar, round the Ho...
Place & Date: Paris, P. Mariette, 1667
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2019
ABISSINIE ou Haute ETHIOPIE.
Nubie old, outlined colored historical miniature map of Abyssinie in north Ethiopia. The map is copperplate engraved with hand coloring and in very good condition and pu...
Place & Date: Paris 1670
Selling price: $27
Sold in 2020
Dronte, autrement appellé par les Hollandois Dod-aers.
An early text engraving of a Dodo who Willem Ysbrandtszoon Bontekoe claimed to have seen on Réunion and published from 1672 onwards in "Relations de Divers Voyages ...
Place & Date: Paris, 1672
Selling price: $160
Sold in 2015
Joao Teixeira Cosographo de sua Magestade.
An early issue of this important map of the Indian Ocean was prepared by Joao Teixeira, a well-known and respected Portuguese chart maker. He produced this wonderful sea ...
Place & Date: Paris ca. 1672
Selling price: $2200
Sold in 2017
Dronte Alijs Dod-Aers.
An early text engraving of a Dodo who Willem Ysbrandtszoon Bontekoe claimed to have seen on Réunion and published from 1672 onwards in "Relations de Divers Voyages ...
Place & Date: Paris, 1672
Selling price: $30
Sold in 2015
Zanguebar.
Uncommon miniature map of East Africa including Northern tip of Madagascar, from Pierre Duval's La Geographie Universeille. Following his Cartes de geographie in 1657, Pi...
Place & Date: Paris, 1676
Selling price: $30
Sold in 2008
Nieuwe Paskaert, Van de Kust Van Genehoa als Medeen gedeelte van Gambia, beginnende an C. Blanco tot C. Verde, Met al syn diep ten end droogten, dus Ver Naeukeurig op gestelt.
Nice chart, showing the coast of Africa, from Cabo Blanco till Cabo Verde (Dakar) and Gambia River. The Dutch firm and printing house van Keulen was one of the most impor...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1684
Selling price: $350
Sold in 2009
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Isle de Zocotora [Die Insel Zocotora]
A charming map featuring a bird's eye view of Socotra with hills, dwellings and trees on the island, two naval battles with cannons firing at sea, and coastal Arabia and ...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1684
Selling price: $60
Sold in 2008
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I. Goree [Ialoffes Royaume]
A charming map featuring a bird's eye view of Island of Goree with hills, dwellings and trees on the island, four ships at sea heading towards the island, and coastal Ara...
Place & Date: Franckfurt, 1684
Selling price: $65
Sold in 2008
Empire des Abyssins. . .
A charming map of he Abyssinian Empire referred to as Nubia with a colorful title banner.German title in curtain draped at top. No text on verso.From the German text edit...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1684
Selling price: $40
Sold in 2012
Abissinia, doue sono le Fonti del Nilo.
This very uncommon map concentrates of the source of the Blue Nile in a lake called Tzana, Dembea, which Coronelli claimed to be the first to accurately depict.Extensive ...
Place & Date: Venice, 1690
Selling price: $175
Sold in 2018
Abissinia, doue sono le Fonti del Nilo..
This very uncommon map concentrates of the source of the Nile in a lake called Tzana, Dembea, which Coronelli claimed to be the first to accurately depict.Extensive notat...
Place & Date: Venice 1690
Selling price: $400
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Partie de la Haute Aethiopie ...
Map of the East coast of Africa. From Description de tout l'Univers, published by François Halma.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1700
Selling price: $60
Sold in 2011
Carte Particuliere de la Mer Rouge &c.
An attractive sea chart of the Red Sea, Africa's Indian ocean coast from the Red Sea to Mozambique and the southwest coast of Arabia. With insets of Mombassa and fort and...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1700
Selling price: $650
Sold in 2020
Le Zanguebar Tiree de Sanut &c. / Partie du Zanguebar ou Sont les Costes d'Ajan et d'Abix &c.
This attractive map, in two parts, covers the east coast of Africa from Mozambique to the Red Sea showing the prosperous trading ports. Each map has a decorative title ca...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1700
Selling price: $80
Sold in 2008