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[West Africa]
Rare first edition. West Africa, from the Tropic of Cancer south to St Thomas. The interior is filled with lions, elephants, monkeys and camels, with a fenced native vill...
Place & Date: Venice, 1556
Selling price: $472
Sold in 2014
Arzilla Maxima Quodam Africe Urbs. . .
A city view of Asilah by Braun & Hogeburg. TRANSLATION OF CAPTION: Asilah, formerly the largest city in Africa, is today confined within the narrowest bounds by the C...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1575
Selling price: $80
Sold in 2020
Vera effigies et delineatio Insulae Ascenscio nuncupatae sitae in altitudine 8 graduum ad austrum lineae aequinoctialis.
This is Linschoten's map of Ascension Island in the south Atlantic, beautifully engraved by Baptista a Doetechum.Decorative print showing three coastal views of Ascension...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, c.1596
Selling price: $375
Sold in 2012
Affbeeldinghe der custen des landts Guinea, Manicongo..
A superbly decorative early engraved by Arnold Van Langren. The ocean is filled with superbly engraved compass spurs, Dutch galleons and elaborate strapwork cartouches. ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1598
Selling price: $3700
Sold in 2008
Congi Regni Christiani in Africa.
A fine early miniature map of the West coast of Africa, this map is from the first edition of the Langenes atlas (later well known under the name of Bertius). Dutch text ...
Place & Date: Middelburg, 1598
Selling price: $55
Sold in 2014
Affbeeldinghe der custen des landts Guinea, Manicongo. . .
A superbly decorative early chart engraved by Arnold van Langren. The ocean is filled with superbly engraved compass spurs, Dutch galleons and elaborate strapwork cartouc...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1598
Selling price: $4200
Sold in 2011
Argumentum II. Lufitani regem Congi falutant, eique legationem fuam exponunt. De quibus Vide lib. 2 cap 2.
The Portuguese appear before the king of the Congo. When the king of the Congo heard about his neighbor, the prince of Sogno, being converted to Christianity, he called t...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1598
Selling price: $60
Sold in 2019
Argumentum V. Armatura tam nobiliorum quam gregariorum militum descripta lib. 1. cap. 7. (How the Congolese dress for war and play)
The distinguished inhabitants of the Congo decorate their head-dresses with ostrich, peacock or other feathers and, wound cross-wise across their bare chests they have ch...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1598
Selling price: $90
Sold in 2016
Edicti Regii, de quo cap. 3 fecundi libri agitur, executio. (How the king of the Congo had all the devilish idols burnt )
How the king of the Congo had all the devilish idols burnt. After the king of the Congo adopted the Christian religion, he told all his noblemen and servants to hand over...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1598-1599
Selling price: $45
Sold in 2017
Ins. Sti. Thome
Early miniature map of Saint Thomas from the Caert-Thresoor and engraved by the Dutch master-engraver Petrus Kaerius. The first edition was printed in Middelburg by Baren...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1600
Selling price: $40
Sold in 2008
Congi Regni Chriffiani in Africa
Based on the geographical data of Philippo Pigafetta
Place & Date: Amsterdam, c. 1602
Selling price: $110
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GUINEAE Nova Descriptio.
"The map shows the west coast from Senegal (Rio Senego) to Cape Lopez, just below the equator, and includes Guinea, with a portion of the Benin kingdom and of Lybia....
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1606
Selling price: $360
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Descriptio Regni Congi.
An attractive miniature map of the Christian Kingdom of Congo in western Africa, published by Petrus Bertius, in Amsterdam at the beginning of the seventeenth century. It...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1606
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2021
Guinea.
A fine miniature map of the west African region of Guinea, published by Petrus Bertius in Amsterdam early in the seventeenth century. The map and has a strap-work title, ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1606
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2019
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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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
Guinea.
A detailed and decorative map of Guinea, showing the length of a coast important to African-European trade, including the slave trade. Embellished with numerous animals i...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1638
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2019
Guinea.
An attractive map covered with intersecting rhumb lines and decorated with monkeys, lions, elephants and native figures. With a dedication to Dr. Nicolas Tulp.
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1640
Selling price: $480
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