Africa Tertia pars Terrae.
This map of Africa has an unusual shape, tapering to a narrow angle in the south. Numerous rivers appear in West Africa and as tributaries to the Nile, and mountain chain...
Place & Date: Magdeburg, ca. 1581
Selling price: $475
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Africa Tertia pars Terrae.
This map of Africa has an unusual shape, tapering to a narrow angle in the south. Numerous rivers appear in West Africa and as tributaries to the Nile, and mountain chain...
Place & Date: Magdeburg, ca. 1581
Selling price: $600
Sold in 2019
Livio Sanuto. Geografia di M. Livio Sanvto distinta in XII libri. Ne' quali, oltra l'esplicatione di molti luoghi di Tolomeo e della Bussola, ...
Livio Sanuto. Geografia di M. Livio Sanvto distinta in XII libri. Ne' quali, oltra l'esplicatione di molti luoghi di Tolomeo e della Bussola, e dell' Aguglia; si dichiara...
Place & Date: Venice, Damiano Zenaro, 1588
Selling price: $17750
Sold in 2019
Africae tabula nova / Africa, Lybia, Morenlandt, mit allen Königreichen so jetziger zeit darumb gefunden werden. . .
Attractive woodcut map showing the African continent. From the 1588-German edition of Cosmographia by Sebastian Münster. German text on verso. This woodblock map is eleg...
Place & Date: Basle, S.H. Petrie, 1588
Selling price: $350
Sold in 2014
Africae tabula nova / Africa, Lybia, Morenlandt, mit allen Königreichen so jetziger zeit darumb gefunden werden. . .
Sebastian Münster (1489-1552) is one of the most renowned cartographers of the sixteenth century, Mercator and Ortelius are considered at the same level. Munster's two m...
Place & Date: Basle, 1588
Selling price: $430
Sold in 2019
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[Afrique]
On recto a strongly engraved woodblock map of the continent depicts the Nile's origins in twin lakes originating in the Motes Lunae, or Mountains of the Moon, based on Pt...
Place & Date: Basle, 1550-1590
Selling price: $120
Sold in 2013
Africae vera forma et situs.
A rare map of the continent of Africa with six sea monsters and four sailing ships decorating the sea and small vignettes of natives, some with bow and arrow, others with...
Place & Date: Antwerp 1593
Selling price: $4425
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Africae vera forma ey situs.
A rare map of the continent of Africa with six sea monsters and four sailing ships decorating the sea and small vignettes of natives, some with bow and arrow, others with...
Place & Date: Antwerp 1593
Selling price: $5600
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Africa Vera Forma, et Situs.
This rare map is an interesting amalgamation of cartographical sources. Cornelis prepared this map for the second edition of the Speculum after his father's death in 1591...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1593
Selling price: $4350
Sold in 2009
Africae Tabula Nova Edita Antverpiae 1570.
Collectible example of one of the cornerstone maps of Africa.  A beautiful map in original color.  Ortelius' map was modern in appearance, compared to Munster and o...
Place & Date: Antwerp, (1570) 1595
Selling price: $2250
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Africa ex magna orbis terre descriptione Gerardi Mercatories desumpta studio & industria G.M. Juniorius
A classic and important map of Africa, especially as it is directly based on Gerard Mercator’s rare wall map of the world of 1569. The map first appeared in Gerard Merc...
Place & Date: Duisburg and then Amsterdam, 1595
Selling price: $1625
Sold in 2017
Presbiteri Johannis sive Abissinorum Imperii Descriptio
Very decorative example of Ortelius' famous map of the Kingdom of Prester John, from a Latin edition of Ortelius' Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, the first modern atlas of the w...
Place & Date: Amverpen, 1595
Selling price: $456
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AFRICA.
This is Giovanni Magini's modern map of Africa from his edition of Claudius Ptolemy's Geographia. Â It is basically a slightly-reduced version of the D'Anania 1582 map of...
Place & Date: Venice, 1596
Selling price: $105
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Africa.
Small map of Africa and the Arabian Peninsula showing part of Brazil as well.The rivers of central and north Africa feature prominently including the Ptolemaic concept of...
Place & Date: Cologne 1597
Selling price: $180
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Africa.
From "Geografia". Published in Venice by Galignani. Situated in a text page, with a gold leaf initial. Maps are engraved by Girolamo Porro.
Place & Date: Venice, ca. 1597
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2008
Africae Tabula Nova
From the Ortelius miniature atlas 'Epitome theatri Orteliani' published by Philip Galle. Colored in nice, period correct color. Printers crease running through West Afric...
Place & Date: Antwerp, ca 1598
Selling price: $220
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Filippo Pigafetta-De Bry Map of Africa.
This is the De Bry version of the Pigafetta map of Africa. It is a close copy of the Pigafetta map. Pigafetta wrote a book entitled Relatione del reame di Congo et del...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1598
Selling price: $2600
Sold in 2010
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[ Map of Africa ]
Extremly rare map of Africa, engraved by William Rogers and published by John Wolfe. The map occurs in the 1598 English edition of Jan Huyghen van Linschoten's Itinerario...
Place & Date: London, John Wolfe, 1598
Selling price: $8800
Sold in 2011
Africa Tabula Nova.
Africa continent map by Ortelius, used in Giovanni Botero (1533–1617)'s work "RELATIONI UNIVERSALI DI GIOVANNI BOTERO BENESE" issued in Venice by Giorgio Ang...
Place & Date: Venice, c.1598
Selling price: $225
Sold in 2016
Africae tabula nova / Africa, Lybia, Morenlandt, mit allen Königreichen so jetziger zeit darumb gefunden werden. . .
Attractive woodcut map showing the African continent. From the 1598-German edition of Cosmographia by Sebastian Münster. German text on verso. This woodblock map is eleg...
Place & Date: Basle, 1598
Selling price: $450
Sold in 2016
Africae tabula nova / Africa, Lybia, Morenlandt, mit allen Königreichen so jetziger zeit darumb gefunden werden. . .
Attractive woodcut map showing the African continent. From the 1598-German edition of Cosmographia by Sebastian Münster. German text on verso. This woodblock map is eleg...
Place & Date: Basle, 1598
Selling price: $750
Sold in 2018
Afrika Tabula Nova
Woodcut map of the African continent: Münster second map of Africa, based upon Ortelius' map of 1570, from the German edition of Sebastian Münster's 'Cosmographey: das ...
Place & Date: Basel, 1598
Selling price: $195
Sold in 2023
Africa.
A woodcut map of the African continent from a French edition of Cosmographia by Sebastian Münster. The map shows most of Africa including the supposed source of the Nile...
Place & Date: Basle 1600
Selling price: $50
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AFRICA TERTIA PARS TERRÆ .
This map is one of the later woodcut maps of Africa. As such, the appearance of the map, especially when compared to other maps from this period, is unusual. Like Bünt...
Place & Date: Magdeburg, (1589) 1600
Selling price: $800
Sold in 2013
Presbiteri Iohannis, sive, Abissinorum Imperii descriptio.
Famous "Prester John" map of most parts of the African continent, and the Arabian peninsula. With a dedication to King David, and the coat of arms of Preste...
Place & Date: Antwerp, c1600
Selling price: $475
Sold in 2013
Africa.
Miniature map of Africa. Strapwork title cartouche. Latin text on verso.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1601
Selling price: $190
Sold in 2010
Africa.
The miniature map of Africa based on Ortelius' larger map. It comes from the Latin edition of pocket-size atlas "Epitome Theatri Orteliani" engraved by Philip G...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1601
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2020
Africae Tabula Nova
Beautiful hand colored map of the African continent. From the 1603 Latin edition of Theatrum Orbis Terrarum by Abraham Ortelius. Fifth state of the copperplate, still the...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1603
Selling price: $1800
Sold in 2009
Africae Tabula Nova.
Dated 1570. Ortelius' depiction of Africa is based on Gastaldi's rare wall map of 1564, though with modifications such as the more pointed southern tip of the continent. ...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1603
Selling price: $1550
Sold in 2011
Nova AFRICAE TABULA Auctore Jodoco Hondio.
The Hondius Africa was based on Mercator but the coastline, particularly of Madagascar, was considerably altered. Jodocus also made improvements in the Cape area.
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1606
Selling price: $655
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Nova Africae Tabula Auctore Jodoco Hondio.
The Hondius Africa was based on Mercator but the coastline, particularly of Madagascar, was considerably altered. Jodocus also made improvements in the Cape area.Presents...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1606
Selling price: $800
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[Two sheet map of Africa.]
Very rare map of Africa in two separate sheets, when joined 385x373mm, published by Levinus Hulsius. This is the second state with below the scale "C. de lopo Gonsal...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, (1602)1606
Selling price: $1450
Sold in 2022
Presbiteri Iohannis, Sive Abissinorum Imperii Descrptio.
Antique map of East Africa. The very attractive map of the empire of the mythical Prester John, originally placed east of India later in East Africa. The geographical inf...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1609
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2021
Africa Ex Magna orbis terre descriptione Gerardi Mercatoris desumpta, Studio & industria.
This magnificent old color map of Africa was one of the most influential maps of the continent of its time. This atlas version of the map was engraved by Gerard Mercatorâ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca 1610
Selling price: $375
Sold in 2021
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
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
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