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Marocco [Morocco]
Original hand-colored double page map (39 x 53 cm, overall dimensions 50 x 64 cm.).
Place & Date: London: James Wyld. Geographer to the Queen, 457 West Strand, 11 & 12
Selling price: $180
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Carthage, etc.
Third-page woodcut from the famous Liber chronicarum or Nuremberg Chronicle of Hartmann-Schedel 1493, the first and Latin edition of this famous and profusely illustrated...
Place & Date: Nuremberg 12 July 1493
Selling price: $205
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Alexandria. Foliu LXXVII
A imaginary view of Alexandria: however the earliest obtainable view of this period.Page from the Nuremberg Chronicle, published the year that Columbus returned to Europe...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Selling price: $212
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Tercia Etas Mundi. / Carthago. / Folio XL.
A very fine presentation of the city of Carthage, centered on the church.(Dim. H : 120 mm W : 168 mm). Ancient Carthage was the Phoenician city-state of Carthage. During ...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Selling price: $200
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Sexta Etas Mudi. CCX. Sexta etas mund]. [ With view of Dumyat ]
Verso : An imaginary view of Dumyat (Damieta) in Egypt. Dumyat is located on the Nile delta on the Damietta branch of the Nile, close to the Mediterranean Sea.On recto a ...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Selling price: $75
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Quita Etas Mundi. Folium. LXXVII.
The Latin text page is illustrated with a depictions of Kings, Noble men and women and scientists. VERSO : A imaginary of Alexandria: however the earliest obtainable vie...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2013
Tercia Etas Mundi. / Carthago (Carthage in Tunisia). / Folio XL.
A very fine presentation of the city of Carthage in Tunisia, centered on the church. (Dim. H : 120 mm W : 168 mm). Including also a genealogy of Zaraya, Meraioth , Amarie...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Selling price: $150
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Tabula Moderna Prime partis aphricae.
From Martin Waldseemüller's edition of Ptolemy's Geography , often considered to be the first modern atlas. This is the first printed modern map of North and West Africa...
Place & Date: Strassburg, 1513
Selling price: $5100
Sold in 2011
Tertia Africae Tabula.
Early woodcut map of North Africa from M. Waldseemuller of 1513 (1520). Showing the region from Bengazi in Libya up to Egypt with the Red Sea.This ptolemaic map comes fro...
Place & Date: Strasbourg, 1513
Selling price: $2100
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Tertia Africae Tabula (North Africa)
Wood block printed large-format Ptolemaic map showing Northeastern Africa, extending from Egypt and the Red Sea (Sinus Arabicus) to Libya. Showing an interesting Nile sys...
Place & Date: Strasburg, 1513
Selling price: $2400
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Tabula Moderna Prime partis aphricae.
This maps belongs to the famous 1513, Martin Waldseemüller's, edition of Ptolemy's Geography, which is often considered to be the first modern printed atlas. It is very ...
Place & Date: Strassburg, 1513
Selling price: $2350
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Tabula prima Africae.
One of the earliest maps of Morocco and the northern coast of Africa, including the Balearic islands.From the 1513 Strasburg edition of Ptolemy's Geographia , generally c...
Place & Date: Strasbourg, 1513-1520
Selling price: $1600
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Tertia Africae Tabula.
Early woodcut map of North Africa from M. Waldseemüller of 1513 (1520). Showing the region from Bengazi in Libya up to Egypt with the Red Sea.From Waldseemüller's Ptole...
Place & Date: Strasbourg, Johannes Schott, 1513-1520
Selling price: $1250
Sold in 2016
TABULA PRIMA APHRICE.
An engraved map of Africa from the blocks of Laurent Fries, the famous physician, astrologer and geographer. The map covers northwestern Africa showing the regions that w...
Place & Date: Strasbourg, 1525
Selling price: $310
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TABULA II MODERNA APHRICE.[Malta]
A rare 1525 edition of Lorenz Fries's woodcut map of the central part of the North African coastline, with islands in the Mediterranean, based upon the work of Waldseemul...
Place & Date: Strasbourg, 1525
Selling price: $270
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LIBYAE INTERIORI PARS. [Egypt & Libya]
A rare 1525 edition of Lorenz Fries's woodcut map of the central part of the North African coastline, with islands in the Mediterranean, based upon the work of Waldseemul...
Place & Date: Strasbourg, 1525
Selling price: $300
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Tunes Oppidum Barbarie & Regina fedes ... / Africa olim Aphrodisum. / Penon de Veles.
Three town-views on one sheet: Tunis, Mahdia and Penon de Veles.The Civitates was compiled and written by George Braun, Canon of Cologne Cathedral. Braun gathered togethe...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1535
Selling price: $200
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Tabu nova partis Aphri. (North Africa)
Based on Waldseemuller's map. Border and ornament are by Hans Holbein and Graf. The maps show Northern Africa as it was known to Europeans at the first part of the 16th c...
Place & Date: Lyons, M. Servetus, 1535
Selling price: $2000
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Tabula I Aphricae.
Trapezoidal Ptolemaic woodcut map by Laurent Fries features the northwest corner of Africa, which is often referred to as the Maghreb (meaning western in Arabic), and inc...
Place & Date: Vienna, 1522- 1535
Selling price: $375
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[North Africa with Egypt] Tabula III. Aphricae. Hae Sunt E Cognitis Totius Orbis . . . (title on verso)
One of the earliest obtainable maps of North Africa, with Egypt, from Lorenz Fries' (1490-1532) edition of Ptolemy's Geographia, largely based on the 1513 map by Waldseem...
Place & Date: Vienna, 1522, 1535
Selling price: $425
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Aphricae tabula secunda continet.
Map representing northern Africa.The fourth edition of Ptolemy's Geographia utilising Lorenz Fries's woodcut maps was published in Vienne, Dauphine, in 1541 by Gaspar Tre...
Place & Date: Vienna, 1541
Selling price: $300
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Cairo, Warhaffte abcontrafehtung der machtigen und vesten Statt Alkair.
A highly detailed birds-eye view of the city of Cairo, illustrated with drilling soldiers, crocodiles, camels, horse riding, fishermen at work, mosques, and more. The vie...
Place & Date: Basel, 1544
Selling price: $210
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Aphricae Tabula I (Mauritania - present-day Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia.)
The first edition of Munster's map of Mauritania - present-day Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia, based upon Claudius Ptolemy which appeared in his "Geographia Universal...
Place & Date: Basel, Heinrich Petri, 1545
Selling price: $200
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Aphricae Tabula II (Northern Africa and the Mediterranean showing parts of Sicily, Tunisia and Libya.)
The first edition of Munster's map of Northern Africa and the Mediterranean showing parts of Sicily, Tunisia and Libya, based upon Claudius Ptolemy which appeared in his ...
Place & Date: Basel, Heinrich Petri, 1545
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2014
Aphricae Tabula III (Northern Africa and the Mediterranean, including Egypt.)
The first edition of Munster's map of Northern Africa and the Mediterranean, including Egypt, based upon Claudius Ptolemy which appeared in his "Geographia Universal...
Place & Date: Basel, Heinrich Petri, 1545
Selling price: $200
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Aphricae Tabula III (Northern Africa and the Mediterranean, including Egypt.)
The first edition of Munster's map of Northern Africa and the Mediterranean, including Egypt, based upon Claudius Ptolemy which appeared in his "Geographia Universal...
Place & Date: Basel, Heinrich Petri, 1545
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2014
Aphricae Tabula I (Mauritania - present-day Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia.)
The first edition of Münster's map of Mauritania - present-day Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia, based upon Claudius Ptolemy which appeared in his "Geographia Universa...
Place & Date: Basel, Heinrich Petri, 1545
Selling price: $100
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Tabula Africae III.
One of the earliest maps of Egypt, first published in the 1540 edition of Münster's Geographia and reprinted for subsequent editions of the Geographia and Cosmographia. ...
Place & Date: Basel, Heinrich Petri, 1545
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2016
Tabula Africae IIII.
Uncommon first edition of one of the earliest maps of Egypt.Girolamo Ruscelli's edition of Ptolemy's Geographia included newly engraved copperplates by Giulio and Livio S...
Place & Date: Basel, Heinrich Petri, 1545
Selling price: $100
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Tabula Aphricae II.
Gastaldi's map of North Africa and part of the Mediterranean, including Malta, Sardinia and Sicily. Embellished with two mythical birds and a ship wreck off the coast. Ba...
Place & Date: Venice, 1548
Selling price: $300
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Tabula Aphricae I. (Morocco & Southeast Spain)
Gastaldi's map of North Africa with Morocco and the Balearic Islands to the Pillars of Hercules. Based upon Ptolemy.Embellished is a sailing ship, sea monster and several...
Place & Date: Venice, 1548
Selling price: $200
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De Africae Regionibus.
A very early Münster wood cut view of Algiers, showing its attempted storming during the Algiers Expedition.Sebastian Münster (1488-1552), was a famous German cartograp...
Place & Date: Basel, 1558
Selling price: $20
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Sinus Arabicus (North Africa)
Woodcut from P. Mela's "De Orbis Situ Libri tres". Published by Henric Perti. Almost a decade after the death of Sebastian Münster, his publisher and stepson H...
Place & Date: Basle, 1561
Selling price: $130
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Tabula Aphricae II
Fine Ptolemaic style map of North Africa and including Sardinia, Sicily and the southern tip of Italy. It was published in 1562.
Place & Date: Venice, 1562
Selling price: $105
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Tabula Aphricae I.
Early map of north-west Africa. Girolamo Ruscelli first published the map in his "La Geographi di Claudio Tolomeo" (Venice, 1561). In 1574 a new plate was used ...
Place & Date: Venice, 1564
Selling price: $60
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NVOVA, ET / COPIOSA, DE= / SCRITTIONE / DI TVTTO / L'EGITTO / Pur hora da Paulo / Forlani Veronese / intagliata. in / Venetia l'anno / 1566.
Rare map of the northern part of Egypt. In the right-hand part of the Red Sea. The first of only two "Lafreiri-school" maps made of Egypt!North to the top.Engra...
Place & Date: Venice 1566
Selling price: $2000
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[Tripoli] Il vero disegno del porto,della citta, della fortezza, et del sito doue e posta Tripoli di Barbaria.
Extremely rare map of the environs of Tripoli with a fortification plan of Tripoli in the center. Extensive shipping in the sea.The print is addressed and dated Ven.l'an...
Place & Date: Venice 1568
Selling price: $300
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[Velez de la Gomera] Il vero natural sito della Villa di Velez de Gomera, et l'in' espugnabile forte et castello chiamato il Pignon, situato in Africa di Barbaria ..
Extremely rare bird's-eye plan of the siege of the town and fortress Velez de lab Gomera in Marocco. Extensive shipping in the sea.Engraved by Paolo Furlani (active 1561-...
Place & Date: Venice 1568
Selling price: $300
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Aphricae Tabula III. (North Africa and Egypt)
Double-page woodcut Ptolemaic-style map by Sebastian Münster figuring North Africa and Egypt., published in the edition of Strabo by Henri Petri in 1571."Strabonis ...
Place & Date: Basle, Henri Petri, 1571
Selling price: $60
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Aphricae Tabula IIII. (North Africa and the Mediterranean)
Double-page woodcut Ptolemaic-style map by Sebastian Münster figuring North Africa and the Mediterranean, published in the edition of Strabo by Henri Petri in 1571."...
Place & Date: Basle, Henri Petri, 1571
Selling price: $200
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