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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
Sold in 2020
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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
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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
Sold in 2019
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
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
Sold in 2016
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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Alexandria vetustissimum AEgypti emporium
A superb image of Alexandria, the famous Egyptian center of learning. From Braun and Hogenberg's "Civitates Orbis Terrarum". An excellent example in fine period...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1572
Selling price: $750
Sold in 2008
(Cairo). Cairus Quae Olim Babilon Aegipti Maxima Urbs.
Descriptive Latin text to verso. The city of Cairo, made up of highly uniform cubic houses interspersed with minarets and gardens, is seen from the right bank of the Nile...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1572
Selling price: $260
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Cairus, quae olim Babylon; Aegypti Maxima Urbs.
A highly attractive map by Braun and Hogenberg of the city of Cairo oriented to the South. Running down the right-hand side we see a range of mountains on which the pyram...
Place & Date: Köln, Bertram Buchholtz, 1572
Selling price: $515
Sold in 2022
Egitto Nuova Tavola
One of the earliest obtainable maps of Egypt and the Nile delta.Extends to include Cairo, and a part of the Red Sea. Includes several pyramids. Italian text on verso.
Place & Date: Venice, 1574
Selling price: $22
Sold in 2016
Cairus, quae olim Babylon, Aegypti Maxima urbs
This striking bird's-eye view of Cairo and the surrounding countryside includes depictions of the pyramids and the Sphinx. Several people are depicted in the foreground i...
Place & Date: Cologne, ca 1575
Selling price: $700
Sold in 2010
Le Grand Caire .
The first and only edition. Scarce map of Cairo by Francois De Belleforest, which appeared in the 1575 French edition of Munster's Cosmographia.Derived from the famous Br...
Place & Date: Paris, 1575
Selling price: $700
Sold in 2013
Appendix III Tabulae Afr:
Ptolemaic map of Egypt bu Mercator.
Place & Date: Cologne, 1578
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2010
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[Egypt]
On verso an early representation of Egypt (174x160mm).From a French text edition of his "Geographia", that great compendium of Renaissance knowledge.
Place & Date: Basle 1550-1580
Selling price: $29
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Crocodile and the town of Alexandrie.
A fine detailed woodcut depicting a crocodile on verso a view of Alexandria.
Place & Date: Basle 1580
Selling price: $55
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Cairus Quae Olim Babylon Aegypti Maxima Urbs.
Attractive bird-eye view of Cairo in Egypt with the Nile river, the Great Pyramids and Sphinx of Giza. Beautiful original color. German text on verso. From a German editi...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1580
Selling price: $450
Sold in 2009
Reisen der Kinder von Israel aus Egypten.
This bold 434-year-old woodblock map illustrates the route taken by the Israelites in the Exodus from Egypt to the Promised Land. The map is very graphic with illustratio...
Place & Date: Magdenburg, 1582
Selling price: $352
Sold in 2016
Aegypti recentior descriptio./ Carthaginis. . .
Two maps on one sheet. Upper part of the sheet (180 x 230 mm) is a map of the northern part of Egypt with the Nile Delta. Many small settlements are dotted along the leng...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1584
Selling price: $60
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Aegiipti recentior descriptio
Miniature map showing the Nile valley in great detail with numerous place names. The map is beautifully engraved with stippled seas.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1588
Selling price: $70
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Cairus, quae olim Babylon, . . . [Cairo]
Contemporaneous bird's-eye and surroundings showing the Pyramids and the Sphinx. Egypt had fallen to the Turks during the reign of Selim I at the beginning of the 16th c...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1590
Selling price: $800
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De Cyrene seu Cyrenaica. [Egypt and Ethiopia]
On recto an early wood block printed map of Egypt and Ethiopia and the Arabian Peninsular tio the right. (160xFrom a Latin text edition of his Geographia, that great comp...
Place & Date: Basle, 1550-1590
Selling price: $30
Sold in 2014
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[Egypte]
On recto an early wood block printed map of Northern Egypt (176x160mm.) .From a Latin text edition of his Geographia , that great compendium of Renaissance knowledge.
Place & Date: Basle, 1550-1590
Selling price: $20
Sold in 2013
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Pyramides Aegypti. [Pyramides in Egypt]
On verso a wood block printed depiction of three pyramids in Egypt.From a Latin text edition of his Geographia , that great compendium of Renaissance knowledge.
Place & Date: Basle, 1550-1590
Selling price: $20
Sold in 2013
Aegyptus Antiqua.
A splendid map of ancient Egypt, which appeared in Ortelius' Parergon. The map is based on his separately published map of Egypt, published in 1565, but with differences ...
Place & Date: Antwerp 1595
Selling price: $280
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AEGYPTUS ANTIQUA. Terra suis contante bonis, non indiga mercis. . .
A splendid map of ancient Egypt, which appeared in Ortelius' Parergon. The map is based on his separately published map of Egypt, published in 1565, but with differences ...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1595
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2020
![[Lot of 9 maps/ prints of Egypt ] Aegypti Recentior Descriptio / Carthaginis Celeberrimi Sinus Typus.](/uploads/cache/18309-(8)-250x250.jpg)
[Lot of 9 maps/ prints of Egypt ] Aegypti Recentior Descriptio / Carthaginis Celeberrimi Sinus Typus.
Abraham Ortelius' maps of Egypt and Carthago on one sheet.Abraham Ortelius(1527-98), Dutch cartographer and publisher of the first modern atlas, ' Theatrum Orbis Terrarum...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1595
Selling price: $160
Sold in 2023
Aegyptus.
Very fine early miniature map of Egypt, showing the Nile delta . Title cartouche on the lower left corner. Scarce miniature map from the second series of miniature atlas ...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1598
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2015
Egito vuova tavola.
The third state of Ruscelli's map of Egypt with the river Nile, based upon Claudius Ptolemy. Showing Egypt and the Nile. Extends east to the Upper Red Sea and West to Des...
Place & Date: Venice, 1598
Selling price: $50
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Aegyptus.
Map showing Egypt, centered on the Nile delta. Including cities of Alexandria, Cairo, Suez, etc.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1607
Selling price: $35
Sold in 2011
Aegyptus.
Very fine early miniature map of Egypt, showing the Nile delta . Title cartouche on the lower left corner. First published in 1598 in his Caert-Thresoor, the plates were ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam/Frankfurt, 1609
Selling price: $80
Sold in 2010
Aegyptus.
Very fine early miniature map of Egypt, showing the Nile delta . Title cartouche on the lower left corner. First published in 1598 in his Caert-Thresoor, the plates were ...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1609
Selling price: $45
Sold in 2011
Tabula Africae III.
An interesting Ptolemaic map, probably from the Jansson/Magini atlas of 1617. It illustrates early Lybia and Egypt. With the Nile River and the Red Sea. Latin text on ver...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1617
Selling price: $55
Sold in 2018
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[Egypt]
Map of Egypt. From an uncommon edition of Kerckelycke Historie van Neder-Landt which was a Dutch text edition of Agostino Torniello's Annales Sacri et Profani by Heribert...
Place & Date: Holland, ca. 1625
Selling price: $80
Sold in 2008
Civitas Acon sive Ptolomaida.
Rare town-plan of Acre, based upon the Vesconte-Sanuto plan, intended to illustrate a period when the town was under the control of the Knights of St. John. Shows extensi...
Place & Date: Paris, Michael Soly, 1629
Selling price: $750
Sold in 2013
Aegypti Libiae Marmaricae Et Cyrenaicae Tractus Maritimus.
Rare early map of north-east Africa. Morisot (1592-1661) was one of the great intellectuals of his time and his works enjoyed great success. The European expeditions to t...
Place & Date: Dijon, 1643
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2011
Aegyptus.
Samuel Purchas' edition of the Mercator/Hondius "Atlas Minor". Early map of the Nile delta with swash lettering and title cartouche with strapwork surrounds, pu...
Place & Date: London 1645
Selling price: $40
Sold in 2011
Nova Aegypti Tabula.
With an ornate cartouche and two surveyors supporting the mileage scale.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1650
Selling price: $600
Sold in 2011
Nova Aegypti Tabula.
With an ornate cartouche and two surveyors supporting the mileage scale.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1650
Selling price: $560
Sold in 2008