Browse Listings in Africa
Presbiteri Iohannis, Sive, Abissinorum Imperii Descriptio.
Despite the title this map extends far beyond Prester John's supposed kingdom. It covers Africa from the fabled mountains of the moon in the centre of the continent north...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1575
Selling price: $1500
Sold in 2010
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
Presbiteri Iohannis.
Stunning map of the kingdom of the mythical Christian king who according to legend provided a stronghold against Barbarians and was an ally to the crusaders. Ortelius des...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1575
Selling price: $1200
Sold in 2014
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[Algiers].
On recto an early representation of Algiers (142x185 mm). On verso a representation of a sword and a corona.From a French text edition of his Cosmographia , that great co...
Place & Date: Basle, after 1575
Selling price: $20
Sold in 2012
Cairus, quae olim Babylon , Aegypti Maxima Urbs.
Bird's-eye view of Cairo with key to locations.The Civitates was compiled and written by George Braun, Canon of Cologne Cathedral. Braun gathered together vast amounts of...
Place & Date: Cologne, c.1575
Selling price: $380
Sold in 2013
TUNES OPPIDUM Barbarie. . . - AFRICA APHRODISIUM - PENON DE VELES.
A striking sheet with three old colored, copper engraved views of Tunis, Mahdiya and Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera, from the second volume of Braun & Hogenberg's &qu...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1575
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2019
ALEXANDRIA Vetustissimum AEGYPTI emporium, Amplissima ciuitas ab Alexandro Magno sondia. . .
A striking, old colored town plan of Alexandria from Braun & Hogenberg's Civitas Orbis Terrarum, the most important town book of the 16th Century. Elaborate detail, i...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1575
Selling price: $475
Sold in 2019
ALGERII Saracenorum Urbis Fortissimae in Numidea Africa Provincia. . .
A striking, old colored town plan of Algiers showing the formidably fortified town in a low bird's-eye view, with a figure bottom left dressed in a turban and kaftan, the...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1575
Selling price: $270
Sold in 2020
LE GRANDE CAIRE, CAIRUS QUAE OLIM BABYLON AEGYPTI MAXIMA URBS.
A striking, old colored view of Cairo from a hillside opposite the Nile, the most important town book of the 16th Century. Elaborate detail, including fortified walls, bu...
Place & Date: Paris, 1575
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2019
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
![Tunes Oppidum Barbarie & Regina fedes 1535 ... [on sheet with] Africa olim Aphrodisum [and] Penon de Veles.](/uploads/cache/46226-250x250.jpg)
Tunes Oppidum Barbarie & Regina fedes 1535 ... [on sheet with] Africa olim Aphrodisum [and] Penon de Veles.
Three bird's-eye views of Tunis, Mahdia and Penon de Veles on one sheet. From the greatest publication in this genre!. The Civitates was compiled and written by George Br...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1575
Selling price: $350
Sold in 2020
![Tunes, Oppidum Barbarie &, Regia Sedes... [on sheet with] Africa, olim Aphrodisium [and] Penon de Veles.](/uploads/cache/46227-250x250.jpg)
Tunes, Oppidum Barbarie &, Regia Sedes... [on sheet with] Africa, olim Aphrodisium [and] Penon de Veles.
A bird's-eye panoramic view of Tunis in 1535 at top, Mahdia, south of Susa, in 1540 at lower left, and the island fortress of Penon de Veles in 1564 at lower right.From t...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1575
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2020
![Tingis Lusitanis Tangiara [on sheet with] Tzaffin [and] Septa [and] Arzilla [and] Sala.](/uploads/cache/33684-250x250.jpg)
Tingis Lusitanis Tangiara [on sheet with] Tzaffin [and] Septa [and] Arzilla [and] Sala.
Five very desirable and early town-plans of Tangier, Safi, Ceuta, Asilah and Sala. "TANGIER (TANJA) : "The engraving shows a fortified town, whereby only half ...
Place & Date: Cologne, (1572) 1577
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2020
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
Africae ut terra mariq, lustrata est, proprijssima..
Map of the continent of Africa from the extremely rare first edition. With ''cum priuilegio'' added. Engraved by Joannes and Lucas van Deutecum, who's signature is in the...
Place & Date: Antwerp 1578
Selling price: $9050
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Africa
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 Ptolemy's acc...
Place & Date: Basle, 1578
Selling price: $130
Sold in 2008
Appendix III Tabulae Afr:
Ptolemaic map of Egypt bu Mercator.
Place & Date: Cologne, 1578
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2010
Africa / Libya / Mörenlandt / mit allen Königreichen / so zu unsern zeiten darin gefunden werden.
A wonderfully decorative and extremely interesting map of the continent of Africa by Sebastian Münster. The map features a galleon, mountains, rivers, assorted kings cro...
Place & Date: Basel, 1578
Selling price: $1200
Sold in 2018
Africa / Libya / Morenlandt / mit allen Königreichen / so zu unsern zeiten darin gefunden werden.
A decorative Münster's map of Africa, the first map of the African Continent. The map features a galleon, mountains, rivers, assorted kings crowns, denoting various king...
Place & Date: Basel, 1578
Selling price: $950
Sold in 2021
Africa mit seinen besundern Leandern / Thieren / und wunderbarlichen Dingen. (...)
A very early and attractively coloured map of Africa. A full leaf from the Cosmographei, published in Basel by Heinrich Petri in 1578. With a beautiful woodcut initial le...
Place & Date: Basel, 1578
Selling price: $120
Sold in 2021
Presbiteri Iohannis.
Stunning map of the kingdom of the mythical Christian king who according to legend provided a stronghold against Barbarians and was an ally to the crusaders. Ortelius des...
Place & Date: Antwerp 1579
Selling price: $1000
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Affrica mit seinem befondern Landern Theiren und Wunderbarlichen Dingen.
Strong dark impression of Münster's small map of Africa, from a German edition of the "Cosmographia".One of the earliest obtainable maps of the African contine...
Place & Date: Basle, 1579
Selling price: $70
Sold in 2010
Africae Tabula Nova.
From the 'Typus Orbis Terrarum', Latin Text - Striking continental map designed by Ortelius from elements of contemporary maps by Gastaldi, Mercator, and Forlani. It is c...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1579
Selling price: $1600
Sold in 2012
Africae Tabula Nova.
Beautifully colored map of Africa from the 1579 edition of Ortelius’ Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, the first modern atlas of the world. The map of Africa was one of the few...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1579
Selling price: $750
Sold in 2015
Barbariae et Biledulgerid, nova descriptio.
North-West Africa. Koeman speculated: In view of the important trading relationship between Antwerp and Africa, it is not impossible that the original was a manuscript ma...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1579
Selling price: $220
Sold in 2017
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No title [Africa]
"Attractive and very early wood block printed map of Africa, excluding the HornFrom a French text edition of his ""Geographia"", that great compe...
Place & Date: Basle 1550-1580
Selling price: $105
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![[Egypt]](/uploads/cache/11856-250x250.jpg)
[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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Tingis, Lusitanis, Tangiara. / Tzaffin. / Septa. / Arzilla.
Five views engraved on the same copper plate. Latin text.From the greatest publication in this genre!. The Civitates was compiled and written by George Braun, Canon of Co...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1580
Selling price: $200
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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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Aden../ Mambaza / Quilao / Cefala.
Three views on one page. In top panoramic view of Aden. In lower part views of Mombasa, Quiloa, and Cefala (or Sofala) near the mouth of the Cuama River in southeast Afri...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1580
Selling price: $1200
Sold in 2011
Tab.II AFRICAE, Complectens AFRICAM Proprie dictam..
Ptolemeac map, shows the western part of the mediterranean with North-african coast, and parts of Sardinia and Sicily.The Island of Malta and Gozo right in the centre.
Place & Date: Antwerp after 1580
Selling price: $250
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Algeri.
Rare view of the city of Algiers, with its fortifications, harbor and adjacent area by M.Florimi. With key a-Z, 1-48 of the principal buildings.Florimi\'s works are among...
Place & Date: Siena, ca. 1580
Selling price: $1550
Sold in 2008
![[Africa].](/uploads/cache/26203-250x250.jpg)
[Africa].
Very early map of Africa. From his Cosmographia, that great compendium of Renaissance knowledge. An exciting print.Sebastian Münster was born in Nierder-Ingelheim, near ...
Place & Date: Basle, 1550-1580
Selling price: $70
Sold in 2008
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
Affricae tabula nova / Africa, Lybia, Morenlandt, mit allen K÷nigreichen so jetziger Zeit darumb gefunden werden
Attractive woodcut map showing the African continent. From a German edition of Cosmographia by Sebastian Munster printed from Petri in Basel 1580. \"This map ... was...
Place & Date: Basle, 1580
Selling price: $450
Sold in 2009
Africae. . .
Münster's smaller woodcut map of Africa, printed area 130 x 160mm, set in a large page of text. From an Latin text edition of the Cosmography. One of the earliest obtain...
Place & Date: Basle, c. 1580
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2009
ALGERII Sarace norum urbis fortissimae.
An attractive town-plan of the Alger, including a numbered key legend in the lower part. From the greatest publication in this genre!. The "Civitates" was compi...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1580
Selling price: $500
Sold in 2017
Aegypti recentior descriptio./ Carthaginis..
Two maps on one sheet. Upper part of the sheet (180x230mm) map of the northern part of Egypt with the Nile Delta. Lower part map of the north east corner of Africa with T...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1580
Selling price: $60
Sold in 2010
Tingis, Lusitanis, Tangiara. / Tzaffin. / Septa. / Arzilla.
Views of the five northern and western African coastal on one sheet: Latin text.From the greatest publication in this genre!. The Civitates was compiled and written by G...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1580
Selling price: $385
Sold in 2011
![[Cultivation of grapes on Madeira].](/uploads/cache/14186-250x250.jpg)
[Cultivation of grapes on Madeira].
On recto an early representation of the cultivation of grapes (58x73 mm) on the island of Madeira. On verso a representation of a dog (42x75 mm) and of an exploding volca...
Place & Date: Basle 1575-1580
Selling price: $10
Sold in 2015
Africa tertia pars terrae.
This exceptionally decorative map, is from Heinrich Bunting's "Itinerarum Sacrae Scripturae", and is based upon the map of Africa by Sebastian Munster which app...
Place & Date: Magdeburg, ca. 1580
Selling price: $690
Sold in 2018
ALGERII Sarace norum urbis fortissimae.
Attractive, old colored town-plan of the city of Alger, including a numbered key legend in the lower part. From the greatest publication in this genre!. The "Civitat...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1580
Selling price: $401
Sold in 2019
![[Lot with 12 maps of the Mediterraneans and Egypt.] Aegypti Recenttior Carthageni / General Karte des Roemischen Reichs](/uploads/cache/83963-250x250.jpg)
[Lot with 12 maps of the Mediterraneans and Egypt.] Aegypti Recenttior Carthageni / General Karte des Roemischen Reichs
A map of the Middle East and the Mediterranean. Taken from 'Algemeine Welthistorie (der Neuern Zeiten)', edited by S.J. Baumgarten, J.S.Semler a.o. Abraham Ortelius...
Place & Date: Antwerp, c. 1580
Selling price: $198
Sold in 2022
Açores Insulae.
The importance of the Azores at that time of this map was connected with the observation of Columbus that compass variation (i.e. the difference between the real and the ...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1580
Selling price: $475
Sold in 2020
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: $1075
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Africa tertia pars terrae.
This map, from Heinrich Bunting's "Itinerarum Sacrae Scripturae", is based upon the map of Africa by Sebastian Munster that appeared in 1540. Substantially, it...
Place & Date: Magdeburg, 1581
Selling price: $1400
Sold in 2012
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, ca1581
Selling price: $1100
Sold in 2014
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
Sold in 2018
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
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
The Work of Two of History's Greatest Geographers. Morocco/ Algeria/ Tunisia/ Spain. Afr: I Tab:
A very attractive example of an early edition, the second, from Mercator’s definitive edition of Ptolemy’s geography. The map shows the area as it was known in the Ro...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1584
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2019
Africae Tabula Quarta. . .
The most general of the four Ptolemaic maps of Africa from Mercator’s definitive edition of Ptolemy’s geography. It extends far enough south to fully show Ptolemy’s...
Place & Date: Cologne, ca 1584
Selling price: $360
Sold in 2019
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
Sold in 2020
Tingis, Lusitanis, Tangiara
A handsome five section map offering town-views of historically significant Portuguese empire North African coastal towns and entrepots, including Tangiers, Tzaffin, Ceut...
Place & Date: Cologne, ca. 1585
Selling price: $225
Sold in 2011
Barbariae et Biledulgerid, nova descriptio.
North-West Africa. Koeman speculated: In view of the important trading relationship between Antwerp and Africa, it is not impossible that the original was a manuscript ma...
Place & Date: Antwerp 1587
Selling price: $190
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Barbariae et biledulgerid nova descriptio
Miniature map of the Barbary coast and parts of Italy and Spain. The map is beautifully engraved with stippled seas.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1588
Selling price: $65
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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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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
Presbiteri Iohannis, Sive, Abissin Orum Imperii Descriptio
Despite the title this map extends far beyond Prester John's supposed kingdom. It covers Africa from the fabled mountains of the moon in the center of the continent north...
Place & Date: Antwerp 1590
Selling price: $800
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![Cairus, quae olim Babylon, . . . [Cairo]](/uploads/cache/60659-250x250.jpg)
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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![Nova Africa hoc est,recens eius inuestigatio. [North Africa]](/uploads/cache/32529-250x250.jpg)
Nova Africa hoc est,recens eius inuestigatio. [North Africa]
On verso an early map of North West Africa (123x155mm.), with on recto a small map of the island of Madeira (120x78mm.) From a Latin text edition of his Geographia , that...
Place & Date: Basle, 1550-1590
Selling price: $85
Sold in 2013
![[Afrique]](/uploads/cache/32581-250x250.jpg)
[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
![De Cyrene seu Cyrenaica. [Egypt and Ethiopia]](/uploads/cache/32582-250x250.jpg)
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
![[Egypte]](/uploads/cache/32584-250x250.jpg)
[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
![Pyramides Aegypti. [Pyramides in Egypt]](/uploads/cache/32590-250x250.jpg)
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
![[De Africae regionibus / Carthage]](/uploads/cache/32593-250x250.jpg)
[De Africae regionibus / Carthage]
On the verso an early birds-eye view of Tunis, which was the original city of Carthage (240x168mm.). The plan includes zoological and botanical gardens, castle Goleta, a ...
Place & Date: Basle, 1550-1590
Selling price: $20
Sold in 2013
![[De Africae regionibus ] Algier.](/uploads/cache/32594-250x250.jpg)
[De Africae regionibus ] Algier.
On verso an early birds-eye town-plan of Alger.From a Latin text edition of his Geographia , that great compendium of Renaissance knowledge.
Place & Date: Basle, 1550-1590
Selling price: $55
Sold in 2013
Dell ‘Isola Di San Lorenzo, Madagascar.
A beautiful map of Madagascar, from "L'Isole piu Famose del Mondo" - the most famous islands of the world by Thomas Porcacchi and engraved by Girolamo Porro. Th...
Place & Date: Padua, 1590
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2018
TUNES URBS ac Novae Eius Arcis et Guletae. Quae Philippo Hispan . . .
A striking old color example of Braun & Hogenberg's important early town view of Tunis. Text on verso. The image shows a siege of the port by Spanish ships under the ...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1590
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2019
Africae propriae tabula. In qua, Punica regna uides; Tyrios, et Agenoris urbem.
The most beautiful early map of the northern coast of Africa available to the collector. Prepared by Ortelius himself. A very fine example. Ortelius based this map on tha...
Place & Date: Antwerp,1590
Selling price: $360
Sold in 2020
Tabula Geogra Regni Congo
One of the most beautifully engraved maps of Africa ever produced, ornamented with numerous ships, sea monsters, and elaborate cartouches. One of few early maps to make a...
Place & Date: Frankfurt 1592
Selling price: $225
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Barbariae Et Biledvlgerid, Nova Descriptio.
Attractive map of Africa by Abraham Ortelius. The map covers the area on the north-west coast of Africa from about present day Senegal and "Fume del Oro"...
Place & Date: Antwerp, (1570) 1592
Selling price: $325
Sold in 2011
Barbariae Et Biledvlgerid...
Remarkable map of Northern Africa in an early shape. Extends from Morocco and the Sahara to Libya and large parts of the Mediterranean, including the Balearic Islands, Si...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1592
Selling price: $230
Sold in 2016
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 propriae Tabula..
The most beautiful early map of the northern coast of Africa that is available to the collector. Prepared by Ortelius himself based on modern information from Gastaldi's ...
Place & Date: Antwerp 1595
Selling price: $165
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