Browse Listings in Africa
Marocchi regnum.
Miniature map showing Morocco. Decorated with two strap work cartouches. Mountains, cities and forests fill the land. The capital city of Marruecos (Marrakech) in the cen...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1607
Selling price: $15
Sold in 2011
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
Abissinorum Regnu.
Early map of Central Africa with decorative strap work title cartouche. From the first French-text edition of Jodocus Hondius' Atlas Minor.Shortly after the publication o...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1608
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2019
Barbaria.
Upper map showing the Northern African coast, including Cyprus, Greece and Sicily. Lower part maps of Tunis and Nile Delta.From the first French-text edition of Jodocus H...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1608
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2011
Fessae Regnum.
Charming small map of the northeast tip of Africa with Fez showing as the principal city. Decorative title cartouche.From the first French-text edition of Jodocus Hondius...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1608
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2011
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. This fine example is from the rare Italian edition ...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1608
Selling price: $280
Sold in 2021
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
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
Africae Pars Meridionalior.
Very fine early miniature map of southern Africa, including also Madagascar. Title cartouche on the lower right corner : a sea monster is depicted.First published in 1598...
Place & Date: Amsterdam/Frankfurt 1609
Selling price: $190
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Insulae et Ars Mosambique / Mozambique.
Very fine early miniature map of Mozambique. Title cartouche on the upper right side. Two ships and three men fishing on a small boat are depicted.First published in 1598...
Place & Date: Amsterdam/ Frankfurt 1609
Selling price: $120
Sold in 2015
Baixos de Iudia.
Early miniature view of a shipwreck on the islands located between Madagascar and Mozambique. In the foreground, a kind of big lobsters are catching shipwrecked passenger...
Place & Date: Amsterdam / Frankfurt, 1609
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2009
Congo Regni Christiani in Africa / Manicongo.
Early miniature map of central part of Africa, from Guinea to Angola. Title cartouche in the lower left corner.First published in 1598 in his Caert-Thresoor, the plates w...
Place & Date: Amsterdam / Frankfurt 1609
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2009
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
AFRICAE / PROPRIAE / TABULA / In qua, / Punica regna vides. / Tyrios, et Agenoris / urbem. / 1590.
A very decorative map of Northern Africa. Abraham Ortelius(1527-98), Dutch cartographer and publisher of the first modern atlas, ' Theatrum Orbis Terrarum' in 1570. Editi...
Place & Date: Antwerp, Robert Bruneau, 1609
Selling price: $260
Sold in 2021
Abissinorum sive Pretiosi Ioannis Inperiu / Coni Regni in Africa Christiani Nova descriptio.
Gerard Mercator's ' Atlas sive Cosmographica' was published and augmented between 1606 and 1641 by Jodocus Hondius, his son Hendrik and by Johannes Janssonius.A very deco...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1609
Selling price: $210
Sold in 2014
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
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
Carthaginensis Sinus.
Early miniature map of Tunisian northern coast. Title cartouche on the lower right corner. First published in 1598 in his Caert-Thresoor, the plates were executed by the ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam/Frankfurt 1609
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2008
Delineatio Promontorii, Quod Cabo.
Early map of Cape of Good Hope.Theodore de Bry, a German engraver and book dealer, began a compilation of early voyages in 1590 and had published six parts at the time of...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1609
Selling price: $500
Sold in 2010
Delineatio Navis Lusitanicae ab Hollandis expugnatae.
A Dutch fleet arriving at Mozambique. Engraved by G.KellerTheodore de Bry, a German engraver and book dealer, began a compilation of early voyages in 1590 and had publish...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1609
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2011
Quomodo Hollandi in Mavritii Insula Ingentes. (Dutch hunting parrots on Mauritius in 1598)
A picture of giant tortoises in Mauritius. In the background Dutch hunting parrots. The Dutch abandoned Mauritius after two unsuccessful attempts to colonize the island. ...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1609
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2013
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
Sequentes Hae Figurae Historiam Hollandicae Navigationis.
Dutch slaughtering a cow with locals of Cap Bonae Spei.Theodore de Bry, a German engraver and book dealer, began a compilation of early voyages in 1590 and had published ...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1609
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2016
Vera Duorum Indicorum in insula S. Maria.
Showing the village of St. Angela and Spakenburg on Madagascar.Theodore de Bry, a German engraver and book dealer, began a compilation of early voyages in 1590 and had pu...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1609
Selling price: $80
Sold in 2023
Imago Incolarum Insulae Madagascar Seu.
Showing locals of Madagascar. With a explanatory text in Latin, underneath, explaining "The country-folk of the island of Madagascar often carry about with them thre...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1609
Selling price: $60
Sold in 2017
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
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[Fishes / Birds].
Text engraving with lettered key (A-I) showing fishes and birds, whale and Dutch vessels seen around the costs of Southern Africa from "Premier livre de l'histoire d...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Cornille Nicolas, 1609
Selling price: $40
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
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
Abissinorum regnu.
Early map of Central Africa published in Latin edition of the Mercator/Hondius Atlas Minor .It covers central Africa around the fabled mountains of the moon in the center...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1610
Selling price: $90
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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 Mercator...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca 1610
Selling price: $375
Sold in 2021
Araccensis in Africa, Munitionis catholico regi traditae..
Very rare so-called Einblatt druck of Morocco. In upper right hand corner inset map of Morocco and southern tip of Spain, Canaries and an over-sized Majorca. To the left ...
Place & Date: Augsburg 1611
Selling price: $1350
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I.S. Laurentii. / Rex Ins. S. Maria Indigenarum I.S. Laurentii imagines.
Johan Isaac Pontanus. Rerum et Urbis Amstelodamensium historia, with descriptions of the voyages made by the Dutch to Novoya Zemlya and the first voyage of the Dutch to t...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1611
Selling price: $180
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Mauritius.
From J.A.Pontanus\' \'Rerum et urbis Amstelodamensium historia\'. Description of the first voyage of the Dutch to the East Indies under command of Houtman.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1611
Selling price: $125
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I.S. Laurentii. (Madagascar).
A highly detailed map of Madagascar with 4 insets with detail maps and a print on verso depicting the inhabitants of the island. Even though this map is much smaller than...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1611
Selling price: $90
Sold in 2014
Carthaginen fis Finus.
This is a map of the Barbary area, subtitled "Le royaulme des Tunes".
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1612
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2015
Natoliae. . .Aegypti recentior..Carthaginis (3 maps on 1 sheet).
Rare. Three maps on one sheet. Map to the left east to the top. Detailed map Turkey, including Cyprus and Crete. Also map of the Nile delta and another map of Tunis.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1608-1612
Selling price: $95
Sold in 2020
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
I.S. Laurentii. (Madagascar).
A highly attractive and detailed miniature map of Madagascar with 4 insets embodying details of the map. A detailed etching on verso depicting the inhabitants of the isla...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1614
Selling price: $120
Sold in 2021
I.S. Lauretij sive Madagascar
Charming miniature map of Madagascar that the Portuguese named St. Laurence. North is oriented to the left and the Tropic of Capricorn cuts across the southern tip of the...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1616
Selling price: $80
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Insulae Capitis Viridis
Attractive map of the Cape Verde islands and the Moroccan coast. Very detailed naming many cities, islands, and major rivers. Decorative map from a Hondius/Bertius pocket...
Place & Date: Amsterdam c. 1616
Selling price: $80
Sold in 2009
Fessae regnum.
Nice small map of the northeast tip of Africa with Fez showing as the principal city. Decorative title and distance scale cartouches. French text on verso.
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1617
Selling price: $20
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Marocchi Regnum.
A nice map of a part of Morocco with the city Marrakech.
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1617
Selling price: $25
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Tabula Aphricae I.
A fine Ptolemaic map, probably from the Jansson/Magini atlas of 1617. It shows parts of today's Morocco and Algeria. Includes also a part of southern Spain and the Balear...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1617
Selling price: $30
Sold in 2018
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
Tabula Africae IIII.
A fine Ptolemaic map, probably from the Jansson/Magini atlas of 1617. It shows southern Europe, northern Africa, including Arabia in an early representation with curious ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1617
Selling price: $65
Sold in 2018
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
Arabia-Mombaza, Quiloa and Cefala
The plates from Georg Braun and Frans Hogenberg's landmark Civitates Orbis Terrarum are the most valuable source for the study of Renaissance urban topography, and among ...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1572-1618
Selling price: $190
Sold in 2010
Appendix Tab. III. Africae, Aegyptum Inferiorem Exhibens.
Map of the Nile delta based on the Ptolemaic model. Mercator originally published this map in his 1578 edition of Ptolemy's great Geography. Although he is most renowned ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1618
Selling price: $40
Sold in 2020
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
Fessae et Marocchi Regna
Richly embellished map of Morocco with a large inset titled Penon de Velez showing a fort on the Barbary coast. The map includes the Canary islands and Madera.Three strap...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1619
Selling price: $315
Sold in 2017
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
Abyssinen / Acomath .I. Turcarum Imperator .XIIX. Ex Stirp. Ottomannica. / Abissinorum Imperium.
The engraving depicts a half length oval portrait of "Acomath I". Map of central Africa on verso.Nicolaes de Clerck (de Klerc) was active as engraver and publis...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Cloppenburch, 1621
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2013
Canariae I.
Small map of the Canary Islands, surrounded by text in Dutch. Nicolaes de Clerck (de Klerc) was active as engraver and publisher in Delft from 1599-1621.Included in the r...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Cloppenburch, 1621
Selling price: $90
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Africae pars meridional.
Small map illustrating the southern part of Africa, surrounded by text in Dutch.Nicolaes de Clerck (de Klerc) was active as engraver and publisher in Delft from 1599-1621...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Cloppenburch, 1621
Selling price: $230
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Congo Regnum Christian. In Africa.
Small map illustrating the western seashores of Central Africa, surrounded by text in Dutch.Nicolaes de Clerck (de Klerc) was active as engraver and publisher in Delft fr...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Cloppenburch, 1621
Selling price: $140
Sold in 2009
Barbaria.
Small map illustrating the eastern part of the Mediterranean Basin, namely the African side. Surrounded by text in Dutch.Included in the rare book : Wereld Spiegel, waer ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Cloppenburch, 1621
Selling price: $95
Sold in 2013
Canariae I.
Small map of the Canary Islands, surrounded by text in Dutch. Nicolaes de Clerck (de Klerc) was active as engraver and publisher in Delft from 1599-1621.Included in the r...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Cloppenburch, 1621
Selling price: $90
Sold in 2016
Africae pars meridional.
Small map illustrating the southern part of Africa, surrounded by text in Dutch.Nicolaes de Clerck (de Klerc) was active as engraver and publisher in Delft from 1599-1621...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Cloppenburch, 1621
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2016
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
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
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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
AFRICAE DESCRIPTION.
This is the English re-issue of Jodocus Hondius' map of Africa.The year after publishing a folio edition of Mercator's atlas in 1606, Hondius prepared and published a set...
Place & Date: Amsterdam & London, (1607) 1626
Selling price: $85
Sold in 2011
Carte de L'Afrique, corrigée et augmentée desus toutes les autres cy deuant faictes par P.Bertius.
Rare map of Africa, no date. First state, issued by Melchoir Tavernier. Most probably engraved by Cornelis Danckerts (the elder), a highly skilled engraver. Most probably...
Place & Date: Paris, 1627
Selling price: $1400
Sold in 2019
BARBARIA.
With two insets: Map of the Siege of Tunis and map of the Nile Delta.From the tenth edition of the Mercator's Atlas Sive Cosmographicae completed and reissued by Henricus...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1628
Selling price: $200
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Nova Africae Tabula.
An attractive map of the continent, added by Hondius when he took over publication of Mercator\'s Atlas. Although it is based on Mercator\'s map, Hondius improved the out...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1628
Selling price: $650
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