Browse Listings in Africa
South Africa - Cape of Good Hope and adjacent coasts from Hondeklip Bay to Port Natal. Chart 2176.
Large chart representing the Cape of Good Hope and the surrounding area. A couple of places on the coastline are highlighted in red and yellow.Title flanked by explicativ...
Place & Date: London, 1867 updated for 1903
Selling price: $190
Sold in 2018
Stanford's library Map of Africa.
A monumental map of Africa, divided into four parts (north-west, north-east, south-west and south-east), each with a label on the colored paper backing to verso. Together...
Place & Date: London, 1904
Selling price: $1950
Sold in 2021
Sketch Map of the Far Eastern Rand from Johannesburg to Ermelo.
An extremely rare map showing mining concessions on the Eastern Part of the Witwatersrand Vein, the most important gold region in the world, published shortly after the S...
Place & Date: Bern, Geographischer Karten-Verlag Kümmerly & Frey, ca. 1905
Selling price: $500
Sold in 2017
Gran quadriglione Africano nel carnevale 1885 (Rana N. 28 - Cent. 20).
Imposing allegorical representation of the colonial aims of the European powers with regard to Africa. On the left the director of the large quadrociale the lady Diplomaz...
Place & Date: Bologna, 1905
Selling price: $1400
Sold in 2019
The Central Islands of the Seychelles Group. . .
A nice 'modern' map of the Seychelles, published 'to illustrate a paper by J. Stanley Gardiner, M.A.'. With a small reference table beneath the title and scales, inset of...
Place & Date: London, 1907
Selling price: $15
Sold in 2019
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[Africa - General continental map with Ottoman script]
Post card size map in Ottoman script showing Southern Africa from Mehmet Eşref’s ‘Küçük Atlas’, a rare portfolio of loose-leaf maps with text in Ottoman Turkis...
Place & Date: Istanbul, Şirket-i Mürettibiye ve Karacoğlu Matbaası 1325 or 1909
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2022
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[Libya - map with Ottoman script]
Post card size map in Ottoman script of Libya from Mehmet Eşref’s ‘Küçük Atlas’, a rare portfolio of loose-leaf maps with text in Ottoman Turkish, published in...
Place & Date: Istanbul, Şirket-i Mürettibiye ve Karacoğlu Matbaası 1325 or 1909
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2022
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[Equatorial Africa - map with Ottoman script]
Postcard size map in Ottoman script of Equatorial Africa from Mehmet Eşref’s ‘Küçük Atlas’, a rare portfolio of loose-leaf postcard-sized maps with text in Ott...
Place & Date: Istanbul, Şirket-i Mürettibiye ve Karacoğlu Matbaası 1325 or 1909
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2022
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[Equatorial Africa - map with Ottoman script]
Post card size map in Ottoman script of Sub-Saharan West Africa from Mehmet Esref’s ‘Küccük Atlas’, a rare portfolio of loose-leaf maps with text in Ottoman Turki...
Place & Date: Istanbul, Matbaasi 1325 or 1909
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2019
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[Egypt / Sudan - map with Ottoman script]
Postcard size map in Ottoman script of Egypt and Sudan from Mehmet Eşref’s ‘Küçük Atlas’, a rare portfolio of loose-leaf maps with text in Ottoman Turkish, pu...
Place & Date: Istanbul, Şirket-i Mürettibiye ve Karacoğlu Matbaası 1325 or 1909
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2022
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Very unusual and rare Railway map of todays Zimbabwe, parts of Mozambique, and parts of South Africa, parts of Congo and Tansania. Extends from Lake Tanganyika south unt...
Place & Date: London, c1910
Selling price: $120
Sold in 2022
Karte des Türkisch-ägyptischen Grenzgebietes. (Vorläufige Ausgabe) Blatt 3.
Centered on Suez, Great Bitter Lake and northern part of Suez Gulf and large part of the Sinai dessert during the World War I (1914-1918). Relief shown by hachures, gradi...
Place & Date: Berlin, 1917
Selling price: $500
Sold in 2018
Stanford's Wall Map: Library Map of Africa, in 4 sheets.
Stanford's Library Map of Africa, constructed by A. K. Johnston. Scale, 94.34 miles= 1 inch, or 1: 5,977,382 of nature. Large wall map of the continent in four sheets. F...
Place & Date: London 1866, updated for 1920
Selling price: $1050
Sold in 2015
![[Title in Ottoman Turkish: map of Africa].](/uploads/cache/44734-250x250.jpg)
[Title in Ottoman Turkish: map of Africa].
An uncommon Ottoman map of Africa. The continent is divided into different regions but no town names. In the lower left corner inset with title and key.Read more about th...
Place & Date: Ottoman Empire, ca. 1920
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2022
Plan de Tunis edité en 19éé par la librairie Yvorra & Barlier
A large plan of Tunis published by the Tunisian book shop and publisher Yvorra & Barlier.
Place & Date: Tunis, ca 1922
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2020
Map of Rhodesia.
A color-printed, wood engraved map of Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), as administered by the British South Africa Company, which lasted from 1889 to 1924, when it became a Briti...
Place & Date: London, 1923
Selling price: $70
Sold in 2016
Cape Verde Islands, St. Vincent, Porto Grande. . .
A large maritime chart of Porto Grand on the island of St. Vincent of the Cape Verde islands. The map has tremendous physical detail, plus the settlement of Mindello. The...
Place & Date: London, [1874] 1926
Selling price: $205
Sold in 2019
Cape of Good Hope & Adjacent Coasts from Hondeklip Bay to Port Natal.
A very large double sheet British Admiralty sea chart of the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa. It has extensive coastal detail, with lighthouses or beacons, highlighted ...
Place & Date: London, [1867] 1927
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2019
Colonie du Dahomey Carte Routiere dressée au service Géographique de l'A.O.F. Dakar.
Dissected and mounted on linen road map of Dahomey colony, on witch the limits of the state, the colony, and the circle are indicated.
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1928
Selling price: $325
Sold in 2017
(Single sheet from Tabula Rogeriana world map with North African section.)
Separate single sheet sheet (of 6) with the North African section of the [TABULA ROGERIANA] [NUZHAT AL-MUSHTĀQ FI'KHTIRĀQ AL-ĀFĀQ - TH...
Place & Date: 1151 BUT Suttgart, Konrad Miller, 1928
Selling price: $110
Sold in 2017
Plan de Tunis.
A scarce old street map of Tunis published by Shell. Includes a key with 21 addresses. Verso with curious advertisements.
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1930
Selling price: $60
Sold in 2017
The Suez Canal.
A folding map of "The World's most Important Waterway". Complete with small index map bottom right corner, eight small colored illustrations along the canal, a ...
Place & Date: Port Said (Egypt), ca. 1930
Selling price: $275
Sold in 2017
Congo Nova Descriptio.
Beautiful and decorative pictorial map of Congo, showing different tribes of this area. The poster carries a wealth of information and presents a selection of traditional...
Place & Date: Paris, 1930
Selling price: $750
Sold in 2021
Tourist Plan of Johannesburg.
A lovely color map in brochure form of Johannesburg, with a pair of inset plans one is 'HOW TO FIND The Johannesburg Publicity Association Offices and Visitors Bureau' &a...
Place & Date: Pretoria, 1936
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2020
New Map of Cairo and Environs.
A nice, decorative city plan of Cairo in stiff grey printed card wrappers, with a comprehensive index of Clubs, Hospitals, Churches, Government Offices and General Points...
Place & Date: Alexandria, ca 1936
Selling price: $80
Sold in 2020
Giuoco dei dadi Nutro. Alla ricerca del tersoro di menelick
Goos-game with 75 numbered boxes, numbered counterclockwise, advertising of the Nutro company. Prepared by L. Ciompi. The boxes starting with the departure of a voyage in...
Place & Date: Milan, Off. Graf.S.Tavella & C., 1936
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2020
Mission d'études du Haut fleuve Sénegal.
Five maps likely prepared by "La Mission d'Etudes du Fleuve Sénégal" (MEFS) which was a public body responsible for the conduct and execution of all th...
Place & Date: Senegal, ca. 1935-1938
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2017
Schaubild von Afrika mit bildlicher Darstellung der wichtigsten Bodenschätze und Wirtschaftgüter.
Decoratively designed economic map of Africa with pictorial representation of the most important mineral resources and economic goods for the respective area.In right han...
Place & Date: München, ca. 1939
Selling price: $750
Sold in 2022
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[Untitled] Panoramic Pictorial map of the River Nile.
An unusual large pictorial map of the River Nile, printed in English. It shows the river at the Nile Delta and the Mediterranean Sea, with pithy comments about Alexandria...
Place & Date: U.S.A., ca 1942
Selling price: $120
Sold in 2018
Gran Canaria to Hierro.
A very large double sheet sea chart of Gran Canaria to Hierro in the Canary Islands, originally surveyed by Capt. A.T.E. Vidal and Lieut. W. Arlett, R.N. between 1834-183...
Place & Date: London, 1942
Selling price: $57
Sold in 2023
Madagascar
Very decorative, informative map of Madagascar. The map is filled with buildings, animals, figures and two locals in their typical dress.In lower left corner "Imprim...
Place & Date: France, 1943
Cote d'Ivoire
Very decorative, informative map of the Ivory coast. The map is filled with buildings, animals, a ship, figures and two locals in their typical dress.In lower left corner...
Place & Date: France, 1943
Selling price: $90
Sold in 2012
Oubangui-Chari.
Very decorative, informative map of Central Africa. The map is filled with buildings, animals, figures and two locals in their typical dress.In lower left corner "Im...
Place & Date: France, 1943
Selling price: $90
Sold in 2018
Alger.
Very decorative, informative map of Algeria. The map is filled with buildings, animals, figures and two locals in their typical dress.In lower left corner "Imprimé ...
Place & Date: France, 1943
Selling price: $90
Sold in 2018
Oran. (Algeria)
Very decorative, informative map of Oran province in Algeria. The map is filled with buildings, animals, ships, figures and two locals in their typical dress.In lower lef...
Place & Date: France, 1943
Selling price: $70
Sold
Maroc.
Very decorative, informative map of Marocco. The map is filled with buildings, animals, a ship, figures and three locals in their typical dress.In lower left corner "...
Place & Date: France, 1943
Selling price: $60
Sold in 2010
Tunisie.
Very decorative, informative map of Tunesia. The map is filled with buildings, animals, a ship, figures and two locals in their typical dress. With a large compass rose i...
Place & Date: France, 1943
Selling price: $90
Sold in 2018
Niger.
Very decorative, informative map of Nigeria. The map is filled with buildings, animals, figures and two locals. With a large compass rose in upper right corner.In lower l...
Place & Date: France, 1943
Selling price: $90
Sold in 2018
La Réunion.
Very decorative, informative map of the island of Reunion. The map is filled with buildings, animals, figures and two locals. With a large compass rose in upper right cor...
Place & Date: France, 1943
Selling price: $70
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Cote d'Ivoire
Very decorative, informative map of the Ivory coast. The map is filled with buildings, animals, a ship, figures and two locals in their typical dress.In lower left corner...
Place & Date: France, 1943
Selling price: $55
Sold in 2016
La Réunion.
Very decorative, informative map of the island of Reunion. The map is filled with buildings, animals, figures and two locals. With a large compass rose in upper right cor...
Place & Date: France, 1943
Selling price: $60
Sold in 2018
Maroc.
Very decorative, informative map of Morocco. The map is filled with buildings, animals, a ship, figures and three locals in their typical dress.In lower left corner "...
Place & Date: France, 1943
Selling price: $55
Sold in 2016
La Réunion.
Very decorative, informative map of the island of Reunion. The map is filled with buildings, animals, figures and two locals. With a large compass rose in upper right cor...
Place & Date: France, 1943
Selling price: $60
Sold in 2016
Madagascar
Very decorative, informative map of Madagascar. The map is filled with buildings, animals, figures and two locals in their typical dress.In lower left corner "Imprim...
Place & Date: France, 1943
Selling price: $60
Sold in 2016
Niger.
Very decorative, informative map of Nigeria. The map is filled with buildings, animals, figures and two locals. With a large compass rose in upper right corner.In lower l...
Place & Date: France, 1943
Selling price: $60
Sold in 2016
Madagascar.
Very decorative, informative map of Madagascar. The map is filled with buildings, animals, figures and two locals in their typical dress.In lower left corner "Imprim...
Place & Date: France, 1943
Selling price: $60
Sold in 2018
Cote d'Ivoire
Very decorative, informative map of the Ivory coast. The map is filled with buildings, animals, a ship, figures and two locals in their typical dress.In lower left corner...
Place & Date: France, 1943
Selling price: $60
Sold in 2018
Sierra Leone
A 1948 map of Sierra Leone published by the Directorate of Colonial Surveys, and printed by the War Office.
Place & Date: London, 1948
Selling price: $45
Sold in 2017
Nyasaland Protectorate
Nyasaland Protectorate published by the Directorate of Colonial Surveys, and printed by the War Office in 1948.
Place & Date: London, 1948
Selling price: $45
Sold in 2017
Uganda Protectorate
A 1948 map of Uganda under the British Protectorate, published by the Directorate of Colonial Surveys, and printed by the War Office.
Place & Date: London, 1948
Selling price: $45
Sold in 2017
Gambia
A 1948 map of Gambia under the British Protectorate, published by the Directorate of Colonial Surveys, and printed by the War Office.
Place & Date: London, 1948
Selling price: $45
Sold in 2017
Kenya Colony
A 1948 map of the Kenya Colony, published by the Directorate of Colonial Surveys, printed by the War Office.
Place & Date: London, 1948
Selling price: $45
Sold in 2017
Northern Rhodesia
A 1948 map Northern Rhodesia published by the Directorate of Colonial Surveys, printed by the War Office.
Place & Date: London, 1948
Selling price: $45
Sold in 2017
Nigeria
A 1948 map of Nigeria published by the Directorate of Colonial Surveys, printed by the War Office.
Place & Date: London, 1948
Selling price: $45
Sold in 2017
Gold Coast
The African Gold Coast published by the Directorate of Colonial Surveys, and printed by the War Office in 1948.
Place & Date: London, 1948
Selling price: $45
Sold in 2017
Map of Natal.
Pictorial map of Natal showing the rail way system, published by the Government printer. Decorated with tourist attractions and key in lower right.Read more about Pictori...
Place & Date: Pretoria, 1949
Selling price: $70
Sold in 2020
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Suid-Afrikaanse Lugdiens Roetekaart dui binnenlandse dienste en die Springbokdiens-route... [with on verso] South African Airways Route Map Shewing Internal Services and Springbox ...
Suid-Afrikaanse Lugdiens Roetekaart dui binnenlandse dienste en die Springbokdiens-route... [with on verso] South African Airways Route Map Shewing Internal Services and ...
Place & Date: Johannesburg, 1950
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2018
Congo Belge.
This poster was included in the picture book "Faunaflor-Kongo" of the chocolate manufacturer Côte D'or. Printed in Belgium by Ets. Leon Beyaert-Sioen N.V. Kort...
Place & Date: Kortrijk, ca. Ca. 1950
Selling price: $35
Sold in 2019
Afrique Occidentale Française AOF.
Beautiful and decorative lithograph pictorial map of French West Africa, showing tribes, animals, monuments, landscapes. Made for Ministere de la France d'Outre-mer, agen...
Place & Date: Imprimerie Jombart, Asnières, ca. 1950
Selling price: $1000
Sold in 2020
Souvenir Guide Map of Cairo.
A lovely small colored plan of central Cairo, published by Groppi in Cairo. The plan clearly lays out the streets and important buildings and places of interest nearest t...
Place & Date: Cairo, 1920-1950
Selling price: $14
Sold in 2020
Afrique.
color printed pictorial map of Africa, with decorative title cartouche and borders, depict countries, regions, major cities, animals and wildlife. Includes decorative com...
Place & Date: Paris, 1951
Selling price: $110
Sold in 2018
Afrique Equatoriale Française AEF.
Beautiful and decorative lithograph pictorial map of Equatorial Africa, showing tribes, animals, landscapes… Made for Ministere de la France d'Outre-mer, agence des Col...
Place & Date: Imprimerie Jombart, Asnières, ca. 1951
Selling price: $950
Sold in 2020
Afrique.
color printed pictorial map of Africa, with decorative title cartouche and borders, depict countries, regions, major cities, animals and wildlife. Includes decorative com...
Place & Date: Paris, 1951
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2020
Carte géologique du Nord-Ouest del'Afrique SAHARA CENTRAL.
Geological map showing the Sahara and made by M.Lelubre, R.Karpoff, J.Follot, P.Bordet, A.Cornet, M.Dalloni, etc. Printed by Dufrenoy of Paris.Published by "Comité ...
Place & Date: Paris, c. 1952
Selling price: $160
Sold in 2017
A Map of the Cape Peninsula. Issued by the Cape Peninsula Publicity Association Adderley Street Cape Town South Africa.
Beautiful pictorial map of the Cape Peninsula South Africa shows, its neighbourhood's, green spaces, and historic points of interest. Drawn by Stuart Boyle and published ...
Place & Date: Cape Town, 1952
Selling price: $325
Sold in 2018
A Map of the Cape Peninsula. Issued by the Cape Peninsula Publicity Association Adderley Street Cape Town South Africa.
Beautiful pictorial map of the Cape Peninsula South Africa shows, its neighborhood's, green spaces, and historic points of interest. Drawn by Stuart Boyle and published b...
Place & Date: Cape Town, 1952
Selling price: $80
Sold in 2020
Port d'Abidjan.
An unusual sea-chart of Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire. With excellent detail of the coasts, and the city. The left chart shows the harbour, and the chart on the right shows the...
Place & Date: Paris, 1965
Selling price: $21
Sold in 2018
Africa on maps dating from the twelfth to the eighteenth century. Africa auf Karten des 12. bis 18. Jahrhunderts.
First edition. Cloth over Boards. First edition. Elephant folio. The book contains Seventy-seven reproductions of maps of Africa from European map collections, with maps ...
Place & Date: Leipzig, 1968
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2017
A map of Robertson area as defined for the production of wines of origins . . .
Decorative map of Robertson, a wine area in South Africa. The Cape winelands stretch from the rugged mountains and multi-directional slopes of the coastal region to the o...
Place & Date: South Africa, 1973
Selling price: $60
Sold in 2019
A map of the Worcester area as defined for the production of wines of origin . . .
Decorative map of Worcester, a wine area in South Africa. The Cape winelands stretch from the rugged mountains and multi-directional slopes of the coastal region to the o...
Place & Date: South Africa, 1973
Selling price: $85
Sold in 2019
A map of the Olifantsrivier area as defined for the production of wines of origin . . .
Decorative map of Olifantsrivier, a wine area in South Africa. The Cape winelands stretch from the rugged mountains and multi-directional slopes of the coastal region to ...
Place & Date: South Africa, 1973
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2019
Table Bay to Cape Agulhas.
A large scale Admiralty sea-chart of Cape Town, extending until Struis Bay. With excellent detail of the coasts, including depth soundings. With two insets of Point Dange...
Place & Date: London, 1973
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2018
Africa.
A pictorial map of Africa.
Place & Date: Italy, 1986
Selling price: $130
Sold in 2020
Tabula Aphricae I .
One of the earliest maps of Morocco and Tunisia, the northern coast of Africa, including Gibraltar and the Balearic islands. Early double page copperplate engraving from ...
Place & Date: Venice, 1574
Selling price: $65
Sold in 2014
Tab. IV. Africae in qua Libya Interior et Exterior. Aethiopia sub Aegypto et Interior. . .
This finely engraved Ptolemaic map of Northern Africa shows the twin lake sources of the Nile located near the Lune Montes. The Niger River is prominently featured in Lib...
Place & Date: Utrecht, 1695?
Selling price: $130
Sold in 2018
Saint Helena.
This fine hand colored original copper-plate engraved antique map of the Island of St Helena in the southern Atlantic that was published by Pieter Van der Aa. With cherub...
Place & Date: Leiden, ca 1710
Selling price: $130
Sold in 2020
A New & Accurate Map of the Western parts of BARBARY, containing FEZ, MOROCCO, ALGIERS, TUNIS & BILEDULGERID.
An attractive and detailed map of North Africa by Emanuel Bowen (ca.1693-1767) an English engraver, publisher and map seller, active in London from about 1720. Map is enh...
Place & Date: London, ca 1750
Selling price: $31
Sold in 2019
CARTE NOUVELLE D'AFRIQUE.
An original rare copper engraved map of 'modern' Africa by Moithey, published by Etienne André Philippe de Pretot, Paris, from the atlas 'Cosmographie Universelle' - ca ...
Place & Date: Paris ca 1765
Selling price: $180
Sold in 2021
Partie de L' Afrique en deca de l' Equateur.
Louis Brion de la Tour (1756-1823), ' Atlas Géneral, Civil et Ecclésiastique', 1766, ' Atlas Général', 1790-98. Louis Charles Desnos (fl.1750-70), Le Rouge's 'Atlas N...
Place & Date: Paris, 1766.
Selling price: $150
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Carte des Isles Canaries, avec l'Isle de Madere et celle de Porto Santo
Rigobert Bonne (1727-1795), French cartographer. His maps are found in a.o. Atlas Moderne (1762), Raynal's Histoire Philos. du Commerce des Indes (1774) and Atlas Encyclo...
Place & Date: Paris, 1784.
Selling price: $100
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