Browse Listings in Africa
Pars Litorum Africae Antiquis ignota.
A map 13.0 x 16.0 cm.(5.1 x 6.3 inches) set in a page of text from Claude Barthélemy Morisot: Orbis Maritimi sive rerum in mari et littoribus gestarum generalis historia...
Place & Date: Dijon, 1643
Selling price: $500
Sold in 2015
Guinea.
colorful cartouche on the lower border. Two natives sit at the sides of the title, above which is a scroll with flowers and fruit and, in the center, a very human-looking...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1644
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2008
BARBARIA.
Charming map of the whole of North Africa and the famed Barbary coast. Two large insets at bottom, Carthaginensis Sinus with the city of Tunis, and a map of the Nile Delt...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1639-1644
Selling price: $77
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Guinea.
colorful cartouche on the lower border. Two natives sit at the sides of the title, above which is a scroll with flowers and fruit and, in the center, a very human-looking...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1644
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2018
Africae nova descriptio.
Much of the geographical information is still based on the Ptolemaic maps, with the Nile shown with its source in the Lakes Zaire and Zaflan. Also included are various ot...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1644
Selling price: $2500
Sold in 2021
Africa nova Tabula.
Very rare map of Africa separately published. This derivative map by Nicolas Picart is based upon the second state of Janssonius' map of 1623, after the lower border had ...
Place & Date: Paris, 1644
Selling price: $3000
Sold in 2023
Guinea.
Samuel Purchas' edition of the Mercator/Hondius "Atlas Minor". Map of Guinea published in his famous collection of voyages "His Pilgrimes". With descr...
Place & Date: London 1645
Selling price: $80
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Barbaria / Egypt / Tunesia.
Samuel Purchas' edition of the Mercator/Hondius "Atlas Minor". Northern Africa published in his famous collection of voyages "His Pilgrimes". With des...
Place & Date: London 1645
Selling price: $80
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Africae nova descriptio.
Much of the geographical information is still based on the Ptolemaic maps, with the Nile shown with its source in the Lakes Zaire and Zaflan. Also included are various ot...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1645
Selling price: $4500
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Aethiopia inferior, vel exterior.
The standard map of South Africa throughout the 17th century. The lake out of which the 'Zambere' -the Zambesi- flows is probably based on reports of Lake Ngami, undiscov...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1645
Selling price: $700
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Fessae regnum.
The rare Samuel Purchas' edition of the Mercator/Hondius Atlas Minor atlas map. Early map of Morocco published in his famous collection of voyages His Pilgrimes . With de...
Place & Date: London, 1645
Selling price: $60
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Africae nova descriptio.
Much of the geographical information is still based on the Ptolemaic maps, with the Nile shown with its source in the Lakes Zaire and Zaflan. Also included are various ot...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1645
Selling price: $2525
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Africae nova descriptio.
Much of the geographical information is still based on the Ptolemaic maps, with the Nile shown with its source in the Lakes Zaire and Zaflan. Also included are various ot...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1645
Selling price: $3725
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Aethiopia Inferior vel Exterior Monomotapa...
Very attractive and decorative double page map of the southern half of Africa. This map is an reduced version of the Bleau and Jansson maps. The area shown is from the Co...
Place & Date: Frankfurt ca. 1645
Selling price: $475
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Carta Particolare della Barberia Australe che comincia con il capo Matas è Finiscie con ilc Himilas con l'Isole di capo Verde.
First state of Dudley?s magnificent chart showing the west coast of Africa including the Cape Verde Islands. Include a sailing ship, notes on prevailing winds and current...
Place & Date: Florence 1645
Selling price: $550
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Carta Particolare della parte Tramontana dell Isola di San Lorenzo con la costa diripetto sino à Monbazza con l'Isole è Seccagne int.. Carta XIII I.
First state of Dudley?s magnificent chart showing the east coast of Africa including the northern half of Madagascar. Include a sailing ship, compass card, notes on preva...
Place & Date: Florence 1645
Selling price: $700
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Carta Particolare del mare di Etthiopia con l'Idola di S:Elena è parte della Costa .. Carta VIIII.
First state of Dudley's magnificent showing the west coast of Africa. Include sailing ships, compass card, notes on prevailing winds and currents and more stylized calli...
Place & Date: Florence, 1645
Selling price: $850
Sold in 2008
Carta Particolare che commincia con il fiu me Iuntas nella Guinea è finisce con il capo di S.Dara è con l'Isola d'S:Thmaso. . Carta VI.
First state of Dudley?s magnificent chart showing the coast of New Guinea. Include a sailing ship, compass card, notes on prevailing winds and currents and more stylized ...
Place & Date: Florence 1645
Selling price: $800
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Carta Particolare che comincia con l'Isola di S:Tomaso o Tome è d S. Clara è finisce con il c: d' Aldeas .. Carta VII.
Dudley?s magnificent chart shows the Gulf of Guinea with the Island São Tomé. One of the smaller scale, more specific (?Carta Particolare?) maps and include sailing shi...
Place & Date: Florence 1645
Selling price: $450
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Carta Particolare che comincia con l'Isola di S:Tomaso o Tome è d S. Clara è finisce con il c: d' Aldeas .. Carta VII.
Dudley?s magnificent chart shows the Gulf of Guinea. One of the smaller scale, more specific (?Carta Particolare?) maps and include sailing ships, notes on prevailing win...
Place & Date: Florence 1645
Selling price: $650
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Marocchi Regnum.
Samuel Purchas' edition of the Mercator/Hondius "Atlas Minor". Early map of Morocco published in his famous collection of voyages "His Pilgrimes". Wit...
Place & Date: London, 1645
Selling price: $80
Sold in 2020
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
Africae nova descriptio.
Much of the geographical information is still based on the Ptolemaic maps, with the Nile shown with its source in the Lakes Zaire and Zaflan. Also included are various ot...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1645
Selling price: $4700
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Barbaria / Egypt / Tunesia.
An illustrated page with three maps describing the coastal region in Northern Africa extending from Egypt to the Atlantic Ocean.The lower right map is of the Nile delta.T...
Place & Date: London, 1645
Selling price: $75
Sold in 2020
Occidentalior Tractus Indiarum Orientalium à Promotorio Bonae Spei ad C. Comorin.
Rare sea chart by Ottens of showing the coastlines of the Arabian peninsula and Africa up to Cape Town, with a splendid cartouche of royal figures and animals.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1645
Selling price: $1050
Sold in 2009
Guinea.
An attractive map covering the coast from Sierra Leone to Gabon, filled with intersecting rhumb lines and decorated with monkeys, lions, elephants, sea monsters, and two ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, c.1645
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2012
Carta particolare che comincia con il c.apo Aldea e Finisce con il capo Degortam.
Dudley’s magnificent chart shows the south west coast of Africa..Engraved by Lucini.Sir Robert Dudley's Dell'Arcano del Mare is the earliest printed sea atlas to cover ...
Place & Date: Florence, 1645
Selling price: $400
Sold in 2014
Carta particolare che comincia con il c.apo Aldea e Finisce con il capo Degortam.
Dudley’s magnificent shows the south west coast of Africa. A first edition without the privilege..Engraved by Lucini.Sir Robert Dudley's Dell'Arcano del Mare is the ea...
Place & Date: Florence, 1645
Selling price: $600
Sold in 2015
Africae Nova Descriptio.
A fine example of one of the most decorative early maps of Africa in original color. 2nd state of 1621-30. Latin text on verso. The top border panels consist of oval vign...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1645
Selling price: $2850
Sold in 2019
Aethiopia inferior, vel exterior.
A very decorative, large map of South Africa, which became the standard delineation of the region throughout the 17th century. The lake from which the 'Zambere' (the Zamb...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1645
Selling price: $260
Sold in 2020
Abbildung der Statt Gigeri in affrica, wie solche der König in Franckreich durch den Hertzogen de Beaufort eingenohmen
Attractive engraving of the Jijel (Djidjelli) in North-west Algeria from Matthaus Merian. Showing the city with several ships and the Atlas Mountains in background. With ...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1646
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2009
Carta Particolare che commincia con il capo Aldea è Finisce?
Engraved by Lucini.Sir Robert Dudley's Dell'Arcano del Mare is the earliest printed sea atlas to cover the entire world, and the first made by an Englishman, and the firs...
Place & Date: Florence 1646
Selling price: $305
Sold in 2010
Algier
Attractive birdeye view of Algiers in Algeria from Matthäus Merian. Showing the city with city walls, outlying forts and several ships in the harbour. From J. Gottfried'...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1646
Selling price: $110
Sold in 2009
Africae nova Tabula.
Fine map of Africa, it's the issue of Jodocus Hondius map, without the decorative borders. There are six ships in full sail on the Atlantic and one to the south of Madaga...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1646
Selling price: $600
Sold in 2017
Carta particolare che mostra il Capo buona Speranza.
A particularly rich example of the Dudley sea chart with several lush samples of Lucini’s remarkable engraving of calligraphic lettering. The chart, in addition to the ...
Place & Date: Florence, 1646
Selling price: $850
Sold in 2018
Carta particolare che mostra il Capo buona Speranza con il mare....
The rare first state in a beautiful example.
Place & Date: Florence, 1646
Selling price: $850
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TUNIS.
A beautiful, antique town view of Tunisia, Tunis. Printed in Frankfurt by Merian in 1646. Including zoological and botanical gardens. From J. Gottfried's "Neuwe Arch...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1646
Selling price: $60
Sold in 2021
ALGIER.
A beautiful, antique town view of Algiers, printed in Frankfurt by Merian in 1646. An attractive birds-eye view of Algiers in Algeria showing the city with its walls, out...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1646
Selling price: $130
Sold in 2020
Abris der Vestung Tripoli in Barbarien.
Interesting engraving of the fort of Tripoli in Libya from Matthäus Merian. Showing details of the fort with an 29 key indexMatthäus Merian the Elder was born September...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1646
Selling price: $25
Sold in 2020
Africae nova descriptio.
Much of the geographical information is still based on the Ptolemaic maps, with the Nile shown with its source in the Lakes Zaire and Zaflan. Also included are various ot...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1648
Selling price: $4100
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Africae Descriptio.
Detailed miniature map of Africa, from a German text edition of his Atlas Minor. Engraved by A. Goos.
Place & Date: Amsterdam (1628) 1648
Selling price: $190
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Aethiopia superior vel interior.
An attractive map of the Eastern African and the fictitious kingdom of Prester John. The map shows a major section of central and eastern Africa including Mozambique nort...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1639-1649
Selling price: $195
Sold in 2014
Aethiopia Inferior vel Exterior.
The standard map of South Africa throughout the 17th century. The map covers an area from Congo-Zanzibar to the Cape. It was published before Van Riebeeck settled at the ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1639-1649
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2014
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
Aethiopia Inferior vel Exterior Monomotapa
Nice engraved map of South Africa from M. Merian based on the Blaeu map. With a beautiful cartouche with turtles and monkeys. With several ships and animals.
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1650
Selling price: $190
Sold in 2009
Africae nova descriptio.
A "carte à figures"- map by one of the most prominent publishers of maps. Much of the geographical information is still based on the Ptolemaic maps, with the N...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1650
Selling price: $2500
Sold in 2018
Nova Aegypti Tabula.
Beautiful map of northern Egypt and the Red Sea. With an ornate cartouche and two surveyors supporting the mileage scale. Top right a coat of arms emblazoned with three v...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1650
Selling price: $400
Sold in 2015
Regna Congo et Angola
A superb delineation of the Congo and Angola as known in the 17th century. Portions of Gabon and Sao Tome are also depicted. Key ports and interior towns are identified a...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1650
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2010
Femme moresque de Tripoly en Barbarie. (61)
Sought-after copper engraved plate of a woman with child from Tripoli. Plate from Laonikos Chalcocondyle’s "L'histoire de la décadence de l'empire grec et establi...
Place & Date: Paris, Mathieu Guillemot, 1650
Selling price: $25
Sold in 2021
Femme More d'Ager en Barbarie ammant par la Ville. (62)
Sought-after copper engraved plate of a woman from Algeria. Plate from Laonikos Chalcocondyle’s "L'histoire de la décadence de l'empire grec et establissement de ...
Place & Date: Paris, Mathieu Guillemot, 1650
Selling price: $20
Sold in 2023
AFRICAE nova Tabula. Auct. Hen. Hondio.
Important map of Africa, it's the issue of Jodocus Hondius map, without the decorative borders. There are six ships in full sail on the Atlantic and one to the south of M...
Place & Date: Amsterdam , 1631-1650
Selling price: $350
Sold in 2012
Africa Vetus.
A fine map of the ancient African continent.This edition carries the date 1650, with a privilege of twenty years.Below right Madagascar and left a tip of the South Americ...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1650
Selling price: $250
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AFRICÆ Noua TABVLA.
A very rare, decorative French map of Africa . Only known example. Apart from its rarity, this is a highly decorative, finely engraved map with several ships in south Atl...
Place & Date: Paris, c.1650
Selling price: $1600
Sold in 2013
Afrique Par N. Sanson d'Abbevile.
According to Betz, this is a landmark map of Africa, It is the first French map to depict significantly new information. The map is known in one state. The map was prepar...
Place & Date: Paris, 1650
Selling price: $240
Sold in 2013
Africae nova descriptio.
Fine and important "carte à figures"- map of Africa. Much of the geographical information is still based on the Ptolemaic maps, with the Nile shown with its so...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1650
Selling price: $2750
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Aethopia Inferior vel Exterior Monomotapa.
A very attractive map of the African region south of the Congo, probably derived from Blaeu, and based on Portuguese exploration. The interior is filled with indigenous ...
Place & Date: Frankfurt ca 1650
Selling price: $110
Sold in 2018
AFRIQUE par N. Sanson d'Abbeville.
According to Betz, this is a landmark map of Africa, It is the first French map to depict significantly new information. The map is known in one state. The map was prepar...
Place & Date: Paris, 1650
Selling price: $320
Sold in 2019
Africa Vectus.
A striking example of Sanson's fine map of ancient Africa, with a wonderful cartouche adorned with eagles. Although the overall shape of Africa, and its surrounds, confor...
Place & Date: Paris, 1650
Selling price: $180
Sold in 2021
Afrique Par N. Sanson d'Abbevile,
According to Betz, this is a landmark map of Africa, It is the first French map to depict significantly new information. The map is known in one state. The map was prepar...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1652
Selling price: $550
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(Chorographia orginis Nili juxta obervationem Odardi Lopez Fol 55. [together with] Chorographia Originis Nili... ex Arabum Geographis deprobpta. Fol. 53 [and] Vera et ...
(Chorographia orginis Nili juxta obervationem Odardi Lopez Fol 55. [together with] Chorographia Originis Nili... ex Arabum Geographis deprobpta. Fol. 53 [and] Vera et Gen...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1652
Selling price: $650
Sold in 2015
Partie de Barbarie ou Sont les Royaumes de Tunis et Tripoli. . .
A coastal map of Tunisia and Libya prepared by N.Sanson and published by Pierre Mariette. Published in an early edition of the small Sanson atlas L'Europe Dediée a Monse...
Place & Date: Paris, 1652
Selling price: $20
Sold in 2019
Africae Nova Descr.
Offered is a large, extremely decorativem very rare state of Pieter van den Keere's map of Africa, which was first published in 1614 and was the first folio-sized map of ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1652
Selling price: $2700
Sold in 2023
Carte De Nigritie Et Guinee.
Copper engraving map of Nigeria and Guinea, Western Africa, from Mauritania to Zaire. The map has an attractive water mark and a Decorative title cartouche. A highly deta...
Place & Date: Paris, 1653
Selling price: $280
Sold in 2015
Pascaerte van Guinea, en Angola, van R de Gambia tot Cabo de Bona Esperanca.
A sea chart of the Gulf of Guinea, with the neighbouring countries, it shows the coasts and all places. In the sea some boats for decoration and the islands of Fernando, ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1654
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2017
ROYAUME de MAROC divise en sept-Provinces &c.
A very fine, old color, decorative map of Morocco, first published by Nicholas Sanson in 1654. The map is based in part on the maps in the atlas of Livio Sanuto.
Place & Date: Paris 1654
Selling price: $45
Sold in 2019
EGYPTE divisee en ses DOUZE CASSILIFS, ou GOUVERNEMENS.
A very fine, detailed map of Egypt, first issued by Nicolas Sanson in 1654. Extends from the Red Sea and Israel to the Nile River Valley.
Place & Date: Paris 1654
Selling price: $66
Sold in 2019
Afrique..
Fine map of Africa including the twin lake sources of the Nile and a peculiar mountain ranges.The format includes the Canary and Cape Verde Islands as well as several oth...
Place & Date: Paris c.1655
Selling price: $300
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Partie de la Coste de Barbarie en Africque..
Decorative map of northern part of Africa with Tunisia and Libya, including Malta.Engraved by Joannes Somer. A first state with address A Paris chez Pierre Mariette en la...
Place & Date: Paris 1655
Selling price: $100
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Aethiopie, qui Compren les Royaume de Congo, Coste et Pays des Cafres, Empires du Monomotapa et Monoemugi...Par N. Sanson... A Paris Chez P. Marieete...1655. I Somer Pruthenis sculp.
Nicolas Sanson (1600-67), 'father of the French cartography' and founder of the Sanson firm. Atlas ' Cartes générales de toutes les parties du Monde', 1658-70 and a poc...
Place & Date: Paris, P. Mariette, 1655
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2017
Estats et Royaumes de Fez et Maroc, Darha et Segelmesse.
A striking map of today's Morocco and Algeria that includes the southern tip of Spain and the Strait of Gibraltar. Decorated by a large title cartouche.Nicolas Sanson (16...
Place & Date: Paris, 1655
Selling price: $299
Sold in 2014
Africae Tabula Nova.
From Italian pirated edition of Ortelius miniature atlas 'Theatro del Mondo di Abraamo Ortelio' by Giovanni Turrini in 1655. Italian text on verso. Page size about 135 by...
Place & Date: Venice, G. Turrini, 1655
Selling price: $225
Sold in 2015
Africae Propriae Tabula. In Qua, Punica Regna Vides, Tyrios, et Agenoris Urbem
A fine decorative map of the coasts of present day Tunisia and Libya, with southern Sicily and Malta. It has a fancy title cartouche, a detailed compass rose, and a large...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca.1655
Selling price: $160
Sold in 2016
Royaume et Desert de Barca et L'Egypte. . .
A striking map of Egypt and the eastern parts of Libya by Nicholas Sanson, "the founder of French cartography" (Tooley). The map extent is from Sidon in the Hol...
Place & Date: Paris, 1655
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2018
Estats et Royaumes de Fez et Maroc, Darha et Seglmesse.
A decorative map of Morocco with illustrated topography and many towns and villages. Beautifully engraved title cartouche. Extends into Algeria with good detail of rivers...
Place & Date: Paris, 1655
Selling price: $149
Sold in 2019
Pays, et Coste des Caffres: Empires du Monomotapa Monoemugi, &c.
Map of South Africa, from the first edition of the atlas L'Afrique en plusieurs cartes nouvelles, et exactes; & en divers traictés de Géographie, et d'Histoire.Nico...
Place & Date: Paris, 1657
Selling price: $120
Sold in 2014
Aethopia Superior vel Inferior vulgo Abissinorum sive.
An attractive map of Eastern Africa and the fictitious kingdom of Prester John. The map shows a large section of central and eastern Africa including Mozambique north to ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca 1657
Selling price: $180
Sold in 2018
Africae Propriae Tabula. . .
A fine example of Jansson's map of Sicily and North Africa. Decorative map showing the North African coast (Tunisia), Malta and its neighbouring islands, and a part of S...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1657
Selling price: $75
Sold in 2019
PARTIE DU BILEDULGERID ou sont TESSET, DARHA et SEGELMESSE &c.
A very fine decorative map of Morocco and the Canary Islands. In upper left hand corner decorative title cartouche. Engraved by A.de Winter.
Place & Date: Paris 1657
Selling price: $45
Sold in 2019
ISLE DE MADAGASCAR ou de St. LAURENS.
Very fine map of Madagascar, first published by Sanson in 1657. A detailed map of Madagascar and near islands.Sanson notes the source of his map as Livio Sanuto and other...
Place & Date: Paris 1657
Selling price: $95
Sold in 2019