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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...

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...

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...

Africa ex magna orbis terre descriptione Gerardi Mercator. . .

Map of Africa, based on Gerard Mercator's twenty-one sheet wall map of the World, first published in 1569. Much of the interior of Africa defers to the traditions of Ptol...

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 outli...

Africa ex magna orbis terre descriptione Gerardi Mercator.

Map of Africa. Much of the interior of Africa defers to the traditions of Ptolemy. The Nile river is shown with the two lakes and the Mountains of the Moon across souther...

Africa ex magna orbis terre descriptione Gerardi Mercator. . .

Map of Africa. Much of the interior of Africa defers to the traditions of Ptolemy. The Nile river is shown with the two lakes and the Mountains of the Moon across souther...

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 outli...

Nova Africae Tabula.

A splendid map of the African continent, heightened in Gold. Added by Hondius when he took over publication of Mercator's Atlas. Although it is based on Mercator's map, H...

Africae nova Tabula . . .

Africa map from the rare Cloppenburg edition slightly larger format and more scarce edition of the Mercator/Hondius "Atlas Minor". Engraved by Pieter Van Den Ke...

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...

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...

Africae nova Tabula.

Fine "carte à figures"- map of Africa, it's the issue of Jodocus Hondius map, with decorative borders on three sides. There are six ships in full sail on the A...

Africa ex magna orbis terre descriptione Gerardi Mercator..

Map of Africa. The cartouche is circular, surrounded by decorative scrolls and surmounted by two satyrs. The beautiful calligraphy is a special feature of Mercator maps. ...

Africae nova tabula

Attractive colored map of Africa. Various animals appear in Africa, sea monsters and fishes in the ocean. It was publish first 1619 by Jodocus Hondius with four decorativ...

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...

Nova Africae Tabula, Auctore Jodoco Hondio

A beautiful map of Africa from the prestigeous Hondius company.This map is from one of the great Hondius/Mercator atlases of the early 17th century. Jodocus Hondius (1563...

Nova Description AFRICAE.

A decorative example of Merian's map of Africa. This map is richly embellished with animals, including elephants, monkeys, ostriches, gazelles, lions, cheetahs and camels...

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...

Carte de l' Afrique. . .

Very rare map of Africa.Prepared by P.Bertius and published by Michel van Lochem (1601-47). He was engraver and royal printer, active at "Rue St.Jacques à la Rose B...

Africae nova descriptio.

Fine "carte à figures"- map of the continent of Africa. Much of the geographical information is still based on the Ptolemaic maps, with the Nile shown with its...

Carte de L'Afrique Corrigee, et augmentee dessus toutes les aultres cy devant faictes par P. Bertius 1640.[Tavernier]

Scarce separately published map of Africa, first published by Melchior Tavernier in Paris in 1627.Bertius's map of Africa is one of the earliest maps of Africa engraved i...

Aethiopia Superior vel Interior vulgo Abissinorum...

Offered is a large, decorative, attractive map of Eastern African and the fictitious kingdom of Prester John. The map shows a major section of central and eastern Africa,...

Africae Litora Priscis Navigata.

Rare early map of Africa. The map is printed on a sheet (300x197mm) with Latin text above and below the map and full page of text on the verso. Morisot (1592-1661) was on...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Africae Descriptio.

Detailed miniature map of Africa, from a German text edition of his Atlas Minor. Engraved by A. Goos.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

Nova Africa descriptio.

A beautifully engraved and most attractive 'carte a figures' of the African continent. Bordered, above, by panels showing panorama's of Cairo, Alexandria, Algiers, Tunis,...

Africa antiqua et Nova.

Interesting map of Africa from a German edition of Philipp Clüver's famous Introductionis in Universam geographicam, first published in Leiden in 1624. Philipp Clüver (...

Africae Antiquae, et quarundam Europae Asiaeque Adiacentium Regionum.

A striking map of the northern and central portion of the African continent. The source of the Nile, on the Ptolemaic model, begins from the lakes Zaire and Zaflan, near ...

Africae nova descriptio.

A wide paper copy, probably from his famous Atlas Major. Much of the geographical information is still based on the Ptolemaic maps, with the Nile shown with its source in...

Africa Descriptio.

Charming little map of Africa made by Gabriel Bucelin (1599-1681). Bucelin was a Swiss genealogist and an author of several books and a number of manuscript maps of Germa...

AFRICÆ Descriptio Nova Impensis PHILIPPI CHETWIND 1666

This map is a close copy of John Speed's map of Africa of 1626 with the placenames and text legends in English. The placement of sailing ships, sea monsters, and even muc...

Afrique. . .

Map of the African continent prepared by N.Sanson and published by Pierre Mariette.Published in an early edition of the small Sanson atlas L'Europe Dediée a Monseigneur ...

Afrique.

Copper engraved map of Africa that includes Arabia and the Canary and Cape Verde Islands as well as several other Atlantic islands and the coastline of Brazil. Also inclu...

A Mapp of the Higher and Lower Aethiopia Comprehending ye Several Kingdomes ...

The earliest folio sized map of the region to be engraved in England. elaborate heraldic cartouche and a dedication to William Glynne as per Norwich 44. From his Geograph...

Africae accurata tabula ex officina Nic. Visscher.

Fine map of the continent of Africa filled with mythical towns, rivers, and mountains and continues to reflect the Ptolemaic view of Africa. A title cartouche in upper ig...

Africae nova Tabula Auct. Jud. Hundio.

This very rare map of the African continent contains a dedication to the Marchese Andrea Paleotti and his wife Christine Dudley who was the granddaughter of Sir Robert Du...

Africa Ioanne Baptista Nicolosio?

From: Hercules Siculus Sive Studium Geographicum ? Rome, 1670-71. (Second state).In 1652 the Propaganda Fide commissioned Giovanni Battista Nicolosi (1610-70) to produce ...

Africa (heightened with gold leaf)

From a copy of "Introductionis in Universam Geographicam". Published by Bertius in Amsterdam and printed on the Elzevier press. Beautiful map in period correct ...

A chart of the Seacoasts from the landsend of England to Cape Bonna Esperanca.

This rare "slave-trade" sea chart depicts the West coast of Africa from Egypt along to the Cape of Good Hope. In upper right corner scales in English, French, D...

Afrique.

Uncommon miniature map of Africa from Pierre Duval's La Geographie Universeille dated 1676. Following his Cartes de geographie in 1657, Pierre Duval published this smalle...

Africae, Described. The manners of their Habits and buildings newly done into English?

A third state of the first English map of the continent of Africa. From the first world atlas produced in England, Speed\'s map of the whole continent is a typically deco...

Africae Accurata Tabula

This map captures the European view of Africa in the late 1600s.The map is filled with numerous fictitious towns, rivers, and mountains and continues to reflect the Ptole...

Africa.

Nice miniature map of Africa.

Totius Africae Accuratissima Tabula authore Frederico de Wit

Totius Africae . . .

The detail of the map includes the traditional depiction of Central Africa with the river Nile rising in two large central Lakes Zaire and Zaflan.

Afrique.

Interesting map of Africa, which includes also Arabia and a small part of the coast of Brazil. With two large lakes below the equator, and a rich river system connecting ...

Totius AFRICAE Accuratissima Tabula.

The map became the standard for subsequent maps of Africa, and was reissued with minor changes over the next 30 years. The map is very detailed with a comprehensive netwo...

AFRIQUE.

Decorative, engraved map of Africa that includes Arabia and the Canary and Cape Verde Islands as well as several other Atlantic islands and the coastline of Brazil. Also ...

AFRICA.

A copperplate map of Africa from Sir Jonas Moore's "New System of Mathematics" published in London, and printed by A. Godbid and J. Playford, for Robert Scott i...

ZANGUEBAR / MONOMOTAPA.

Lovely double miniature maps of Zanzibare and Monomotapa. Todays' Zanzibar in east Africa and Cape of Good Hope in South Africa.

(Nine engravings of African interest from Description de l'Univers)

Nine (on seven sheets) of finely etched prints and maps of African subjects. Engravings and maps entitled - Cap de bone Esperance/Isle de St. Helene, Egypte Ancienne, Con...

Habessinia Seu Abassia.

A map of Ethiopia and the Eritrean coast, originating from an Ethiopian manuscript. Full title: 'Habessinia Seu Abassia Presbyteri Johannis Regio Perperam Dicta Ad Exemp...

Afrique Moderne.

A charming late 17th century French map of Africa. From the German text edition published by Davis Zunners. Allain Manneson Mallet (1630-1706), a well traveled military e...

GUINEE das Land - Guiena.

Beautifully handcolored engraving issued as part of a suite of plates produced for the German text edition of Allain Manesson Mallet’s Description de l’Univers …. P...

Africae Accurata Tabula ex officina Ioan: De Ram.

A copper engraved map. Overall size 52 x 61 cm.A rare map of the African continent by Johannes de Ram (1648-1693), after de Wit's map of 1660 without the side panels but ...

Totius Africae Accuratissima Tabula.

A striking, skilfully engraved, and highly decorative map of the whole continent of Africa, including the island of Madagascar. Much of the information on the map is imag...

[ Africa]

Charming wood block map of Africa by the Italian XVIth and XVIIth century writer, humanist and cartographer Giuseppe Rosaccio. Taken from the 1688 Bologna "Teatro de...

L'Africa...

Giacomo Rossi's fine late 17th century map of Africa. Issued in Il Mercurio geografico In upper right corner a tittle cartouche. The cartographer was Giacomo Cantelli da ...