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Tercia Etas Mundi. / Carthago (Carthage in Tunisia). / Folio XL.
A very fine presentation of the city of Carthage in Tunisia, centered on the church. (Dim. H : 120 mm W : 168 mm). Including also a genealogy of Zaraya, Meraioth , Amarie...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2019
Carthage, etc.
Third-page woodcut from the famous Liber chronicarum or Nuremberg Chronicle of Hartmann-Schedel 1493, the first and Latin edition of this famous and profusely illustrated...
Place & Date: Nuremberg 12 July 1493
Selling price: $205
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![[Tripoli] Il vero disegno del porto,della citta, della fortezza, et del sito doue e posta Tripoli di Barbaria.](/uploads/cache/16895-250x250.jpg)
[Tripoli] Il vero disegno del porto,della citta, della fortezza, et del sito doue e posta Tripoli di Barbaria.
Extremely rare map of the environs of Tripoli with a fortification plan of Tripoli in the center. Extensive shipping in the sea.The print is addressed and dated Ven.l'an...
Place & Date: Venice 1568
Selling price: $300
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![[Velez de la Gomera] Il vero natural sito della Villa di Velez de Gomera, et l'in' espugnabile forte et castello chiamato il Pignon, situato in Africa di Barbaria ..](/uploads/cache/16897-250x250.jpg)
[Velez de la Gomera] Il vero natural sito della Villa di Velez de Gomera, et l'in' espugnabile forte et castello chiamato il Pignon, situato in Africa di Barbaria ..
Extremely rare bird's-eye plan of the siege of the town and fortress Velez de lab Gomera in Marocco. Extensive shipping in the sea.Engraved by Paolo Furlani (active 1561-...
Place & Date: Venice 1568
Selling price: $300
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CAIRUS QUAE OLIM BABYLON AEGYPTI MAXIMA URBS.
A striking, old colored view of Cairo from a hillside opposite the Nile, from Braun & Hogenberg's groundbreaking Civitatus Orbis Terrarum, the most important town boo...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1572
Selling price: $400
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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 Urbs
Attractive city view of Tunis in Tunisia / Africa. Showing the Imperial attack on Tunis in 1573. Latin text on verso.
Place & Date: 1575
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2009
![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
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![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
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![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
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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
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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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
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
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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
Tunis
Woodcut of the Barbary town Tunis and outside the double walls a Women house (Harem) Botanical Garden (Hortus) an ancient Thermae (Therme). As well as the ruins of Cartha...
Place & Date: Basel, 1628
Selling price: $70
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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
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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
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Aphrodisium.
A very nice view of the city. On the foreground, a man leading three donkeys is depicted. With a verse in two languages underneath the picture.The poet Daniel Meisner fro...
Place & Date: Frankfurt 1623-1678
Selling price: $40
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Tunis in Africa.
View of the town of Tunis. With a verse in two languages underneath the picture.The poet Daniel Meisner from Komotau started his Thesaurus Philo-Politicus. Das ist Politi...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1623-1678
Selling price: $60
Sold in 2011
Die Statt Alkeir in Aegypten (Cairo).
A copper engraved view of Caire from Johann Christoph WAGNER's " Delineatio provinciarum Pannoniae et imperii Turcici in oriente. Eine grundrichtige Beschreibung deÃ...
Place & Date: Augsburg, ca 1684
Selling price: $120
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Tripoli de Barbaria.
Fine bird's eye view of the city of Tripoli, Lybia. Etched in about 1690 by Gaspar Bouttats (1640-1695).The Antwerp based publisher, Jacques Peeters, published ca. 1690 a...
Place & Date: Antwerp, c. 1690
Selling price: $27
Sold in 2017
Isola della Goletta. Tunisi.
Rare plan of Tunis.Vincenzo Coronelli (August 16th, 1650 - December 9th, 1718) was a Franciscan monk, a Venetian cosmographer, cartographer, publisher, and encyclopaedist...
Place & Date: Venice, 1691
Selling price: $50
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Algiers. (Panoramic view of Algiers)
Rare panoramic view of Algiers in Algeria.The print is signed in the lower right hand corner. Underneath the signature are the remains of a earlier signature slightly vis...
Place & Date: Antwerp 1692
Selling price: $72
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Salee, een vermaerde Koopstadt, en roofnest, gelegen aen de Atlantische of Spaense zee.
From Schenk's Hecatompolis sive Totius Terrarum Oppida Nobiliora Centrum.. , a collection of 100 views, dedicated to the 14-year old Prussian crown prince, the later king...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1702
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2009
Tripoli.
A decorative view of Tripoli. With detailed sailing ships and buildings. Below the view with descriptive French text of the city and its (pirate) history. A 1-16 legend k...
Place & Date: Paris, ca 1710
Selling price: $110
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De stadt Algier.
Rare panoramic view of Algiers in Algeria.Printed by Covens and Mortier, who used the plates originally engraved for Montanus. Uncommon issue.
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1720
Selling price: $150
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A Plan of the Famous Town & Fortress of Ceuta, Besieg'd by the Moors in 1693 & raid by ye Spaniards after 26 Years Siege in 1720. . .
A very rare separately published broad sheet map of Ceuta, with two insets of Gibraltar and explanatory text, as well as 29 keys, explaining the various strongholds and i...
Place & Date: London, 1721
Selling price: $1000
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Plan of the fortifications of Gibraltar, exactly taken on the Spot in the Year 1738.
A map showing Gibraltar in Spain with decorative ships in the foreground. It is very likely that the author of this map was Nicholas Tindall: as Chaplain to an English Fl...
Place & Date: London ca. 1742
Selling price: $170
Sold in 2018
Tanger, Citta Marittima del Regno di Fez sulla Costa di Barbaria, nell'Africa.
Curious and decorative town-view of Tanger in Morocco. Several sailings ships are shown, the city with fortified walls and towers and many buildings. Unidentified and rar...
Place & Date: ca. 1760
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2014
De Stad Algiers.
A view of the town of Algiers as seen from the sea.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1762
Selling price: $85
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[70] Tunis.
Charming chart of the coasts near the town of Tunis. Showing town and harbour plan, with soundings, anchorages, rocks, shoals, fortifications and lighthouses.Joseph Roux ...
Place & Date: Marseille 1764
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2014
La Ville d'Aden. Mombaze. Quiloa. St. George de la Mine.
Eye-bird view of Aden city in Yemen, with Mombaze, Quiloa and St Georges Mine. Joseph-François Lafitau, born and died in Bordeaux, France, is a Jesuit missionary in New...
Place & Date: Paris, 1785
Selling price: $95
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A View of Tunis on the Coast of Barbary.
An very attractive copperplate view of the north African city of Tunis in a region then known as the Barbary Coast, produced for Middleton's Complete System of Geography....
Place & Date: London, ca 1790
Selling price: $60
Sold in 2023
Orbus Veteribus Notus.
Fine map illustrating the ancient world, showing Europe, North Africa & South Asia. Striking vignette of the ruins of ancient Greece. Map by James Wyld, engraved by N...
Place & Date: Edinburgh, 1817
Selling price: $23
Sold in 2014
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
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