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Title: AFRICA AFFRICA MITT SEINEN BESUNDERN LANDERN
Cartographer: Munster.S
Size: 31*20cms page size
Printed: 1572 Basel
Ref: M1746

This map of Africa is in the book of Munster's Cosmography that begins the description of Africa. The map depicts the major features of Africa. Interestingly, unlike Munster's double page map of Africa, this map labels the Mountains of the Moon (Motes Lunae), the supposed source of the Nile River. This map was first issued in Sebastian Munster’s Cosmographia. The map was unchanged from 1544 . This particular map comes from a German edition of Munster's Cosmographia of 1572. Superb hand colour.Very good condition. Norwich.5.

Price: £160.00
Title: MADAGASCAR DESCRITTIONE DELL'ISOLA DI S.LORENZO
Cartographer: Porcacchi.T.
Size: 11*15cms
Printed: 1572/1575 Venice
Ref: M1595

Beautiful and rare map from 'L'Isole Piu Famose Del Mondo ' by Tomaso Porcacchi,Porcacchi's famous and beautiful isolario, containing maps of the islands of the world.The map is one of the earliest copper engraved maps one can find.This is from the 1575 (second edition and a copy of the dated colophon will be included) and the maps are a very strong impression.Set in a page of text.Cartouche, sea monsters,compass rose.Mint condition.

Price: £195.00
Title: AFRICA
Cartographer: Munster.S/Petri
Size: 32*36cms
Printed: 1580c Basel
Ref: M846

Based on Ortelius’ map of 1570, this is the second version of the map of Africa used in later editions of Sebastian Munster’s Cosmographia published, after Munster’s death, by S.Petri. Like it’s predecessor this is a woodblock map but done more elegantly and in the style of a copperplate.Excel;lent hand colour.Good paper and a very good example of this map. Norwich, Maps Of Africa, 14.

Price: £495.00
Title: AFRICA
Cartographer: D’Anania.G.L.
Size: 17.5*24.5cms
Printed: 1582 / 1598
Ref: M1783

RARE. The geography and placenames on the map are closely based on Abraham Ortelius’ 1570 map of Africa. For example Zanzibar is still on the southwest coast of Africa as on the Ortelius map. The hydrographical systems follow Ortelius precisely with three lakes feeding the Niger River. The sources for the other major rivers on the continent are also the same as on Ortelius’ map. This map first appeared in the third edition of D’Anania’s La Universale... of 1582, published in Venice. This is the second state of the map and was used in an edition of Ptolemy's Geography in 1598. This map is distinguished by the addition of an engraved line completely encircling Africa. Small repair not noticeable.Cropped a little close but there are margins.Very good hand colour. Good condition. Reference: Betz # 20.2. SOLD

Price: £0.00
Title: SOUTH AFRICA AFRICAE PARS MERIDIONALIOR
Cartographer: Langenes.B
Size: 9*13cms
Printed: 1600 Amsterdam
Ref: M1445

Rare Langenes map from Tabularum Geographicarum Contractarum Libri.Map also titled Descriptio Aethiopiae Inferioris Latin text,1600:Pg 557; Nn 4 (ref. Stewart).Uncoloured as issued.V.good condition

Price: £140.00
Title: AFRICA AFRICAE DESCRIPTIO
Cartographer: Mercator Hondius
Size: 15.5*19.5cms
Printed: 1610 Amsterdam
Ref: M1738

Highly attractive map of Africa from the Mercator/Hondius Atlas Minor.Cartouche,ships & sea monster.Excellent hand colour.Mint condition.SOLD

Price: £0.00
Title: ABISSINORUM SIVE PRETIOSSI IOANNIS IMPERIU
Cartographer: Mercator/Hondius
Size: 34.5*49cms
Printed: 1610c Amsterdam
Ref: M533
Category: Maps/Africa/

An early example of this map of the Kingdom of Prester John, first issued 1606. An inset map show the Congo area.Fantastic interior,Nile coming from Zembre Lacus-the same lake as source of Congo.Strong impression,v.good original colour.Very good condition.

Price: £495.00
Title: GVINE`AE NOVA DESCRIPTIO
Cartographer: Mercator/Hondius
Size: 25*18,5cms
Printed: 1620c
Ref: M568
Category: Maps/Africa/

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 of St Thomae in the bottom left. The map contains considerable coastal detail reflecting Portuguese and later European exploration along the coast as well as up some of the river systems. On the ocean are a European ship and an African canoe.Decorative cartouches.Slight fading at left side otherwise reasonably good.

Price: £145.00
Title: NORTH AFRICA BARBARIA
Cartographer: Mercator/Cloppenberg
Size: 19*25.5cms
Printed: 1635c
Ref: M1143

Three maps on one sheet: Hondius' maps of North Africa, Carthage & Egypt from the Cloppenburg larger rarer version of the Mercator/Hondius.Small repair in left margin otherwise good.

Price: £60.00
Title: SOUTHERN AFRICA AETHIOPIA INFERIOR, VEL EXTERIOR
Cartographer: Jansson.J.
Size: 39*51cms
Printed: 1636c Amstersam,
Ref: M1546

Very attractive map of southern Africa depicts the area just prior to the settlement of the Cape Province by the Dutch. The area shown is from the Congo River baisn around the Cape of Good Hope and up the east coast as far as northern present-day Mozambique. A good number of coastal names are given, including Mozambique Island which was an importaqnt re-supply point for ships sailing to India and points east. To the north, one of the Ptolemaic lakes thought to be the source of the Nile is shown. Information on the interior is sparse, reflecting the lack of knowledge the Europeans had about the interior of Africa. Unlike many other maps which are filled in with fanciful or fictitious information, this map more accurately portrays actual knowledge.ORIGINAL COLOUR.Very good condition

Price: £495.00
Title: AETHOPIA SUPERIOR VEL INTERIOR VULGO ABISSINORUM SIVE PRESBITERIIOANNIS IMPERIUM
Cartographer: Merian.M
Size: 29*37.5
Printed: 1640
Ref: M223
Category: Maps/Africa/

Splendid map of eastern & central Africa. The map depicts the legendary Christian Kingdom of Prester John. Fabled rivers, elephants,ostriches and monkeys fill the otherwise empty spaces of the unexplored interior. Based on an earlier map by Blaeu, there is a fair amount of detail on the eastern coast, reflecting the Portuguese and Arab trading interest.Mogadishu, Mombassa, Quiloa (Kilwa) and Mozambique are shown as major towns. Below the equator there are the two large lakes where the Nile originates. The map is decorated with a title cartouche surrounded by native figures and a decorative scale of miles.Uncoloured as issued.V.good condition.SOLD

Price: £0.00
Title: SOUTH AFRICA AETHIOPIA INFERIOR
Cartographer: Merian.M
Size: 29*37.5cms
Printed: 1640c
Ref: M961

Very attractive map of southern Africa.This map is an exact reduced version of the Bleau map of 1635.The area shown is from the Congo River basin southward around the Cape of Good Hope to northern present-day Mozambique.Printed before the Dutch settlement at Cape Town.Decorated with animals and ships & cartouche.Pleasant age toning.V.good condition.

Price: £295.00
Title: (WEST AFRICA)L'AFRIQUE OU LYBIE ULTERIEURE LE SAARA OU DESERT ,LES DES NEGRES,LA GUINEE
Cartographer: Sanson.N.
Size: 34*55cms
Printed: 1655 Paris
Ref: M574
Category: Maps/Africa/

A finely engraved map of northern and western Africa by Nicolas Sanson, the so-called "Father Of French Geography" and one of the most important European cartographers of the time. The westward flowing Niger rises in the mythical "Borno Lacus" in the middle of the desert, and the interior is divided into tribal regions.very good condition with good margins.

Price: £275.00
Title: SOUTH AFRICA BASSE AETHIOPIE qui comprend les Royaume de Congo, Coste et pays du Cafres, Empires du Monomotapa, et Monoemugi
Cartographer: Sanson.n/ St Robert
Size: 42*55cms
Printed: 1655/1741
Ref: M1421

Very Rare map printed 1741 by Vaugondy from Sanson's 1650's plate.Engraved by I.Somer Pruthenus.Interesting,attractive and detailed map of Southern Africa.Manty early place names both real and fictitious.Original outline colour.Excellent condition.

Price: £475.00
Title: BASSE AETHIOPIE, qui comprend les Royaume de Congo, Coste et pays du Cafres, Empires du Monomotapa, et Monoemugi .
Cartographer: Sanson.N/St Robert(Vaugondy)
Size: 42*55cms
Printed: 1655/1741 Paris
Ref: M530
Category: Maps/Africa/

Rare Reprint in 1741 by Vaugondy from Sanson's 1650's plate.Engraved by I.Somer Pruthenus.Interesting,attractive and detailed map of Southern Africa.Original outline colour.Excellent condition.

Price: £475.00
Title: EAST AFRICA AETHIOPIA SUPERIOR VEL INFERIOR ..
Cartographer: Ogilby.J
Size: 29.5*27.5cms
Printed: 1670 London
Ref: M1964

Full title:Æthiopia Superior Vel Interior Vulgo Abissinorum Sive Presbiteriioannis Imperior. John Ogilby's work "Africa" was based on the Dutch publication of two years earlier, by Jacob van Meurs, of Olfert Dapper's "Naukeurige Beschrijvinghe Der Afrikaensche ...". Using, in the main, the same copperplate maps and views, this translation was the best English account of the continent to that time and was intended to be part of a series of atlases of all parts of the world, which, in fact, was never completed. The maps, with title cartouches supported by native figures, animals and so on, and the plates were finely engraved and represent evocative European perceptions of the regions as known during the seventeenth century. Central and Eastern Africa with accurate coastal definition and the two great lakes, centrally shown as the sources of the Nile and the Congo.Some staining in top matgin well away from printed surface.Very good condition.

Price: £275.00
Title: AFRICA L'AFRIQUE
Cartographer: Du Val.P
Size: 41*54cms
Printed: 1676 Paris
Ref: M1827

Rare. Du Vals updated map of Sansons map of 1650,which was a a landmark map of Africa.(It is the first French map to depict significantly new information on Africa as opposed to earlier French maps, which generally copied Dutch maps. Further, the publication of this map, along with Sanson’s maps of the other continents and regions, signaled the beginning of a growing French competition with the Dutch mapmakers of the seventeenth century)Dated same date as title page of Atlas.It is a rare state in so far as I can find no other.Original colour.Very good condition.

Price: £750.00
Title: (WEST AFRICA)NIGRITARUM REGIO
Cartographer: DAPPER (MERIAN)
Size: 26*36cms
Printed: 1680
Ref: M575
Category: Maps/Africa/

Decorative map of the western part of Africa extending from present-day Senegal to Angola. The interior is beautifully engraved with mountains and rivers, many still spurious, and place names.Elephants & lions. Two very decorative cartouches at bottom with explorers, natives, putti, animals and Neptune. Eight ships sail in the Gulf of Guinea and several indigenous animals are shown throughout the interior.

Price: £225.00
Title: TANGER SALE
Cartographer: Mallet.A
Size:
Printed: 1685
Ref: M764

Views of Tangiers & Sale from Description De L'Univers.Good impression.Good condition.

Price: £25.00
Title: (REUNION) ILE BOURBON
Cartographer: Mallet.A
Size: 14*10cms
Printed: 1685 Frankfurt
Ref: M677
Category: Maps/Africa/

Attractive small map of Reunion from Mallet's Description De L'Univers.Banner title.Uncoloured.V.good condition.sold

Price: £0.00
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