Maps

Latest Maps/Africa/East

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.

Interesting small map speculating the sources of the Nile.Blue Nile depicted as much longer than White Nile;Place names! Cartouche.Good condition.

Attractive small map from Mallet's Description de L'Univers.Cartouche.Strong impression. V.good condition.

Attractive map of Isle de Bourbon,Reunion by Mallet from the Description De L'Univers.Later hand colour.Small repaired hole (not noticeable) otherwise very good.

Title : Abissinia, doue sono le Fonti del Nilo.. This very uncommon map concentrates of the source of the Nile in a lake called Tzana, Dembea, which Coronelli claimed to be the first to accurately depict. Extensive notations throughout. The map is graphically illustrated with large mountains, a large garland style title cartouche and scale of miles. Inset with a map of the origin of the Nile, on the Ptolemaic model, in two large lakes south of Abyssinia. The remarkable Vincenzo Coronelli (1650-1718), was a Franciscan Friar and appointed General of the Order in 1701. He was cosmographer to the Republic of Venice and founder of the Academia Cosmografica degli Argonauti, the world's first geographical society (1680). He was also one of the most prominent mapmakers and publishers in Europe of his day.Very good condition.

Uncommon map, which was used to illustrate the travels of Diego Lopez De Sequeira of Portugal, to illustrate the Portugese travels in the region in search of Prester John between 1519 and 1520. In the early 18th Century, Vander Aa reproduced a number of rare manuscript and printed accounts of 16th Century Travel to America and included marvelous decorative maps, which were typically based upon contemporary cartographic information. Many of the earliest voyages of exploration which are impossibly rare to find in the original editions can be found in Vander Aa's works, which are now becoming increasing rare. Uncoloured as issued.Very good condition.

Attractive map of the East Coast of Africa from Zanzibar to the Red Sea.Cartouche,Compass Rose.Good hand colour.Very good condition.