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720 [Lot of 4 - Africa] Africa 1597-1790   $200.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 0 x 0 inches) 1) Africa, by Magini & Keschedt, from Geographia, 1597 black & white, (6.7 x 4.8"). Small map of Africa and the Arabian Peninsula showing part of Brazil as well. Engraved by Girolamo Porro for Magini's edition of Ptolemy and based on Ortelius. The rivers of central and north Africa feature prominently including the Ptolemaic concept of the origin of the Nile in twin lakes south of ...

721 Africae Tabula Nova Africa Munster/Petri 1598 A passed Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 14.2 x 12.2 inches) Based on Ortelius’ map of 1570, this map appears in the later editions of Munster's Cosmographia. The woodblock map is elegantly engraved in the style of copper engravings. It depicts the continent with a jagged coastline with several prominent bays. In the interior there are several large lakes, including the twin lakes source of the Nile. The coast of Brazil appears in the lower left ...

722 Africa ex magna orbis terre descriptione Gerardi Mercatoris desumpta. Africa Gerard Mercator 1607 B+   $1,000.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 18.5 x 14.8 inches) Compiled from Gerard Mercator's world map of 1569, this rendition was drawn by Mercator's grandson (also named Gerard) in 1595, and published later by Hondius. The map is typical of 16th century cartography with considerable fantastic detail in the interior. The depiction of the Nile is based on Ptolemy's geography with some complex modifications from various sources, including Abyssinian monks....

723 Africae Descriptio Africa Gabriel Bucelin 1658 A   $425.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 4.5 x 2.5 inches) Bucelin's charming map of the continent of Africa was based on the Ortelius-Galle model. Its most notable feature is the oversized Nile River that appear to bisect the continent, flowing north, south and west out of Zaire Lake. The place names are also derived from the Ortelius pocket map of Africa. Two tiny sailing ships and a sea monster decorate the seas. In the first edition of King's book...

724 Africae Accurata Tabula ex officina Africa Nicolas Visscher 1677 B   $600.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 21.5 x 17.1 inches) This beautiful map of the African continent is typical of the late seventeenth century, including updated information taken from Blaeu's wall map of the continent. The Cuama and Spirito Santo Rivers are shown with a common source in the Sacaf Lacus in South Africa. The Nile arises from the two lakes of Zaire and Zafflan, located below the Equator, as according ...

725 Totius Africae Accuratissima Tabula Africa Frederick de Wit 1680 A   $900.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 23 x 19.3 inches) The information contained in this beautiful map of the African continent is typical of the late 17th Century. The Nile appears according to the ancient pattern of Ptolemy, arising from the two lakes of Zaire and Zafflan. De Wit's depiction of the southeastern coast includes numerous deep inlets and several rivers and lakes at the southern tip not seen on other maps of the period. ...

726 L'Afrique Divisee Suivant l'Estendue de ses Principales Parties' Africa Jaillot/Mortier 1692 A passed Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 35 x 21.5 inches) This striking map is the Mortier version of Jaillot's 1674 map of the continent of Africa. It can be distinguished from the earlier Jaillot map of Africa by the date and minor changes in the title in the top margin and it does not carry the engraver's imprint. Based on Sanson's second map of Africa (1668), it presents the standard Ptolemaic description of the source of the Nile. However, Jaillo...

727 A New Map of Libya or old Africk Shewing its general Divisions, most remarkable Countries or People, Cities, Townes, Rivers, Mountains, &c. Africa Edward Wells 1700 A   $220.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 19 x 14.2 inches) Wells' atlas contained two maps of each region - one with its then current form and another with ancient and classical names. This is his 'ancient' map of Africa, and although the whole continent is shown, only the geography of Ptolemy is presented. Therefore, the map is largely blank, particularly in the south, which is noted as Unknown to the Ancients. The only city south of the Equato...

728 Africa Elaboratissima Africa Pieter Schenk 1705 B   $1,400.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 22.4 x 18.7 inches) The bold title cartouche is the most intriguing aspect of this large map of the African continent. The title is engraved on a masonry plinth heaped with fruit & animals. An African mounted on an elaborately armored elephant, with panniers overflowing with trade goods, is accompanied by an armed Moor. Table Mountain is in the distant background. The map contains the customary 17th century inter...

729 Africa Secundum Legitimas Projectionis Stereographicae Regulas' Africa Haas/Homann Heirs 1737 B+   $400.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 22.3 x 18.5 inches) Johann Matthias Haas was a professor of mathematics at Wittenberg. For his map of Africa he used J.B. Homann's 1715 map, augmented to include important cartographic developments after Guillaume Delisle and D'Anville. Thus, his map presents a fairly accurate picture without most of the fictitious lakes and rivers of previous cartography. It focuses on the known coastal regions of the continent, ...

730 Kaartje van Africa' Africa Jocob Keizer & Jan De Lat 1747 B+   $100.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 9.5 x 7.1 inches) Nice small map of the continent of Africa that provides a concise look at the geographical knowledge prevalent in the mid-eighteenth century. Numerous tribal territories are carefully outlined with major place names noted. The map extends to include a portion of the Brazilian coastline and the northeastern coastline of India.

731 Karte von Africa Verfasst von Herrn Robert Vaugondy' Africa Franz Anton Schraembl 1787 A+   $325.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 42.5 x 38 inches) This wall map consists of four sheets, unjoined, depicting Africa in great detail, and is a revised German version of Vaugondy's map from 1767. The large, rococo cartouche is surrounded by a vignette by I. Alberti illustrating pyramids, ruins, an elephant, a lion, and the native plants of the region. The map identifies the important trading ports, as well as various native tribes such as the Cob...

732 [Lot of 3] Carte Generale de L'Afrique [and] Carte Detaillee en deux feuilles de L'Afrique et des iles qui en dependent [and] Afrique Meridionale Africa Adrien Hubert Brue 1834 B+   $250.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 20.3 x 14.3 inches) These three matching maps of Africa are beautifully engraved and highly detailed. Each is surrounded with a decorative keyboard-style board, blank verso and Brue's blind stamped imprint. 1. Carte Generale de L'Afrique, 1834, 20.3" x 13.4". This handsome map of the continent extends to include the Arabian Peninsula and the islands in the Indian Ocean. There is a fair amount of...

733 Afrique Africa Victor Levasseur 1850 A+   $110.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 17.2 x 11.3 inches) This decorative 19th century map of the continent shows the colonial possessions and major tribal kingdoms. The interior is mostly void of detail, with the exception of the mythical Monts de la Lune, or Mountains of the Moon in the center of the continent. These legendary mountains were long thought to be the source for the Nile, dating back to Ptolemy. Stanley traced a fluvial connectio...

734 Colonies Francaises (en Afrique) Africa - French Colonies Victor Levasseur 1843 A   $65.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 16.8 x 11.7 inches) Fine, decorative map of the French colonies in Senegal and Madagascar surrounded by vignettes of the lush landscapes, natives, an elephant and several other indigenous animals. This map was illustrated by Raimond Bonheur, father of the famous painter Rosa Bonheur.

735 Amara in Africa Africa - Northern Daniel Meisner 1638 A passed Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 6 x 4 inches) A flock of doves perched on a lance are in the foreground of this view of the ancient north African city of Amara, illustrating the Latin motto, Ex bello pax (From war, peace). Meisner's emblem book, containing over 800 pictorial-poetic compositions, was enormously popular throughout Europe in the 17th century. The plan views were based on the work of De Bry, Braun & Hogenberg, Mer...

736 Africae Propriae Tabula. In qua, Punica Regna Vides, Tyrios, et Agenoris Urbem Africa - Northern Jan Jansson 1657 A   $220.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 20.3 x 14.5 inches) Decorative map of the coastline covering present-day Tunisia and Libya. It is based on Ortelius' map of the same title, which in turn was based on Gastaldi's great map of Africa and the ancient texts of Diodorus, Siculus, Plinius, Virgilius, Appianus, Halicarnasseus, Athenaeus and Herodotus. The map extends to include Sicily and Malta. Richly embellished with a fine title cartouche and a large ...

737 Fezzae et Marocchi Regna Africae Celeberrima, Describebat Abrah. Ortelius Africa - Northwestern Jan Jansson 1636 A+   $200.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 20 x 15.3 inches) Highly decorative map of Morocco oriented with north on the right and including the Strait of Gibraltar. It is based on the cartography of Abraham Ortelius, who is credited in the cartouche. The Atlantic is filled with five sailing ships, including two engaged in battle. Two dancing satyrs brandishing their javelins flank the large title cartouche. German text on verso.

738 Larache in Barba Ria Morocco Daniel Meisner 1638 A+ passed Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 5.8 x 4.1 inches) This uncommon miniature view shows the Moroccan fortress of Larache (El Araich). Built near the site of the Phoenician colony of Lixus, the city is perched on a hill overlooking the Atlantic Ocean. The dramatic scene includes a sea battle and a mythical hippocampus being struck by lightning along with the Latin motto, Deus Punit Impudentes (God punishes the shameless). Meisner...

739 Estats et Royaumes de Fez et Maroc, Darha et Segelmesse' Africa - Northwestern N. Sanson/Mariette 1655 B+   $130.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 20.5 x 15.4 inches) This is a handsome map of today's Morocco and most of Algeria. It extends to include southern Spain and the Strait of Gibraltar. The map is filled with details including mountains, many rivers and dozens of place names and is embellished with a large decorative title cartouche. A nice example of Sanson's cartography, engraved by Jean Somer.

740 Partie du Biledulgerid ou sont Tesset, Darha, et Segelmesse Northwestern Africa Nicolas Sanson 1683 A   $55.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 11 x 6.7 inches) Attractive map of southern Morocco and the Canary Islands fully engraved with mountains, rivers, oases and trails. Decorated with an elaborate title cartouche. Engraved by Antoine d'Winter for a Dutch edition of Sanson's pocket atlas.

741 Aegypti recentior descriptio Egypt Ortelius/Marchetti 1598 A passed Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 4.3 x 3.1 inches) Miniature map showing the Nile valley in great detail with numerous place names. Pietro Maria Marchetti produced the second pocket atlas based on Abraham Ortelius' folio Theatrum. It is often referred to as the plagiarized version of the Epitome. The copper plates are closely copied from those of Philip Galle's 1593 Italian edition. On a full sheet (5.5 x 7.5") of Italian text.

742 Alexandria Alexandria, Egypt Cornelis de Bruyn 1698 A+   $200.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 24.5 x 8.25 inches) This striking view shows the ruins of the ancient city with Pompey's Pillar and Alexandria in the background. Cornelius de Bruyn (1652-1726) was a Dutch artist who traveled through the Holy Land and other portions of Asia. De Bruyn had to disguise his activities because this was a repressive period during the Ottoman rule when foreigners were regarded with suspicion and the making of "graven ima...

743 Partie Orientale d'Afrique ou se trouvent l'Egipte, la Nubie, l'Abissine, et l'Ajan' Eastern Africa Nicholas de Fer 1703 B passed Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 12.8 x 8.8 inches) This map covers from Tunis and Benin through the horn of Africa and all of the Arabian peninsula. It is densely engraved with detail of the topography and includes numerous notations concerning the inhabitants. The source of the Nile is shown in a lake in Abyssinia and the Nile and Niger rivers are shown connected.

744 [Lot of 4] La Nubia ed Abissinia [and] Carte de l'Isle d'Anjouan une des Isles de Comore [and] Carte de la Coste Orientale d'Afrique' [and] Empire du Monomotapa et Etats Voisins Eastern Africa 1740-84 passed Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 0 x 0 inches) 1) La Nubia ed Abissinia, by Antonio Zatta, ca. 1784, (16 x 12"). Delicately engraved sheet also includes the southwestern part of the Arabian peninsula from Mecca to Aden. The title cartouche is a stone monolith. Toned on centerfold (B). 2) Carte de l'Isle d'Anjouan une des Isles de Comore par le Cape. Cornwal , by Jacques Nicolas Bellin, ca. 1757 (6.3 x 8.2"). This ...

745 Guinea Western Africa Willem Blaeu 1663-80 B+   $400.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 20.5 x 15 inches) Elegantly engraved map covering the coast from Sierra Leone to Gabon. The land is filled with animals and the sea is decorated with ships and compass roses. The large title cartouche is flanked by two natives and topped by a very human-looking monkey. On the left of the title is a dedication cartouche to D. Nicolao Tulp, a famous Dutch doctor, and to the right two child-like sea creatures carry...

746 Partie Occidentale d'Afrique ou se Trouve les Isles Canaries, et du Cap Verd' Africa - Western Nicholas de Fer 1705 A passed Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 12.8 x 8.8 inches) This uncommon map of western Africa provides a surprising amount of information. The Canary and Cape Verde Islands are prominently featured, as are the kingdoms along the Guinee coast that were so important to European trade. The map is centered on the Tropic of Cancer and includes a compass rose, a distance scale, and a table with the latitude and longitude for various locations.

747 Carte de l'Afrique Francoise ou du Senegal Africa - Western Guillaume Delisle 1727 B   $250.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 24 x 18.5 inches) This impressive, large map covers present-day Senegal and Gambia. The map shows the extent of various tribes and provides extensive detail along the Senegal River. The region was an important center for African trade, especially the slave trade, and was the site of various battles between the European powers. This map represents the French interests in the region who broke the Portuguese...

748 Guinea Propria, nec non Nigritiae vel Terrae Nigrorum Maxima Pars' Africa - Western Haas/Homann Heirs 1743 A passed Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 22.3 x 18.3 inches) This remarkable map is one of the most detailed maps of West Africa produced during the mid-eighteenth century. Information is confined only to those regions that were well known and it is particularly well delineated along the Niger River and the coast where there are extensive notations. The map is embellished with a large vignette of a native village with the distance scales engraved onto ele...

749 Le Royaume Abyssin ou l'empire du Preste Iean Africa - Central Jean Boisseau 1643 A+ passed Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 7.3 x 5 inches) This rare little map of was copied from the Jansson plate for his Atlas Minor. The legendary kingdom of the Christian Prester John is the central focus of this small map of central Africa. It is based on the reports of the Portuguese explorer, Francisco Alveres, who searched for the mythical kingdom in the year 1520. The kingdom itself is shown atop the Amara M. The Nile is shown...

750 [Lot of 2] Plan du Fort et de la Ville du Cap de Bonne Esperance [and] Carte de la Coste Occidentale d'Afrique' Africa - Southern Bellin/Van Schley 1750-1764   $150.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 0 x 0 inches) 1)Plan du Fort et de la Ville du Cap de Bonne Esperance, circa 1764, (10.3 x 8.3"). Detailed plan of the Dutch fort and settlement at the Cape of Good Hope showing the town and fort with a key at bottom listing fourteen important locations. Titles in both French and Dutch. B+ condition - stained margins, else very good. 2)Carte de la Coste Occidentale d'Afrique', ca. 1...

751 Miller's New Map of British South Africa Africa - Southern 1900 A   $150.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 27.5 x 27.5 inches) This scarce and highly detailed large pocket map of South Africa was published in Cape Town at about the time of the Second Boer War. The map was published to fill a need in the rapidly growing country for an accurate map of the region. It delineates the extensive "Proclaimed" gold producing areas with yellow overprinting. There are eleven inset maps and plans including a very large map of Rhodes...

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