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774 Africa / Lybia / Moerenland / mit allen Konigreichen' Africa Sebastian Munster 1550 B+   $950.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 13.5 x 10 inches) This is one of the first modern maps of the whole African continent. The Ptolemaic geography, with large rivers and convoluted mountains, is augmented from Portuguese and Arabic sources. From the Portuguese comes Caput Bonespei (Cape of Good Hope) and a small group of islands off the eastern coast named Zaphala Aurifodina that were supposedly the region from which King Solomon impo...

775 Affricae Tabula Nova Africa Munster/Petri 1598 B+   $400.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 14.3 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 ...

776 Africae Descriptio Africa Mercator/Hondius 1621 B   $220.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 7.8 x 6 inches) A reduced version of Hondius' superb map of the continent. It is based on the Mercator model with revisions to the coastlines, particularly that of Madagascar. Hondius improved the Cape area by inserting Saldanha Bay and Cape Falco and discarded Cayneca. The map is crisply engraved and decorated with strapwork title and distance scale cartouches, a sea monster, and a sea battle off the coast of...

777 Repraesentatio Totius Africae' Africa Scherer 1702 A+   $350.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 13.3 x 9 inches) This bold map of Africa shows the Nile originating in the Ptolemaic twin lakes south of the Equator. The density of shading on the continent indicates the spread of Christianity by darkening those areas that are not Christian and leaving the much smaller 'saved' areas on the east and west coasts lighter. This theme is repeated by the wonderful engravings adorning the map. On the left is the ske...

778 Africa Africa Nicolas Sanson 1705 A+   $180.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 10.8 x 7.8 inches) Attractive and detailed map of Africa that includes the Arabian Peninsula, the Canary and Cape Verde Islands, Madagascar as well as several other islands and a little of the coastline of Brazil. The Nile originates in two, spurious large lakes just north of the fictional Monts de la Lune. The title is enclosed in a wreath style cartouche. Engraved by Antoine d' Winter for a pirated editio...

779 L'Afrique Dressee suivant les Auteurs les plus nouvea' Africa Jacques Chiquet 1719 B+ passed Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 9 x 6.7 inches) Charming map of the continent with some interesting cartography and filled with notations. The Nile is correctly shown with its origins in Abyssinia. A large Lac de Zaire appears just below the Equator as the source of the Zaire River. Decorated with a title cartouche and compass rose.

780 L' Afrique Dressee pour l'etude de la Geographie Africa Janvier/Desnos 1762 A   $120.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 17.5 x 12 inches) This early example is on a full folio sheet with paste-down text panels at side, all surrounded by a most decorative rococo-style border. The interior of the map contains modest geographical information, as is typical of the period. Large rivers and several lakes are shown. The Nile appears to rise from two small lakes, located in the Mts. de la Lune above the equator. In the south ther...

781 [Lot of 7 - Africa] Africa 1774-1872   $230.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 0 x 0 inches) A varied group of maps detail continental Africa from the 18th-19th centuries. 1) Africa has vivid original hand color. The Mountains of the Moon are named, above the largely blank southern interior. Published by Nuttall, Fisher & Dixon in Liverpool, dated 1814. The map is lightly toned with hinge remnants and a tape repair on verso. Grade B+. (9 x 7"). 2)...

782 L'Africa divisa ne' suoi principali Stati Di Nuova Projezione' Africa Antonio Zatta 1796 A   $375.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 15.5 x 11.7 inches) This Italian map is based on the cartography of Janvier and is fairly accurate for the time period, although the source of the Nile is still incorrectly shown rising from two small twin lakes north of the equator. The unknown parts of the continent are marked as such instead of containing fictitious topography and place names. A lovely cartouche with an exotic bird and a cheetah occupies the low...

783 [Lot of 12 - Africa] Africa 1800-1860   $425.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 0 x 0 inches) A varied group of maps showing Africa during the 19th century. 1) Afrique is nicely engraved with excellent detail, nice original wash color and a lovely vignette of St. Helene. By A. T. Chartier, Paris, c. 1860. Short split repaired on verso with archival tape. Grade A. ( 15 x 11"). 2) Africa is a charming miniature map with bold color and excellent coas...

784 Nouvelle Carte Illustree l'Afrique Africa A. Vuillemin 1860 B passed Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 33 x 23.5 inches) Exquisite and scarce large-scale map flanked by eighteen meticulously engraved vignettes of people, animals, plants and scenes representing the commerce and industry in the regions. The map shows impressive detail of caravan routes, colonial possessions, mines, forts and known topography. The Monts de la Lune, or the Mountains of the Moon are shown. These fabled and mysterious mountains ...

785 Afrique Africa Victor Levasseur 1869 A   $80.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 17 x 11 inches) A decorative 19th century map of the continent is colored to show the colonial possessions and major tribal kingdoms. The interior is mostly void of detail. The map is surrounded by steel-engraved scenes including the pyramids, wild animals, natives, the French army in Africa and vignettes of Alexandria, Cairo, and Algiers.

786 Tabula Aphricae II Northern Africa Ruscelli 1562 B   $80.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 9.8 x 7 inches) A handsome Ptolemaic style map of Northern Africa that includes Sardinia and Sicily. The map has a fair amount of detail with numerous rivers and mountain ranges. Latin text on verso.

787 Barbaria Northern Africa Mercator/Jansson 1631 A   $120.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 7.4 x 5.6 inches) Charming map of the whole of North Africa and the famed Barbary coast. Two large insets at bottom: Carthaginensis Sinus with the city of Tunis; and a map of the Nile Delta. The map is richly engraved with place names, mountains, and numerous spurious lakes in the Sahara Desert. The map is adorned with strapwork title and scale cartouches. German text on verso.

788 In Notitiam Ecclesiasticam Africae Tabula Geographica Northern Africa Guillaume Delisle 1700 A passed Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 25.5 x 19.3 inches) This boldly engraved map focuses on the regions controled by the Moors in northern Africa and the Iberian Peninsula in the latter part of the medieval period. The map displays good detail along the north African coast from Morocco to Libya. It also covers the western Mediterranean with the islands of Sardinia, Corsica, and the Balearics. Three decorative cartouches complete the composition. Th...

789 Charta Exhibens Situm Antiquum Carthaginis, Uticae Tunetis et Sinus Carthaginiensis. / A Bird's View of the Situation of Antient Carthage Northern Africa Anonymous 1750 A+   $60.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 6.8 x 11.5 inches) Two well-engraved maps on a single page focus on ancient Carthage, located on the Mediterranean coast of North Africa. The upper map is a view of the Bay of Tunis and its environs in ancient times, including the sites of Utica and ancient Carthage. On the lower half of the page is a view of the site of ancient Carthage with a letter key to its points of interest.

790 Kaart van het Noordlijk Gedeelte van Afrika, of Barbarye; bavattende de Koninkryken Tripoli, Tunis, Algiers, Fez en Marokko Northern Africa Bonne/Bachiene 1790 A passed Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 12.5 x 8.2 inches) This handsome map of the northern coast of Africa is embellished with a large title cartouche flanked by distance scales.

791 [Lot of 2] Fessae Regnum [and] Marocchi Regnum Northwestern Africa Mercator/Jansson 1634 A+   $130.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 7.5 x 5.7 inches) A very attractive pair of maps from the revised edition of the pocket Mercator atlas. Latin text on versos. 1) Fessae Regnum is a charming small map of the northwest tip of Africa with Fez showing as the principal city. Decorative title and distance scale cartouches. 2) Marocchi Regnum is a very attractive small map of Morocco decorated with two strapwork cartouches and f...

792 Fezzae et Marocchi Regna Africae Celeberrima Northwestern Africa Matthaus Merian 1646 B   $200.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 13 x 10 inches) This is a small version of Blaeu's 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.

793 Mauritana et Africa Propia nunc Barbaria Northwestern Africa Philipp Cluver 1697 B passed Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 8.5 x 5 inches) This handsome map of the northwest part of Africa includes the Canary Islands, here named Fortunatae Insulae. The title cartouche incorporates a cherub sitting on a cloud.

794 Alexandria Folio LXXVII Egypt, Alexandria Schedel 1493 A   $130.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 9 x 5.7 inches) An extremely early, imaginary woodblock view of Alexandria on a full sheet (11 x 16") of Latin text. Verso with two panels of portraits depicting early popes on the left and Syrian kings on the right.

795 [Die Statt Alfair] Egypt, Cairo Sebastian Munster 1580 B   $130.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 15.2 x 9.2 inches) This early, 16th century woodblock city plan of Cairo has amazing detail of the buildings, gardens, temples, palaces, farms and markets. The Nile is shown with fishing boats, irrigation systems and even crocodiles. The pyramids are also depicted. Title is printed on verso.

796 Het Gedeelte van Opper-Ethiopien. Waar in leggen 't Ryk van Abissinien, en Nubien, enz. Eastern Africa Nicolas Sanson 1705 A+   $110.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 8.3 x 11.6 inches) This attractive map focuses on the fictitious Ptolemaic twin lakes of Zaire and Zaflan that were purported to be the source of the Nile, located at the foot of the mythical Lunae Montes, or Mountains of the Moon, often identified as the Ruwenzori Mountains in Uganda. The map is filled with fictitious place names and topography, all meticulously detailed. It was engraved by A...

797 Guineae Nova Descriptio Western Africa Mercator/Cloppenburgh 1630 B+   $130.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 9.8 x 7.3 inches) Reduced version of Mercator's superb map of western Africa covering from Senegal, Rio Senega, to Cape Lopez on the Gulf of Guinea just below the equator. The map reflects the Portuguese exploration and settlement in the region and includes a large inset of the island of St. Thomas. It is beautifully embellished with strapwork cartouches. The sea displays a sea monster, a Portuguese ship and nat...

798 Casteel del Mina Western Africa Olivier Dapper 1670 B+   $90.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 12.8 x 9 inches) This finely engraved coastal view shows the first European fortress (Elmina Castle) built by the Portuguese on the Gold Coast of Africa. Established by various European nations to control trade in gold, ivory and slaves, the forts were the site of continual conflict among both Europeans and competing African kingdoms trying to control this trade. The principal early struggle was between the Dut...

799 Guinea Western Africa Olivier Dapper 1686 A+   $220.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 14.6 x 10.5 inches) Based on the cartography of Blaeu, this charming map covers the coast from Sierra Leone to Gabon. The land is enhanced with elephants, lions, leopards and monkeys and the sea is decorated with sailing ships, a compass rose and rhumb lines. The title cartouche is surrounded by mermaids and sirens and the distance scale is engraved onto an ivory tusk.

800 Guinee en de omleggende e Lande, getrokken uit Marcator. Blommert, enz. Western Africa Nicolas Sanson 1705 A   $80.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 12 x 6.5 inches) This attractive copper engraved map of the Guinea coast includes Guinea, Benin, and Congo with the Niger River along the top of the map. The map is sharply engraved and full of detail with a lovely, decorative cartouche.

801 [Lot of 5 - West Africa] Western Africa [blank] 1745-1811 A   $180.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 0 x 0 inches) An interesting group of maps relating to West Africa, spanning the 18th and 19th centuries. 1) The West Part of Barbary Containing Fez, Marocco, Algier, and Part of Biledulgerid the Canary Islands &c. Created by Herman Moll and published in Osborne's voyages in 1745, this handsome map of the Barbary coast includes Madeira and the Canary Islands. The interior is engraved with mou...

802 Plan of Iames Island in the Gambia, 1732. / N.E. Prospect of Iames Fort. / N.N.W. Prospect of Iames Fort Western Africa, James Island Anonymous 1752 A+ passed Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 5.7 x 8.2 inches) A view of the historically important but small James Island and Fort, in the Gambia River. This island was used in trading gold, silver and African slaves. The top view shows the overall island, with a numbered key to the buildings on the island. The last two are views of the fort from two perspectives, noting the important landmarks and buildings.

803 Presbiteri Iohannis sive Abissinorum Imperii Descriptio Central Africa Abraham Ortelius 1584 B   $700.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 17.5 x 14.8 inches) This famous map depicts the central African kingdom of the mythical Christian king, Prester John, who, according to legend, provided a stronghold against Barbarians and was an ally to the Crusaders. Ortelius designed this map himself using geographical information including Gastaldi's 1564 map of Africa. The mythical twin lakes of Zaire and Zaflan are shown as the origin of the Ni...

804 'T Koninkryk van Congo, enz Central Africa Nicolas Sanson 1705 A+   $65.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 10.5 x 7.8 inches) Attractive map of Gabon, the Congo and Angola from Cape Lopez and Sao Tomé to approximately the border with present-day Namibia. The map is fully engraved with mountains, rivers, forests and trails and decorated with a strapwork title cartouche. Engraved by Anthony d' Winter.

805 Partie de l'Afrique, audela de l'Equateur, Compenant le Congo, La Cafrerie &c Southern Africa Brion de la Tour/Desnos 1786 B passed Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 10.2 x 9 inches) Handsome map of South Africa, including Madagascar with cartographic content that is modest and moderately accurate. It is decorated with a delicately engraved title cartouche. French text panels are pasted onto either side, as was customary with this atlas.

806 Carta delle Isole di Comora Johanna o Anjuan Mohilla o Moaly e Mayota Africa - Comoros Islands Jacques Nicolas Bellin 1780 B+   $60.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 9.7 x 8.3 inches) An uncommon map of the Comoros islands, located in the Madagascar Channel, between Africa and Madagascar. The chart details the islands of Grand Comore, Moheli, Anjouan and Mayotte, with notes on anchorages and the small amount of knowledge of the islands at the time.

807 Isles des Maldives Indian Ocean, Maldives Allain Mallet 1683 A passed Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 4 x 5.8 inches) This interesting miniature map of the Indian Ocean details Sri Lanka, the southern tip of India and the Maldives. An ornate aquatic cartouche with mer-people fills the bottom of the map.

808 Algemeene Kaart der Eilanden, van Welke in de Bovenstaande Ontwerpen, een Naaukeuriger Verslag Gedaan Woradt Indian Ocean Bonne/Bachiene 1790 A   $60.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 12.5 x 8.2 inches) This interesting chart covers the islands in the Indian Ocean with trade winds noted, plus 3 well-engraved insets with good detail of the islands of Reunion, Mauritius and Rodrigues. An erupting volcano is shown on the island of Bourbon, now known as Reunion. The decorative title cartouche is unique to the Bachiene edition.

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