AFRICA (CONTINENT):295. Quad, M. ‘APHRICA’. Map of Africa with elaborate title cartouche and table of explanations along the left border. Johann Bussemacher for Matthias Quad ca. 1600 [21156] 21 x 30 cm.
Uncoloured. Excellent condition £450
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AFRICA (CONTINENT):296. Mercator, G. / Janssonius, J.
'AFRICAE DESCRIPTIO'. Map of Africa. Engraved by Abraham Goos for Mercator/Janssonius 1648 [7173] 15 x 20 cm. Full recent
colour. Very good condition. £250
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AFRICA (CONTINENT):298. Du Val, P. ‘AFRIQUE’. Africa. Pierre Du Val 1682 [21207] 10 x 12 cm.
Uncoloured. £100
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AFRICA (CONTINENT):299. Sanson, N. ‘AFRICA’. Map of Africa. A. d’Winter for Nicolas Sanson ca. 1683 [20675] 20 x 28 cm. Cartouche.
Uncoloured. £120
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AFRICA (CONTINENT):300. Sanson, N. ‘L’AFRIQUE DIVISEE SUIVANT L’ESTENDUE DE SES PRINCIPLES PARTIES ......’. Large map of Africa, printed on two sheets and joined. Elaborate title cartouche. Published by Hubert Jaillot from the plate by Nicolas Sanson 1692 [22158] 54 x 87 cm. Decorative title cartouche and scale of miles
uncoloured, the map in original outline colour. Excellent condition. £750
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AFRICA (CONTINENT):301. Zürner, A. F. / Schenk, P. ‘AFRICAE IN TABULA GEOGRAPHICA
DELINEATIO...’. Attractive map of Africa with large vignette of elephant ridden by an African woman and native animals (tiger, crocodile, goats). Published by Pieter Schenk from the plate designed by Adam Friedrich Zürner ca. 1709 [24837] 50 x 58 cm. The large vignette
uncoloured, the map in full original colour. Excellent condition. £850
Norwich 66. |
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AFRICA (CONTINENT):302. Aa, P. v. d. ‘L’AFRIQUE, SUIVANT LES NOUVELLES OBSERVATIONS’. Map of Africa with pictorial cartouche. Pieter van der Aa, Leiden 1714 [25140] 23 x 30 cm.
Uncoloured. Excellent condition. £300
Folio edition - no
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AFRICA (CONTINENT):303. De Fer, N. ‘L’AFRIQUE...’ Map of Africa with title and dedication cartouches. N. de Fer ca. 1740 [21337] 23 x 32 cm. Previously folded.
Uncoloured. This is a later edition with the original address bearing the date 1717 erased. £300
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AFRICA (CONTINENT):305. Hase, J. M. ‘AFRICA SECUNDUM
LEGITIMAS...’. Map of Africa, coloured to show the distribution of the various religions. Johann Matthias Hase for Homann’s Heirs ca. 1750 [20957] 46 x 58 cm. Full original
colour, cartouche uncoloured. £500
This is an interesting variant, not recorded by Norwich, with a further palm tree added to the left of the cartouche. Tooley mentions a Homann map showing the distribution of religions (Tooley/Africa p. 52), but does not mention a changed title piece. |
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AFRICA (CONTINENT):306. De l’Isle, G. / Lotter, T. C. ‘AFRICA, CONCINNATA SECUNDUM
OBSERVATIONES...’. Map of Africa. Published by Tobias Conrad Lotter from the plate designed by Guillaume de l’Isle ca. 1750 [22154] 44 x 58 cm. Large cartouche
(uncoloured), the map in full original colour. £320
Short cut into left border and neat line sometime rebacked, otherwise very good condition. From the private collection of a European aristocratic family. |
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AFRICA (CONTINENT):307. Geograph. Institut Weimar. ‘CHARTE VON AFRICA...’. J. C. M. Reinecke for Verlag des Geograph. Instituts Weimar 1804 [17292] 49 x 56 cm. Original outline
Colour. Cartouche uncoloured. £200
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CAIRO:308. Braun, G. / Hogenberg, F. ‘CAIRUS, QUAE OLIM BABYLON, AEGYPTI MAXIMA URBS’. Birds-eye plan from a half elevation with table of explanations and figures in the foreground. Braun & Hogenberg’s Civitates Orbis Terrarum 1572 [15972] 33 x 49 cm. Full later
colour. £500
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CAIRO:309. The Graphic. ‘BIRDS EYE VIEW OF CAIRO LOOKING NORTH EAST’. The pyramids and Sphinx in the foreground. Special chromolithograph supplement to The Graphic 1882 [20413] 39 x 55 cm. Printed in tone
colours. £120
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CAIRO:310. Brewer, J. W. ‘PANORAMIC VIEW OF CAIRO’. A superb prospect of Cairo with the Mosque of the Citadel, built in Alabaster by Mohammed Ali, in the
centre. Also in the picture is the Mosque of Sultan Hassan, Joseph’s Well, Citadel and Palace and in the background, the Nile. Drawn and engraved by J. W. Brewer for The Graphic 1882 [21698] 25 x 124 cm.
Uncoloured. Issued as a supplement. Folded. £400
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CAIRO:311. The Graphic. ‘BIRDS EYE VIEW OF CAIRO LOOKING NORTH EAST’. The pyramids and Sphinx in the foreground. Special chromolithograph supplement to The Graphic 1882 [23280] 39 x 55 cm. Printed in tone
colours. £120
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CAPE OF GOOD HOPE:312. Aa, P. v. d. ‘LE CAP DE BONNE
ESPERANCE, SUIVANT LES NOUVELLES OBSERVATIONS’. Map of Cape Town and Cape of Good Hope in South Africa with pictorial cartouche. Pieter van der Aa, Leiden 1714 [25141] 23 x 30 cm.
Uncoloured. Excellent condition. £325
Folio edition - no
centrefolds. |
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CAPE VERDE ISLANDS:313. Janssonius, J. / Schenk, P. & Valk, G. ‘INSULAE DE CABO VERDE OLIM HESPERIDES SIVE
GORGADES...’. Sea chart of the Cape Verde Islands with large decorative cartouche. Published by Pieter Schenk and Gerard Valk from the plate by Joannes Janssonius ca. 1700 [22073] 43 x 54 cm. The map in full original
colour. Excellent condition. £360
As issued, in its original state, no later colour added to cartouches etc. From the private collection of a European aristocratic family. |
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CAPE VERDE ISLANDS:314. D’Après de
Mannevillette. ‘CARTE DES ISLES DU CAP-VERD...’. Sea chart of the Cape Verde Islands with inset chart of the Bay of Praia on St.
Yago. G. Delahaye after D’Après de Mannevillette for Neptune Oriental 1774 [19695] 48 x 33 cm. £100
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CONGO - GABON - ANGOLA:315. Janssonius, J. / Schenk, P. & Valk, G. ‘REGNA CONGO ET ANGOLA’. Map of Congo, Gabon and Angola with figurative cartouche. North orientated to the left. Published by Pieter Schenk and Gerard Valk from the plate by Joannes Janssonius ca. 1700 [22068] 41 x 50 cm. The map in full original
colour. Excellent condition. £280
As issued, in its original state, no later colour added to cartouches etc. From the private collection of a European aristocratic family. |
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EAST & CENTRAL AFRICA:316. Illustrated London News. ‘BIRDS EYE VIEW OF THE SOUDAN AND SURROUNDING COUNTRIES’. Birds-eye view of Central and East Africa from the south, covering (from left to the top) Congo, Zaire, Zambia, Tanzania, Uganda, Kenya, Somalia, Ethiopia, Sudan, and Egypt in the distance. Inset portraits of General Gordon and Colonel Stewart, and views of Khartoum, Mudirs Palace, El Obeid and
Kordofan. Double page chromolithograph supplement to The Illustrated London News 1881 [20415] 38 x 52 cm. Printed in tone
colours. £100
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EGYPT:317. Sanson, N. ‘EGYPTE DIVISÉE EN SES DOUZE CASSILIFS OU GOUVERNEMENS’. Map of Egypt. Nicolas Sanson ca. 1683 [20510] 27 x 20 cm. Cartouche. Original outline
Colour. Two horizontal paper creases where previously folded into atlas, otherwise very good. £100
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EGYPT:318. Homann, J. B. ‘AEGYPTUS HODIERNA’. Map of Egypt and the course of the River Nile with large vignette view of the Nile, the Pyramids, Sphinx and Tombs of the Kings. Johann Baptist Homann ca. 1730 [22078] 56 x 47 cm. Short section of lower left border expertly extended (invisible from the front), otherwise in excellent condition. The large vignette views etc.
uncoloured, the map in full original colour. £350
From the private collection of a European aristocratic family. |
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ETHIOPIA - RIVER NILE:319. Ludolf, J. ‘JOBI LUDOLFI HABESSINIA SEU ABASSIA PRESBYTERI JOHANNIS
REGIO...’. Very detailed map of Ethiopia, showing the mythical kingdom of Presbyter John, with decorative cartouche, coat of arms, two small tables of explanations and a number of wild animals including camels, elephants, rhinos and lions. Designed by Christian Ludolf after the manuscript map by his father Jobi Ludolf 1683 [24027] 44 x 55 cm. Full original
colour, incl. cartouches. Short split to lower centrefold invisibly closed. Excellent condition. £1450
This map provides ‘a greatly improved depiction of Ethiopia from original sources’ (Norwich). It is the earliest available printed map to show the true course of the River Nile. - Jobi Ludolf (1624 - 1704), scholar and historian of
Magdeburg. - Separately published, later re-issued by Pieter Schenk and Gerard
Valk. |
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ETHIOPIA - RIVER NILE:320. Schenk, P. & Valk, G. ‘HABESSINIA SEU ABASSIA PRESBYTERI JOHANNIS
REGIO.....’. Map of Ethiopia, Eritrea and Sudan. Several smaller cartouches, wild animals and sailing ships. Engraved by Christian
Ludolf, dated 1683, and published by Pieter Schenk and Gerard Valk ca. 1700 [22069] 44 x 55 cm. The cartouches
uncoloured, the map in full original colour. Excellent condition. £450
As issued, in its original state, no later colour added to cartouches etc. The map was first published separately in 1683 and here re-issued with the printed date in the cartouche unchanged. From the private collection of a European aristocratic family. |
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GUINEA - NIGERIA:321. Janssonius, J. / Schenk, P. & Valk, G. ‘GUINEA’. Decorative map of the western coast of Africa from Guinea to Nigeria. Published by Pieter Schenk and Gerard Valk from the plate by Joannes Janssonius ca. 1700 [22067] 38 x 51 cm Cartouche with natives and monkeys, sailing ships, compass roses, two boys carrying a tusk (all
uncoloured), the map in full original colour. Excellent condition. £280
As issued, in its original state, no later colour added to cartouches etc. From the private collection of a European aristocratic family. |
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LIBYA and TUNISIA:322. Sanson, N. ‘PARTIE DE BARBARIE OU SONT LES ROYAUMES DE TUNIS, ET TRIPOLI’. Libya and Tunisia. A. d’Winter for Nicolas Sanson ca. 1683 [20440] 19 x 28 cm. Large cartouche. Original outline
Colour. £100
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MAURITIUS:323. Anonymous. ‘INS. DE CERNO. A. NOSTATIBUS MAURITIUS NOMINATA’. Composite view showing early settlers’ activities on the island of Mauritius, like fishing, hunting, shipbuilding, teaching, working on furnaces and casks, etc. A Dodo and turtoises are represented. On sheet with three other images, one a map of the Banda Islands in the Moluccas with its chief town
Nera, the next one a view of the main street of Gammelamme on the island of Ternate, and the other of a settlement with the King of ‘Tubantus’ (Java?) arriving on elephant. Anonymous ca. 1612 [21466] 22 x 31 cm.
Uncoloured. Very good condition, clean, wide margins. Rare. £450
Invisible archival repairs to centre fold verso. |
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MOROCCO:324. Janssonius, J. ‘FEZZAE ET MAROCCHI REGNA AFRICAE CELEBERRIMA’. Map of Morocco, north orientated to the right. After Abraham Ortelius published by Joannes Janssonius ca. 1700 [22065] Sailing ships and figurative cartouche
(uncoloured), the map in full original colour. Excellent condition. £320
As issued, in its original state, no later colour added to cartouches etc. From the private collection of a European aristocratic family. |
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MOROCCO - CANARY ISLANDS:325. Homann, J. Chr. ‘STATUUM
MAROCCANORUM, REGNORUM NEMPE FESSANI, MAROCCANI, TAFILETANI ET SEGELOMESSANI...’. Map of Morocco and the Canary Islands with large figurative cartouche depicting native scenes, and two large prospects of Marrakesh and Meknes below. Small inset map of Madeira. Published in Nürnberg by the son of Johann Baptist
Homann, Johann Christoph Homann 1728 [22077] 48 x 56 cm. Cartouche and prospects
uncoloured, the map in full original colour. Excellent condition. £560
From the private collection of a European aristocratic family. |
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SOUTH AFRICA:327. Sanson, N. ‘PAYS ET COSTE DES
CAFRES: EMPIRES DE MONOMOTAPA MONOEMUGI &’. South Africa. A. d’Winter for Nicolas Sanson ca. 1683 [20646] 20 x 29 cm. Cartouche. Original outline
Colour. Few minor wormholes expertly and invisibly filled. £100
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SOUTH AFRICA:328. Bacon, G. W. ‘BACON’S BIRD’S EYE VIEW OF SOUTH AFRICA’. Large birds-eye view of South Africa, with inset map of North Natal and another birds-eye view of the area between Mafeking and Pretoria. George Washington Bacon ca. 1890 [23550] 61 x 81 cm. Printed in
colours. £450
Previously folded, laid down on linen. Clean and in very good condition. |
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STANLEY’S EXPEDITION:330. Johnston, W. & A. K. ‘MR H. M. STANLEY’S EXPLORATIONS IN THE DARK CONTINENT - MAP OF THE ROUTE AND A PORTRAIT GROUP OF THE OFFICERS OF HIS EXPEDITION’. Nine portraits in oval form and a map (15 x 51
cm). Drawn by W. & A. K. Johnston, Edinburgh, for The Graphic 1887 [23683] Original coloured wood engraving, 35 x 51 cm. £120
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