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Carthage, etc.
Third-page woodcut from the famous Liber chronicarum or Nuremberg Chronicle of Hartmann-Schedel 1493, the first and Latin edition of this famous and profusely illustrated...
Place & Date: Nuremberg 12 July 1493
Selling price: $205
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Alexandria. Foliu LXXVII
A imaginary view of Alexandria: however the earliest obtainable view of this period.Page from the Nuremberg Chronicle, published the year that Columbus returned to Europe...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Selling price: $212
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Tercia Etas Mundi. / Carthago. / Folio XL.
A very fine presentation of the city of Carthage, centered on the church.(Dim. H : 120 mm W : 168 mm). Ancient Carthage was the Phoenician city-state of Carthage. During ...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Selling price: $200
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![Sexta Etas Mudi. CCX. Sexta etas mund]. [ With view of Dumyat ]](/uploads/cache/26482-250x250.jpg)
Sexta Etas Mudi. CCX. Sexta etas mund]. [ With view of Dumyat ]
Verso : An imaginary view of Dumyat (Damieta) in Egypt. Dumyat is located on the Nile delta on the Damietta branch of the Nile, close to the Mediterranean Sea.On recto a ...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Selling price: $75
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Quita Etas Mundi. Folium. LXXVII.
The Latin text page is illustrated with a depictions of Kings, Noble men and women and scientists. VERSO : A imaginary of Alexandria: however the earliest obtainable vie...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Selling price: $150
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Tercia Etas Mundi. / Carthago (Carthage in Tunisia). / Folio XL.
A very fine presentation of the city of Carthage in Tunisia, centered on the church. (Dim. H : 120 mm W : 168 mm). Including also a genealogy of Zaraya, Meraioth , Amarie...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Selling price: $150
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Tabula Moderna Prime partis aphricae.
From Martin Waldseemüller's edition of Ptolemy's Geography , often considered to be the first modern atlas. This is the first printed modern map of North and West Africa...
Place & Date: Strassburg, 1513
Selling price: $5100
Sold in 2011
Tertia Africae Tabula.
Early woodcut map of North Africa from M. Waldseemuller of 1513 (1520). Showing the region from Bengazi in Libya up to Egypt with the Red Sea.This ptolemaic map comes fro...
Place & Date: Strasbourg, 1513
Selling price: $2100
Sold in 2011
Tertia Africae Tabula (North Africa)
Wood block printed large-format Ptolemaic map showing Northeastern Africa, extending from Egypt and the Red Sea (Sinus Arabicus) to Libya. Showing an interesting Nile sys...
Place & Date: Strasburg, 1513
Selling price: $2400
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Tabula Moderna Prime partis aphricae.
This maps belongs to the famous 1513, Martin Waldseemüller's, edition of Ptolemy's Geography, which is often considered to be the first modern printed atlas. It is very ...
Place & Date: Strassburg, 1513
Selling price: $2350
Sold in 2017
Tabula prima Africae.
One of the earliest maps of Morocco and the northern coast of Africa, including the Balearic islands.From the 1513 Strasburg edition of Ptolemy's Geographia , generally c...
Place & Date: Strasbourg, 1513-1520
Selling price: $1600
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Tertia Africae Tabula.
Early woodcut map of North Africa from M. Waldseemüller of 1513 (1520). Showing the region from Bengazi in Libya up to Egypt with the Red Sea.From Waldseemüller's Ptole...
Place & Date: Strasbourg, Johannes Schott, 1513-1520
Selling price: $1250
Sold in 2016
TABULA PRIMA APHRICE.
An engraved map of Africa from the blocks of Laurent Fries, the famous physician, astrologer and geographer. The map covers northwestern Africa showing the regions that w...
Place & Date: Strasbourg, 1525
Selling price: $310
Sold in 2019
![TABULA II MODERNA APHRICE.[Malta]](/uploads/cache/82606-250x250.jpg)
TABULA II MODERNA APHRICE.[Malta]
A rare 1525 edition of Lorenz Fries's woodcut map of the central part of the North African coastline, with islands in the Mediterranean, based upon the work of Waldseemul...
Place & Date: Strasbourg, 1525
Selling price: $270
Sold in 2019
![LIBYAE INTERIORI PARS. [Egypt & Libya]](/uploads/cache/82607-250x250.jpg)
LIBYAE INTERIORI PARS. [Egypt & Libya]
A rare 1525 edition of Lorenz Fries's woodcut map of the central part of the North African coastline, with islands in the Mediterranean, based upon the work of Waldseemul...
Place & Date: Strasbourg, 1525
Selling price: $300
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Tunes Oppidum Barbarie & Regina fedes ... / Africa olim Aphrodisum. / Penon de Veles.
Three town-views on one sheet: Tunis, Mahdia and Penon de Veles.The Civitates was compiled and written by George Braun, Canon of Cologne Cathedral. Braun gathered togethe...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1535
Selling price: $200
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Tabu. Nova Partis Aphri.
Based on Waldseemuller's map. Border and ornament are by Hans Holbein and Graf. The reissued map includes three kings on their thrones, an elephant, a cockatrice and two ...
Place & Date: Lyon, 1535
Selling price: $950
Sold in 2009
Tabu nova partis Aphri. (North Africa)
Based on Waldseemuller's map. Border and ornament are by Hans Holbein and Graf. The maps show Northern Africa as it was known to Europeans at the first part of the 16th c...
Place & Date: Lyons, M. Servetus, 1535
Selling price: $2000
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Tabu nova partis aphri.
Ptolemy's double-page wood-engraved map of southern Africa. The map is a derivative of the Waldseemüller map of 1513, with the addition of three kings on their thrones, ...
Place & Date: Lyons, M. Servetus, 1535
Selling price: $4200
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Tabula I Aphricae.
Trapezoidal Ptolemaic woodcut map by Laurent Fries features the northwest corner of Africa, which is often referred to as the Maghreb (meaning western in Arabic), and inc...
Place & Date: Vienna, 1522- 1535
Selling price: $375
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![[North Africa with Egypt] Tabula III. Aphricae. Hae Sunt E Cognitis Totius Orbis . . . (title on verso)](/uploads/cache/42943-250x250.jpg)
[North Africa with Egypt] Tabula III. Aphricae. Hae Sunt E Cognitis Totius Orbis . . . (title on verso)
One of the earliest obtainable maps of North Africa, with Egypt, from Lorenz Fries' (1490-1532) edition of Ptolemy's Geographia, largely based on the 1513 map by Waldseem...
Place & Date: Vienna, 1522, 1535
Selling price: $425
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Aphricae tabula secunda continet.
Map representing northern Africa.The fourth edition of Ptolemy's Geographia utilising Lorenz Fries's woodcut maps was published in Vienne, Dauphine, in 1541 by Gaspar Tre...
Place & Date: Vienna, 1541
Selling price: $300
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Tabula nova partis Africae.
Wood block printed map of southern part of Africa, the second earliest map to focus on the southern part of the Continent. The map is prepared by Lorenz Fries after Marti...
Place & Date: Vienna, Trechsel, G., 1525 -1541
Selling price: $2200
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![[Map of Northern half of Africa]](/uploads/cache/31511-250x250.jpg)
[Map of Northern half of Africa]
An early representation of North Africa with a prominent "Mountains of the Moon" (Montes Lunae), a mountain range in central Africa that is the source of the Wh...
Place & Date: Basle, Michael Isengrin, 1544
Selling price: $400
Sold in 2012
Cairo, Warhaffte abcontrafehtung der machtigen und vesten Statt Alkair.
A highly detailed birds-eye view of the city of Cairo, illustrated with drilling soldiers, crocodiles, camels, horse riding, fishermen at work, mosques, and more. The vie...
Place & Date: Basel, 1544
Selling price: $210
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Aphricae Tabula I (Mauritania - present-day Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia.)
The first edition of Munster's map of Mauritania - present-day Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia, based upon Claudius Ptolemy which appeared in his "Geographia Universal...
Place & Date: Basel, Heinrich Petri, 1545
Selling price: $200
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Aphricae Tabula II (Northern Africa and the Mediterranean showing parts of Sicily, Tunisia and Libya.)
The first edition of Munster's map of Northern Africa and the Mediterranean showing parts of Sicily, Tunisia and Libya, based upon Claudius Ptolemy which appeared in his ...
Place & Date: Basel, Heinrich Petri, 1545
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2014
Aphricae Tabula III (Northern Africa and the Mediterranean, including Egypt.)
The first edition of Munster's map of Northern Africa and the Mediterranean, including Egypt, based upon Claudius Ptolemy which appeared in his "Geographia Universal...
Place & Date: Basel, Heinrich Petri, 1545
Selling price: $200
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Aphricae Tabula III (Northern Africa and the Mediterranean, including Egypt.)
The first edition of Munster's map of Northern Africa and the Mediterranean, including Egypt, based upon Claudius Ptolemy which appeared in his "Geographia Universal...
Place & Date: Basel, Heinrich Petri, 1545
Selling price: $200
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Aphricae Tabula I (Mauritania - present-day Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia.)
The first edition of Münster's map of Mauritania - present-day Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia, based upon Claudius Ptolemy which appeared in his "Geographia Universa...
Place & Date: Basel, Heinrich Petri, 1545
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2018
Tabula Africae III.
One of the earliest maps of Egypt, first published in the 1540 edition of Münster's Geographia and reprinted for subsequent editions of the Geographia and Cosmographia. ...
Place & Date: Basel, Heinrich Petri, 1545
Selling price: $100
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Tabula Africae IIII.
Uncommon first edition of one of the earliest maps of Egypt.Girolamo Ruscelli's edition of Ptolemy's Geographia included newly engraved copperplates by Giulio and Livio S...
Place & Date: Basel, Heinrich Petri, 1545
Selling price: $100
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An early map of 'modern' southern Africa: Africa Nova Tabula.
An uncommon map showing all of Africa from the Horn of Africa and the Bight of Benin southward to the Cape of Good Hope. The information to produce this map was based on...
Place & Date: Venice, 1548
Selling price: $300
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Tabula Aphricae II.
Gastaldi's map of North Africa and part of the Mediterranean, including Malta, Sardinia and Sicily. Embellished with two mythical birds and a ship wreck off the coast. Ba...
Place & Date: Venice, 1548
Selling price: $300
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Tabula Aphricae I. (Morocco & Southeast Spain)
Gastaldi's map of North Africa with Morocco and the Balearic Islands to the Pillars of Hercules. Based upon Ptolemy.Embellished is a sailing ship, sea monster and several...
Place & Date: Venice, 1548
Selling price: $200
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Totius Africae tabula & descriptio universalis etiam ultra Ptolemaei extensa.
A wonderfully decorative and extremely interesting map of the continent of Africa by Sebastian Munster. The map features a galleon, mountains, rivers, assorted kings crow...
Place & Date: Basle, 1550
Selling price: $2100
Sold in 2013
La table et description universelle de toute l'Afrique..
This is the first collectible map to show the entire continent of Africa. Prior maps by Waldseemüller, Fries, and Gastaldi showed either the northern or southern portion...
Place & Date: Basel 1552
Selling price: $460
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Totius Africae tabula, & descrptio…
This is the first collectible map to show the entire continent of Africa. Prior maps by Waldseemüller, Fries, and Gastaldi showed either the northern or southern portio...
Place & Date: Basle, ca 1552
Selling price: $1050
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Afrika
A woodcut map of the African continent from an early German edition of Cosmographia by Sebastian Münster. The map shows most of Africa including the supposed source of t...
Place & Date: Basle 1556
Selling price: $385
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Delle navigationi et viaggi.
Wood block map by the Arabic geographer Leo Africanus, from his work Description de l'Afrique published in Lyons in 1556.It is strongly reminiscent of the map appearing i...
Place & Date: Lyons 1556
Selling price: $2025
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[West Africa]
Rare first edition. West Africa, from the Tropic of Cancer south to St Thomas. The interior is filled with lions, elephants, monkeys and camels, with a fenced native vill...
Place & Date: Venice, 1556
Selling price: $472
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De Africae Regionibus.
A very early Münster wood cut view of Algiers, showing its attempted storming during the Algiers Expedition.Sebastian Münster (1488-1552), was a famous German cartograp...
Place & Date: Basel, 1558
Selling price: $20
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![[Central Africa]](/uploads/cache/46530-250x250.jpg)
[Central Africa]
Wood block map of Central Africa. Extending south to the Tropic of Capricorn and Madagascar. South to the top and centered on the course of the Nile, which has its primar...
Place & Date: Venice, 1559
Selling price: $450
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AFRICA MIT SEINEN BESUNDERN LÄNDERN, THIEREN, UND WUNDERBARLICHEN DINGEN
A small, attractive map of Africa from the famous 'Cosmographia', by Sebastian Münster. On a whole page of the book.
Place & Date: Basel, ca. 1560
Selling price: $80
Sold in 2016
Africa nuova tavola.
Uncommon first edition of this early map of south Africa. Madagascar is called Isola de S. Lorenzo and is oddly shaped.The origin of the Nile conforms to the Ptolemaic co...
Place & Date: Venice, 1561
Selling price: $400
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Sinus Arabicus (North Africa)
Woodcut from P. Mela's "De Orbis Situ Libri tres". Published by Henric Perti. Almost a decade after the death of Sebastian Münster, his publisher and stepson H...
Place & Date: Basle, 1561
Selling price: $130
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![Al Ecc[ellentissi],mo Philosopho, Mathematico, Medico, et Cauallier aureato, beniemerito Guardiano grande della / Scola de .S. Marco...](/uploads/cache/25019-250x250.jpg)
Al Ecc[ellentissi],mo Philosopho, Mathematico, Medico, et Cauallier aureato, beniemerito Guardiano grande della / Scola de .S. Marco...
The first map of Africa from the Forlani school, in a first edition. Forlani appears to have largely drawn upon the earlier work of Gastaldi. Forlani shows additional pla...
Place & Date: Venice, 1562
Selling price: $45100
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Africa nuova tavola
Decorative colored 16th century map of South Africa by G. Ruscelli. From the latin Ptolemy edition of Gastaldi-Ruscelli by V. Valgrisi, printed in Venice 1562.
Place & Date: Venice, 1562
Selling price: $425
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Tabula Aphricae II
Fine Ptolemaic style map of North Africa and including Sardinia, Sicily and the southern tip of Italy. It was published in 1562.
Place & Date: Venice, 1562
Selling price: $105
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![[East coast of Africa]](/uploads/cache/32499-250x250.jpg)
[East coast of Africa]
Scarce map of the eastern part of Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, and the western part of India. In the Indian Ocean Madagascar, Noah's Ark with a dove returning with its ...
Place & Date: Venice, G.H. Camocio, ca.1563
Selling price: $4600
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(African flora and fauna)
One text page with a woodcut of an abandon flora and fauna in Africa from Münster's Cosmographia Universalis.The Cosmographia by Sebastian Munster from 1544 is the earli...
Place & Date: Basle, ca. 1564
Selling price: $10
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Tabula Aphricae I.
Early map of north-west Africa. Girolamo Ruscelli first published the map in his "La Geographi di Claudio Tolomeo" (Venice, 1561). In 1574 a new plate was used ...
Place & Date: Venice, 1564
Selling price: $60
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NVOVA, ET / COPIOSA, DE= / SCRITTIONE / DI TVTTO / L'EGITTO / Pur hora da Paulo / Forlani Veronese / intagliata. in / Venetia l'anno / 1566.
Rare map of the northern part of Egypt. In the right-hand part of the Red Sea. The first of only two "Lafreiri-school" maps made of Egypt!North to the top.Engra...
Place & Date: Venice 1566
Selling price: $2000
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![[Tripoli] Il vero disegno del porto,della citta, della fortezza, et del sito doue e posta Tripoli di Barbaria.](/uploads/cache/16895-250x250.jpg)
[Tripoli] Il vero disegno del porto,della citta, della fortezza, et del sito doue e posta Tripoli di Barbaria.
Extremely rare map of the environs of Tripoli with a fortification plan of Tripoli in the center. Extensive shipping in the sea.The print is addressed and dated Ven.l'an...
Place & Date: Venice 1568
Selling price: $300
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![[Velez de la Gomera] Il vero natural sito della Villa di Velez de Gomera, et l'in' espugnabile forte et castello chiamato il Pignon, situato in Africa di Barbaria ..](/uploads/cache/16897-250x250.jpg)
[Velez de la Gomera] Il vero natural sito della Villa di Velez de Gomera, et l'in' espugnabile forte et castello chiamato il Pignon, situato in Africa di Barbaria ..
Extremely rare bird's-eye plan of the siege of the town and fortress Velez de lab Gomera in Marocco. Extensive shipping in the sea.Engraved by Paolo Furlani (active 1561-...
Place & Date: Venice 1568
Selling price: $300
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Africae Tabula Nova.
The title is contained in a striking cartouche consisting of a panel flanked by caryatids and strap work. The sea is engraved in stipple-work, and features a sea-battle i...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1570
Selling price: $1800
Sold in 2009
Africae Tabula Nova.
The title is contained in a striking cartouche consisting of a panel flanked by caryatids and strap work. The sea is engraved in stipple-work, and features a sea-battle i...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1570
Selling price: $1350
Sold in 2010
Wahrhafftige Abcontrafehtung der Mechtigen und Vesten Statt Alkair.
Double page 16th century woodblock city plan of Cairo. Bird's-eye perspective with amazing detail of the buildings, gardens, temples, palaces, farms and markets. Includes...
Place & Date: Basel, c1570
Africae Tabula Nova Edita Antverpiae 1570.
This beautiful map is one of the cornerstone maps of Africa. This particular map does not have text on the verso. This example is not recorded by van den Broecke in his b...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1570
Selling price: $1850
Sold in 2017
Aphricae Tabula III. (North Africa and Egypt)
Double-page woodcut Ptolemaic-style map by Sebastian Münster figuring North Africa and Egypt., published in the edition of Strabo by Henri Petri in 1571."Strabonis ...
Place & Date: Basle, Henri Petri, 1571
Selling price: $60
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Aphricae Tabula IIII. (North Africa and the Mediterranean)
Double-page woodcut Ptolemaic-style map by Sebastian Münster figuring North Africa and the Mediterranean, published in the edition of Strabo by Henri Petri in 1571."...
Place & Date: Basle, Henri Petri, 1571
Selling price: $200
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Aphricae Tabula II. (Northern Africa and the Mediterranean showing parts of Sicily, Tunisia and Libya)
Double-page woodcut Ptolemaic-style map by Sebastian Münster figuring Northern Africa and the Mediterranean showing parts of Sicily, Tunisia and Libya, published in the ...
Place & Date: Basle, Henri Petri, 1571
Selling price: $105
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Africae Tabula Nova.
The title is contained in a striking cartouche consisting of a panel flanked by caryatids and strapwork. The sea is engraved in stipple-work, and features a sea-battle in...
Place & Date: Antwerp 1572
Selling price: $2025
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Africae Tabula Nova.
The title is contained in a striking cartouche consisting of a panel flanked by caryatids and strapwork. The sea is engraved in stipple-work, and features a sea-battle in...
Place & Date: Antwerp 1572
Selling price: $1850
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Barbariae et Biledulgerid, nova descriptio.
North-West Africa. Koeman speculated: ''In view of the important trading relationship between Antwerp and Africa, it is not impossible that the original was a manuscript ...
Place & Date: Antwerp 1572
Selling price: $300
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Africae Descriptio...
Munster's smaller woodcut map of Africa, printed area 130 x 160mm, set in a large page of text. From an Italian edition of the Cosmography. One of the earliest obtainable...
Place & Date: Basle, 1572
Selling price: $200
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De Africae Regionibus
Munster's uncommon woodcut map of Southern Africa. Although numerous editions of the Cosmography were printed over the span of 50 years, this map appeared in only one edi...
Place & Date: Basle, 1572
Selling price: $400
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Alexandria vetustissimum AEgypti emporium
A superb image of Alexandria, the famous Egyptian center of learning. From Braun and Hogenberg's "Civitates Orbis Terrarum". An excellent example in fine period...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1572
Selling price: $750
Sold in 2008
Aden, .../ Mambaza / Quilao / Cefala.
Four town-views of Middle Eastern and East African/Indian Ocean port cities once maintained by the Portuguese in the 16th century as strategic parts of the Lusitanian cro...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1572
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2011
CAIRUS QUAE OLIM BABYLON AEGYPTI MAXIMA URBS.
A striking, old colored view of Cairo from a hillside opposite the Nile, from Braun & Hogenberg's groundbreaking Civitatus Orbis Terrarum, the most important town boo...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1572
Selling price: $400
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(Cairo). Cairus Quae Olim Babilon Aegipti Maxima Urbs.
Descriptive Latin text to verso. The city of Cairo, made up of highly uniform cubic houses interspersed with minarets and gardens, is seen from the right bank of the Nile...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1572
Selling price: $260
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Cairus, quae olim Babylon; Aegypti Maxima Urbs.
A highly attractive map by Braun and Hogenberg of the city of Cairo oriented to the South. Running down the right-hand side we see a range of mountains on which the pyram...
Place & Date: Köln, Bertram Buchholtz, 1572
Selling price: $515
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Presbiteri Iohannis Sive Abissinorum Imperii Descriptio.
"Despite the title this map extends far beyond Prester John's supposed kingdom. It covers Africa from the fabled ""mountains of the moon"" in the...
Place & Date: Antwerp1573
Selling price: $880
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Presbiteri Iohannis Sive Abissinorum Imperii Descriptio.
Despite the title this map extends far beyond Prester John's supposed kingdom. It covers Africa from the fabled mountains of the moon in the centre of the continent north...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1573
Selling price: $1000
Sold in 2008
Africae Tabula Nova.
Very decorative first state map of Africa by Ortelius. The title is contained in an elaborated cartouche consisting of a panel flanked by caryatids and strap work. The se...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1573
Selling price: $1550
Sold in 2016
Africae Tabula Nova.
The title is contained in a striking cartouche consisting of a panel flanked by caryatids and strap work. The sea is engraved in stipple-work, and features a sea-battle i...
Place & Date: Antwerp 1574
Selling price: $1200
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Egitto Nuova Tavola
One of the earliest obtainable maps of Egypt and the Nile delta.Extends to include Cairo, and a part of the Red Sea. Includes several pyramids. Italian text on verso.
Place & Date: Venice, 1574
Selling price: $22
Sold in 2016
Mauritania Nuova Tavola
A very early map of Western Africa, after Ptolemy, including Gibraltar and the Canary Islands.Displays a rich system of rivers throughout, and a curious set of trees near...
Place & Date: Venice, 1574
Selling price: $110
Sold in 2016
Africa Minor Nuova Tavola.
Striking impression of Ruscelli's map of the region of present day Algiers, Tunisia and Libya. Ruscelli sought the most up-to-date geographical information available, mak...
Place & Date: Venice, 1574
Selling price: $102
Sold in 2020
Tunes Urbs
Attractive city view of Tunis in Tunisia / Africa. Showing the Imperial attack on Tunis in 1573. Latin text on verso.
Place & Date: 1575
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2009