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AUSLANDISCHEN NATIONEN. Von Happel THESAURUS EXOTIROCUM (Congo, Numidien, Madagascar)
Five woodcuts taken from 'Thesaurus Exoticorum'.
Place & Date: Hamburg, 1688
Selling price: $20
Sold in 2020
AFRIQVE | selon les Relations les plus Nouvelles | Dressée et Dediée | Par le P. Coronelli Cosmographe de la Sere- | nissime Republique de VENISE . | A Monseigneur le Duc de BRISS
This is an important transitional map of Africa. This map is not regularly found in atlases, but is usually found as a separate map. This map almost completely omits th...
Place & Date: Paris, 1689
Selling price: $1500
Sold in 2012
Totius Africae Accuratissima Tabula.
The cartouche is a colorful one with people in varied costumes: Moors, Black Africans, children, and a mounted elephant.Map is framed but can be removed from the frame fo...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1690
Selling price: $550
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Africa Vetus.
A fine map of the African continent.Nicolas Sanson was to bring about the rise of French cartography, although the fierce competition of the Dutch would last until the en...
Place & Date: Paris 1690
Selling price: $200
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Totius Africae Accuratissima Tabula.
A handsome copy of this skillfully engraved, highly decorative map, including the island of Madagascar. The title cartouche shows native people among which a tribal chief...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1690
Selling price: $1100
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Africa Vetus.
A fine map of the ancient African continent.This edition carries the date 1690 and in brown manuscript in Aedibus Regiis .Nicolas Sanson was to bring about the rise of Fr...
Place & Date: Paris 1690
Selling price: $280
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Africa Vetus.
A fine map of the ancient African continent. Original outline colors retouched.Nicolas Sanson was to bring about the rise of French cartography, although the fierce compe...
Place & Date: Paris 1690
Selling price: $200
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[2 sheets] L AFRICA divisa nelle sue Parti secondo le pui moderne..
A beautiful and rare two-sheet map of Africa. The title cartouche is depicted on a drape surrounded by native animals.A most noticeable feature of the decoration on the m...
Place & Date: Venice 1690
Selling price: $2700
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Novissima et perfectissima Africae descriptio
Uncommon map of Africa, based on De Wit map of 1680. Wildlife, ships and sea monsters reflects the new style of the eighteenth century. The cartouche includes Moorish tra...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1690
Selling price: $335
Sold in 2013
Totius Africae . . .
The detail of the map includes the traditional depiction of Central Africa with the river Nile rising in two large central Lakes Zaire and Zaflan. The West African river ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1690
Selling price: $425
Sold in 2014
L'AFRICA divisa nelle sue Parti secondo le pui moderne..
A beautiful and rare two-sheet map of Africa. The title cartouche is depicted on a drape surrounded by native animals.A most noticeable feature of the decoration on the m...
Place & Date: Venice, 1690
Selling price: $2400
Sold in 2018
L'Afrique divisee suivant l'estendue de ses principales parties. . .
Fine map of Africa with a decorative title and scale cartouche.Alexis-Hubert Jaillot (1632-1712), was a French cartographer. He joined the Sanson heirs and redrew Nicolas...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1692
Selling price: $1800
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AFRIQUE. Par. P. DuVal. Geogr du Roy.
Map of Ancient Egypt, outlined and bordered colored historical miniature map of Africa. The map is copperplate engraved with hand coloring and in very good condition and...
Place & Date: Paris, 1694
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2020
L' Afrique / divisee suivant l' estendue de ses principales parties.
An attractive large-format map of the African continent, embellished with a large title-cartouche.Alexis-Hubert Jaillot (1632-1712), French cartographer. He joined the Sa...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1696
Selling price: $750
Sold in 2019
Africa antiqua et Nova.
Interesting map of Africa from Philipp Clüver's famous Introductionis in Universam geographicam, first published in Leiden in 1624. Philipp Clüver (1580–1623) was vir...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1697
Selling price: $80
Sold in 2017
Africa antiqua et nova.
A fascinating map of Africa from Philipp Clüver's famous "Introductionis in Universam geographicam", which was first published in Leiden in 1624. Philipp Clüv...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1697
Selling price: $130
Sold in 2018
AFRICA
Nice map of Africa giving a wealth of information. Some names are translated in to English.
Place & Date: London, c. 1700
Selling price: $220
Sold in 2011
A New Map of Libya or old Africk. . . .
Curious map of ancient Africa, showing the entire continent and Madagascar. With two sources of the Nile. It shows the classic source in the twin lakes of Zaire and Zafla...
Place & Date: Oxford, c1700
Selling price: $162
Sold in 2011
L'Afrique dressée sur les observations de Mr de l'Académie Royale des Sciences. . .
Rare second state with the address : Chez l’Auteur sur le Quai de l’Horloge a la Couro. e de Diamans avec Privilege du Roy pour 20 ans, 1700". Guillaume de l'Isl...
Place & Date: Paris, 1700
Selling price: $350
Sold in 2018
Afrique.
An interesting map of Africa. Shows the area from Brazil until Arabia, including the Canary and Cape Verde Islands, as well as Tristan da Cunha. The interior of the conti...
Place & Date: Paris, ca 1700
Selling price: $35
Sold in 2018
Africae in Tabula Geographica Delineatio.
An attractive and detailed map of Africa, drawn by Zurner and published by Pieter Schenk. It's an updated version of the previous Schenk map, which was based on Visscher....
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca 1700
Selling price: $450
Sold in 2020
L'Africa divisa nelle sue Parti secondo le piu moderne, relationis colle scoperte dell origine e corso del Niro
Famous two sheet Coronelli map of Africa. Second edition from 1701 which is unchanged since first edition in 1691. Many little elephants, lions and other animals filling ...
Place & Date: Venice, 1701
Selling price: $3001
Sold in 2008
Africa Selou les Autheurs les plus Modernes.
A rare map of Africa. Very decorative. It shows a quite up-to-date Africa flanked with armorial shields for major nations. The cartouche depicts natives smoking and tradi...
Place & Date: Paris, 1701
Selling price: $110
Sold in 2017
L'Afrique Dressée sur les Relat. Et Suivant les Nouvelles decouvertes . . .
Map of Africa. Decorative dedication panel and title cartouche. From his "Atlas Curieux", published 1700-1705, in the rare early edition dated 1700.
Place & Date: Paris, 1700-1705
Selling price: $310
Sold in 2011
L'Afrique dressée sur les dernieres Relations . . .
An interesting small map of Africa by Nicolas de Fer. From his rare "Petit et Nouveau Atlas". The first edition was published in 1697 and was republished in 170...
Place & Date: Paris, 1705
Selling price: $170
Sold in 2016
Africa.
Pieter van der Aa was a prolific publisher. He published a.o. ' Naaukeurige versameling der gedenkwaardigste zee- en land-reysen', a series of accounts of voyages (1706-0...
Place & Date: Leiden, 1707
Selling price: $235
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L' AFRIQUE, Dressée sur les Observations de Mrs. de l'Academie Royale des Sciences, et quelques autres, & sur les Memoi= res les plus recens.
This is a landmark map of Africa. This is the first map of Africa to show Africa without the two Nile River Ptolemaic-based source lakes. Delisle's last remaining majo...
Place & Date: Paris, 1700-1708
Selling price: $575
Sold in 2013
L\' AFRIQUE, Dressée sur les Observations de Mrs. de l\'Academie Royale des Sciences, et quelques autres, & sur les Memoi= res les plus recens.
This is a landmark map of Africa. This is the first map of Africa to show Africa without the two Nile River Ptolemaic-based source lakes. Delisle's last remaining major ...
Place & Date: Paris, (1700) 1708
Selling price: $325
Sold in 2013
L\'Afrique dressée sur les observations de Mr de l\'académie Royale des Sciences. . .
Guillaume de l'Isle's (1675-1726) well deserved reputation as one of the foremost geographers of the 18th century meant that his maps were influential for many years afte...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1708
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2011
Representatio Totius Africae ...
This is Scherer's (1628-1704) famous but rather uncommon map showing the skeleton chopping down the tree. Based on his earlier map of the continent (see Norwich Map 62),...
Place & Date: Munich 1710
Selling price: $425
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L'Afrique
Nicolas Bion (1652-1733) was a French mapmaker in Paris. In 1710 Bion's L'Usage des Globes Celestes et Terrestrees et des spheres was published, from which this map com...
Place & Date: Paris, 1710
Selling price: $200
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Carta dell Affrica in eisa dalli Fratelli Bordiga.
Decorative map of the African continent with Madagascar and the surrounding islands. Also the Arabia peninsular. Published by the Bordiga brothers of Milan.
Place & Date: Milan, ca. 1710
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2020
AFRICA Concinnata Secundum Observationes. . .
A rare issue by German the publisher Jeremia Wolff of de l’Isle’s map of Africa, which served as the model for European mapmakers, and was frequently copied throughou...
Place & Date: Augsburg, 1710
Selling price: $350
Sold in 2020
AFRICA.
This the Raphael Savonarola printing of Giovanni Magini's modern map of Africa, from his edition of Claudius Ptolemy's Geographia. It is basically a slightly-reduced ve...
Place & Date: Padua, 1713
Selling price: $70
Sold in 2013
To the right...This Map of Africa.
A superb, beautifully engraved large-scale map of Africa, including 4 insets of ports, coast lines and estuaries across the continent.The work is highlighted by a magnifi...
Place & Date: London, 1716
Selling price: $4000
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AFRIQVE Par le Sr. Sanson d'Abbeville Geographe du Roy
This map is often confused with the Nicolas Sanson map of Africa of 1656 (Betz #86). In Paris in 1716, a copy of the Sanson map appeared in Methode Pour Etudier La Geogr...
Place & Date: Paris, ca 1716
Selling price: $75
Sold in 2013
L'Afrique Dressée selon les derniners relat et suivant les nouvelles decouvertes...?
Striking copper plate engraved map of all of Africa from the 'Atlas Curieux' of Nicholas de Fer (1646-1720). Tooley p.45, plate 33, third state with the date 1717. Curiou...
Place & Date: Paris, 1717
Selling price: $400
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L'Afrique Dressée selon les dernieres relat. et suivant . . .
Map of Africa. Decorative dedication panel and title cartouche.
Place & Date: Paris, 1717
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2009
Nouvelle carte de l'Afrique avec des remarques et des tables pour trouver sans peine les differents peuples de cette partie du Monde par les Renvois Alphabetiques suivant les plus nouvelles ...
Nouvelle carte de l'Afrique avec des remarques et des tables pour trouver sans peine les differents peuples de cette partie du Monde par les Renvois Alphabetiques suivant...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1718
Selling price: $400
Sold in 2008
Nouvelle carte de l'Afrique avec des remarques et des tables pour trouver sans peine les differents peuples de cette partie du Monde par les Renvois Alphabetiques suivant les plus nouvelles Observations de Messieurs de l'Academie des Siences.
Decorative map of Africa, with text borders on both sides. The map is based on Delisle's landmark map of Africa (1700), which was the first to present a non-Ptolemaic ver...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1718
Selling price: $400
Sold in 2017
L' Afrique Dressee suivant les Auteurs les plus nouvea..
Charming map of the African continent with some interesting cartography and filled with notations.The Nile is correctly shown with its origins in Abyssinia. A large Lac d...
Place & Date: Paris 1719
Selling price: $210
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Carte generale de L'Afrique, levée par ordre expres des roys de Portugal..
An impressive chart of the continent of Africa. Decorative scale cartouche to the lower left and the eastern tip of Brazil.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1720
Selling price: $1200
Sold in 2012
L'Afrique.
Print depicting natives from Africa with lions and elephants.
Place & Date: Paris, 1690-1720
Selling price: $60
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L'Afrique dressée sur les observations de M. de l'academie Royale des Sciences..
Very fine engraved map of Africa with a very decorative title cartouche. Giving good detail along the coast.An version printed in Amsterdam after De L'Isle.
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1720
Selling price: $400
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Totius Africae nova repraesentatio..
Richly ornamented map of Africa and the Arabia Peninsula. With an extraordinary delineation of the Nile which is based partly on Ptolemy (rising in two large lakes, Zaire...
Place & Date: Nuremberg 1720
Selling price: $600
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Africa Vetus.
Map of ancient Africa, with the geographical features known to the ancients and decorated with a vignetter and 23 Roman coins & medallions. A interesting and highly d...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 1720
Selling price: $200
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Africa --- mauro percussa Oceano, Niloque admota tepenti....Cum Privilegio ordinum Hollandia et Westfrisia.
An attractive map of Africa containing many of the striking characteristics of Dutch cartography of Africa from around this period. The cartouche in this map is the same...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, c. 1720
Selling price: $750
Sold in 2013
Nieuwe Wassende Graadige Pas-kaart van de Kust van Guinea en Brasilia strekkende van Cap-Verde tot de Cap de Bon-Esperance en Verders van Rio de Berbice tot Rio de la Plata te Amsterdam by Joannes van Keulen
Very large scale sea chart of the Atlanic Ocean from J. van Keulen. Showing the west coast of Africa down to South Africa and Brasil in the West. Exceptional for a nautic...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1720
Selling price: $2000
Sold in 2008
To the Right Honourable Charles, Earl of Peterborow, and Monmouth, &c. This Map of Africa
Herman's Moll's magnificently detailed large scale map of Africa, one of the finest and probably most decorative depictions of the continent made in the eighteenth-centur...
Place & Date: London, c1720
Selling price: $474
Sold in 2011
Africae emendata Descriptio.
Very interesting map of Africa, including Arabia, Persia, the Maledives, and a small part of Brazil. With many details and place names. Also a "Terra Incognita"...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, ca. 1720
Selling price: $66
Sold in 2015
Africa - Maurô percussa Oceanô, Niloque admota tepenti.
A very decorative large format map of Africa by Gerard Valk (1651-1726) and Leonardo Valk (1675-1755) published between 1705-1710. Title in an uncolored yet very ornate c...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1720
Selling price: $400
Sold in 2020
Africa Juxta Navigationes et Observationes Recentissimas?
Large, very graphic map of the continent with a large pictorial title cartouche containing native figures, animals, the pyramids and a fierce dragon. The misconceptions a...
Place & Date: Augsburg, c. 1728
Selling price: $775
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Description des cases ou habitations des negres, de celles du Roi d'Issiny . . .
Four engravings on one sheet showing native live in Africa, including warriors, a leopard, the manner of gathering food from palm trees and the interior of a typical nati...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1728
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2020
Africa Iuxta Navigationes et Observationes Recentissimas Aucta Correcta et in Sua Regna et Status Divisa, in Lucem Edita.
A beautifully hand colored and very detailed map of Africa, with a fine dark impression. The map is typical of the period with the information in southern Africa being la...
Place & Date: Vienna, 1728
Selling price: $375
Sold in 2019
L'Afrique.
An attractive map. The large cartouche is decorated by scenes of ostrich and crocodile hunting and elephants.
Place & Date: Leiden 1729
Selling price: $110
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Africa vetus . . .
A rare issue of this map by Weigels, usually seen with a different cartouche showing disks (coins) instead of the one shown here. A person is skinning an ox on a rock, wh...
Place & Date: Nurnberg, 1729
Selling price: $110
Sold in 2008
Carte De L'Africa.
A striking map of Africa with Madagascar from the “METHODE POUR ETUDIER L’HISTOIRE” by L’Abbe Lenglet du Fresnoy, published in Paris in 1729. The map is quite rar...
Place & Date: Paris, 1729
Selling price: $125
Sold in 2018
L' AFRIQUE. Selon les Autheurs les plus Modernes.
A beautiful map of Africa with african kingdom's emblems on the sides. Published by Jeanne de la Feuille in Amsterdam. Published in; "les tablettes Guerrieres ou Car...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1729
Selling price: $90
Sold in 2019
Carte de l'Afrique.
A striking map of Africa with Madagascar from the “METHODE POUR ETUDIER L’HISTOIRE” by L’Abbe Lenglet du Fresnoy, published in Paris in 1729. The map is quite rar...
Place & Date: Paris, 1729
Selling price: $170
Sold in 2020
L'Afrique Dressee sur les Observations de Ms. de l'Academie Royale des Sciences?.
Guillaume de l'Isle's (1675-1726) well deserved reputation as one of the foremost geographers of the 18th century meant that his maps were influential for many years afte...
Place & Date: Amsterdam ca. 1730
Selling price: $800
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L'Afrique Dressée Sur les Relations et nouvelles decouvertes . . .
Decorative map of Africa with a large allegorical cartouche featuring a female Europe and a male Africa, both holding manacles, representing the valuable slaves trade...
Place & Date: Paris, 1732
Selling price: $400
Sold in 2022
Carte générale de l'Afrique contenant les principaux états dressée sur les nouvelles observations?
Charles Inselin (or Inslin) was an engraver for important map publishers such as Delisle, de Fer and Jaillot in Paris during the first half of the 18th century. His map ...
Place & Date: Paris, 1735
Selling price: $1500
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AFRICA Secundum legitimas Projectionis Stereographiae regulas . . Leonis Africani. . .à IOH. MATTHIA HASIO. . .
A large, nice copper engraved map of Africa, and Madagascar, with Arabia, dated 1737, by Jean-Baptiste HOMANN (1664-1724) & Johann Mathias Hass, edited by Homann Heir...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, ca 1737
Selling price: $500
Sold in 2018
Africa secundum legitimas Projectionis...
Decorative map of Africa, with a large title cartouche featuring the Dutch at the Cape of Good Hope, Table Mountain, elephants, lions and snakes. Homann focuses on the kn...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, ca. 1737
Selling price: $210
Sold in 2018
Africa Secundum legitimas Projectionis Sterographicae regulas. . .
Johann Matthias Haas's revision J.B. Homann's 1715 map of Africa, augmented to include important cartographic developments as recorded by Guillaume Delisle and D'Anville....
Place & Date: Nuremberg, ca 1737
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2019
A New Map of Africk Shewing its Present General Divisions Cheif Cities or Towns, Rivers, Mountains &c.
Decorative colored map of the African continent. From "A New Sett of Maps both of Antient and Present Geography" by Edward Wells an English clergyman, teacher ...
Place & Date: London, 1738
Selling price: $900
Sold in 2012
AFRICAE emenduta Descriptio.
Map of Africa. With a cartouche on the down left corner. Engraved by Gottfried Haupt. Published in "Der Seinen zu erziehen habenden Jungen Cavalier in der Profan- un...
Place & Date: Augsburg, 1738
Selling price: $120
Sold in 2019
Carte d'Afrique dressée par l'usage du Roy. . .
Fine map prepared by G.d'Isle depicting the African continent.The re-engraved Amsterdam edition, of this fine map of Africa prepared by Guillaume delisle.The cartography ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1739
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2014
Africae.
A very nice map of the African continent with an adorned title cartouche. From Francisco Giustiniani for El Atlas abreviado o el nuevo compendio de la Geografia universal...
Place & Date: Leon de Francia (Lyon), Jaime Certa, 1739
Selling price: $220
Sold in 2021
Carta Generale Dell' Africa.
From an Italian edition of "Atlante Novissimo". Published by Albrizzi. With a vignette cartouche in upper right showing a crocodile hunt.
Place & Date: Venice, ca 1740
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2008
AFRICA Poly Glotta Scribendi Modos Gentium. . .
A rare separate thematic map of AFRICA from the set of 4 maps of the continents, identifying the distribution of languages of the world from "Synopsis Universae Phil...
Place & Date: Nurenberg, 1741
Selling price: $351
Sold in 2019
Nieuwe Kaart van Afrika.
An uncommon map of Africa.
Place & Date: Amsterdam/ Deventer, 1742
Selling price: $140
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Carte d'Afrique Dressée pour l'usage du Roy..
Detailed copper-engraved map covering the whole of Africa including southern Europe and the whole of the Middle East. Geographical knowledge in Africa was mostly garnered...
Place & Date: Amsterdam c. 1745
Selling price: $400
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Carte d' Afrique Dressée pour l' usage du Roy?1722.
Guillaume de l' Isle (1675-1724), Royal Geographer, was the most influential French cartographer of the first quarter of the 18th century. ' Atlas de Géographie' (1700-1...
Place & Date: Paris, Ph.Buache, 1745
Selling price: $600
Sold in 2008
L'Afrique Suivant les Dern.res Observations de Mr. Hass et des R.R.P.P. Jesuites.
A large map of the continent of Africa with a decorative title cartouche. Informational table upper left explaining the countries that comprise northern and southern Afri...
Place & Date: Paris, 1747
Selling price: $240
Sold in 2017
A new & accurate map of Africa. . .
The map divides the continent into large regions, including Barbary, “Sara or the Desart,” Ethiopia Exterior, and Monomotapa. A large section of west Africa is labele...
Place & Date: London, 1747
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2024
L´AFRIQUE Suivant les Nouvelles Observations
Le Rouge was an eighteenth-century French hydrographer and cartographer appointed Ingenieur Geographe du Roi to King Louis XV. He was a military engineer who specialized ...
Place & Date: Paris, 1748
Selling price: $165
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L'Afrique Divisée en ses principales Parties.
Small detailed map of the African continent. Dated 1748. From Atlas Portatif Universel, by Robert de Vaugondy. 75 outside border top right. Mary Sponberg Pedley does not ...
Place & Date: Paris, later than 1748
Selling price: $260
Sold in 2013
Afrique publiée sous les auspices de Monseigneur le Duc d'Orléans. . .
Very fine engraved wall map of Africa with a very decorative title cartouche. Giving good detail along the coast. Uncommon.
Place & Date: Paris, 1749
Selling price: $375
Sold in 2008
Africa verfertiget von J. G. Schreibern in Leipzig
Small scale map of Africa by J. G. Schreiber, from his Atlas Selectus in 1749, first published in 1740. Nice cartouche with elephant, lion and palm trees.
Place & Date: Leipzig, 1749
Selling price: $120
Sold in 2009