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Maps of Africa : 1513 to 1640

Map
Number
Map Maker
Date
Title               Price
# AAF-106

Waldseemüller, Martin 1513

Rare.  The Earliest Acquirable "Modern" Map of Africa north of the Equator:  Tabula Moderna Prime Partis Africae $ Sold
# AF-568

Waldseemüller, Martin 1513

Rare.  The First Printed Map of Africa south of the Equator:  TABVLA MODERNA SECVNDE PORCIONIS APHRICE $ Sold
AAF-161, 179, 227, & 241.

Martin Waldseemüller 1513

Complete set of maps of Africa from Waldseemuller’s 1513 Edition of Ptolemy’s Geographia TABVLA PRIMA AFRICAE, TABVLA SECVNDA AFRICAE, TERTIA AFRICAE TABVLA, and TABVLA QVARTA AFRICAE

Sold
AAF-345 Sebastian Münster
(1540) 1561
A cornerstone map of Africa:  Munster's map of Africa:   Africa Libya Morland mit allen .... $ 1,350
# AF-485 Sebastian Münster
(1540) 1552

Unusual variant of a cornerstone map of Africa:  Munster's Africa:  Totius Africae tabula & descriptio uniuersalis ... .

Sold
# AAF-102, 213, 214, 215 Sebastian Münster
(1540) 1542
Complete set of maps of Africa from Munster's 1542 Edition of Ptolemy’s Geographia :    AFRICA TABVLA I,  AFRICA TABVLA II,  TABVLA AFRICAE III, and AFRICAE TABULA IIII $ 1,500
# AAF-185

Giacomo Gastaldi
1548

An early map of 'modern' Africa south of the Equator  Africa Nova Tabula Sold
# AAF-395 Abraham Ortelius
1570
Fine Original Color Example of Ortelius’ classic early image of Africa:  Africae Tabula Nova Edita Antverpiae 1570 $ 2,850
# D-3 Abraham Ortelius
(1570) 1573
An Early Edition of Ortelius' map of Africa:  Africae Tabula Nova Edita Antverpiae 1570. $ 3,200
#AAF-182   Heinrich Bünting
(1589) 1600
An attractively colored, Early Woodcut map of Africa:  AFRICA TERTIA PARS TERRÆ $ 1,000
# AF-483 Giovanni Lorenzo D'Anania
(1582) 1598
An Early Map of Africa from D'Anania's L'Universale Fabrica del Mondo..., Venice :  AFRICA
$ 800
# AF-396 Gerard Mercator II
1595
Fine, Original Color Example based on Mercator’s 1569 World Map:   AFRICA | Ex magna orbis ter- | rec descriptione Gerardi | Mercatoris desumpta, | Studio & industria | G.M. | Iunioris.  [at bottom left corner of the map]:  Cum Priuilegio. $ Sold
# AAF-402 & 405

Jan Huygen van Linschoten
1596

 

One of the Most Attractive Set of Maps Available: 

Western side of Africa:    Typus orarum  maritimarum Guinae, Manicongo, & Angolae ultra... .     and

Eastern side of Africa:    Delineatio Orarum maritimarum Terrae vulgo indigitatae Terra do Natal item Sofala Mozambicae & Melindae .... Arnoldus F. a Langren delineavit & sculpsit.

$ 14,000
for the two maps
# AFW-159

Giovanni Antonio Magini
1596

AFRICA. $ 200
# AAF-353

Johannes Matalius Metellus
1597

The Rare Metellus Map of Africa:  AFRICA.    Sold
# AAF-432

Hernando de Solis
1598

Rare Map from the sole Spanish edition of Botero's Le Relationi Universali :  AFRICA . Sold
# AF-569

Giuseppe Rosaccio
1605

AFRICA . $ 275
# AAF-436

Levinus Hulsius
1602

The Hulsius Map - Scarcer than the De Bry :  [Map of Africa].
[and on top sheet at the bottom left, and on the bottom sheet at the bottom right]:  Per Leuinum Hulsium A° 1602
Sold
AF-508 Jodocus Hondius
(1607) 1609

From a German edition of Hondius' Atlas Minor Gerardi Mercatoris a Hondi... :    AFRICÆ | DESCRIPTIO.

$ 475
# AF-570

Petrus Bertius – Jodocus Hondius Jr.
1616

AFRICA Sold
# AF-566

Willem Jansz Blaeu
(1617) 1643-50

In Fine, Original Color, the famous Blaeu map of the African Continent with decorative borders :  Africae nova descriptio Auct Guiljelmo Blaeuw. $ 6,500
# AAF-354

Jodocus Hondius Jr.
1619

From the uncommon 1619 edition :  AFRICÆ | nova Tabula. | Auct. Jud: Hondio. $ 3,500

# AAF-407
Jodocus Hondius Jr. - Henricus Hondius
(1619) 1633
Attractive, Original Color example of Hondius' 1619 map of Africa:  AFRICÆ | nova Tabula. | Auct. Hen. Hondio 1631
Sold
# AAF-275

Jodocus Hondius Jr. - Johannes Janssonius
1623 (1632)

An Original Color Example of this scarce carto-figure map in mint condition  :  AFRICÆ | nova Tabula | Auct. Jud. Hondio.   $ 7,500
# AF-523

Petrus Bertius, Paris (1624) 1646

The Rare Bertius Map of Africa  :  Carte de | L’ AFRIQVE | Corrigeé et augmenteé | dessus toutes les aultres | cy deuant faictes L’anneé  |  A° 1646. $ Sold

# AAF-337

John Speed
1626
The First State of Speed's hard to find early English decorative map of Africa:   Africæ deƒcribed, the manners of their Habits, and buildings: newly done into English by I.S. at the charges of G. humble Ano 1626.
$ 5,500


# D-2
John Speed
(1626) 1676
Speed's hard to find early English decorative map of Africa:   Africæ deƒcribed, the manners of their Habits, and buildings: newly done into English by I.S. Are to be sold by Tho Baßet in Fleet Street and by Ric:Chiƒwell in St Pauls Churchyard.

$ 5,000
# AAF-259

Petrus Bertius – Melchior Tavernier
(1627) 1640

A Beautiful Original Color Example of the Rare Bertius-Tavernier map  :  Carte de | L’ AFRIQVE | Corrigeé, et augmenteé, deßus toutes | les aultres cy deuant faictes par | P. Bertius. $ Sold
# AF-496

Johannes Janssonius
(1628) c.1714

Extremely Rare Map from Van der Aa's L'Atlas Soulage  :  L'AFRIQUE Sold
# AF-522

Petrus Bertius - Melchior Tavernier (attr.)
(1639) 1661

Uncommon Map attributed to Tavernier  :  Carte. de | L’ AFRIQVE | Corrigeé, et, augmenteé, deßus toutes | les aultres cy deuant faictes par | P.Bertius . | Anno · 1661. Sold

 

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