Maps of Africa : 1513 to 1640
| Map Number |
Map
Maker Date |
Title | Price |
| # AFS-179 |
Martin Waldseemüller 1513 |
The First Printed Map of Africa south of the Equator, in original color : TABVLA MODERNA SECVNDE PORCIONIS APHRICE | $ 10,000 |
| 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 |
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| # AFS-178 |
Laurent Fries |
The Decorative Fries example of Waldseemuller’s 1513 map of Africa south of the Equator: Tabula noua partis Africæ |
$ 3,500 |
| # AF-550 |
Sebastian Münster (1540) 1552 |
A cornerstone map & the first collectible map to show all of Africa: AFRICA XXV NOVA TABULA |
Sold |
| # D-7 |
Sebastian Münster (1540) 1553 |
A cornerstone map & the first collectible map to show all of Africa: Africa/Libya/Morland/mit allen künigreichen so zů unsern zeiten Darin gefunden werden. |
$ 1,500 |
| # M-72 |
Sebastian Münster (1540) 1572 |
Fine colored example: Africa/Libya/Morenland/mit allen Künigreichen so zů unsern zeiten darin gefunden werden. |
$ 1,350 |
| # AAF-185 |
Giacomo
Gastaldi |
An early map of 'modern' Africa south of the Equator : Africa Nova Tabula | $ 550 |
| # AFS-130 |
Giovanni Ramusio - Giacomo Gastaldi |
Gastaldi’s woodcut map from the sole edition of 1554: PRIMA TAVOLA . |
$ 4,500 |
| # AFS-001 |
Leo Africanus - Jean Temporal 1556 |
The Leo Africanus Map of Africa: [Untitled Map of Africa ]. |
$ 3,500 |
|
# AFS-131
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Giovanni Ramusio - Giacomo Gastaldi 1563 |
The copperplate issue of Gastaldi’s map of Africa: PRIMA TAVOLA . | Sold |
| # AAF-395 |
Abraham
Ortelius 1570 |
Fine Original Color Example of Ortelius’ classic early image of Africa: Africae Tabula Nova Edita Antverpiae 1570 | $ 3,750 |
| # D-3 | Abraham
Ortelius (1570) 1573 |
An Early Edition of Ortelius' map of Africa: Africae Tabula Nova Edita Antverpiae 1570. | $ 3,200 |
| # 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 |
| # AFS-137 |
Giovanni Lorenzo D'Anania (1582) 1598 |
An Early Map of Africa from D'Anania's L'Universale Fabrica del Mondo..., Venice : AFRICA |
$ Sold |
| # AFS-115 |
Sebastian
Münster – Sebastian Petri 1588 |
Münster’s second map of Africa: AFFRI= | CAE TA= | BVLA | NOVA. | $ 700 |
| # AFS-034 |
Heinrich
Bünting 1589 |
The Bünting Map of Africa, in likely original color: AFRICA TERTIA PARS TERRÆ . | Sold |
| # AAF-182 |
Heinrich Bünting (1589) 1600 |
An Early, Unique Woodcut map of Africa: AFRICA TERTIA PARS TERRÆ . |
$ 1,500 |
| # AFS-101 |
Giovanni
Battista Mazza 1590 |
Extremely Rare, separately issued map of Africa in original color. Only Three Examples are Known ! : AFRICA | EX MAGNÆ | ORBIS TER= | RÆ DESCRI= | PTIONE. [at the bottom right corner of the map]: Iouan Batista Mazza fece | $ Sold |
| # AFS-056 |
Cornelis de
Jode 1593 |
$ 5,750 | |
| # 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. | $ 2,500 |
| # AAF-402 & 405 |
Jan Huygen van
Linschoten
|
One of the
Most Attractive Set of Maps Available:
|
$ 16,000 for the two maps |
| # AFW-159 |
Giovanni
Antonio Magini |
AFRICA. | $ 200 |
| # AFS-125 |
Pigafetta -
John Wolfe |
Uncommon English map; earliest printed English-language map showing most of Africa; from only one edition: A description of Aegypt from Cairo downeward. Printed in London by John Wolfe Graven by William Rogers | $ 7,500 |
| # AAF-353 |
Johannes
Matalius Metellus |
The Rare Metellus Map of Africa: AFRICA. | Sold |
| # AAF-188 |
Pigafetta - De
Bry |
The Finely Engraved Two Sheet Map of Africa: Tabulam hanc Aegypti ... |
$ 3,750 |
| # AAF-432 |
Hernando de Solis |
Rare Map from the sole Spanish edition of Botero's Le Relationi Universali : AFRICA . | Sole |
| # AFS-007 |
Arnoldo di
Arnoldi |
Separately published map of Africa; a seldom seen map : AFRICA . with 12 lines of text below title within the title cartouche: Tengono alcuni che l’Africa ... descendente | | Sold |
| # AFS-129 |
Matthias Quad |
A= | PHRI= | CA. Johan Bussemecher ex- | cudit in Vbioru Coloniæ. | $ 750 |
| # AF-569 |
Giuseppe
Rosaccio |
AFRICA . | $ 275 |
| # AAF-436 |
Levinus
Hulsius |
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 |
| # AFS-081 |
Jodocus
Hondius |
NOVA | AFRICÆ | TABULA | AUCTORE | Jodoco Hondio. [and at bottom right of map]: Excusum in aedibus Auctoris | Amsterodammi. | $ 2,500 |
| AF-508 |
Jodocus Hondius (1607) 1609 |
From a German edition of Hondius' Atlas Minor Gerardi Mercatoris a Hondi... : AFRICÆ | DESCRIPTIO. |
$ 475 |
| # AFS-127 |
Johannes Isaksen Pontanus |
Uncommon map showing Sea Routes from Europe to the Dutch East Indies : Tabula Geograph in qua Europe, Africae, Asia et circujacentium... . | $ Sold |
| # AF-570 |
Petrus Bertius –
Jodocus Hondius Jr. |
AFRICA | Sold |
| # AF-566 |
Willem
Jansz Blaeu |
In Fine, Original Color, the famous Blaeu map of the African Continent with decorative borders : Africae nova descriptio Auct Guiljelmo Blaeuw. | $ 7,500 |
| # AAF-354 |
Jodocus
Hondius Jr. |
From the uncommon 1619 edition : AFRICÆ | nova Tabula. | Auct. Jud: Hondio. | $ 3,500 |
| # AFS-080 |
Jodocus Hondius Jr. - Henricus
Hondius (1619) 1638 |
Another example: This particular map is from an edition of the Hondius atlas of 1638; it is in the third state. AFRICÆ | nova Tabula. | Auct. Hen. Hondio 1631 |
$ 2,500 |
|
# 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 |
An Original Color Example of this uncommon map in mint condition : AFRICÆ | nova Tabula | Auct. Jud. Hondio. | $ 8,250 |
| # 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. | $ 2,500 |
| # AFS-158 |
John Speed 1626/7 |
The First English Map to Show the Entire African Continent, from the first edition of 1627 : AFRICÆ, described, | the manners of their Ha | bits, and buildinge: newly | done into English by I. S. | and published at the cha: | rges of G. Humble Ano 1626. | $ 4,750 |
|
# D-2 |
John Speed (1626/7) 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 |
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. | $ 2,750 |
| # AF-496 |
Johannes Janssonius |
Extremely Rare Map from Van der Aa's L'Atlas Soulage : L'AFRIQUE | $ 1,200 |
| # AFS-082 |
Jan Evertsz.
Cloppenburch |
AFRICÆ | nova Tabula | Auct J. Hondio. | Sold |
| # AFS-102 |
Matthäus
Merian |
Modeled after the Willem Blaeu map : nova descriptio | AFRICÆ. | $ 750 |
| # AF-449 |
Matthäus Merian 1638 |
Based on Blaeu: nova descriptio | A F R I C Æ . | $ 1,000 |
| # AF-522 |
Petrus Bertius -
Melchior Tavernier (attr.) |
Uncommon Map attributed to Tavernier : Carte. de | L’ AFRIQVE | Corrigeé, et, augmenteé, deßus toutes | les aultres cy deuant faictes par | P.Bertius . | Anno · 1661. | $ 800 |
| # AFS-026 |
Giovanni Botero
- Lucatonio Giunti |
AFRICA. | $ 500 |
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