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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

 
# AFS-178

Laurent Fries
(1522) 1541

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.  
Sold
# M-72 Sebastian Münster
(1540) 1572

Fine colored example:   Africa/Libya/Morenland/mit allen Künigreichen so zů unsern zeiten darin gefunden werden.

Sold
# AAF-185

Giacomo Gastaldi
1548

An early map of 'modern' Africa south of the Equator  Africa Nova Tabula $ 550
# AFS-130

Giovanni Ramusio - Giacomo Gastaldi
1554

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       

 

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 . $ 1,500
# 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

Rare AFRICAE VERA FOR= | MA, ET SITVS.

$ 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
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.

$ 16,000
for the two maps
# AFW-159

Giovanni Antonio Magini
1596

AFRICA. $ 200
# AFS-125

Pigafetta - John Wolfe
1597

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
1597

The Rare Metellus Map of Africa:  AFRICA.    Sold
# AAF-188

Pigafetta - De Bry
1598

The Finely Engraved Two Sheet Map of Africa:  Tabulam hanc Aegypti ...

$ 3,750
# AAF-432

Hernando de Solis
1598

Rare Map from the sole Spanish edition of Botero's Le Relationi Universali :  AFRICA . Sold
# AFS-007

Arnoldo di Arnoldi
1600

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
1600

A= | PHRI= | CA.  Johan Bussemecher ex- | cudit in Vbioru Coloniæ. $ 750
# 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
# AFS-081

Jodocus Hondius
1606

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
1611

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.
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. $ 7,500
# AAF-354

Jodocus Hondius Jr.
1619

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
1623 (1632)

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
(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. $ 2,750
# AF-496

Johannes Janssonius
(1628) c.1714

Extremely Rare Map from Van der Aa's L'Atlas Soulage  :  L'AFRIQUE Sold
# AFS-082

Jan Evertsz. Cloppenburch
1630

AFRICÆ | nova Tabula | Auct J. Hondio. Sold
# AFS-102

Matthäus Merian
1638

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.)
(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. $ 800
# AFS-026

Giovanni Botero - Lucatonio Giunti
1640

AFRICA. $ 500

 

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