Philipp Cluver
1641

Original Book :  19 x 15 cm, with 1 foldout copperplate printed world map and 32 foldout copperplate printed maps of the continents (Europe, Asia, and Africa) and all regions;  214 pages of text with illustrated title page with portrait, etc.   Introductionis in universam geographiam, tam veterem quam novam. Braunschweig, B. Gruber für G. Müller, 1641.

Rare French map of Africa:  AFRICÆ Noua TABVLA .

Scarce Carte-de-Figures Map in mint condition.  Probably the Rarest Map of Africa produced in England !
The First Example of this map to be offered for sale since 2000: New, Plaine, & Exact Mapp of | AFRICA, described by: N:I: Vischer | and done into English, enlarged and | corrected, according to: I:Blaeu: with | the habits of the countries and | manner of the cheife Citties; | the like never before. | Printed, colered and Are to be | Sould by Robert Walton at the | Globe and Compass in St. Paules Church yard between | the two north doores.

Separately Issued Map - The Last Map with Decorative Borders issued in The Netherlands :
NOVA | AFRICA | DESCRIPTIO | Auct. F. de Wit.
[with publisher’s imprint in decorative cartouche at bottom left]:  T’AMSTERDAM | By Frederick de Wit inde Calverstraet inde Witte Paskaert.

AFRIQVE | Par P. DV VAL | Geogr. du Roy.

The First State : 
AFRIQUE , | Par N. SANSON Geographe Ordinaire du-Roy | corrigée et changée en plusieurs endroits | suivant les Relations les plus recentes; | Par le Sr SANSON le Fils. | A PARIS ; | Chez PIERRE MARIETTE rue S. Iacques à l’Esperance | Avec privilege de S. Mai.té po.r [pour] 20 ans. | 1668.

# AF-489    

The only edition of the book of Mallet’s classic description of Africa with 107 maps and views; the book with gilt binding :
Description de l’ Univers’ ... Par Allain Manesson Mallet...Tome troisième /  Afrique ancienne et moderne.
Bookplate on inside front board of “Le Comte de Luzignem”, with his coat of arms.

An edition of Cluver’s Introductio with 43 maps of Africa, America, Asia, World, etc. :
Introductio in omnem geographiam veterem aeque ac novam olim studio & opera Joh. Bunonis. In multis passim correctior curante J. Reisko. Wolfenbuttel, sumptibus Haeredum Buninianorum Typis Bismarck, Annon MDC XCIV (1694).

Complete Set of Six of Coronelli’s Spectacular Globe Gores of Africa  - not often seen for sale :
    [ Six Untitled Large Globe Gores of Africa ]

An Important Transitional Map of Africa - usually found as a separate map :
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 BRISSAC | Pair de France. | A PARIS | Chez. I.B. Nolin. ...  | 1689.
[at the bottom right of the map between the gridline and the neatline]:  H. van Loon Sculp.

$2,250 

# AF-517

The First Pre-1700 map with the imprint of Johann Baptist Homann :
Accuratißima | Totius | AFRICÆ | TABULA | in Lucem producta | Per Iacobum de Sandrart | Norimbergæ.
[at bottom right]:  Joann Bapt. Homann Sculpsit.

#AF-553 (4th state)

#AF-553 (4th state)
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$5,500

#AAF-289 

Fascinating English Wall Map of Africa from the late 1700s:   AFRICA, WITH ALL ITS STATES, KINGDOMS, REPUBLICS, REGIONS, ISLANDS &c. IMPROVED and ENLARGED from D'ANVILLE's MAP: to which have been Added A PARTICULAR CHART OF THE GOLD COAST, wherein are Distinquished all the European Forts and Factories by S. Boulton and also a summary description relative to the trade and natural produce, manners and customs of the African continent and islands.. London Printed for Robert Sayer, Fleet Street as the Act directs 6 Jan. 1787.

$1,800  

Important book about the gold discoveries of Southern Africa, with large map; the First Edition:  The Gold Regions of South Eastern Africa.