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Date
Title Price
On-line Printable Catalog:  Catalog I - Rare & Scarce Maps of Africa:  A Cartographic Sequence from 1513 to 1640(4.3 mbs, 38 pages).  CONTACT US TO OBTAIN PRINTABLE CATALOG.

This is an on-line catalogue of what we believe to be the largest single group of antique maps of Africa and southern Africa since the Oscar Norwich collection,  now at Stanford University.

Maps by Waldseemüller, Fries, Münster, Gastaldi, Ramusio, Africanus, Ortelius, D’Anania, Bünting, Mazza, De Jode, Mercator, Van Linschoten, Magini, Pigafetta - Wolfe, Metellus, Pigafetta - De Bry, D
e Solis, Di Arnoldi, Quad, Rosaccio, Hulsius, Hondius & Hondius Jr., Pontanus, Bertius, Blaeu, Speed, Bertius – Tavernier, Janssonius, Cloppenburch, Merian, Giunti.

On-line Printable Catalog:  Catalog II - Rare & Scarce Maps of  Africa:  A Cartographic Sequence from 1640 to 1908. (1.4 mbs, 49 pages).   CONTACT US  TO OBTAIN PRINTABLE CATALOG.

A continuation of the above catalog.  Maps, Books & Map Puzzle by Cluver,  Sanson, Mariette, Visscher, Walton, Jollain, De Wit, Nicolosi, Duval, Anne Seile, Mallet, Coronelli maps and globe gores, Mortier, Allard, Von Sandrart, Danckerts, Scherer, De Fer, Delisle, Wells, Schenk, Moll, Danet, Homann’s Heirs, Bowen, Le Rouge, D'Anville, Sayer, Bailleul, Jefferys, Bolton, Palairet, Cassini map & globe gores, Laurie & Whittle, De la Rochette, Baines, and others.

On-line Printable Catalog:  Catalog III - Seacharts of Africa:  A Cartographic Sequence from 1646. (1.24 mbs, 23 pages).  Click Here for catalog as an Adobe pdf file

A continuation of the above two catalogs.  Seacharts by Dudley, Doncker, Van Loon, Teixeira-Thevenot, Goos, Seller, John & Samuel Thornton, Fisher, De Wit, Van Keulen, Mount & Page, Renard, Edmund Halley, Bellin, Après de Mannevillette, Laurie & Whittle.


MAPS OF THE CONTINENT OF AFRICA (in chronological order)
 

  Maps from
1513 to 1640 :

 
YOU CAN ALSO view "Individual WEB Pages" of the above maps of Africa from 1513 to 1640, some of which are extremely rare, BY clicking here.  
Maps from
1640 to 1908 :
YOU CAN ALSO view ALL High Resolution IMAGES, AND Some "InDIVIDUAL WEB PAGES" of the above maps of Africa from 1640 to 1908, some of which are RaRE, BY clicking here.

Seacharts from 1646:
YOU CAN ALSO view ALL High Resolution IMAGES, AND Some "InDIVIDUAL WEB PAGES" of the above SEACHARTS Of Africa from 1646, some of which are RaRE, BY clicking here.


MAPS OF PARTS OF AFRICA

# AF-211 Girolamo Ruscelli 
1561
An early map of 'modern' southern Africa:   Africa Nova Tavola $ 350
# AF-446 Jan Huygen van Linschoten
1596
The second view of the Portuguese Re-Supply Point of St Helena in the south Atlantic:  Vera effigies et delineatio Insulae Sanctae Helenae qua...……… Baptista a Doetichum sculp.  $ 775
# AF-532 Abraham Ortelius
(1570) 1595
Ortelius' North Africa:   Africae Propriae Tabula In qua Punica regna vides.............. Sold
# AF-492 Abraham Ortelius
(1570) 1595, 1601, or 1609
Ortelius' North Africa:   Barbariae et Biledulgerid nova descriptio $ 600
# D-4 Abraham Ortelius
(1573) 1574 or 5
An Early Edition:  Ortelius' famous & highly desirable map of the Kingdom of Prester John:  Presbiteri Iohannis, sive, Abissinorum Imperii Descriptio. $ 1,650
# AF-559 Jodocus Hondius
(1606) 1628 or 1633
Hondius' Prester John Map of East Africa, with inset map of the Congo based on Lopes:   Abissinorum Sive Pretiofi Joannis Imperiu. $ 600
# AF-558 Nicolas de Fer
1720
A Detailed View of the Nile River:  LE COURS DU NIL, suivant les auteurs modernes et les dernieres relations.  Par N. de Fer Geographe de sa Majeste Catholique. Grave par P. Starckman.  A Paris Chez L'Autheur... 1720.  $ 650
# AF-329 Abraham Ortelius
c. 1570
Egypt and Tunis:   Aegypti Recentior Descriptio - Carthaginis Celeberrimi Sinus Typus $ 475
# AF-415 Jodocus Hondius
(1606) 1628 or 1633
Guinea and West Africa:   Guinea nova Descriptio $ 600
# AF-223 Willem Blaeu
(1634) 1640-43
Northwest Africa:   Fezzae et Marocchi Regna Africae Celeberrima describebat Abrah. Ortelius $ Sold


SEA CHARTS OF AFRICA

    SEE ABOVE:   Catalog III - Seacharts of Africa:  A Cartographic Sequence from 1646.  


VIEWS OF AFRICA

# AF-428 Braun & Hogenberg
c 1572 - 1618
Tangier & Other African Coastal Towns:  Tingis Lusitanis Tangiara, Tzaffin, Septa, Arzilla, Sala $ 600

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AMERICAS

Map
Number
Map Maker
Date
Title Price
# AM-260 Jodocus Hondius
(1606) 1630
Jodocus Hondius highly decorative map of the Americas:  AMERICA | Jodocus Hondius excudit Amsterodami. $ 7,500
# AM-257 Abraham Ortelius
(1587) 1588
Fine example of Ortelius' cornerstone map of the Americas:  Americae sive Novi Orbis, Nova Descriptio.. Cum Priuilegio decennali/ Ab. Ortelius et excudeb. 1587. $ 6,250
# AAM-255 Samuel Lewis
1813
The State of New Hampshire. complied chiefly from Actual Surveys.  By Samuel Lewis, 1813 $ 250
# AM-231 Willem Jansz. Blaeu
(1634) 1641-42 or 1647-49
Blaeu's Upside Down New England: Nova Belgica et Anglia Nova Sold
# AM-258 Arnoldus Montanus
1671
The Caribbean including the islands of Dominica southward, and eastward to Aruba and Curacao:   Venezuela cum parte Australi Novae Andalusiae Sold
# AM-252 Mathaus Merian
1628-1631
Cuba with a view of the Dutch Fleet & the Spanish Silver Fleet: Abbildung / Welcher Gestalt die Spanische Silberflota von dem / Hollandischen General Peter Peters Hayn an der Insul Cuba / in der Baya Patanca Anno 1628.  
Das Eylandt Cuba Mit Deroselben Gelegenheit
$ 1,250
# AM-249 Jodocus Hondius
(1606) 1613
New Spain (Mexico):  HISPANIAE NOVAE NOVA DESCRIPTIO. $ 775
# AM-222 Jodocus Hondius Jr. - Johannes Janssonius
(1618) 1646-57
An Attractive Map of the Americas:  AMERICA / noviter delineata / Auct: Henrico Hondio 1641 / Amstelodami, Excudit Ioannes Ianssonius $ 3,600
# AM-224 Fredrick De Wit
(1670) 1680
The Americas in fine original color:  Novissima et Accuratissima Septentrionalis ac Meridionalis Americae... $ 2,850
# AM-213 Johann Baptist Homann
c.1730
New England, New York and New Jersey:  Nova Anglia Septentrionali Americae implantata Anglorumque coloniis florentissima....... Ioh. Baptista Homann Sac. Caes Maj... $ 2,300
# AM-230 Johann Baptist Homann
c.1730
Eastern half of the Americas from New England to Venezuela:   Regni Mexicani seu Novae Hispaniae Ludovicianae, N. Anglia, Carolinae, Virginiae et Pensylvaniae nec non Insularum Archipelagi Mexicani in America Septentrionali.....Ioh. Baptista Homann Cum Privilegio Sac. Caes Maj. $ 2,950
# AM-191 George Louis Le Rouge
1755
Large Map of the East Coast of America with inset maps of the Upper Mississippi and Louisiana & Florida:   Canada et Louisiane $ 2,250
# AM-193 Gerard Valk and Petrus Schenk
(1636) c. 1694

Attractive original color example.  The East Coast from North Carolina thru New England:   Nova Belgica Et Anglia Nova

$ 3,200
# AM-248 Willem Jansz. Blaeu
(1629) 1634
Hondius' cooperplate:  South-Central South America with Paraguay, Uruguay, Brazil, and Argentina:  PARAGVAY, O PROV. DE RIO DE LA PLATA.... Sta. CRVZ LA SIERRA. Sold
# AB-17 Elliot G. Storke
1862
Sample Subscription Book of the Great American Rebellion Containing Exact Specimens of the Maps, Portraits, and Scenes... $ 550
# AB-16

T. Addison Richards
1857

Appleton’s Illustrated Hand-Book of American Travel.  Part I. The Eastern & Middle States and the British Provinces  with numerous maps & views. $ 400

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ASIA

Map
Number
Map Maker
Date
Title Price
# AS-172 Willem Jansz. Blaeu
(1617) 1634 or 1635
An Early Example.  Fine, Original Color example of the famous map of Asia with decorative borders:  ASIA noviter delineata Autore Guiljelmo Blaeuw. US

$ 7,500
#W-159AS Giovanni Antonio Magini
Venice, 1596
The Continent of Asia:   ASIA $ 200
# BE-118 Abraham Ortelius
(1570) 1592
An excellent example of Ortelius' desirable map of Russia and Central Asia in beautiful original color:    Russiae, Moscoviae et Tartariae Descriptio Auctore Antonio Jenkensono Anglo edita Londini anno 1562...
$ 1,850
# AS-154 Jodocus Hondius
(1606) 1613
China, India, and Southeast Asia:   India Orientalis $ 2,750
# AS-146 Abraham Ortelius
(1584) 1598 or 1613
An important map of the Holy Land:   Terra Sancta $ 1,475
# AAS-162 Jodocus Hondius
(1606) 1613
The Holy Lands:  TERRA SANCTA quae in Sacris Terra Promissionis ol. PALESTINA $ 750
# AS-170 Willem Jansz. Blaeu
(1630) 1638, or 1640-43
Blaeu's Turkish Empire:   TURCICUM IMPERIUM. Sold
# AAS-171 Jodocus Hondius-Michael Sparke
(1607) 1635-39
Jodocus Hondius' Turkish Empire:   TURCICUM IMPERIUM.   The Turkish Empire. $ 350
# AS-155 Jodocus Hondius
(1606) 1613
Present-Day Iraq, Iran, & Afghanistan:   Persici Vel Sophorum Regni Typus $ 775
# M-23 Sebastian Munster
(1540) 1572
A map of the Holy Lands from Munster's Cosmographia:  Das hehlig Judisch land mit.... $ 675
# AS-166 Jodocus Hondius
(1606) 1613
An Early Map of Korea and Japan:   Japonia $ 2,750
# AS-165 Jodocus Hondius
(1606) 1613
The East Indies:    Insulae Indiae Orientalis Praecipuae In quibus Moluccae celeberrimae sunt.
Sold

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EUROPE

Map
Number
Map Maker
Date
Title Price

# E-469

Willem Jansz. Blaeu
1635
Blaeu's Large, Decorative Map of the Rhine River and Surrounding Areas:  Rhenus Fluviourum Europae celeberrimus cum Mosa, mosella, et reliquis, in illum se exonerantibus, fluminibus
US $

$ 1,100

# E-288 Willem Jansz. Blaeu
1634
Blaeu's Rare First Map of the Danube River and Surrounding Regions:  Tractus Danubii, Fluminis in Europa Maximi... . $1,800
# E-118 Abraham Ortelius
Antwerp, (1570) 1592
An excellent example of Ortelius' desirable map of Russia and Central Asia in beautiful original color:    Russiae, Moscoviae et Tartariae Descriptio Auctore Antonio Jenkensono Anglo edita Londini anno 1562...
$ 1,850
# E-417 Gerard Mercator
(1585-95) 1613
Mercator's First Folio Map of Germany and Central Europe:  GERMANIA / Per Gerardum Mercatorem. $ 450

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Sebastian Munster
1572
Willem Jansz. Blaeu

1634
Jodocus Hondius
1613
click here for various, inexpensive MUNSTER, HONDIUS, & Blaeu maps of PARTs of Germany, etc.  Great for Genealogy, Gifts, Travel Souvenirs, etc.  please let us know if you are looking for a particular map of germany not listed here.

$ 125 +
# E-280 Willem Jansz. Blaeu
1634
AUSTRIA with Vienna & the Danube River:  AUSTRIA ARCHIDUCATUS auctore Wolfgang Lazio.  Amsteldami Guiljelmus Blaeuw excudit.  From the Hondius copperplate. Fine condition in attractive color.  Click Here for a High Resolution Image.

$ 300

# E-255
Willem Jansz. Blaeu
1634
The First Edition.  The Former Yugoslavia - Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, and Dalmatia:  SCLAVONIA, CROATIA, BOSNIA cum DALMATIAE PARTE Auct. Ger. Mercatore.  Apud Guiljel Blaeu.  Fine condition overall with a soft printer's cease to the right of centerfold.  Click Here for High Resolution Image.

$ 250
# E-461 Gerard Mercator
(1589-95) 1613

The Balkans: Slovenia,Croatia, Bosnia ...SCLAVONIA, CROTIA, BOSNIA CUM DALMATIAE PARTE  / Per Gerardum Mercatorem.


$200

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Sebastian Munster
Gerard Mercator
Willem Jansz. Blaeu

Jodocus Hondius
click here for various, maps of ITALY:  all of italy, Tuscany, Rome, LOMBARDY, MilanO, marche, Abruzzi, naples, Sicily, Sardinia, etc.  Great for Genealogy, Gifts, Travel Souvenirs, etc.  
# E-292 Willem Jansz. Blaeu
(1630) 1634
Zurich and the region around Basel in Switzerland:  Zurichgow et Basiliensis provinciaVery Fine Condition in attractive color.
$ 200
# E-402 Jodocus Hondius
(1606) 1613
Lake Geneva & surrounding region of SwitzerlandCHOROGRAPHICA TABULA LACUS LEMANI ... aUTORE IAC. G. Genevensi.
Sold

# E-289
Willem Jansz. Blaeu
(1630) 1634
The Swiss Alps, Graubünden :  Alpinae seu Foederatae RHAETIAE SUBDITARUMQUE ... Amstelodami  Guiljelmus Blaeuw excudit.  Very Fine Condition.  Click Here for High Resolution Image of the Map. 
Sold
# E-340 Willem Jansz. Blaeu
(1631) 1634
Savoie, with Lake Geneva:   SABAUDIA DUCATUS SAVOYE. Amsterdami Apud Guiljelmum Blaeuw.  Very Fine Condition in attractive color. $ 200

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Willem Jansz. Blaeu
1634
Click Here for various, inexpensive Blaeu maps of parts of FRANCE.    Great for Genealogy, Gifts, Travel Souvenirs, etc.  please let us know if you are looking for a particular map of France not listed here.
$ 150+
 

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Gerard Mercator
(1595) 1613
click here for various, regional maps of The British Isles:   Southeast England with London, etc.; Northwest England and Northern Wales; NORTHERN ENGLAND; EAst England; SCOTLAND.  Great for Genealogy, Gifts, Travel Souvenirs, etc.  
E-468 Gerard Mercator
(1595) 1628 or 1633
Mercator's Single-Sheet, Folio Map of Scotland:  SCOTIA REGNUM per Gerardum Mercatorem,  Cum Priuilegio
Sold
# E-354 Gerard Mercator
(1595-1602) 1613
Mercator's Large scale Two-Sheet Map of Scotland:   SCOTIAE REGNUM per Gerardum Mercatorem
$ 2,000

# E-185
Nicolas Visscher-
Petrus Schenk

(1689) 1710-15 or slightly later
A beautiful original color example of Visscher's Ireland:   HIBERNIAE REGNUM tam in praecipuas ULTONIAE, CONNACIAE, LAGENIAE, et MOMONIA...per GUILIELMUM PETTY... NICOLAUM VISSCHER AMST:BAT: cum Privileg...Nunc apud PET Schenk Iunior
$ 1,150

# E-405

Gerard Mercator
(1585-1595) 1613
Mercator's first map of The XVII Provinces, The Netherlands, etc.:   BELGII inferioris descriptio emendata cum circumiacentium regionum confinijs Per Gerardum Mercatorem Cum Priuilegio
$ 1,200
# E-186 Johann Baptist Homann
c. 1720
Scandinavia-Sweden & Finland:  REGNIA SUECIAE in omnes fuas Subjacentes Provincias accurate divisi Tabula Generalis edita a Ioh. Bapt. Homanno Noribergae. $ 500
# E-164 Johann Baptist Homann
c. 1720
Scandinavia:    SCANDINAVIA complectens SUECIAE, DANIAE, & NORVEGIAE, REGNA. ex Tabula Joh. Baptista Homann. $ 600
# E-463 Gerard Mercator
(1589-95) 1613
GREECE and the Aegean Sea:  GRAECIA / Per Gerardum Mercatorem $ 700
# E-465 Gerard Mercator
(1589-95) 1613
Greece's Peloponnesus peninsula:  MOREA olim Peloponnesus Per Gerardum Mercatorem $ 350

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WORLD

Map
Number
Map Maker
Date
Title Price
# W-166 Jodocus Hondius
1613
The first appearanceThe famous portrait of Gerard Mercator and Jodocus Hondius, from the atlas. $ 3,250
# AW-146 Petrus Plancius
1594
The Scarce Cornerstone Map of the World:   ORBIS TERRARUM TYPUS DE INTEGRO MULTIS IN LOCIS EMMENDATUS auctore Petro Plancio 1594.
Ioannes a Duetecum iunior fecit.
US
Sold
# W-165 Johann Baptist Homann
c. 1720
The large, double hemisphere world with decorative scenes:
Planiglobii Terrestris Cumutoq.  Hemisphærio Cælesti Generalis Exhibitio...... Cum Privilegio Sac. Cas. Majestatis.
Sold
# W-157 Abraham Ortelius
(1579) 1603
The Portrait of Ortelius from his Theatrum Orbis Terrarum $ 775

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