INDEX TO ALL ANTIQUE MAPS & BOOKS
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| Map Number | Map Maker 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). Click Here For A Printable Catalog. Many of these maps have been sold. | |||
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On-line Printable Catalog: Catalog II - Rare & Scarce Maps of Africa: A Cartographic Sequence from 1640 to 1908. (1.4 mbs, 49 pages). Click Here For A Printable Catalog. Many of these maps have been sold. |
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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 Many of these maps have been sold. |
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| # 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 | Sold |
| # AAF-395 |
Abraham
Ortelius 1570 |
Fine Original Color Example of Ortelius’ classic early image of Africa: Africae Tabula Nova Edita Antverpiae 1570 | Sold |
| # AAF-402 & 405 |
Jan Huygen van
Linschoten
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In Very Fine Condition - One of the
Most Attractive Set of Maps Available:
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$ 14,000 for the two maps |
| # AFW-159 |
Giovanni
Antonio Magini |
An Early Map of the Continent of Africa: AFRICA. | $ 150 |
| # AAF-389 |
Jodocus Hondius (1606) 1609 |
Nova Africae Tabula | $ 2,500 |
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Book # AAB-05 |
Johannes Isacius Pontanus 1611 |
A Superb Example: Rerum et urbis Amstelodamensium historia : This is the First Edition of the earliest description of Amsterdam, its history and institutions. This is an important book in the history of exploration. With accounts of the two earliest Dutch voyages to the East Indies and the attempts to find a North-East Passage to Asia from Europe. Contains the famous map of Europe, Africa, and Asia, and a map showing the map of the Polar regions illustrating the third voyage of Willem Barentsz. to Nova Zembla (1596-97) and the results of Hudson's first two voyages (1607-1608). | $ 15,000 |
| # 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. | Sold |
| # AAF-354 |
Jodocus
Hondius Jr. |
From the uncommon 1619 edition : AFRICÆ | nova Tabula. | Auct. Jud: Hondio. | $ 2,900 |
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# 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 Scarce carto-figure map in mint condition : AFRICÆ | nova Tabula | Auct. Jud. Hondio. | $ 7,500 |
| # AAF-255 |
Pierre Mariette (attr.) c.1650 |
Rare French map of Africa: AFRICÆ Noua TABVLA . |
$ 1,650 |
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#AAF-359 |
Robert Walton (1658) 1660-62 |
Scarce
Carte-de-Figures Map in mint condition. Probably the
Rarest Map of Africa produced in England ! |
$9,500 |
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#AAF-513 |
Frederick de Wit 1660 |
Separately Issued Map - The Last
Map with Decorative Borders issued in The Netherlands : |
$6,000 |
| AAF-516 |
Frederick De Wit 1675 |
Attractive, Original Color example; Sea Chart from Spain across the Straits of Gilbraltar to Gambia: Barbariae, Guinea, Maritimi, a Freto Gibraltar ad Fluvium Gambia..... | $ 1,250 |
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Book # AAB-07 |
Hiob
Ludolf 1681 |
Ethiopia and East Africa: The First Edition of a major seventeenth century scholarly study of Ethiopia: Historia Aethiopica, Sive Brevis & succincta descriptio Regni Habessinorum, Quod vulgò malè Presbyteri Iohannis vocatur... (with the important map of Ethiopia showing the Source of the Blue Nile River). |
$ 2,750 |
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# AAF-216, 264, 269, 270, & 271 |
Vincenzo Maria Coronelli 1688 (published in 1697) |
Complete Set of
Six of
Coronelli’s Spectacular Globe Gores of Africa - not often
seen for sale : |
$ 7,500 |
| # AAF-105 |
Vincenzo Maria Coronelli 1691 |
One of the Most Attractive Two-Sheet Maps of Africa
- L’ AFRICA | Diuisa nelle sue Parti secondo le piùu moderne relationi | colle scoperte dell’ origine, e corso del NILO, | descritta dal | P.M. Coronelli M.C. Cosmograƒo della | SERENISSIMA REPUBLICA DIVENETIA | è dedicata all’ | ECCELLENZA DEL SIGNOR | GRAN CONTESTABILE | COLONNA | gia Vce Rè d’Aragona, poi | Vce Rè di Napoli. [at the bottom right corner of the right map sheet]: Si uende presso Domenico Padoani sul ponte di Rialto all’ insegna della Geografia. |
$4,900 |
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Book # AB-12 |
Philipp Cluver – Johann Buno –
Herman Mosting 1694 |
An edition of Cluver’s
Introductio with 43 maps of Africa, America, Asia, World,
etc. : |
$3,750 |
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# AF-553 (4th state) |
Guilaume Delisle 1700 |
The landmark map of Africa
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L’ AFRIQUE, | Dressée sur les Observations de Mrs. de | l’Academie Royale des Sciences, et | quelques autres, & sur les Memoi= | res les plus recens. | Par G. DE L’ ISLE, Geographe | A PARIS, | Chez I'Autheur sur le Quai de l’Horloge | Avec Privilege du Roy; pour | 20. Ans 1700. |
$900 |
| # AF-511 |
Magini, Giovanni (Raphael
Savonarola) 1713 |
AFRICA. | $ 125 |
| # AAF-200 |
Henry Overton c. 1727 |
Extremely Rare, Separately issued English Wall Map of Africa: To Her Most Sacred Majesty Caroline, Queen of Great Britain, France and Ireland this Mapp of Africa, after the latest and best Observations is most humbly dedicated ... Printed and Sold by Henry Overton at the White Horse without Newgate London. | $ 3,500 |
| # AF-567 |
Tobias Conrad Lotter 1760(?) |
A Most Unusual Map Puzzle of Africa : AFRICA, Concinnata Secundum Ob. | servationes Membror. Acad. | Regal Scientiarum et non= | nullorum aliorum, et juxta | recentissimas annotationes. | Per G. de L Isle Geographum | Augustæ Vindelicor: | prostat apud | TOBIAM CONR: LOTTER | CALCOGR. |
$ 1750 |
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#AAF-289
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Solomon
Boulton 1787 |
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. |
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| # AF-555 |
Gilles Robert de Vaugondy (1749) 1810 |
A fine map of Africa at the beginning of the extensive European explorations of the interior, after Delisle: AFRIQUE divisee en ses principaux Empires et Royaumes Par Robert de Vaugondy Geographe A Paris Chez Delamarche Geographe Rue du Jardinet No 13 Quartier St Andre des Arcs. |
Sold |
| #AB-21 |
Thomas Baines
1877 |
Important book about the gold discoveries of Southern Africa, with large map; the First Edition: The Gold Regions of South Eastern Africa. |
$500 |
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Africa • Americas • Asia • Europe • World & Misc • Books • Home
| Map Number |
Map
Maker Date |
Title | Price |
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Book # AAB-05 |
Johannes Isacius Pontanus 1611 |
Rerum et urbis Amstelodamensium historia : This is the First Edition of the earliest description of Amsterdam, its history and institutions. This is an important book in the history of exploration. With accounts of the two earliest Dutch voyages to the East Indies and the attempts to find a North-East Passage to Asia from Europe. Contains the famous map of Europe, Africa, and Asia, and a map showing the map of the Polar regions illustrating the third voyage of Willem Barentsz. to Nova Zembla (1596-97) and the results of Hudson's first two voyages (1607-1608). | $ 15,000 |
| # AAM-155 |
Francois Alexander Rochefoucald
Liancourt(?) c 1793 |
An Early Map of the northern part of the United States with a detailed road system: Carta delle Provincie Settentrionli, degli Stati Uniti | $ 475 |
| # AAM-137 | Willem
Jansz. Blaeu (1634) 1662 |
Blaeu's Upside Down New England from his Atlas Maior (Grand Atlas: Nova Belgica et Anglia Nova | $ 6,000 |
| # AAM-255 |
Samuel Lewis 1813 |
The State of New Hampshire. complied chiefly from Actual Surveys. By Samuel Lewis, 1813 | $ 250 |
| # 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... | $ 1,800 |
| # AM-224 |
Frederick De Wit (1670) 1680 |
The Americas in fine original color: Novissima et Accuratissima Septentrionalis ac Meridionalis Americae... | $ 2,200 |
| # AM-222 |
Jodocus Hondius Jr. - Johannes
Janssonius (1618) 1646-57 |
A Classic Map of the Americas: AMERICA / noviter delineata / Auct: Henrico Hondio 1641 / Amstelodami, Excudit Ioannes Ianssonius | $ 2,600 |
| # AM-193 |
Gerard Valk and Petrus Schenk
(1636) c. 1694 |
The East Coast of the United States in Fine Original Color: Nova Belgica Et Anglia Nova | $ 2,200 |
| # AM-191 |
George Louis Le Rouge 1755 |
The East Coast of America with inset maps of the Upper Mississippi and Louisiana & Florida: Canada et Louisiane | $ 2,500 |
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Book #AB-12 |
Philipp Cluver – Johann Buno –
Herman Mosting 1694 |
An edition of Cluver’s
Introductio with 43 maps of America, Africa, Asia, World,
etc. : |
$3,300 |
Africa • Americas • Asia • Europe • World & Misc • Books • Home
| Map Number |
Map Maker Date |
Title | Price |
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Book # AAB-05 |
Johannes Isacius Pontanus 1611 |
A Superb Example: Rerum et urbis Amstelodamensium historia: This is an important book in the history of exploration. With accounts of the two earliest Dutch voyages to the East Indies and the attempts to find a North-East Passage to Asia from Europe. Contains the famous map of Europe, Africa, and Asia, and a map showing the map of the Polar regions illustrating the third voyage of Willem Barentsz. to Nova Zembla (1596-97) and the results of Hudson's first two voyages (1607-1608). | $ 15,000 |
| # AS-154 |
Jodocus Hondius (1606) 1613 |
China, India, and Southeast Asia: India Orientalis | Sold |
| # E-373 |
Gerard Mercator (1595) 1613 |
The Crimea and southern Russia: TAVRICA CHERSONES:VS Nostra ... Per Gerardum Mercatorem. | Sold |
| # AS-165 | Jodocus Hondius (1606) 1613 |
The East Indies: Insulae Indiae Orientalis Praecipuae In quibus Moluccae celeberrimae sunt. |
Sold |
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| Map Number |
Map
Maker Date |
Title | Price |
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Book # AAB-05 |
Johannes Isacius Pontanus 1611 |
Rerum et urbis Amstelodamensium historia : This is the First Edition of the earliest description of Amsterdam, its history and institutions. This is an important book in the history of exploration. With accounts of the two earliest Dutch voyages to the East Indies and the attempts to find a North-East Passage to Asia from Europe. Contains the famous map of Europe, Africa, and Asia, and a map showing the map of the Polar regions illustrating the third voyage of Willem Barentsz. to Nova Zembla (1596-97) and the results of Hudson's first two voyages (1607-1608). | $ 15,000 |
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Sebastian Munster 1572 Willem Jansz. Blaeu 1634 Jodocus Hondius 1613 |
click here for various MUNSTER, HONDIUS, & Blaeu maps of PARTs of Germany, Austria, POLAND, 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. |
$ 75 + |
| # E-400 |
Gerard Mercator (1585-95) 1613 |
Northern Switzerland with Basel, Zurich, etc.: [ Unititled Map ] per Gerardum Mercatorem. Generally fine condition, with typical browning to wide margins. Click Here for a High Resolution Image. | $ 175 |
| # E-290 |
Willem
Jansz. Blaeu 1634 |
Switzerland: Das Wiflispurgergow Gerardo Mecatore Auctore Guiljel Blaeu excudit. Map abrasion at lower left of the map with some loss of the image, else Fine Condition. Click Here for a High Resolution Image. | $ 75 |
| # E-281 |
Willem
Jansz. Blaeu 1634 |
The First Appearance of this map of Steiermark in Austria (Stiria / Steyrmarck) in Blaeu's atlas: STIRIA Steymarck Apud Guiljrlmum Blaeu. Folio size map in fine condition overall, with reinforcement on verso of bottom margin (margins extend beyond image). Click Here for a High Resolution Image. |
$ 150 |
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Willem
Jansz. Blaeu 1634 |
Click Here for various, inexpensive Blaeu Folio-Size 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. |
$ 125+ |
| # E-365 |
Gerard Mercator (1595) 1613 |
Jutland: Iutia Septentrionalis Per Gerardum Mercatorem cum privilegio. Fine condition, with some typical browning to very wide, untrimmed margins. Click Here for a High Resolution Image | $ 125 |
| # E-366 |
Gerard Mercator (1595) 1613 |
Holstein: Holsatia ducatus Per Gerardum Mercatorem cum privilegio. Fine condition, with some spotting/browning to margins. Click Here for a High Resolution Image | $ 125 |
| # E-367 |
Gerard Mercator (1595) 1613 |
Fyn in Denmark: FIONIA Per Gerardum Mercatorem cum privilegio. Generally very good condition, with several thin spots to paper in upper left margin, some spotting/browning to very wide margins which extend beyond image. Click Here for a High Resolution Image | $ 125 |
| # E-418 |
Gerard Mercator (1585-1595) 1613 |
The Netherlands: Friesland with Groningen:
Frisia occidentalis Gerardum Mercatorem cum
privilegio. Fine condition, with some spotting/browning to wide margins. Click Here for a High Resolution Image |
$ 175 |
| # E-419 |
Gerard Mercator (1585-1595) 1613 |
Emden & Oldenburg: Emden & Oldenborch Comit. Per Gerardum Mercatorem cum privilegio. Fine condition, with some spotting/browning to wide margins. Click Here for a High Resolution Image | $ 175 |
| # E-422 |
Gerard Mercator (1606) 1613 |
Liege: Leodienis Dioecesis Typus / Baptista Doetecomius sculp. Fine condition with some typical toning/spotting in margins. Click Here for a High Resolution Image. | $ 175 |
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# E-412 |
Gerard Mercator (1585-95) 1613 |
Artois: ARTESIA Comit Per Gerardum Mercatorem. Fine condition. Click Here for a High Resolution Image. |
$ 175 |
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| Map Number |
Map
Maker Date |
Title | Price |
| # BW-108 |
Jodocus Hondius - Melchior
Tavernier 1630 |
A Very Rare and
Attractive Early Map of the World:
Nova Totius
Terrarum Orbis Geographica Ac Hydrographica
Tablua auct: Iud: Hondio. A Paris Par Melchior
Tavernier au Lisle du Palais A 1630. Only a few examples of this map, the 1st state dated 1630, are known (Shirley, p. 361). |
$ 9,000 |
| # BW-137 |
Henricus Hondius (1631) 1633 |
One of the most famous world map images in original color: Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Geographica Ac Hydrographica Tabula / Auct: Henr: Hondio. | Sold |
| # 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. |
Sold |
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