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Map Number Map Maker
Date
Title Price


MAPS OF THE CONTINENT OF AFRICA (in chronological order)
 

# AF-550 Sebastian Munster
(1540) 1552
A cornerstone map & the first collectible map to show all of Africa. This is the only edition with the surrounding gridline:    AFRICA XXV NOVA TABULA
$ 1,700
# D-7 Sebastian Munster
(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

# AF-533
Sebastian Munster
(1540) 1552
An Attractively Colored example of Munster's Cornerstone Map of Africa:  Totius Africae tabula & descriptio uniuersalis etiam ultra Ptolemaei limites extensa.
Sold
# D-3 Abraham Ortelius
(1570) 1573
An Early Edition of Ortelius' map of Africa:  Africae Tabula Nova Edita Antverpiae 1570. $ 3,200
# AAF-395 Abraham Ortelius
(1570) 1595
A Fine Original Color Example !!  Ortelius' classic early image of Africa:   Africae Tabula Nova Edita Antverpiae 1570. $ 4,000
# AF-483 Giovanni Lorenzo D'Anania
(1582) 1598
An Early Map of Africa from D'Anania's L'Universale Fabrica del Mondo..., VeniceAFRICA
$ 800
# AAF-182 Heinrich Bünting
(1589) 1600
 
An Early, Unique Woodcut map of Africa:  AFRICA TERTIA PARS TERRÆ . $ 1,500
# AAF-339 Giuseppe Rosaccio
(1594) 1595
Quaint woodcut map from the Teatro del Cielo: [Map of Africa] Sold
# AF-396 Gerard Mercator Jr.
(1595) 1609 or 1619
Africa based on Mercator's 1569 world map:    Africa ex magna orbis terre descriptione Gerardi Mercatories desumpta studio & industria G.M. Juniorius $ 2,500
# AAF-353 Johannes Matalius Metellus
1597
Rare Map.  From Lambert Andreas' Amphitheatridion hoc est parvum amphitheatrum... :   AFRICA
$ 4,000
# AAF-432 Hernando de Solis
1598
Rare Map. From the sole Spanish edition of Botero's Le Relationi Universali  AFRICA .
$ 5,000
# AAF-380 Matthias Quad
1600
An Original Color example of Quad's map of Africa:  APHRICA $ 800
# AF-544 Jodocus Hondius
(1606) 1613
An Early Decorative Map of the African Continent:  Nova Africae Tabula $ 1,750
AF-508 Jodocus Hondius
(1607) 1609

From a German edition of Hondius' Atlas Minor Gerardi Mercatoris a Hondi... :    AFRICÆ | DESCRIPTIO.

$ 475
# AF-566 Willem Jansz. Blaeu
(1617) 1643-50
A Fine, Original Color example of the famous map of Africa with decorative borders: Africae nova descripti Auct Guiljelmo Blaeuw.
$ 7,500

# 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
$ 3,250


# 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
# AF-496 Johannes Jansonius-Pieter van der Aa
(1628) c.1714
Extremely Rare Map.  From Van der Aa's extremely rare L'Atlas Soulage  L'AFRIQUE
$ 1,200
# AF-449 Matthäus Merian
1638
Based on Blaeu:   nova descriptio | A F R I C Æ . $ 1,000
# AAF-335 Henry Seile-Philip Chetwind
(1652) 1666
An Early English-Language Map of Africa:  AFRICÆ | Descriptio Nova | Impensis | PHILIPPI CHETWIND 1666 $ 850
# AF-440 Nicolas Picart - Gerard Jollain
(c.1659) 1667
A Rare Map from Picart's Trésor des cartes géographiques..., published by Jollain :  Nouuelle description | D AFRIQVE
$ 950
# AF-521 Philipp Cluver - Johann Buno
1661
From Cluver's Introductionis in Universam GeographicamAFRICA | Antiqua | et | Nova.
$ 750
# AF-471 Jacob van Meurs
1668
From Dapper's Famous Book on Africa:   AFRICÆ | ACCURATA TABULA | ex officina | IACOBUM MEURSIUM.
$ 1,200
# AF-489 Frederick de Wit
(c.1670) 1689
Orginal Color example of the De Wit map of Africa:   TOTIUS | AFRICÆ | Accuratissima Tabula, | denuo correcté revisa, | Multis locis aucta, in Partes | tam maiores quam minores | divisa. Per F. de Witt Amstel. | Cum Priv. D.D. Ord. Holl. et West-fr.
$ 1,800
# AF-276 Nicolaas Jansz. Visscher
c. 1677
Attractive Dutch map of the African Continent:   Africae Accurata Tabula $ 2,000
# AAF-199 Heinrich Scherer
1699
In beautiful color with gilt:  AFRICAE DEI MATER .... 1699. $ 1,200
# AF-553 Guilaume Delisle
1700
The landmark map of Africa:   L’AFRIQUE | Dresseé sur les Observations $ 1,800
# AF-512 Abbé Nicolas Lenglet Dufresnoy
1716
From Dufresnoy's geography, Methode Pour Etudier
La Geographie
:   AFRIQVE Par le Sr. Sanson d'Abbeville Geographe du Roy

$ 300

# AF-349
Gerard & Leonard Valk
c. 1720
A fine representation of Dutch map-making:      Africa --- mauro percussa Oceano, Niloque admota tepenti….Cum Privilegio ordinum Hollandia et Westfrisia.
$ 1,250
# AF-554 Guilaume Delisle
1722
Delisle's 2nd map of Africa:  Carte d'Afrique. Dressee pour l'usage du Roy par Guillaume, Delisle Premier Geographe de Sa Majeste de l'Academie Royale des Sciences. A Paris, chez l'Auteur sur le Quay de l'Horloge du Palais, avec Privilege du Roy, 1722.

$ 950
# AF-379 Franz Wagner
1737
Rare Map of Africa from Wagner's Einleitung in die alte und neuere Geographia... .: AFRICA NOVA. $ 425
# AF-555 Gilles Robert de Vaugondy
(1749) 1810
Africa based on 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.
$ 300
# AF-563 Victor Levasseur
 c.1838
Later decorative map of Africa:  Afrique $ 225


MAPS OF PARTS OF AFRICA

# AF-185 Giacomo Gastaldi
1548
An early map of 'modern' southern Africa:  Africa Nova Tabula $ 700
# AF-211 Girolamo Ruscelli 
1561
An early map of 'modern' southern Africa:   Africa Nova Tavola $ 350
# AF-465 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. Sold
# 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.............. $ 600
# 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
1635 and later
Northwest Africa:   Fezzae et Marocchi Regna Africae Celeberrima describebat Abrah. Ortelius $ 475


SEA CHARTS OF AFRICA

# AF-546 Frederick De Wit
1675
Attractive Sea Chart of the East Coast of Africa with Madagascar, the Arabian Peninsula, and the Malabar Coast of India :  Occidentalior Tractus INDIARUM ORIENTALIUM a promontorio Bonae Spei ad C. Comorin.  Amstelodami a F. de Wit.  $ 1,400
# AF-534 Frederick de Wit-Louis Renard
(c.1675) 1710
Southern Africa:  Cimebebas et Caffariae Littora a Catenbela ad Promontorium Bonae Spei. Pascaerte... Gedruckt tot Amsterdam by L Renard $ 800
# AF-516 Frederick De Wit
1675
Attractive Sea Chart from Spain across the Straits of Gilbraltar to Gambia:  Barbariae, Guinea, Maritimi, a Freto Gibraltar ad Fluvium Gambia..... $ 1,350
# AF-388 Hendrick Doncker
1659
Not in Norwich or Tooley - Scarce Sea Chart of Southwest Africa and the Cape of Good Hope:   Pascaart van de zee custenyan Angola en Cimbebas... C. de Bona Esperance t Amsterdam By Hendrick Doncker ... Ao 1659. $ 1,250


VIEWS OF AFRICA

# AF-341 Braun & Hogenberg
c 1575 and later to 1618
The Siege of Tunis:   Tunetis Vrbis, Ac Novae Eius Arcis........ Sold
# AAF-224 Braun & Hogenberg
1572 to 1618
Views of East Africa and Arab Cities in beautiful original color:  Aden, Mombaza, Quiloa, and Cefala Sold
# AF-428 Braun & Hogenberg
c 1572 - 1618
Tangier & Other African Coastal Towns:  Tingis Lusitanis Tangiara, Tzaffin, Septa, Arzilla, Sala $ 600

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Map
Number
Map Maker
Date
Title Price
# 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
# AM-255 Samuel Lewis
1813
The State of New Hampshire. complied chiefly from Actual Surveys.  By Samuel Lewis, 1813 $ 375
# AM-231 Willem Jansz. Blaeu
(1634) 1641-42 or 1647-49
Blaeu's Upside Down New England: Nova Belgica et Anglia Nova $ 6,500
# 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 $ 700
# 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. $ 500
# 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
# E-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...
$ 2,750
# 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
# AS-162 Jodocus Hondius
(1606) 1613
The Holy Lands:  TERRA SANCTA quae in Sacris Terra Promissionis ol. PALESTINA $ 1,000
# AS-170 Willem Jansz. Blaeu
(1630) 1638, or 1640-43
Blaeu's Turkish Empire:   TURCICUM IMPERIUM. Sold
# AS-171 Jodocus Hondius-Michael Sparke
(1607) 1635-39
Jodocus Hondius' Turkish Empire:   TURCICUM IMPERIUM.   The Turkish Empire. $ 400
# 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...
$ 2,750
  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-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.
$ 350

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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-212 Abraham Ortelius
(1570) 1603
Switzerland with northern Italy:  Helvetiae Descriptio Aegidio Tschvdo avct. $ 700
# 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.  Fine Condition $ 200
  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+
 
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:  SCOTIAE REGNUM per Gerardum Mercatorem,  Cum Priuilegio
$ 850
# 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
$ 1,500
# 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. $ 725
# E-164 Johann Baptist Homann
c. 1720
Scandinavia:    SCANDINAVIA complectens SUECIAE, DANIAE, & NORVEGIAE, REGNA. ex Tabula Joh. Baptista Homann. $ 675
# E-463 Gerard Mercator
(1589-95) 1613
GREECE and the Aegean Sea:  GRAECIA / Per Gerardum Mercatorem $ 900
# E-465 Gerard Mercator
(1589-95) 1613
Greece's Peloponnesus peninsula:  MOREA olim Peloponnesus Per Gerardum Mercatorem $ 500

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WORLD

Map
Number
Map Maker
Date
Title Price
# 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.
$ 4,250
# W-157 Abraham Ortelius
(1579) 1603
The Portrait of Ortelius from his Theatrum Orbis Terrarum $ 775

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