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[Early Africa with fictitious detail] Sebastian Munster
Africa Tabula Nova.
Basle, Sebastian Petri, c.1580. Woodcut, printed area 320 x 360mm. Small hole in margin repaired not affecting map
After 1580 Munster's original map of Africa was replaced by this one, after Ortelius. The map is more recognisable as being Africa, but is still filled with interesting fictitious detail. NORWICH: 14.
MUNS0001 |
£450 |
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[Africa] Sebastian Munster
Africa...
Basle, c.1580. Woodcut, printed area 130 x 160mm, set in a page of Italian text.
Munster's smaller map of Africa. NORWICH: 5.
MUNS0026 |
£175 |
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[African Natives] Jan Huygen van Linschoten.
Æthiopum e Moçambyque...
Amsterdam, c.1596. 250 x 320mm. Coloured. Tape stains in margins.
Depictions of four African natives, from Abyssinia and Ethiopia, engraved by Johannes à Doeticum. The title, written in Latin and Dutch, tells how the Mohametans call the natives 'Caffres', or 'unbelievers'.
LINS0001 |
£125 |
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[Fine map of Africa] Gerard Mercator
Africa Ex magna orbis terre descriptione...
Amsterdam, Jodocus Hondius, 1609. 380 x 470mm. Coloured.
Prepared by Gerard Mercator Junior for the posthumous third volume of his grandfather's atlas, this example comes from the first French edition. The title is within a superb strapwork cartouche.
MERC0001 |
£1,600 |
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[Classic decorative map of Africa] Jodocus Hondius.
Nova Africæ Tabula.
Amsterdam, 1613. 380 x 510mm. Original colour. Paper slightly age-toned, repair in lower margin of the centrefold.
Engraved by Hondius for his edition of Mercator's famous atlas, with a strapwork title cartouche, galleons and sea monsters.
HOND0004 |
£1,250 |
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[Decorative map of Africa] Jacob von Sandrart.
Accuratissima Totius Africæ Tabula.
Nuremberg, 1700. 490 x 575mm. Original colour. Narrow margin top left.
A most decorative map of Africa. It still bases the course of the Nile on Ptolemy. Interestingly the map was engraved by Johann Baptist Homan, a couple of years before he founded his own publishing firm. NORWICH: 61.
SAND0001 |
£600 |
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[Africa with elephant, crocodile and ostrich] Tobias Conrad Lotter.
Africa...
Augsburg, c.1770. 455 x 590mm. Original body colour with later additions to the cartouche. .
Map of Africa with a title cartouche featuring an elephant, crocodile and ostrich.
LOTT0001 |
£475 |
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[Decorative map of Africa] Georg Matthaus Seutter.
Africa Iuxta Navigationes et Observationes Recentissimas Aucta...
Augsburg, J.M.Probst, c.1770. 495 x 570mm. Coloured.
A large and decorative map, filled with fictitious detail. The title cartouche, lower left, features a dragon, crocodile, natives and pyramids. TOOLEY: p.110; NORWICH: 80.
SEUT0024 |
£750 |
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