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[Chart of the Azores]
Pierre Du Val.
Les Isles Terçeres..
Paris, Pierre Mariette, c.1670. 330 x 450mm. Original colour.
Chart of the Azores, with an inset enlargement of Tercera.
DUVA0003 |
£350 |
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[Miniature map of Terceira]
Petrus Bertius.
Tercera.
Amsterdam, Jodocus Hondius, c.1616. 100 x 135mm. Coloured. Paper toned.
The island of Terceira in the Azores, believed to be the "Island of Brazil" on early maps.
Hondius engraved new plates for his edition of the Bertius atlas 'Tabularum Geographicarum Contractarum', which he sold alongside the Mercator 'Atlas Minor'. KOEMAN: Lan 11a, 'With the new plates, the work was certainly improved'.
BERT0066 |
£150 |
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[Map-view of Angra on Terceira in the Azores]
Arnold Montanus.
Angra op Tercera.
Amsterdam, Dapper, c.1671. 295 x 355mm. Narrow top margin.
Stylised map-view of the port city of Angra, the historical capital of the Azores.
MONT0015 |
£175 |
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[Chart of the Canary Islands]
Pieter van der Aa.
Canaries, ou Iles Fortunées...
Leiden, c.1710. 260 x 340mm.
With a decorative title cartouche.
AAAA0012 |
£295 |
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[Miniature map of Canary Islands]
Didier Robert de Vaugondy.
Les Isles Canaries; Isles de Madere et Port-Santo.
Paris, c.1750. 175 x 200mm. Coloured.
Map of the Canary Islands with an inset of Madeira.
ROBE0006 |
£78 |
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[Chart of the Canaries]
Jacques Nicolas Bellin.
Carte des Isles Canaries.
Paris, c.1760. 220 x 295mm. Coloured.
BELL0014 |
£125 |
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[Map of the Canary Islands]
Nicolas Sanson.
Isles Canaries.
Paris, c.1692. Sheet 220 x 320mm. Coloured.
The Canary Islands, with a title cartouche representing abundance. Madeira is shown in an inset. Engraved by A. de Winter for the quarto edition of Sanson's atlas.
SANS0042 |
£225 |
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[Map of the Cape Verde Islands and Senegal]
Nicolas Sanson.
Isles du Cap Verd, Coste, et Pays des Negres aux environs du Cape Verd.
Paris, c.1692. Sheet 220 x 320mm. Coloured.
The Cape Verde Islands and Senegal. Engraved by A. de Winter for the quarto edition of Sanson's atlas.
SANS0053 |
£140 |
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[Miniature map of Cape Verde Islands]
Robert Morden.
Cape Verde Islands.
London, c.1688. 120 x 130mm.
Map of Cape Verde Islands from Morden's uncommon world atlas 'Geography Rectified...', with the title on the sail of a ship.
MORD0005 |
£75 |
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[Miniature map of the Cape Verde Islands]
Didier Robert de Vaugondy.
Les Isles du Cap-Verd.
Paris, 1749. 175 x 200mm. Original colour.
The Cape Verde Islands, at the time a major transit point for slaves going to the Americas.
ROBE0053 |
£59 |
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[Early map of Madagascar.]
Tomaso Porcacchi.
S.Lorenzo.
Venice, c.1600. 110 x 150mm, set in a page of text. Coloured.
Map of Madagascar, orientated with north to the left, decorated with two sea monsters and a compass rose.
PORC0010 |
£180 |
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[Map of Madagascar.]
Jacques Nicolas Bellin.
Isle de Madagascar autrement Isle de St Laurent.
Paris, 1747. 300 x 240mm. Coloured.
BELL0041 |
£98 |
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[Plan of Tôlanaro, Madagascar]
Jacques Nicolas Bellin.
Plan de Fort Dauphin Construit par les Francois dans l'Isle de Madagascar.
Paris, c.1760. 215 x 290mm. Coloured.
Fort Dauphin, originally founded in 1643 by the French East India Company, but evacuated 1674. The site is now Tôlanaro,
BELL0164 |
£75 |
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[Map of Reunion]
Victor Levasseur.
Ile de la Réunion.
Paris, c.1850. Steel engraving, printed area 310 x 435mm. Original body colour.
With ornate vignette borders containing scenes of mining, rounding up wild horses and a jaguar.
LEVA0010 |
£75 |
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[Map of Seychelles]
Guillaume Delahaye.
Plan des Isles Mahé.
Paris, Depot de la Marine, c.1775. 355 x 525mm.
Chart of the Seychelles with an engraved French description.
DELA1001 |
£625 |
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[Early map of St Helena]
Petrus Bertius.
Sancta Helena.
Amsterdam, Jodocus Hondius, 1616, Latin text edition. 100 x 140mm. Coloured.
St Helena, with a decorative title cartouche, a galleon and sea-monster.
BERT0024 |
£150 |
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[Charts of St Helena and Saldanha Bay]
Herman Moll.
St. Helena, This Island belongs to ye English East India Company...; The Bay of Agoa de Saldanha...
London, 1730. 280 x 210mm. Some colour.
The Island of St Helena and Agoa de Saldanha in South Africa.
MOLL0013 |
£95 |
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[View of the Harbour of St Helena]
Anonymous.
2eme Vue de L'Isle de S.te Helene.
London, Palmer, c.1820.` Coloured engraving. 200 x 270mm.
The harbour of St Helena, as fortified by the British during the exile of Napoleon Boneparte.
PALM0001 |
£98 |
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[Map of Teneriffe]
Jacques Nicolas Bellin.
Carte de L'Isle de Teneriffe...
Paris, c.1760. 225 x 160mm. Coloured.
BELL0081 |
£125 |
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