[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'.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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[Chart of the Canaries]

Jacques Nicolas Bellin.
Carte des Isles Canaries.

Paris, c.1760. 220 x 295mm. Coloured.

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[Map of Teneriffe]

Jacques Nicolas Bellin.
Carte de L'Isle de Teneriffe...

Paris, c.1760. 225 x 160mm. Coloured.

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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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[Chart of the Cape Verde Islands]

Jacques Nicolas Bellin.
Carte des Isles du Cap Verd.

Paris, 1764. 235 x 320mm. Coloured.
The Cape Verde Islands were uninhabited until the Portuguese arrived in 1460, making them a watering station and establishing sugar cane plantation. After the discovery of America they became a major hub of the trans-atlantic slave trade.
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[Map of Anjouan]

Jacques Nicolas Bellin.
Carte de l'Isle d'Anjouan. Une des Isles de Comore: Par le Cap.e Cornwal.

Amsterdam, c.1760. 230 x 180mm. Coloured.
Anjouan (also known as Ndzuwani or Nzwani) one of the Comoros Islands.
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[Map of the Comoros Islands]

Jacques Nicolas Bellin.
Carte des Isles de Comore Johanna ou Anjouan Mohilla ou Moaly et Mayote.

Amsterdam, c.1760. 230 x 180mm. Coloured.
Map of the Comoros Islands.
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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.
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[Map of Madagascar.]

Jacques Nicolas Bellin.
Isle de Madagascar autrement Isle de St Laurent.

Paris, 1747. 300 x 240mm. Coloured.

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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,
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[Prospect of Funchal from the sea.]

Jacques Nicolas Bellin.
Vüe de la Ville et de la Rade de Funchal Capitale de l'Ile de Madere.

Paris, c.1760. 210 x 155mm. Coloured.
A view of the harbour and town of Funchal on Madeira. In the foreground a ship is firing its cannons.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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