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Antique
Maps of African Islands
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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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[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 |
£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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[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.
BELL0142 |
£125 |
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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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[Miniature Map of Mauritius] Alain Manesson Mallet.
Isle Maurice.
Paris, c.1686. 145 x 105mm. Coloured.
A view of Europeans on the shore of Mauritius. Two sit astride a giant tortoise, while others club birds on the ground.
MALL0032 |
£140 |
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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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