[Sea Chart of West Africa]

Jansson Heirs.
Guinea.

Amsterdam, c.1640. 390 x 520mm. Coloured.
Sea chart showing from Western Africa from Guinea to Nigeria. With a large title cartouche and a vignette of two putti carrying a tusk, representing the ivory trade.
JANS0077

[Map of West Africa]

Nicolas Sanson.
Afrique ou Libie Ulterieure ou sont le Saara ou Desert, le Pays des Negres, La Guinée &c.

Paris, c.1692. Sheet 220 x 320mm. Coloured.
Western Africa, south to the Gulf of Guinea, engraved by A. de Winter for the quarto edition of Sanson's atlas.
SANS0043

[Decorative map of West Africa]

Johannes Jansson.
Genehoa, Jaloffi, et Sierraliones Regna.

Amsterdam, Schenk & Valk, c.1700 410 x 500mm. Original wash colour.
Originally published c.1670 by the 'Heirs of Johannes Jansson', this is a sea chart of the West African coast between Senegal and Sierra Leone. An uncommon item.
JANS0022

[West Africa]

Heinrich Scherer.
Archpelagus Atlanticus cum suis Insulis Canariis, Hesperidibus, et Azoribus.

Munich, c.1700. 235 x 355mm.
West Africa map, with the Canary Islands, Azores and Capo Verde Islands. An inset shows Tenerife and Grand Canary Island.
SCHE3006

[Decorative map of Abyssinia]

Nicolas Sanson.
Haute Ethiopie, ou sont L'Empire des Abissins, La Nubie, et le Zanguebar...

Paris, Pierre Mariette, c.1655. 410 x 505mm. Original outline colour with later additions.
Map of Abyssinia & Nubia, with most of the detail fictitious.
SANS0001

[Map of Abyssinia]

Nicolas Sanson.
Partie de la Haute Æthiopie ou sont l'Empire des Abissins et la Nubie &c.

Paris, c.1692. Sheet 320 x 220mm. Coloured.
Map of Abyssinia, covering the Sudan, Ethiopia, Uganda and northern Kenya. Engraved by A. de Winter for the quarto edition of Sanson's atlas.
SANS0063

[Map of Abyssinia and Arabia coastline]

Rigobert Bonne.
Nubie et Abissinie...

Paris, Lattré, 1771. 305 x 430mm. Coloured.
Also showing the Red Sea, with much detail on the Arabia coastline.
BONN0001

[Abyssinia]

John Thomson.
Abyssinia.

Edinburgh, 1817. 530 x 355mm. Original colour. Trimmed on left, outside printed border, short split reinforced.
Detailed map of Abyssinia with the routes of explorers, including the artist Henry Salt.
THOM0023

[Miniature map of Congo & Angola]

Robert Morden.
Congo.

London, c.1688. 105 x 130mm.
Map of the Congo & Angola, from Morden's uncommon world atlas 'Geography Rectified...'.
MORD0006

[Map of Abyssinia or Ethiopia]

Alain Manesson Mallet.
Empire des Abyssins. Das Abyssiner Landt.

Frankfurt, 1686. 145 x 110mm. Coloured.
Ethiopia with the Blue Nile, from a German edition of Mallet's 'Description de l'Univers'.
MALL0082

[Map of the Guinea Coast]

Nicolas Sanson.
La Guinée et Pays circomvoisins...

Paris, c.1692. Sheet 220 x 320mm. Coloured.
The Guinea coast, showing Liberia, Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria and Cameroon. Engraved by A. de Winter for the quarto edition of Sanson's atlas.
SANS0054

[Map of West Africa]

Rigobert Bonne.
Carte de la Guinée...

Paris, Lattré, 1771. 450 x 335mm. Original colour.
West Africa from the Cape Verde islands to the Ivory Coast.
BONN0019

[Chart of East Africa with Kenya]

Jacques Nicolas Bellin.
Carte de la Coste Orientale D'Afrique Depuis le Depuis le XIII.e Dégré de Latitude Meridionale Jusqu'au XVI,e Dégré de Latitude Septentrionale...

Paris, c.1760. 205 x 255mm. Coloured.
The East African coast from the mouth of the Red Sea south to the Comoros Islands, marking Mombasa
BELL0138

[Map of Mozambique with Réunion and Mauritius]

Rigobert Bonne.
Partie de la Cote Orientale d'Afrique avec l'Isle de Madagascar...

Paris, Lattré, 1771. 310 x 430. Original colour.
The coasts of Mozambique with Madagascar, with insets of Réunion and Mauritius.
BONN0018

[Map of the coasts of Guinea]

Didier Robert de Vaugondy.
Partie Orientale de la Haute Guinée.

Paris, 1749. 175 x 190mm. Original outline colour.
Map of Angola, marking Luanda.
ROBE0052

[Plan of the Gulf of Benin]

Jacques Nicolas Bellin.
Carte du Golfe de Benin et Partie de la Côte de Guinée Depuis la Riv. de Volta Jusqu'au C.Formosa.

Amsterdam, c.1760. 225 x 310mm. Coloured.
A Dutch edition of Bellin's map of the Gulf of Benin, engraved by Schley, with the coasts of Ghana, Benin and Nigeria.
BELL0163

[Map of the gold mines and slave regions of Senegal and Mali]

Jacques Nicolas Bellin.
Carte Du Cours des Rivieres de Faleme et Sanaga Dans les Pays de Bambuc et Tamba Awra levé sur les Lieux par Mr. Campagnon.

Paris: Didot, 1748. 300 x 300mm. Top left edge of margin repaired.
A map of the Senegal River through Senegal to the goldfields in Mali. Also marked is the 'Pays des Mandingos', the homeland of the Mandinka tribe. It is estimated that during three centuries of the slave trade a third of the Mandinka population was taken to the Americas, so that a significant proportion of African Americans are descended from them.
BELL0172

[A scene of a villiage in Sierra Leone]

Thomas Kelley.
A View in Sierra Leone.

London, Kelly, 1842. Steel engraving. 200 x 270mm.
A villiage scene, oddly with a domesticated elephant.
KELL0007

[Miniature Map of the Congo]

Alain Manesson Mallet.
Congo.

Paris, c.1683. 150 x 110mm. Coloured.
Equatorial Africa.
MALL0019

[West Africa]

Antonio Zatta.
La Guinea Occidentale che contiene Le Isole di Capo Verde, Il Senegal, La Costa Propriamente detta della Guinea.

Venice, 1784. 420 x 320mm. Original colour.
Map from Senegal south to Ghana, with the Cape Verde Islands
ZATT0026

[West Africa]

F.A. Schræmble.
Guinea Zwischen Sierra-Leone und dem Aequator.

Vienna, 1786. 300 x 650mm Original outline colour. Tiny hole in sea area.
The coasts of Guinea from Sierra Leone map to the Equator, with an inset detail of the Gold Coast. After D'Anville.
SCHR0002

[Map of West Africa]

John Tallis.
Western Africa

The London Printing & Publishing Company, c.1855. Steel-engraving, 250 x 330mm. Original outline colour.
With engraved vignette scenes of Sierra Leone and the old slave posts of Christiansborg, Cape Coast Castle and Bakel. Of particular interest is the early depiction of the Republic of Liberia, founded in 1849 by African Americans who had been freed from slavery. Monrovia, the only foreign capital city named after a U.S. President (James Monroe), is marked.
TALL0046