[Early map of north-east Africa.]

Girolamo Ruscelli.
Mamarica Nuova Tavola.

Venice, Ziletti, 1574. 190 x 260mm. Creased
Early 'modern' map of northern Africa between Egypt and Libya.
RUSC0020

[North Africa]

Nicolas Sanson.
L'Afrique, ou Lybie...

Paris, Pierre Mariette, c.1655. 350 x 555mm. Original outline colour with later additions.
North west Africa, with most interior detail fictitious.
SANS0012

[Chart of north west Africa with the Canary Islands]

Jacques Nicolas Bellin.
Coste Occidentale D'Afrique Depuis le Détroit de Gibraltar Jusqu'au XI.e Dégré de Latitude Septentrionale...

Paris, 1748. 260 x 205mm. Coloured.
North west Africa, from the Strait of Gibraltar south to Gambia, with Madeira, the Canary Islands and the Cape Verde Islands.
BELL0173

[Chart of north west Africa with the Canary Islands]

Jacques Nicolas Bellin.
Carte de la Coste Occidentale D'Afrique depuis le Détroit de Gibraltar Jusqu'au XI.e Degré de Latitude Septentrionale...

Amsterdam, c.1750. 270 x 205mm. Coloured.
North west Africa, from the Strait of Gibraltar south to Gambia, with Madeira, the Canary Islands and the Cape Verde Islands. Engraved by Schley for a Dutch edition of Prévost.
BELL0174

[Map of North Africa and the Mediterranean]

Isaak Tirion.
Het Noordelykste Deel van Africa, behelzende Barbarie, Egypte enz Als mede de geheele Middellandsche Zee.

Amsterdam: Tirion, 1762. Original colour. 335 x 630mm. Binding folds reinforced with archivist's tape on verso.
Map of North Africa from Egypt to Cape Blanco (Ras Nouadhibou) south of the Canary Islands.
TIRI0021

[Map of the Barbary coastline]

Rigobert Bonne.
Carte de la Partie Septentrionale d'Afrique, ou de la Barbarie; contenant les Royaumes de Tripoli, de Tunis, d'Alger, de Fez et de Maroc.

Paris, c.1770. 230 x 330mm. Coloured.
Map of North Africa from Morocco to Egypt, also showing Sicily, the Morea, Crete and Rhodes.
BONN0043

[Map of North West Africa]

Rigobert Bonne.
Partie Occidentale de l'Afrique, contenant Les Pays et Etats voisins de la Cote, entre le Cap St Vincent et le Cap Tagrin...

Paris, 1788. 360 x 250mm. Coloured.
Map of North West Africa from the Stait of Gibraltar south to Sierra Leone.
BONN0044

[Detailed map of Sudan, Eritrea and northern Ethiopia]

John Arrowsmith.
Nubia and Abyssinia.

London: Arrowsmith, 1842. 530 x 630mm. Original colour.
Detailed map, also showing the Red Sea coast of Arabia, marking Mecca, Medina and Jeddah.
ARRO0024

[Miniature map of Algeria]

Robert Morden.
A New Map of the Kingdome of Algier.

London, c.1688. 135 x 110mm.
Map of Algeria from Morden's uncommon world atlas 'Geography Rectified...'.
MORD0002

[Map of Algeria]

Nicolas Sanson.
Partie de Barbarie ou est Le Royaume d'Alger divisé en ses Provinces. Part. du Biledulgerid, ou sont Tegorarin, Zeb &c.

Paris, c.1692. Sheet 220 x 320mm. Coloured.
Algeria, engraved by A. de Winter for the quarto edition of Sanson's atlas.
SANS0058

[Map of Oran, Algeria]

Homann Heirs.
Topographica Repræsentatio Barbarici Portus et Urbus Munitæ Oran...

Nuremberg, 1732-. 500 x 580mm. Original colour.
Plan of the environs and a prospect of the Algerian port of Oran.
HOMA1016

[Miniature map of north west Africa]

Abraham Ortelius.
Barbariae et biledulgerid nova descriptio.

Antwerp, Plantin, 1593. 80 x 110mm. Coloured.
Minature map of Morocco and Algeria, engraved by Philip Galler for Ortelius's Epitome, this example for an Italian-text edition, translated by Giovanni Paulet KOEMAN: Ort 55.
ORTM0041

[English map of north Africa]

Jodocus Hondius.
Barbaria; [Carthage]; [Nile Delta].

London, Samuel Purchas, 1625. 140 x 180mm, set in a page of English text.
Three maps on one sheet: Hondius' maps of North Africa, Carthage & Egypt from the 'Atlas Minor', here issued in 'Purchas his Pilgrimes'.
HOND0015

[North Africa]

Antonio Zatta.
Le Coste di Barbaria ovvero I Regni di Marocco di Fez de Algeri di Tunisi di Tripoli coi Paesi circonvicini.

Venice, 1784. 420 x 330mm. Original colour.
Map of the Barbary coast of Africa.
ZATT0008

[Miniature Map of the Barbary Coast]

Petrus Bertius.
Barbaria.

Amsterdam, Jodocus Hondius, 1616, First edition. 100 x 135mm. Coloured.
The Barbary coast of Africa, with south west Europe. 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'.
BERT0082

[Early map of Egypt.]

Girolamo Ruscelli.
Egitto Nuova Tavola.

Venice, Valgrisi, 1561. 200 x 260mm.
Early 'modern' map of Egypt. This example is from the first state, with the platemark running off the top of the paper.
RUSC0021

[Miniature Map of Egypt]

Petrus Bertius.
Aegyptus.

Amsterdam, Jodocus Hondius, 1616, First edition. 95 x 135mm. Coloured.
Miniature map of Egypt. 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'.
BERT0083

[An Alexandrian Greek statue of Nilus, the god of the Nile]

George Sandys.
The Image of Nilus brought by Vespasiam out of Ægypt and now to be Seene at Rome in the Vatican.

London: William Barrett, 1617. 100 x 120mm, set in letterpress text. Some ink additions.
A copper-engraving of an allegorical figure of the Nile, now in the Vatican Museum. A sensitive soul has stippled over the god's nether regions in ink.
SAND1005

[Map of Egypt]

Alain Manesson Mallet.
Egypte Moderne.

Frankfurt, 1686. 145 x 110mm. Coloured.
Egypt, with the Nile south to Aswan, from a German edition of Mallet's 'Description de l'Univers'.
MALL0080

[Miniature map of Egypt]

Robert Morden.
Ægypt.

London, c.1688. 135 x 110mm.
Map of Egypt from Morden's uncommon world atlas 'Geography Rectified...'.
MORD0008

[Map of the Egypt and eastern Libya]

Nicolas Sanson.
Royaume et Desert de Barca, et L'Ægypte divisée en ses Principales Parties.

Paris, c.1692. Sheet 220 x 320mm. Coloured.
Egypt and eastern Libya, engraved by A. de Winter for the quarto edition of Sanson's atlas.
SANS0056

[Map of Egypt]

Nicolas Sanson.
Egypte diviseé en ses Douze Cassilies, ou Gouvernments.

Paris, c.1692. Sheet 320 x 220mm. Coloured.
Eyypt with the Niles outh to Aswan. Engraved by A. de Winter for the quarto edition of Sanson's atlas.
SANS0064

[Detailed map of Egypt]

Rigobert Bonne.
Carte de L'Egypte...

Paris, 1762. 470 x 350mm. Original colour.
Detailed map of Egypt with bright colour and decorative title cartouche.
BONN0004

[View of Alexandria]

William H. Bartlett.
Alexandria.

London: Fisher, Son & Co, 1837. Image 160 c 190mm.
View of Alexandria from the hills, looking past the mosque to the Mediterranean.
BART1001

[Detailed map of Egypt]

John Arrowsmith.
Egypt.

London: Arrowsmith, 1842. 640 x 540mm. Original colour.
Detailed map, marking the routes of caravans and explorers, including Burckhardt, Bruce and Irwin.
ARRO0025

[View of the Temples of Luxor.]

J.D. Woodward
Luxor.

London, Virtue & Co, c.1870. Steel engraving, printed area 215 x 255mm. Edges age-toned.
A night scene from the Nile, with dhows in the foreground.
WOOD1002

[Morocco and north west Africa]

Giovanni Antonio Magini.
Tabula Aphricae I.

Venice, Heirs of Simon Galignani, 1596. First edition. 140 x 180mm.
Magini's Ptolemaic map of Morocco and north west Africa, engraved by Girolamo Porro.
MAGI0002

[Decorative Map of Morocco]

Jodocus Hondius.
Fessæ et Marocchi Regna.

Amsterdam, 1628. 360 x 480mm. Original colour.
Decorative map of Morocco, with an inset of Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera, the tiny island just off Morocco conquered by Spain in 1508 in a battle against pirates. It has been under effective Spanish control since 1564, with no other inhabitants other than the garrison. KOEMAN: Me 28a.
HOND0088

[Morocco based on Ortelius]

Johannes Jansson.
Fezzæ et Morocchi Regna Africæ Celeberrima.

Amsterdam, c.1640. 390 x 505mm. Coloured.
Morocco, orientated with north to the right, based on Ortelius.
JANS0035

[Morocco]

Arnold Montanus.
Fezzæ et Marocchi Regna Africæ Celeberrima.

London, John Ogilby, 1670. 270 x 355mm. Coloured.
Map of Morocco, orientated with north to the right, with a decorative title cartouche.
MONT0006

[Miniature map of Morocco]

Robert Morden.
A New Map of the Kingdoms of Fez & Marocco.

London, c.1688. 140 x 125mm.
Map of Marocco from Morden's uncommon world atlas 'Geography Rectified...'.
MORD0009

[Map of northern Morocco]

Nicolas Sanson.
Royaume de Fez, divisé en sept Provinces....

Paris, c.1692. Sheet 220 x 320mm. Coloured.
Morocco, engraved by A. de Winter for the quarto edition of Sanson's atlas.
SANS0059

[Map of southern Morocco]

Nicolas Sanson.
Partie du Biledulgerid ou sont Tesset, Darha, et Segelmesse &[c.]

Paris, c.1692. Sheet 220 x 320mm. Coloured.
Southern Morocco with Western Sahara and the Canary Islands. Engraved by A. de Winter for the quarto edition of Sanson's atlas, the end of the title is hidden behind the cartouche border.
SANS0060

[Map of central Morocco]

Nicolas Sanson.
Royaume de Maroc divisé en sept Provinces &c.

Paris, c.1692. Sheet 220 x 320mm. Coloured.
Central Morocco, marking Marrakesh. Engraved by A. de Winter for the quarto edition of Sanson's atlas.
SANS0061

[Miniature Map of Tunisia]

Petrus Bertius.
Tunetanum Regnum.

Amsterdam, Jodocus Hondius, 1616, First edition. 95 x 135mm. Coloured.
Miniature map of Tunisia. 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'.
BERT0084

[Map of Tunisia and western Libya]

Nicolas Sanson.
Partie de Barbarie ou sont les Royaumes de Tunis, et Tripoli...

Paris, c.1692. Sheet 220 x 320mm. Coloured.
Tunisia and wesstern Libya, engraved by A. de Winter for the quarto edition of Sanson's atlas.
SANS0057

[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

[Chart of the Gulf of Guinea]

Jacques Nicolas Bellin.
Carte de la Coste Occidentale d'Afrique...

Amsterdam, c.1750. 215 x 250mm. Coloured.
The Gulf of Guinea, engraved by Schley for a Dutch edition of Prévost's 'Histoire des Voyages'.
BELL0193

[Map of East Africa]

Rigobert Bonne.
Le Royaume d'Adel: Les Côtes d'Ajan et de Zanguebar avec Les Etats qu'elles Conprennant.

Paris, 1788. 360 x 250mm. Coloured.
Map of East Africa from the Eritrea south to northern Mozambique and the tip of Madagascar, marking Mombasa in Kenya and Zanzibar.
BONN0045

[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