[Map of South Africa]

Nicolas Sanson.
Pays, et Coste des Caffres: Empires de Monomotapa, Monoemugi, &c. Tirés de Sanuto, et d'autres.

Paris, c.1692. Sheet 220 x 320mm. Coloured.
Map of southern Africa, based on Sanuto. Engraved by A. de Winter for the quarto edition of Sanson's atlas.
SANS0041

[Map of South Africa]

Guillaume Sanson.
Pays, et Coste des Caffres: Empires de Monomotapa, Monoemugi &c.

Paris, 1699. 205 x 295mm.
Southern Africa, engraved by Antony de Winter after Sanson.
SANS0018

[Map of Southern Africa]

Heinrich Scherer.
Africæ Pars Australis.

Munich, 1702. 230 x 355mm.
Africa south of the Equator, with the interior filled with much fictitious detail. The allegorical title cartouche alludes to the riches to be had in the area.
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[Chart of Southern Africa]

Jacques Nicolas Bellin.
Coste Occidentale D'Afrique Depuis le Xie Degré de Latitude Meridionale Jusqu'au Cap de Bonne Esperance.

Paris, c.1760. 255 x 270mm. Coloured. Narrow margin bottom left, as trimmed by binder.
From Benguala to the Cape of Good Hope.
BELL0068

[Chart of South-East Africa]

Jacques Nicolas Bellin.
Coste Orientale D'Afrique Depuis le Cap de Bonne Esperance, Jusqu'au Cap del Gada.

Paris, c.1760. 255 x 240mm. Coloured.
From Cape of Good Hope east to Mozambique.
BELL0123

[Map of South Africa, decorative border]

Louis Brion de la Tour.
Partie de l'Afrique audelà de l'Equateur, comprenant Le Congo, La Cafrerie &c.

Paris: Desnos, 1766. 355 x 420mm. Original colour. Split in outer platemark.
Africa south of the Equator, within a separately-printed decorative border.
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[Angola map with mermaid]

Anonymous.
[Part of Angola Alias Dongo Kingdom.]

London, c.1720. 350 x 270mm.
Map of the coasts of Angola, marking Luanda. Of interest is the bizarre depiction of a mermaid.
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[Map of Angola]

Gilles Robert de Vaugondy.
Congo ou Basse Guinée.

Paris, 1749. 175 x 180mm. Coloured. Paper lightly toned.
Map of Angola, marking Luanda.
ROBE0038

[Map of the Congo]

Nicolas Sanson.
Royaume de Congo, &c.

Paris, c.1692. Sheet 220 x 320mm. Coloured.
Map of Gabon, the Congo and Angola. Engraved by A. de Winter for the quarto edition of Sanson's atlas.
SANS0062

[Plan of Cape Town]

Jacques Nicolas Bellin.
Ville et Fort du Cape de Bonne Esperance.

Paris, 1764. 230 x 180mm. Coloured.
Detailed townplan of Cape Town and its fort.
BELL0090

[Townplan of Cape Town]

Jacques Nicolas Bellin.
Plan du Fort et Ville du Cape de Bonne Esperance.

Paris, c.1764. 225 x 280mm. Coloured.
Detailed townplan of Cape Town and its fort, with a 13-point key.
BELL0110

[Cape of Good Hope]

Isaak Tirion.
Nieuwe Kaart van de Kaap de Goede Hoope...

Amsterdam, c.1764. 330 x 230mm. Original body colour.
The Cape of Good Hope map, with fine, bright colour.
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[South Africa]

Isaak Tirion.
Kaart van het Zuidelykste Gedeelte van Africa of het Land der Hottentotten.

Amsterdam, c.1764. 340 x 375mm. Original body colour.
South Africa map , with fine, bright colour.
TIRI0011

[Map of South Africa]

John Barrow,
Charte det Südspize von Africa oder des Hottentotten und Caplands.

Prague, 1811. 310 x 410mm.
An unusual Bohemian edition of John Barrow's map. Accompanying Lord Macartney, who had been sent to Cape Town in 1797 as the first governor of Britain’s new colony, Barrow travelled extensively into the interior. His task was to reconcile disputes among the Boers, Hottentots, and Kaffers, who were each striving to graze and hunt over the same territory, and to map the troubled area. His two-volume account in London between 1801 and 1804.
BARR0001

[Map of Kilwa Kisiwani in Tanzania]

Jacques Nicolas Bellin.
Plan de L'Isle et Ville de Quiloa.

Paris, c.1750. 230 x 160mm.
Formerly an important trading post in East Africa, now a World Heritage Site in Tanzania, noted for its Great Mosque.
BELL0122

[Early map of the 'Empire of Great Zimbabwe']

Jacques Nicolas Bellin.
Empire du Monomotapa et Etats Voisins Tiré de M. Delisle et autres Auteurs.

Paris, 1755. 210 x 290mm. Coloured.
Map of southern Africa covering mainly the modern states of Zimbabwe and Mozambique, the area of the the Empire of Great Zimbabwe (c.1450-1629). Its capital was the 'Great Zimbabwe', marked here as 'Zimbaoe'. The basis of its wealth were the numerous gold mines marked on the map (often believed to be the mines of King Solomon), but when these gave out they turned to slave trading with the Portuguese of the Mozambique ports.
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