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Maps of Southern Africa
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[South Africa] Girolamo Ruscelli.
Africa Nuova Tavola.
Venice, 1598, Italian text edition. 190 x 260mm. Split in centrefold, some worming in wide margins.
'Modern' Southern Africa map, with a odd decorative sea monster.
RUSC0017 |
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[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 |
£250 |
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[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.
SCHE3009 |
£250 |
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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 |
£68 |
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[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 |
£125 |
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[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.
BRIO0001 |
£125 |
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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.
ANON0013 |
£79 |
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[Map of Angola] Gilles Robert de Vaugondy.
Congo ou Basse Guinée.
Paris, 1749. 175 180mm. Coloured. Paper lightly toned.
Map of Angola, marking Luanda.
ROBE0038 |
£75 |
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[Map of the Environs of the Cape of Good Hope] Jacques Nicolas Bellin.
Le Pays des Hottentots aux Environs du Cap de Bonne Esperance.
The Hague, c.1760. 265 x 355mm. Coloured.
Engraved by Schley for a Dutch edition of Prevost.
BELL0137 |
£150 |
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[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 |
£185 |
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[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 |
£175 |
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[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.
TIRI0005 |
£295 |
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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 |
£360 |
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[Map of South Africa] John Barrow,
Charte det Südspize von Africa oder des Hottentotten und Caplands.
Prague, 1811. 310 x 410mm.
An unusal 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 |
£195 |
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[Map of the British Colonies in South Africa] John Tallis.
Natal and Kaffraria.
London & New York, John Tallis & Co., c.1851. Steel-engraving, 360 x 260mm. Original outline colour.
With engraved vignette scenes of Port Natal and Durban and an illustration of the Seal of Durban.
TALL0022 |
£98 |
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[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 |
£35 |
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