Antique maps of Africa

Tabula Moderna Prime Partis Aphricae

Martin Waldseemüller

Place/Date:

Strasbourg / 1513

Size:

22.5 x 17.5 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

64056

First Modern Map of the North Part of Africa

[ First Modern Map of Southern Africa ] Tabula Moderna Secunde Porcionis Aphricae

Martin Waldseemüller

Place/Date:

Strasbourg / 1513

Size:

20 x 14 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

66800

1513 Original map of Southern Africa

Tabu. Nova Partis Aphri

Lorenz Fries

Place/Date:

Lyon / 1535

Size:

16 x 12.5 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

101920

[Africa] Prima Tavola

Giovanni Battista Ramusio

Place/Date:

Venice / 1554

Size:

15.5 x 11 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

96586

[ Africa ] Africa a Veteribus, anteq[ue] pars illa, quam hodie Mu[n]du[m] novu[m] appellamus, ab Hispanis detecta fuit, tertia pars orbis habebatur, que freto Herculeo, ac Nilo a cæteris partibus diducitur, Libya et Hesperia a Grecis appellata, hanc ab initio Getuli et Libyci, quibus ferina caro cibus erat, humi pecudum more Vescentes, asperi et inculti, habitauere[n]t, qua[m] ab Afro Abrahe nepote; ex Median filio; quum castra in Libya fixisset, multi nomen accepisse putant, alij ab Afro Hercules filio nu[n]cupata[m] Volu[n]t, putant, et quod in illa frigoris horror non ita sentiatur, Sed qua no[n] datur hic locus, o[m]nium scriptorum opiniones enarrare, bis supersedendum diximus) Hec vero orbis pars nouaru[m] semper rerum precæteris fuit proceatrix Vel maxima, vt abunde nobis a[n]tiquor historie recensent; Huius autem tam admirand[a]e partis orbis delineatione[m], cum circu[m]iacentibus locis, ea precipue[m] parte[m] . . . M.D.LXVI

Paolo Forlani / Giovanni Francesco Camocio

Place/Date:

Venice / 1566

Size:

28 x 19.5 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

111534

[ First Modern Map of the African Continent ] Africa / Libya / Morland / mit allen kunigsreichen so zu unsern zeiten darin gefunden werden

Sebastian Munster

Place/Date:

Basel / 1567 circa

Size:

14 x 10.5 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

104939

[Untitled Map of The Atlantic Ocean, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and Eastern Canada]

Domenico Zenoi / Orazio Bertelli

Place/Date:

Padua (Venice?) / 1570 (circa 1575)

Size:

8 x 7 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

89582

[ World & Continents ] Typus Orbis Terrarum / Americae Sive Novi Orbis Nova Descriptio / Asiae Nova Descriptio / Africae Tabula Nova / Europae

Abraham Ortelius

Place/Date:

Antwerp / 1572

Size:

19.5 x 14 inches each

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

99250

1572 rare Ortelius map showing Africa.

57-Europe, Asia, Africa, America and Rare Books Map By Giovanni Lorenzo d'Anania / Giuseppe

(Lafreri School Maps of the Continents) La Universal Fabrica del Mondo La Universal Fabrica del Mondo dell’eccell. m. Lorenzo Anania della citta di Tauerna cosmografo, et teologo ; doue s’ha piena notitia de i costumi, leggi, città, fiumi, monti, prouincie, & popoli del mondo.

Giovanni Lorenzo d'Anania / Giuseppe Cacchij dell' Aquila

Place/Date:

Naples / 1573

Size:

10 x 8 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

95384

Africae ut terra mariq[ue], lustrata est, propiissima ac vere genuina descriptio, observatis ad unguem gradibus longitudinis et latitudinis. Autore M. Iacobo Castaldo

Gerard de Jode

Place/Date:

Antwerp / 1578

Size:

19 x 13.5 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

109533

Affrica mit seinem befondern Landern Theiren und Wunderbarlichen Dingen

Sebastian Munster

Place/Date:

Basle / 1579

Size:

6.5 x 5 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

107272

[ Old World / Australia? ] Die eigentliche und warhafftige gestalt der Erden und des Meers

Heinrich Bunting

Place/Date:

Leipzig / 1582

Size:

14.5 x 11.5 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

92657

Affricae Tabula Nova

Sebastian Munster

Place/Date:

Basel / 1588

Size:

14 x 12.5 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

111176

(New World - Jesuit Provenance) Relaciones Universales del Mundo de Juan Botero Benes, Primera, y Segunda Parte, Traduzidas a instancia de Don Antonio Lopez de Calatayud...

Giovanni Botero

Place/Date:

Valladolid / 1599 - 1603

Size:

8 x 11.5 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

105440

[ Eastern Hemisphere Globe Gores. ] (Nova et integra universi Orbis descriptio)

Johann Oterschaden

Place/Date:

Strasbourg / 1600 circa

Size:

10.5 x 10.5 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

54480

Oterschaden's 1600 original map showing Africa.

Abyssinorum Sive Magni Regis Davidis Quem vulgo Presgyterum Joannem voant Imperium . . . 1600

Matthias Quad / Johann Bussemachaer

Place/Date:

Cologne / 1600

Size:

11 x 8.5 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

72594

Antique map showing Africa by Quad / Bussemachaer made in 1600.

(World & Continents) Typus Orbis Terrarum / Americae Sive Novi Orbis Nova Descriptio / Asiae Nova Descriptio / Africae Tabula Nova / Europae

Abraham Ortelius

Place/Date:

Antwerp / 1601

Size:

19.5 x 14 inches (each map)

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

108896

Africae Tabula Nova

Abraham Ortelius

Place/Date:

Antwerp / 1609

Size:

20 x 15 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

100534

Africa Tertia Pars Terrae

Heinrich Bunting

Place/Date:

Magdeburg / 1616

Size:

13.5 x 10 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

106836

Nova Africae Tabula Auctore Jodoco Hondio

Jodocus Hondius

Place/Date:

Amsterdam / 1619

Size:

19.5 x 15 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

89597

Africa Ex magna orbis terre descriptione Gerardi Mercatoris desumpta Studio & insustrai G.M. Iunioris

Gerard Mercator

Place/Date:

Amsterdam / 1620 circa

Size:

18.5 x 15 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

81246

Abissinorum Sive Pretiosi Joan:is Imperiu.

Jodocus Hondius

Place/Date:

Amsterdam / 1620

Size:

19 x 13.5 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

73837

Geographia Sacra (Modern World Map Inset)

Abraham Ortelius

Place/Date:

Antwerp / 1624

Size:

19 x 14 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

86394

(Dutch Travels in Guinea) Siebende Schiffahrt in das goldreiche Königreich Guineum, in Africa gelegen [Discoveries and Establishment of the Dutch on the Coast of Guinea]

Pieter de Marees / Levinus Hulsius

Place/Date:

Frankfurt / 1624

Size:

6 x 8 inches (binding)

Condition:

See Description

Stock#:

99940

Africae, Described. The manners of their Habits and buildings newly done into English by I.S. . .

John Speed

Place/Date:

London / 1626

Size:

20 x 15.5 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

89819

Africae nova Tabula . . . 1631

Henricus Hondius

Place/Date:

Amsterdam / 1633 circa

Size:

20 x 15 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

109671

Africae nova descriptio . . .

Willem Janszoon Blaeu

Place/Date:

Amsterdam / 1635 circa

Size:

22 x 16 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

78949

[ Kingdom of Prester John ] Le Royaume Abyssin ou l'empire du Preste Jean 1643

Jean Boisseau

Place/Date:

Paris / 1643

Size:

7.5 x 5.5 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

112233

Africa Vetus . . . 1650

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Paris / 1650

Size:

21 x 15.5 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

102557

Afrique . . . 1650

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Paris / 1650

Size:

22 x 15.5 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

102558

83-India, Africa, South Africa, East Africa and African Islands, including Madagascar Map By Melch

(Africa, Indian Ocean) Joao Teixeira Cosographo de sua Magestade

Melchisedec Thevenot

Place/Date:

Paris / 1663

Size:

20 x 27 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

81433

A Mapp of the Higher and Lower Aethiopia, Comprehending Ye Several Kingdomes... The Empire of the Abissines, The Coast of Aznguebar, Abex, of Nubia… Cafre . . . 1669

Richard Blome

Place/Date:

London / 1669

Size:

16 x 12 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

85459

A New Mapp of Africa . . . 1669

Richard Blome

Place/Date:

London / 1669

Size:

21.5 x 15 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

93183

9-Indian Ocean, India, Middle East, Africa, East Africa and African Islands, including Madagascar

Pas-caert van't westelyckste deel van Oost Indien, En de Eylanden daer onder begrepen, van C. de Bona Esperanca tot C. Comorin.

Hendrick Doncker

Place/Date:

Amsterdam / 1669 circa

Size:

21 x 17 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

109492

Nigritie

Pierre Du Val

Place/Date:

Paris / 1670

Size:

5 x 4 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

99995

Africae Accurata Tabula ex officina Nic. Visscher

Nicolaes Visscher I

Place/Date:

Amsterdam / 1675

Size:

21.5 x 17 inches

Condition:

Good

Stock#:

77368

L'Africa Nuovamente corretta et accresciuta secondo le relationi . . . 1677

Giacomo Giovanni Rossi

Place/Date:

Rome / 1677

Size:

21.5 x 15.5 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

73793

47-World, Western Hemisphere, Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia and America Map By Nicolaes Visscher

[Spectacular Set of Wall Maps of the Continents Dedicated to King Charles II of England, &c.]

Nicolaes Visscher II / Hugo Allard

Place/Date:

Amsterdam / 1677 - 1682 circa

Size:

71.5 x 55.5 inches (approximate sizes for each map)

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

93614

Totius Africae Accuratissima Tabula . . .

Frederick De Wit

Place/Date:

Amsterdam / 1680 circa

Size:

22.7 x 19.2 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

102728

Africa

Pierre Du Val / Johann Hoffmann

Place/Date:

Nuremberg / 1681

Size:

5 x 4 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

97231

A New History of Ethiopia. Being a Full and Accurate Description of the Kingdom of Abessinia, Vulgarly, Though Erroneously Called the Empire of Prester John.

Hiob Ludolf

Place/Date:

London / 1682

Size:

8.5 x 13.25 inches

Condition:

Good

Stock#:

93977

Totius Africae Accuratissima Tabula Authore I. Danckerts Amsteoldami [Most Accurate Map of All of Africa by I. Danckerts, Amsterdam]

Justus Danckerts

Place/Date:

Amsterdam / 1683

Size:

23 x 19.5 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

95551

Isle De Madagascar dite de st. Larurens ou Lisle Daufine

Alain Manesson Mallet

Place/Date:

Paris / 1683

Size:

4 x 6 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

105574

Africae Accurata Tabula ex officina Ioan: de Ram. [With Rare Frederick De Wit Letterpress Gazetteer for Africa: Index Alphabetica Africae.]

Johannes De Ram

Place/Date:

Amsterdam / 1683 circa

Size:

22.3 x 17.5 inches

Condition:

Good

Stock#:

107744

L'Afrique Divisee suivant l'estendue des ses principales parties . . . 1685

Alexis-Hubert Jaillot

Place/Date:

Paris / 1685

Size:

34.5 x 22 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

95642

Afrique Moderne

Alain Manesson Mallet

Place/Date:

Frankfurt / 1685

Size:

4 x 5.5 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

105587

Abissinie

Alain Manesson Mallet

Place/Date:

Paris / 1685

Size:

4.5 x 6 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

107519

Africa

Philipp Clüver

Place/Date:

Amsterdam / 1690 circa

Size:

5 x 5 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

93288

Clüver's 1690 original map showing Africa.

Accuratissima Totius Africae Tabula in Lucem produita …

Jacob Sandrart

Place/Date:

Nuremberg / 1690

Size:

22.25 x 19 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

104960

L'Africa Divisa nelle sue Parti secondo le piu moderne relationi colle scoperte dell' Origine, e corso del Nilo . . . [2 sheets]

Vincenzo Maria Coronelli

Place/Date:

Venice / 1690

Size:

34 x 24 inches (if joined)

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

108544

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