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• STEAMERS ON THE NILE / THEWFIKIEH NAVIGATION COMPANY.

  Gorgeous Victorian travel poster for the Egyptian Thewfikieh Navigation Company’s Nile Cruises.

  Cartographer(s): Stafford & Co.

  Place/Date: Netherfield / ca. 1899

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• Battle of the Nile, at 10 O’clock at Night, To the Right honorable Admiral Lord Nelson of the Nile…

  Robert Dodd’s dramatic aquatint of Nelson’s Battle of the Nile.

  Cartographer(s): Robert Dodd

  Place/Date: London / 1799

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• Cunard R.M.S. Caronia / Great African Cruise 1950

  A stunning and extremely rare advertisement for the Cunard Line’s 1950 cruise to Africa, with a stop in the new capital city of Tel Aviv.

  Cartographer(s): D.E. Bates

  Place/Date: England / 1949

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• [South Africa] Photograph panorama of Cape Town, c. 1870

  Panoramic photograph showing Cape Town and the Cape Colony during the heyday of British colonial rule.

  Cartographer(s): Anonymous

  Place/Date: Not listed / ca. 1870

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• Africa Tertia Pars Terrae

  Excellent woodcut map of Africa with Mountains of the Moon and mythical cities.

  Cartographer(s): Heinrich Bünting

  Place/Date: Leipzig / ca. 1585

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• Africa Divided According to the Extent of Its Principall Parts in Which Are Distinguished One from the Other the Empires, Monarchies, Kingdoms, States, and Peoples…

  William Berry’s rare and gorgeous map of the African continent with original 17th-century hand-written annotations in the margin.

  Cartographer(s): William Berry

  Place/Date: London / 1680

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• Plan de Carthage & de ses ruines

  One of the great North African tourist maps to grow out of the Victorian obsession with the Orient.

  Cartographer(s): E. Cyrino & A. Jacquemoud

  Place/Date: Tunis & Paris / 1930

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• [With Extensive Contemporary Annotations] Ordnance Survey of the Peninsula of Sinai Made in 1868-9 By Captains C.W. Wilson, and H.S. Palmer, R.E. Under The Direction of Major-General Sir Henry James, R.E. F.R.S. &c. Director of the Ordnance Survey

  The difficult merger between religious belief and scientific thought: an annotated map of the Sinai from the height of the British Empire.

  Cartographer(s): Captain Charles William Wilson, Captain H.S. Palmer

  Place/Date: London / 1869

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• Passage System of the Great Pyramid of Giza in the Land of Egypt June – July 1909.

  Uncovering the secrets of the Great Pyramid.

  Cartographer(s): John and Morton Edgar

  Place/Date: Glasgow / 1910

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• Tabula Moderna Prime Partis Aphricae

  Gorgeous example of famed cartographer Martin Waldessemüller’s double-page woodcut map of North and West Africa.

  Cartographer(s): Martin Waldseemüller

  Place/Date: Strasbourg / 1513

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• Occidentalior Tractus Indiarum Orientalium à Promontorio Bonae Spei ad C. Comorin

  Stunning Renard sea chart of the Indian Ocean, with East Africa, Arabia, and southern India, from the Atlas de la Navigation.

  Cartographer(s): Louis Renard

  Place/Date: Amsterdam / 1715

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• L’Afrique Par le Sieur Du Val, Geographe Ord. du Roy

  A separately-issued rarity of Africa by Pierre Duval.

  Cartographer(s): Pierre du Val

  Place/Date: Paris / ca. 1660

  $2,800 Add to cart
• [Tunisi]

  Fascinating 1566 Lafreri bird’s-eye-view of Tunis with the ruins of Carthage.

  Cartographer(s): Paolo Forlani

  Place/Date: Venice / 1566

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• João Teixeira Cosmographo. De sua, Magestade. Aféz em Lixboa o Anno de 1649

  Rare 17th century portolan-style chart designed for use aboard Portuguese merchant vessels.

  Cartographer(s): Joao Teixeira Albernaz I (the Elder), Melchisedec Thevenot

  Place/Date: Paris / ca. 1672

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• Africa.

  Likely the first printed map of Africa by a female cartographer.

  Cartographer(s): George Philip & Son Ltd., Margaret Whiting Spilhaus

  Place/Date: Cape Town / ca. 1925

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• Vues panoramiques du désert, Afrique du Nord [Four Desert Views]

  Four original gelatin prints with desert scenes produced by the iconic orientalist studio Lehnert & Landrock.

  Cartographer(s): Lehnert & Landrock

  Place/Date: Cairo / ca. 1920

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• Société de Géographie de Paris AFRIQUE 1895

  Jules Hansen’s seminal map of colonial Africa.

  Cartographer(s): Jules Hansen

  Place/Date: Paris / 1895

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• Novissima et accuratissima totius Americae descriptio; Accuratissima totius Asiae tabula recens emendata; Totius Africae accuratissima tabula; & Nova et accurata totius Europae descriptio. Per FREDERICUM DE WIT.

  A spectacular set of four continental maps, likely colored by Dirk Janz van Santen, the finest cartographic colorist of the Dutch Golden Age.

  Cartographer(s): Dirck Jansz van Santen, Frederick de Wit

  Place/Date: Amsterdam / ca. 1680

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• Novissima et Perfectissima Africae Descriptio

  De Wit’s Africa triumph in lovely old color.

  Cartographer(s): Frederick de Wit

  Place/Date: Amsterdam / ca. 1680

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• Algerie

  A gorgeous pictorial tourist map of Algeria in the 1960s.

  Cartographer(s): Ofalac-Alger

  Place/Date: Algiers/Oran / ca. 1960

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• Typus orarum maritimarum Guineae, Manicongo & Angolae ultra Promentorium Bonae spei susq…

  Linschoten’s gorgeous 16th-century chart of West Africa and the Southern Atlantic.

  Cartographer(s): Jan Huygen van Linschoten

  Place/Date: Amsterdam / ca. 1596

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• Map of Abyssinia and the adjacent districts laid down partly from original Observations taken in the Country and partly compiled from information collected there by Henry Salt…

  Henry Salt’s scarce and important map of Abyssinia.

  Cartographer(s): Henry Salt

  Place/Date: London / 1814

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• Ricordo storico della vittoria folgorante

  1936 Italian map of East Africa with stark fascist imagery and language.

  Cartographer(s): Visceglia

  Place/Date: Rome/Milan / 1936

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• Aegyptus Antiqua Divisa in Nomos Authore P. Duval Abbevilliense Regis Christianissimi Geographo

  Attractive 17th-century map of Egypt with ancient place names.

  Cartographer(s): Jan Janssonius, Pierre du Val

  Place/Date: Amsterdam / ca. 1660

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• Il Nilo dal Mediterraneo al Sudan

  A fantastic bird’s-eye-view of the Nile River, with the Suez Canal, railroads, and pyramids.

  Cartographer(s): Antonio Vallardi Editore

  Place/Date: Milan / ca. 1875

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• Carta Economica dell’Africa Orientale

  Interwar Italian pictorial map of East Africa.

  Cartographer(s): Luigi Padoan

  Place/Date: Milan / 1936

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• Algerii Sarace norum urbis fortissimae…

  1580 Braun & Hogenberg bird’s-eye-view of Algiers in original colors.

  Cartographer(s): Georg Braun & Franz Hogenberg

  Place/Date: Colonge / 1580

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• Africae nova descriptio.

  Excellent old color example of Willem Blaeu’s seminal map of Africa, the most influential depiction of the continent produced in the 17th century, and a cornerstone of any collection focussing on the cartography of Africa.

  Cartographer(s): Willem Blaeu

  Place/Date: Amsterdam / ca. 1630

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• Congo Belge

  An in-depth study for the regional peoples and cultures of Congo as it was.

  Cartographer(s): James Thiriar

  Place/Date: Courtrai, Belgium / 1958

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• Africa Ioanne Baptista Nicolosio S.T.D. Sic Describente

  A landmark map for the historical cartography of Africa.

  Cartographer(s): Giovanni Battista Nicolosi

  Place/Date: Rome / [First state] 1660

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• Birds Eye View of the Soudan and Surrounding Countries

  A marvelous piece of Victorian mapmaking commemorating the famous General Gordon’s exploits at the Siege of Khartoum.

  Cartographer(s): London Illustrated News; Maclure & Macdonald Lith.ers to the Queen

  Place/Date: London / 1888

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• Niger

  1943 French pictorial map of Niger.

  Cartographer(s): Jylbert

  Place/Date: Paris / 1943

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• Côte d’Ivoire

  1943 pictorial French map of Côte d’Ivoire.

  Cartographer(s): Jylbert

  Place/Date: Paris / 1943

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• THE EXPULSION OF AXIS FORCES FROM NORTH AFRICA

  Overpowering the Desert Fox: a scarce World War II flow map celebrating victory in North Africa.

  Cartographer(s): Anonymous

  Place/Date: England(?) / 1943

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• [Title in Russian] United Arab Republic

  Cold War era Soviet map of the United Arab Republic.

  Cartographer(s): General Directorate of Geodesy and Cartography (USSR)

  Place/Date: Moscow / 1965

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• [Map for the Blind] Afrika…Hergestellt im Lehrmittel-Verlag der Marburger Blindenstudienanstalt

  World War II German relief map of Africa for the blind, with Arabia and the Middle East.

  Cartographer(s): Lehrmittel-Verlag; Marburg Institute for the Blind

  Place/Date: Marburg / 1941

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• The “Graphic” Map of South-Central Africa Shewing the British and German Possessions

  Interesting Victorian-era map of European colonies in sub-equatorial Africa.

  Cartographer(s): The Graphic

  Place/Date: London / 1890

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• Cairo

  Large and detailed 1942 Survey of Egypt bilingual map of Cairo and the Nile Delta.

  Cartographer(s): Survey of Egypt

  Place/Date: Cairo / 1942

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• Afrique

  Mapping Colonial Africa on the eve of World War II.

  Cartographer(s): Imprimerie Artistique Editions IAC, Marc Besseyrias

  Place/Date: Lyon / ca. 1939

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• Carte du Dahomey pour suivre les opérations militaires…

  The Fall of the Kingdom of Dahomey: an unrecorded theater of war map for French colonial Africa.

  Cartographer(s): Garnier Frères

  Place/Date: Paris / 1892

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• Colonie Dell’Africa Orientale Italiana e Abissinia

  East Africa on the eve of World War II: the Italian gambit.

  Cartographer(s): Arti Grafiche Anselmo Tavazzani

  Place/Date: Milan / ca. 1937

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• Carte de l’Île de Madagascar d’après les documents les plus récents

  Rare broadside detailing operations of the Franco-Hova War, with a map of Madagascar.

  Cartographer(s): Lèon Hayard

  Place/Date: Paris / 1894

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• Abissinorum Sive Pretiosi Ioannis Imperiu

  Hondius map of East Africa with the Kingdom of Prester John and inset of the Congo.

  Cartographer(s): Jodocus Hondius

  Place/Date: Amsterdam / ca. 1630

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• Tourist Map of Kenya

  Pictorial map of Kenya published in Nairobi shortly after independence.

  Cartographer(s): Survey of Kenya

  Place/Date: Nairobi / 1968

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• [Cairo Islamic Monuments Map] Kharitat al-Qahira tubayyinu al-athaar al-Islamiyya

  Fine large-format city plan of Cairo with Islamic monuments color-coded by era.

  Cartographer(s): Survey Department

  Place/Date: Cairo / 1948

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• Birds Eye View of the Soudan and Surrounding Countries

  Marvelous piece of Victorian mapmaking commemorating the General Gordon’s exploits at the Siege of Khartoum

  Cartographer(s): London Illustrated News; Maclure & Macdonald Lith.ers to the Queen

  Place/Date: London / 1888

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• Prima Africae Tabula

  Excellent, pre-Columbus 1478 map of Northwest Africa and part of Iberia.

  Cartographer(s): Conrad Sweynheym, Arnold Buckinck

  Place/Date: Rome / 1478

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• Tripoli citta di Barbaria

  Rare Lafreri bird’s-eye-view of Tripoli depicting the expedition of King Philip II that never made it

  Cartographer(s): Antonio Lafreri

  Place/Date: Rome / ca. 1559

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• Totius Africae tabula, & descriptio universalis, etiam ultra Ptolemaei limites extensa.

  Exceptional example of one of the earliest maps to focus on the entire continent of Africa

  Cartographer(s): Sebastian Münster

  Place/Date: Basel / ca. 1554

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• Pictorial map of the United Arab Republic

  1969 map of the short-lived United Arab Republic with pictorial vignettes.

  Cartographer(s): K. Kamel; Ministry of Tourism in Egypt

  Place/Date: Cairo / 1969

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• Aegyptus Antiqua

  Stunning full color example of Ortelius’s two-sheet map of Egypt.

  Cartographer(s): Abraham Ortelius

  Place/Date: Antwerp / 1584

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• Fessae, et Marocchi Regna Africae Celeberr.

  1595 Ortelius Morocco with inset of Pigaffetta’s Kingdom of Congo.

  Cartographer(s): Abraham Ortelius

  Place/Date: Antwerp / 1595

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• Carte De L’Egypte De La Nubie De L’Abissinie

  Original Delisle example of this highly-detailed 1708 map of Egypt and Arabia.

  Cartographer(s): The De L'Isle family

  Place/Date: Paris / 1708

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• The Nile from Alexandria to Aswan, Illustrated Guide-Map

  Colorful 1930s pictorial guide map of the Nile.

  Cartographer(s): Lehnert & Landrock

  Place/Date: Cairo / 1930

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• Maroc. Région Nord

  Vivid 1943 pictorial map of Morocco.

  Cartographer(s): Jylbert

  Place/Date: Paris / 1943

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• [Title on Verso] Tabula Prima Aphricae Continent Mauritania Tingitanam, & Mauritaniam Caesariensem

  Colorful 1541 woodcut map of Morocco with old manuscript notations.

  Cartographer(s): Laurent Fries

  Place/Date: Vienne / 1541

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• [Title on Verso] Tabula IIII Aphricae

  1535 Ptolemaic Africa with Prester John

  Cartographer(s): Laurent Fries

  Place/Date: Lyon / 1535

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• Madagascar

  French pictorial map of Madagascar

  Cartographer(s): Jylbert

  Place/Date: Paris / 1943

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• Carta Particolare del Mare di Ethiopia con l’Isola di S. Elena e Parte della Costa. Carta VIIII

  First state of Dudley’s magnificent 1645 sea chart off West Africa

  Cartographer(s): Sir Robert Dudley

  Place/Date: Florence / 1645

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• Africae Nova Tabula

  Highly decorative mid-17th century map of Africa

  Cartographer(s): Henricus Hondius, Jan Janssonius

  Place/Date: Amsterdam / 1646

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• Tabula Nova Partis Africae

  1541 Ptolemaic map of West Africa with mythical kings and beasts.

  Cartographer(s): Laurent Fries

  Place/Date: Vienne / 1541

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• Africae Vera Forma, et Situs

  Cornelius de Jode’s superb 1593 map of Africa.

  Cartographer(s): Gerard & Cornelis de Jode

  Place/Date: Antwerp / 1593

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• Tabula Africae III

  16th century map of Egypt and Libya

  Cartographer(s): Girolamo Ruscelli

  Place/Date: Venice / 1564

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• Egitto Nuova Tavola

  Attractive 1598 Venetian map of Lower Egypt and the Nile Delta.

  Cartographer(s): G. Ziletti, Girolamo Ruscelli

  Place/Date: Venice / 1598

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• [Untitled – Africa, Asia, Brazil]

  Rare eighteenth century map of Jesuit missionary travel routes.

  Cartographer(s): Johann Jacob Lidl

  Place/Date: Augsburg / ca. 1740

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• Africae Tabula Nova

  Ortelius’s gorgeous cornerstone map of Africa.

  Cartographer(s): Abraham Ortelius

  Place/Date: Antwerp / 1570

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• Secunda Africae Tabula [Tunisia, Lybia, Sicily and Sardinia]

  1511 Sylvanus Ptolemaic North Africa with red type.

  Cartographer(s): Bernadus Sylvanus

  Place/Date: Venice / 1511

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• Presbiteri Iohannis, sive, Abissinorum Imperii Descriptio

  1598 map of East Africa with the mythical kingdom of Prester John.

  Cartographer(s): Abraham Ortelius

  Place/Date: Antwerp / 1598

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• Carte du Congo et du Pays des Cafres

  Exceptionally-detailed map of South Africa and Madagascar.

  Cartographer(s): Covens & Mortier, The De L'Isle family

  Place/Date: Amsterdam / 1742

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• Africæ Accurata Tabula

  17th century Visscher map of Africa

  Cartographer(s): Nicolas Visscher

  Place/Date: Amsterdam / ca. 1670

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• Africa Secundum Legitimas Projectionis Stereographicae regulas et juxta recentissimas relationes et observationes in subsidium vocatis quoque veterum Leonis Africani…

  Classic 1737 Dutch map of Africa

  Cartographer(s): Homann Heirs

  Place/Date: Amsterdam / ca. 1737

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• L’Afrique Divisee Suivant l’Estendue de Ses Principales Parties ou sont Distingues les uns des Autres…

  Late 17th century Jaillot map of Africa

  Cartographer(s): Pierre Mortier

  Place/Date: Amsterdam / ca. 1695

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