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482 MUNSTER, Sebastian.
Africa... Basle, Henri Petri, c.1550, French text edition. Woodcut, printed area 130 x 160mm, set in a page of text..
Munster's smaller map of Africa, without the Horn of Africa and Cape of Good Hope. On verso are two more woodcuts, one showing a headless human body being roasted on a spit. NORWICH: 5.		 SOLD

483 [The First Map of the Continent of Africa] MUNSTER, Sebastian.
Africa XXV Nova Tabula Basle, Henri Petri c.1550, Latin text edition. Woodcut, printed area 270 x 340mm. Excellent condition.
Munster's famous map of Africa, the first to show the whole continent. A one-eyed giant is seated over Nigeria, representing the mythical tribe of the 'Monoculi', and an elephant fills southern Africa. Also marked are several kingdoms, including that of Prester John, and 'Meroë', the mythical tombs of the Nubian Kings. The large text box contains a guide for sailing from Cadiz to Calecut in India. See TOOLEY: Africa, p.85 & Plate 65; NORWICH: 2.		 SOLD

484 ["The Cornerstone of Any African Map Collection"] ORTELIUS, Abraham.
Africae Tabula Nova. Antwerp, c.1580, French edition. Original Colour. 370 x 500mm.
The most famous map of Africa, described by Tooley as 'the cornerstone of any African map collection'. The large title cartouche, sea-monsters and sea-battle make it a very decorative item. In the centre of the continent the kingdom of Prester John, the mythical Christian king, is marked.Dating the Ortelius world and continent maps is always problematic, as they always have the same pagination. However the strength of the impression would suggest an early edition; certainly there is no evidence of the crack in the title that appeared c.1602. VAN DEN BROECKE: 8; TOOLEY: Africa, 88; NORWICH 10.		 SOLD

485 PIGAFETTA, Filippo.
Tabulam hanc Aegypti, si æquus ac diligens lector... Frankfurt: Wolfgang Richter for the de Bry brothers, 1598. Two sheets conjoined, total 550 x 400mm. Margin reinforced on the left side.
Pigafetta's map of Africa based on the explorations of Duarte Lopes, a Portuguese whose voyages to the Congo Basin added to the speculation about the source of the Nile. Rather than following the Ptolemaic convention of twin sources in the Mountains of the Moon the two lakes are in series, with the upper lake also being the source of the Congo. This example comes from the German Edition, and was engraved by Johann Israel de Bry. For some reason the two large cartouches top right have been left blank; lower right are a key and a dedication to the emperor Prester John. The seas and lakes are filled with galleons and seamonsters. 		£3,500

486 [Miniature Map of Africa] ORTELIUS, Abraham.
Africae Tabula Nova. Brescia, c.1598. Coloured. 80 x 150mm, set in text. Sheet trimmed.
Miniature map of Africa, copied from the Ortelius Epitome map, here used in an edition of Botero. 		SOLD

487 [The 'Upside-Down' Map of Africa] GASTALDI, Giacomo.
Prima Tavola. Venice, Giunti, 1606. Trapizoid, 275 x (at greatest) 385mm. Three small repaired tears at bottom margin.
The famous 'upside-down map' of Africa, engraved with north to the bottom of the map, and with various seamonsters and animals, from Ramusio's 'Delle navigationi et viaggi'. This is the engraved version, cut after the original woodcut was destroyed in a fire at the printing house in 1557. NORWICH: 6.		 SOLD

488 HONDIUS, Jodocus.
Africæ nova Tabula. Amsterdam, Jan Jansson, c.1638, Dutch text edition. Coloured. 410 x 550mm. Tears near centrefold, left and lower margin skilfully repaired.
Highly decorative carte à figure map of Africa, with six town views at the top and five costume vignettes on each side. Within the map is an ornamental title cartouche, galleons, sea-monsters and animals. The publisher's cartouche features a clock with a Death's Head. A map with an unusual history: first issued as a separate publication by Jansson in 1623, it originally had six more prospects along the bottom. It appeared in atlas form in various Appendices from 1630, but was superseded almost immediately by a new plate by Henricus Hondius in 1633. Jansson continued to issue his map separately, and in 1632 put a new date on it and trimmed it to fit in a folio atlas. Afterwards it only made intermittent appearances in Jansson's atlases, making it rarer than the corresponding Blaeu map. KOEMAN: 70a; NORWICH: 29 (this state not mentioned);		 SOLD

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490 [Scarce separate-issue carte à figure Africa] DE WIT, Frederick.
Nova Africa Descriptio. Amsterdam, 1660. Original colour. 445 x 555mm.
De Wit's first map of Africa, dated 1660, a carte à figure with five town prospects along the top and eight costumes down the sides. The title cartouche is decorated with a figure sitting on a crocodile and the publisher's cartouche with Neptune, seahorses and mer-people. Issued separately, it is one of de Wit's ealiest maps (the earliest is dated 1659) and it predates his first atlas by a decade. TOOLEY: p.123, "the map has always been scarce"; NOT IN NORWICH.		 £2,250

491 [The First Map of Africa by an Englishman] SPEED, John.
Africæ, described, the manners of their Habits, and buildinge: newly done into English by I.S. London, Bassett & Chiswell, 1676. Coloured. 390 x 510mm. Split to centrefold repaired.
The first map of Africa by an Englishman (although Speed still had to turn to a Dutch engraver, Abraham Goos, to produce it), published in the 'Prospect of the... World'. Down the sides are ten costume vignettes, and eight city prospects, including Tangiers, Alexandria and Grand Canary, are along the top. On verso is an English text, 'The Description of Africa', containing a mixture of fact and amusing myth. NORWICH: 30.		 £2,600

492 DANCKERTS, Justus.
Novissima et Perfectissima Africae Descriptio. Amsterdam, c.1690. Original wash colour, border size 490 x 570mm. Top and bottom margins trimmed, as is usual due to its size, false margins added, centrefold reinforced, slight browned area in top corners.
At first glance this map appears identical to Danckerts' earlier map 'Totius Africæ Accuratissima Tabula', being exactly the same size and with the same cartouche around the title. However it comes from a new plate, with the latitude lines moved, different lettering and without the animals and galleons used to fill his gaps. However, like its predecessor, it is a derivative of De Wit's map of 1680, with much of the interior detail, including the twin lakes of the sources of the Nile, Ptolemaic in origin. Not in Tooley's Africa, but see NORWICH: 57 for the first version, illus.		 SOLD

493 [Two-Sheet Map] CORONELLI, Vincenzo Maria.
L'Africa... Venice, 1691. Two sheets, each c. 605 x 445mm.
Coronelli's famous two-sheet map of Africa. The title is on an animal skin draped above lions, an elephant, crocodile, ostrich & camel. In the interior is a large cartouche with an allegorical figure representing the Nile, with a European recording the latest discoveries relating to the Blue Nile in Abyssinia. Little elephants, lions and other animals fill the other gaps. NORWICH: 56.		 £3,200

494 [Ptolemaic Africa] MERCATOR, Gerard.
Tab. IV. Africæ, in qua Libya Interior et Exterior, Æthiopia sub Ægypto et Interior. Utrecht, François Halma, c.1695. Coloured. 310 x 460mm.
First published 1578, this map comes from Mercator's edition of Ptolemy's 'Geography', with the maps updated to Mercator's Projection. This example is of the second state, with a new title cartouche replacing the original strapwork one. 		£700

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496 [English Channel to the Cape of Good Hope] THORNTON, John.
A General Chart from England to Cape Bona Esperanca with the Coast of Brasile. London, Samuel Thornton, c. 1711. 530 x 435mm. Trimmed within printed border bottom left.
The general map from Thornton's 'English Pilot The Third Book', concentrating on oriental navigation, showing the first half of the route to the Far East. The chart also shows the Atlantic west to Newfoundland and Brazil. 		£1,100

497 CLUVER, Philip.
Africa Antiqua et Nova. Amsterdam, c.1730. Coloured. 220 x 265mm.
With a decorative title cartouche. 		SOLD

498 [Separate-Issue Map of Africa] MONIN, Charles V.
Afrique. Paris: Auguste Logerot, c.1850. Original colour. 480 x 680mm. With mapseller's ink stamp in the top margin, repair to fold..
A large map of Africa, still with large areas of blank space in the interior. 		£340

499 CASSINI, Giovanni Maria.
L'Africa Secondo Le ultime osservazioni Divisa ne'suoi Stati Principali. Rome, 1788. Coloured. 340 x 480mm.
A rare and decorative map: the large title cartouche shows an allegorical figure representing the continent holding up an elephant's tusk, surrounded by a lion, crocodile and a horned serpent. Rare: not listed in either Tooley or Norwich.		 SOLD

500 CLOPPENBURG, Johannes.
Africæ nova Tabula. Auct. J.Hondius... Amsterdam, 1630, French text edition. First Edition. 190 x 260mm.
Africa. from Cloppenburg's version of the Mercator Atlas Minor, probably engraved by Van den Keere. KOEMAN: Me 198; Not listed in Norwich. 		SOLD

501 [Scarce Italian Production] SOCIETE CHALCOGRAFIQUE.
L'Afrique diviseé en ses Principaux Etats et Royaumes Par M.r Le Marck Gèographe. Venice: la Societè Chalcografique, 1802. Original colour. 500 x 650mm.
Large map of Africa, in the style of Zatta but much larger. The "Le Marck" of the title is the French publisher, Delamarche, who had taken over Robert de Vaugondy's business. 		SOLD

502 [Africa] DE LA ROCHETTE, Louis Stanislas d'Arcy.
Africa. London: James Wyld, 1826. Original colour. 530 x 590mm.
Colourful map of Africa, with the title on a medallion top right. The interior is filled with anecdotal notes. See NORWICH: 136 for later issue.		 SOLD

503 [Guinea] BLAEU, Willem Janszoon.
Guinea. Amsterdam, c.1650, Latin edition. Original colour. 385 x 530mm.
The coast of Africa between Sierra Leone and Gabon, including the Ivory, Gold & Slave Coasts.The map is a fine example of a tendency that Jonathan Swift satirised in verse: the lack of information in the interior meant that cartographers had to "Place elephants for want of towns". Norwich, O.I. 315. 		£550

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506 ['Modern' North Africa] WÄLDSEEMÜLLER, Martin.
Tabula Moderna Prime Partis Africae. Strassburg: Johannes Schott, 1513. Woodblock, printed area 435 x 580mm. Minor restoration at centrefold.
Waldseemüller's 'modern' north Africa, showing the Red Sea and the Equator, with the Canaries and Madeira. This is the scarce large format, later reduced by Fries. NORWICH: 286.		 £1,800

507 [West Africa Gore Sheet] CORONELLI, Vincenzo Maria.
[West Africa Gore Sheet.] Venice, 1688. 470 x 290mm at top, tapering to 190 at bottom.
A gore sheet, designed to be pasted onto a globe, dominated by West Africa, but showing north through Spain and France to the Channel Islands, the Azores and Madeira. Vignette animals include lions, camels and a giraffe, as well as a few unidentifiable ones. A very decorative item. NORWICH: 52, 'the most illusturious globe-maker of the seventeenth century'.		 SOLD

508 [Western Africa] TALLIS, John.
Western Africa. London: J. & F. Tallis, c.1851, original outline colour. Printed area 260 x 335 mm. Ink pagination in margins.
From one of the last decorative atlases, a map of Western Africa with decorative vignettes of local views. 		SOLD

509 [Abyssinia] HONDIUS, Jodocus.
Abissinorum sive Pretiosi Johannis Imperii. Amsterdam, c.1630, blank verso. Coloured. 375 x 435mm.
The Kingdom of Prester John in central Africa. John was a mythical Christian king supposedly descended from David and regarded as an important defence against the barbarians. Originally believing him to be somewhere in the Middle East Pope Alexander III sent John a letter to beg help against the Mongols (1177), but his messenger never returned. As Polo and other travellers opened the East without finding him, Prester John's kingdom retreated into the unknown. Although Waldseemüller's maps of 1507 places him in India, Fries moved him to Africa in 1522. 		£725

510 [Empire of Prester John] BLAEU, Willem Janszoon.
Æthiopia Superior vel Interior; vulgo Abissinorum sive Presbiteri Ioannis Imperium. Amsterdam, 1635, French edition. Original colour. 385 x 505mm.
Central Africa, showing the Empire of Prester John, the mythical Christian king. KOEMAN: Bl 12.		 SOLD

511 [Oran] SEUTTER, George Matthäus.
Oran munita urbs et comodus portg in.ora maritima Barbariæ et proprie in Regno Telemsin... Augsburg, c.1730. Original wash colour. 495 x 560mm.
Chart of the environs of Oran in Algeria, with a panorama of the city and environs, decorated with several seacraft and a large allegorical title cartouche. 		£250

512 [Prospect of Algiers] PRULAUD, Antonio.
Prospetto della Città, e Porto di Algeri con tutte le sue Fortificazioni nuovamente costruite a tutto Maggio 1784. Livorno: Giovanni & Domenico del Negro, c.1785. 310 x 460mm.
Prospect of Algiers, showing the new defences, built in 1784. As the city was the base of the Barbary pirates, a curse on Mediterranean shipping, these new defences would have been to protect against European attack. Engraved by Bartolemeo Nerici. 		£350

513 [Uncommon Jansson Map of Egypt] JANSSON, Jan.
Ægypti Recentior Descriptio: Ægyptus & Turkis Elchibith; Arabibus Mesre & Misri, Hebræis Mitsraim. Amsterdam: Heirs of Jan Jansson, 1666, Latin text. Original colour. 410 x 505mm.
Egypt, orientated with north to the right, with a title cartouche featuring the pyramids. It is interesting that the author has attempted to incorporate placenames from Hebrew, Turkish and Arabic. As this map did not appear until 1658 it is comparatively scarce: this example was published in the 'Atlas Contractus', a two-volume atlas, issued two years after Jansson's death by his son-in-law, Jan Jansson van Waesbergen. 		£490

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515 [Egypt] CASSINI, Giovanni Maria.
L'Egitto Antico e Moderno. Rome, 1798. Coloured. 495 x 365mm.
Egypt, with the Nile south to Aswan, from the 'Nuovo Atlante Geografico Universale'. 		£300

516 [One of the Most Decorative Maps by Ortelius] ORTELIUS, Abraham.
Aegyptus Antiqua. Antwerp, c.1584, Two sheets joined together.  Original Colour. 790 x 480 mm. Verdigris areas reinforced on verso with no cracking and no loss. A very fine example.
Ortelius updated an earlier version of the map first issued in 1576 for the historical section (Parergon) of the Theatrum, and appeared in only a few editions being replaced by a single sheet map in 1595.  Peter Meurer of the University of Utrecht has rightly described this map as "an outstanding example of early scientific research on Egypt" - Ortelius' scholarship was never more apparent than in the extensive research he conducted over a 20 year period working on this map.  The harmonious aesthetic composition, superb engraving work and generous size also makes this one of the most visually stunning of all Ortelius maps. VAN DER BROECKE: 210-220. 		SOLD

517 [Lower Egypt] DE LA ROCHETTE, Louis Stanislas d'Arcy.
Lower Egypt and the Adjacent Deserts, with a Part of Palestine; to which has been added the Nomenaclature of the Roman Age... MDCCCII. London, William Faden, 1802. Original colour. 560 x 765mm.
Large and detailed map of the Nile Delta, northern Sinai and Palestine to Acre and Jerusalem. Of interest is the Pilgrims' Road from Cairo towards Mecca. It is likely that the map was published to satisfy public interest in the area after Nelson's Battle of the Nile (1798) and Abercrombie's victory at Alexandria (1801), which let to Napoleon being driven from Egypt. 		£250

518 [Cairo] BRAUN, Georg & HOGENBERG, Frans.
Cairos quae Olim Babylon: Aegypti maxima urbs. Cologne, 1572-, Latin text edition. Original Colour. 330 x 485mm.
From Braun & Hogenberg's 'Civitates Orbis Terrarum',  the first series of printed townplans. In the foreground are a group of locals, some on horseback, others picking dates. It also includes the Sphinx, pyramids and a bridge for crossing the Nile at times of rising water levels. 		£850

519 [Detailed Prospect of Cairo] BREWER, H.W.
The Crisis in Egypt - Panoramic View of Cairo. London: The Graphic, 1882. Wood engraving on two sheets, conjoined, total 290 x 1260mm. A few small signs of wear.
Issued as a supplement to the Graphic newspaper on June 17th, 1882, a time of heightened tension in Egypt. When the Suez Canal was opened in 1869 the major shareholders were France, Britain and Egypt, then independent. However the Khedive of Egypt's spending soon left his expenses in ruin, allowing British Prime Minister D'Israeli to buy his 40% stake from under the noses of the French. The purchase money did not last long, and in 1879 the Khedive was forced to abdicate in favour of his son, with the French and British taking stewardship over Egypt's finances to protect their interest in the Canal. This loss of sovereignty led to a revolt in 1882, forcing the British to send an expeditionary army to Egypt, which the French refused to join. When the revolt was crushed with surprising ease Britain found itself accidentally in control of Egypt. 		SOLD

520 [Guinea, from the English Edition.] HONDIUS, Jodocus.
Guineae Nova Descriptio. Amsterdam: Henricus Hondius, 1636. Coloured. 350 x 500mm. Centrefold reinforced on verso..
Guinea with an inset detail of St Thomas. Only three English editions of the Mercator Atlas were ever published, in 1636, 1638 & 1641. The text was translated from the Dutch by Henry Hexham, 'Quarter-maister to the Regiment of Colonell Goring' (later a Royalist commander in the Civil War) and dedicated to Charles I. These editions were not a financial success, so it is likely that the contents of the atlases were from the same print run, with altered title pages, attempting to clear unsold stock. The experiment was never repeated: even Volume Four of the Novus Atlas, filled with English county maps, was never published in English. 		SOLD

521 [Guinea] JANSSON, Jan.
Guinea. Amsterdam, Henricus Hondius, 1639, French edition. Original colour. 385 x 520mm.
The coast of Africa between Sierra Leone and Gabon, including the Ivory, Gold & Slave Coasts. The map is a fine example of a tendency that Jonathan Swift satirised in verse: the lack of information in the interior meant that cartographers had to 'Place elephants for want of towns'. KOEMAN: Me 92a.		 SOLD

522 [Guinea] CORONELLI, Vincenzo Maria.
[Isola della Guinea.] Venice, c.1690. 220 x 305mm, set in a page of text.
The scale is marked on an elephant tusk held by putti. 		£250

523 [Guinea] CASSINI, Giovanni Maria.
Parte dell'Africa che comrende L'Alta Guinea con La Nigrizia, Delineata sulle Ultime Osservazioni. Rome, 1797. Coloured. 355 x 495mm.
West Africa from Cape Verde to Biafra, published in the 'Nuovo Atlante Geografico Universale'. 		£300

524 [Kenya - Mombasa] MORTIER, Pieter.
Carte Particuliere de la Mer Rouge, etc. Amsterdam, 1700. Original body colour with gold highlights. Two sheets conjoined, total 525 x 760mm. Tiny verdigris crack.
A large chart of the Red Sea and the African coastline south to Dar es Salaam in Tanzania. However, of more interest are the two insets of Mombasa in Kenya, one showing the island, the other the layout of Fort Jesus, built by the Portuguese in 1593. At the time of publication Mombasa was under seige from Arabs from Oman: a Portuguese ship sank in 1697 while trying to break the seige, which continued until most of the defenders had died of starvation or disease. KOEMAN: M.Mor 7; 'This magnificent work was intended more as a show-piece' (Vol IV p.424).		 £650

525 [Mombasa, Aden & Quiloa] BRAUN, Georg & HOGENBERG, Frans.
Aden, Arabiæ Foeicis emporum celeberrimi nominis...; Mombaza; Quiloa; Cefala. Cologne, 1572-, Latin text edition. Coloured. 340 x 475mm. Old ink mss. in margins.
Four map-views on one sheet, published in the first volume of the Civitates Orbis Terrarum, the first series of printed town plans. The views are of four of the most important ports in the Indian Ocean: the upper half of the sheet is dedicated to Aden, with Mombasa (Kenya), Kilwa (Tanzania) & Sofala (or Beira, Mozambique) underneath. KOEMAN: B&H 2.		 £550

526 [Morocco] BLAEU, Johannes.
Fezzæ et Marocchi Regna Africæ Celeberrima, describebat Abrah: Ortelius. Amsterdam: 1640, Latin text. Old Colour. 390 x 500mm.
Morocco after Abraham Ortelius, with a title cartouche featuring two satyrs. 		£280

527 [Morocco] HOMANN HEIRS.
Statuum Maroccanorum... Nuremberg, 1728. Original colour. 490 x 550mm.
A decorative map of Morocco, also showing Madeira and the Canary Islands. The title cartouche depicts Moors, a serpent lion and ostrich. Under the map are prospects of Marrakesh and Meknes. Johann Christoph was the son of Johann Baptist, and took over the family business on his father's death in 1724. However he only survived his father by six years, dying at the age of twenty-nine. From then on the firm took on the rather anonymous appellation 'Homann's Heirs'. 		£450

528 [West Africa] RAMUSIO, Giovanni Battista.
[Parte de la Frica.] Venice, 1606. Woodcut, printed area 280 x 380mm. Small repair to centrefold, tiny hole in sea area.
West Africa, from the Tropic of Cancer south to St Thomas, compiled by Gastaldi for Ramusio's 'Raccolta di Navigationi et Viaggi'. The interior is filled with lions, elephants, monkeys & camels, with a native village and the Portuguese fort at Elmina on the Gold Coast. This example was printed from the second block, cut in 1565 after the first was destroyed by a fire in the printing house of Thomaso Guinti after only a year's use. A noticeable difference is the mammalian faces of the seamonsters. The 1606 edition is recognisable by evidence of woodworm damage to the printing block and the pagination numbers '370' and '371'. NORWICH: 314, (second block illustrated).		 £900

529 [The Fries Map of South Africa] WÄLDSEEMÜLLER, Martin.
Tabula Moderna Aphrice. Vienne: Gaspar Trechsel, 1541. Coloured. Woodcut, printed area 315 x 395mm. Small centrefold repair.
An example of the Fries reduction of Wäldseemüller's 'modern' map of South Africa, with added vignettes including kings, an elephant and a cockatrice (a reptile with a cockerel's head). Between the mainland and Madagascar is the King of Portugal riding on a sea-serpent, representing his country's dominance in the East. Originally intended not for a Ptolemy edition but for a new 'Chronica mundi' being written by Wäldseemüller, his death c.1520 caused the project to be shelved, so the reduced woodcuts were used to publish a smaller sized and so cheaper edition of the 'Geography'. On verso is a small text surrounded by woodcut column decorations and a woodcut scene. See NORWICH: 150.		 SOLD

530 [Important C16th Map of East Africa] LINSCHOTEN, Jan Huygen van.
Delineatio Orarum maritimarum, Terræ vulgo indigetatæ Terra do Natal... Amsterdam, c.1596. 400 x 540mm. Narrow margins, as issued.
A highly decorative map, engraved by Arnoldus van Langren for Linschoten's Itinerario. The map shows the south east coast of Africa with Madagascar, to the Maldives and part of Sri Lanka. The Indian Ocean is filled with decoration: ornate title and scale cartouches; three compass roses, galleons and sea-monsters. 		SOLD

531 [South Africa] JANSSON, Jan.
Æthiopia Inferior vel Exterior. Partes magis Septentrionales, que hic desiderantus, vide in tabula Æthiopiæ Superioris. Amsterdam, Henricus Hondius, 1639, French edition. Original colour. 385 x 505mm.
Shows Southern Africa below Angola and Zanzibar, based on Portuguse surveys before the Dutchman Van Riebeek had settled at the Cape. A decorative cartouche shows natives holding up an animal skin on which is the map title. First published in 1636 this is a very close copy of Blaeu's map: the most obvious difference is the lack of a galleon between the mainland and Madagascar. TOOLEY: Africa, p.58; KOEMAN: Me 92a.		 SOLD

532 [South Africa] KIRCHER, Athanasius.
Hydrophylacium Africae precipuum, in Montibum Lunae Situm, Lacus et Flumina fundens. ubia et nova inventio Originalis Nili describitur. Amsterdam, c.1662. 345 x 415mm.
Published in the 'Mundi Subterranei', this is an unusual hydrographic map of southern Africa. With a vignette scene showing the source of the Nile in a cavern under the Mountains of the Moon and a decorative title cartouche. NORWICH: Africa 157; TOOLEY: Africa p.64, plate 49.		 SOLD

533 [South West Africa] THORNTON, John.
A New Mapp of ye Coast of Guinea from Cape de Verd to Cape Bona-Esperance. London, Samuel Thornton, c. 1711. 425 x 530mm. Trimmed into printed border at bottom, false margin with mss. fill added.
Uncommon sea chart orientated with north to the left, published in Thornton's 'English Pilot The Third Book', concentrating on oriental navigation. 		£950

534 [South Africa] BELLIN, Jacques-Nicolas.
Carte Réduite d'une Partie des Costes Occidentales et Meridionales de L'Afrique depuis Cabo Frio ou Cape Frond... jusqu'a la Baye de S.Blaise. Paris, Dépôt de la Marine, c.1754. 900 x 575mm. Split in centrefold restored.
Large and detailed chart of the southern African coastline from Cape Fria in Namibia to Cape Agulhas, with a rococo title cartouche and a profile of the Cape of Good Hope. Bellin was the first Chief Hydrographer of the Dépôt, the French equivalent of the British Admiralty. 		SOLD

535 [South Africa] BRION DE LA TOUR, Louis.
Partie de L'Afrique audelà de l'Equateur, Comprennt Le Congo, La Cafrerie &c. Paris, Desnos, 1786. Original colour. 280 x 320mm, with two strips of separately-printed text..
Africa south of the Equator. NORWICH: Africa 175 & Southern Africa p.70-71.		 £125

536 [South Africa] CHÂTELAIN, Henri Abraham.
Carte du Royaume de Congo, du Monomotapa et de la Cafrerie. Amsterdam, 1720, coloured, 400 x 525mm.
Africa south of the Equator, based on De L'Isle. In the upper reaches of the Zambezi River gold mines are marked, which have been associated with the myth of Solomon & Ophir, and were the inspiration of Rider Haggard's 'King Solomon's Mines'. NORWICH: 165.		 SOLD

537 [Important Description of South Africa] Anonymous.
Gleanings in Africa; exhibiting a faithful and corajrect view of the manners and customs of the inhabitants of the Cape of Good Hope and surrounding country. With a full and comprehensive account of the system of agriculture adopted by the Colonists: soil, climate, natural productions etc. interspersed with observations and reflections on the State of Slavery in the southern extremity of the African Continent. In a series of letters from an English Officer during the period in which that colony was under the protection of the British government. London: James Cundee at the Albion Press, 1806. 8vo, original mottled calf, hinges strained; pp. xxi + 322; folding aquatint frontis & nine engraved plates, as called for. Frontis trimmed at top by binder, due to the size of the plate. Some spotting in the text.
Britain had controlled the Cape from 1795 to 1803, primarily to keep it out of the hands of Napoleon, who had seized the United Provinces of the Netherlands. The text takes the form of letters home from a serving army officer. The year of publication Britain seized it again. 		SOLD

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539 [Cape of Good Hope] ALBRIZZI, Giovanni Battista.
Carta Geografica del Capo di Buona Speranza. Venice, Albrizzi, 1740. Coloured. 350 x 445mm.
Published in the 'Atlante novissimo', an edition of De Lisle's atlas. With a large title cartouche depicting elephants, rhinoceroces and tribespeople building huts of straw. 		SOLD

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541 [Gore Sheet showing the Azores & Cape Verde Islands] CORONELLI, Vincenzo Maria.
[Gore Sheet of the Azores.] Venice, 1688. 470 x 180mm at top, widening to 290mm at bottom.
A gore sheet, designed to be pasted onto a globe 110cm in diameter, showing the North Atlantic from the Grand Banks off Canada, the Azores and Cape Verde Islands. A very decorative item. 		SOLD

542 [Azores] CASSINI, Giovanni Maria.
Le Isole Azoridi Delineate sulle Ultime Osservazioni. Rome, 1798. Coloured. 375 x 515mm.
A rare and decorative map of the Azores, from the 'Nuovo Atlante Geografico Universale'. 		SOLD

543 [Tercera] MONTANUS, Arnoldus.
Angra op Tercera. London: John Ogilby, 1671. 295 x 350mm. Some minor creasing.
The island of Tercera, a major stopping place for ships en route to the Americas. This example comes from Ogilby's 'America', an English edition of Montanus' 'De Nieuwe En Onbekende Weereld', published the same year by Meurs. 		SOLD

544 [Chart of the Canary and Cape Verde Islands] VARELA Y ULLOA, José.
Carta Esférica de la Costa de Africa desde Cabo Espartel, a Capo Bojado, è Yslas Adjacentes... Madrid: Direcction de Hidrografia, 1787. 590 x 910mm.
Sea chart showing from Cadiz and the Straits of Gibraltar south to the Canaries. The interior of Africa is filled with coastal profiles. Published in Tofiño's 'Atlas Maritimo de España', 1787-9. 		£450

545 [Chart of the Canary and Cape Verde Islands] VARELA Y ULLOA, José.
Carta Esférica de la Costa de Africa desde C.o Bojador hasta C.o Verde é Yslas Adjacentes... . Madrid: Direcction de Hidrografia, 1787. 630 x 560mm. Minor ink offset.
The coast of Africa between the Canaries and Cape Verde Islands, published in Tofiño's 'Atlas Maritimo de España', 1787-9. 		£320

546 [Madeira] STANFORD, Edward.
Island of Madeira. Edinburgh, Stanford, c1890. Original colour. Lithograph, total printed area  141 x 240 mm.
Froma a small edition of the Stanford Atlas, Drawn by J. Bartholomew . 		£85

547 [The Azores & Madeira] FULLARTON, Archibald.
Portuguese Islands in the Atlantic Ocean. Lithograph, 1856. Original colour. Sheet size 460 x 310mm. Stitch marks and glue on left edge.
Maps of the islands surrounded by vignettes. 		£125

548 [A View of Madeira] ECKERSBERG, Johan Fredrik.
Penha D'Aguia. Düsseldorf: Arnz & Co., 1858. Colour lithograph, printed area 350 x 415mm. Two repaired marginal tears.
Eckersberg, a Norwegian painter, visited Madeira in 1852-54. His book, Views in Maderia, was published with text in English and German. The Penha d'Águia is an oucrop of rock 580 metres high. 		£750

549 [Mauritius] CORONELLI, Vincenzo Maria.
I. de Cerne ò Mauritio Scoperta 18 Settembre 1695. Venice, c.1700. 135 x 170mm, set in text.
Map of the harbour of Mauritius, published in the 'Isolario'. As the Portuguese discovered the island in 1505 the date of discovery in the title is odd. On verso is a view of Sofala in Mozambique. 		£140

550 [Mauritius] THORNTON, John.
A Chart of the Island of Mauritius. By Sam.l Thornton at the signe of the Platt, in the Minories London. London, Samuel Thornton, c. 1711. 445 x 530mm. Narrow margins, as issued.
A rare and unusually detailed chart of Mauritius, orientated with north to the right, with inset charts of Port Louis Harbour and the St Brandon's Shoals. Published in 'The English Pilot, the Third Book', the first English sea atlas dedicated to navigation to the East Indies. 		£1,800

551 [Réunion] APRÈS DE MANNEVILLETTE, Jean Baptiste d'.
Plan de L'Isle de Bourbon, Située sure l'Ocean Oriental.. Paris, c.1780. 500 x 345mm.
Large map of the island, with a description bottom left. Engraved by de la Haye. 		£250

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