Paris: Jacques Nicolas Bellin, 1764. Map. Engraving with hand coloring. Image measures 7 3/4 x 9 1/2". This 1764 map by Jacques-Nicolas Bellin depicts L'Isle De Bourbon, now known as Reunion Island in the Indian Ocean. It features imprecise contours and highlights the island's three oldest districts: Saint-Paul (1665), Saint-Denis (1689), and Sainte-Suzanne (1704). The map is beautifully detailed and identifies rivers, lakes, bays and topographical features with relief rendered in profile. Perhaps the most striking feature is the illustration..... More

Amsterdam: Willem Blaeu. Map. Copper plate engraving with hand coloring. Decorative title cartouche. Image measures 15 1/4" x 19 3/4". Sheet measures 20 3/4 x 24 7/8". Fascinating map of central Africa including the legendary fictitious kingdom of Prester John. Published circa 1600, the map depicts the region from Sudan to Mozambique. The map includes many illustrations of wildlife, including elephants, ostriches, and monkeys. Title cartouche features two figures with babies, and have been beautifully hand colored. Willem Blaeu (1571-1638)..... More

Paris: Bonne, Rigobert, 1770. Map. Engraving with original hand coloring. Image measures 11.75" x 16.25". North East Africa including part of Egypt, Ethiopia, Somalia, Saudi Arabia, Eritrea and Yemen. Rigobert Bonne (1727-1795) was one of the most important cartographers of the late 18th century. He served as Hydrographer to France, and during his term, he produced a number of detailed and useful maps, particularly of coastal regions. His work is often devoid of decorative cartouches and compasses roses and marks..... More

Dr. Losio. Map. Lithograph. Sheet size 23 x 31 inches. In very good condition. Backed with sturdy paper. Some slight discoloration along original folds. Unusual map describing a route from Lake Edward, Uganda, in central Africa to Bagamoyo, Tanzania, on the coast of the Indian Ocean. Bagamoyo was the first capital of the Colonial Tanzania while serving as the German headquarters of German East Africa and the gateway to explorers looking for the source of the river Nile... More

London: 1732. Map. Copper plate engraving with original hand outline. Image measures 7 15/16" x 10.75". Fine antique map in two sections showing the northern coast of Africa from Morocco and the Strait of Gibraltar to Cyprus and the Red Sea. In addition to political boundaries and geographical features, Moll includes a few cultural and historical descriptions. Of Malta he writes "subject to a Grand Master who is always at war with the Turks", and he notes the pyramids and..... More

London: Mount & Davidson, Tower-Hill, 1794. Map. Uncolored engraving. Image measures 22.75" x 19.5", page including text measures 26.5" x 27 7/8". Beautiful and rare chart of the Atlantic including South America and parts of North America, Europe and Africa. Features lines of magnetic variation, or how much the compass deviates from true north. As explained in the two columns of pasted text, these observations are based upon the work of Dr. Edmond Halley in 1700 with additions in 1744..... More

London: London Illustrated News, 1873. Print. Wood engraving. Page measures 15 3/4" x 11" This print was published by the Illustrated London News on December 16, 1865 to accompany an article describing Mr. Baker's explorations of the White Nile valley in eastern Africa. The sheet features two engravings made after sketches by Mr. Baker; the top image depicts "Commoro, Chief of the Latooka Tribe", and the bottom image depicts "Homestead of Natives of Gondokoro." Both images depict present-day South Sudan..... More

Brussels: Vandermaelen, Phillipe Marie, 1827. Map. Large format lithograph of East Africa with original hand coloring. Image measures 18.5" x 22.25". Includes Kenya, Mombasa, Tanzania and Lamme (Lamu). Double page with centerfold. From Vandermaelen's 6 volume "Atlas universel de geographie physique, politique, statistique et mineralogique, sur l'echelle de 1/16411836". Can be combined as gores to form an immense globe. The atlas was the first to map the world on a uniform scale. More

Brussels: Vandermaelen, Phillipe Marie, 1827. Map. Large format lithograph with original hand coloring. Image measures 18.5" x 22.25". North Eastern coast of Africa and the Mediterranean Sea, including the northern coast of Egypt, the Nile delta and Crete. Double page with centerfold. From Vandermaelen's 6 volume "Atlas universel de geographie physique, politique, statistique et mineralogique, sur l'echelle de 1/16411836". Can be combined as gores to form an immense globe. The atlas was the first to map the world on a...... More