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£250
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OGILBY, John
Decorative cartouch with Africanns, European traders and animals. The areas of lan are decorated with animals and the sea with ships.
Dimensions (W x H): 39 x 33 / 15½ x 13
£245
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BERTIUS, Petrus
Attractive little map of the Congo, ships and seamonster at sea, title cartouche to the right’, ‘Lunae montes’( Mountains of the Moon) erroneously placed to the south. Petrus Bertius was a professor of mathematics and librarian at Leyden University. As well as being a prolific writer on ...
Dimensions (W x H): 13 x 9.5 / 5 x 3½
£175
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SANSON, Nicolas
Attractive map of Zaire. Much of the charm of early maps of Africa lies in how they show the interior of the continent, which was not explored until the 19th-century. Maps by Sanson in original colour are rare. Nicolas Sanson was founder of the French school of mapmakers, at a time when the ...
Dimensions (W x H): 26 x 19.5 / 10 x 7½
£95
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BONNE, Rigobert.
Attractive map showing the central-east African coastline and adjacent lands from Nigeria to Angola. There is plenty of detail near the coastal lands of ‘Guinee Orientale’ and the Congo, but the unknown interior - ‘Nigrite’ - is left empty of detail. No cartouche.
Dimensions (W x H): 32 x 44 / 12½ x 17½