A beautiful sea chart of part of the Indian Ocean, north west coast of Madagascar, and islands to the east including Maurtitius. Robert Dudley’s principal work was the Dell Arcano del Mare which was first published in Florence in 1646, the second edition was in 1661. It was the first sea atlas ...

Dimensions (W x H): 39 x 48 / 15½ x 19

The map focuses on the island of Madagascar and also includes the coastline of southern Africa to the west of the plate. An ornate cartouche in the top left hand corner is beautifully decorated with baroque scrolling and drapery.The Fort-Dauphin is included on the south eastern tip of the island ...

Dimensions (W x H): 56 x 37 / 22 x 14½

A beautiful, detailed map of Madagascar with elaborate title cartouche showing natives and local fauna. Orientated to the North, no scale bar. Ships at sea and Rhumb lines. Ref. Koeman’s Atlantis Neerlandi 8900:2 p598.

Dimensions (W x H): 54.5 x 42 / 21½ x 16½

A large and impressive rendering of the Island of Madagascar, with numerous place-names around the coast. Although the west coast of the island is well defined, the east shows the fictitious concave format of earlier maps. The title is displayed in a classical floral wreath cartouche at the ...

Dimensions (W x H): 45 x 60 / 17½ x 23½

Map of Madagascar with ornamented cartouche, sea monsters and compass point, with north to left of map.The maps for this atlas were engraved by Girolamo Porro from Padua, and are set within a page of text, with engraved headpiece and decorated initial. There were many editions of this popular atlas ...

Dimensions (W x H): 14 x 10.5 / 5½ x 4

Beautiful little map of Madagascar with four inset maps in corners of islands and harbours on the island. Title at top centre, shot silk effect sea. The map occupies the upper half of a leaf, with text in Latin below. Dimensions given are for the map; the whole leaf measures 18 x 29cm.

Dimensions (W x H): 14.5 x 11 / 5½ x 4½

A detailed map of the entire island, with insets of Antogil Bay, the Port of S Augustino, and the island of S Maria.

Dimensions (W x H): 15 x 12 / 6 x 4½

Attractive map of Madagascar and adjacenty African coast, including old Mozambique. Maps by Sanson in original colour are rare. Nicolas Sanson was founder of the French school of mapmakers, at a time when the leadership in European cartography passed from the Low Countries to France. This map was ...

Dimensions (W x H): 25 x 19 / 10 x 7½

A detailed map of the island of Madagascar, the Isle de Comorre and the south-east coast of Mozambique, ‘Zanguebar’, as it was known then. Title cartouche at lower left.

Dimensions (W x H): 24.5 x 19.5 / 9½ x 7½