A beautiful decorative map of Africa, with side borders of double costume figures and nine principal African cities in vignette along top border. Animals on land, and place names face inward to hide the lack of detail inland. Compass point, many ships and sea monsters at sea. Title at top right. ...

Dimensions (W x H): 55.5 x 41 / 22 x 16

Magnificent map of Africa, more decorative than accurate. The coastline is fairly detailed and accurately depicted, the interior is a little fanciful. ‘... poor geographically’, says Tooley in his Guide to Maps of Africa, p.51, ‘with an extraordinary delineation of the Nile which is partly based ...

Dimensions (W x H): 57 x 49 / 22½ x 19½

Map of central and eastern Africa, showing the nonexistent lakes Zaire and Zaflan. Wild beasts fill the unexplored interior. Decorated cartouche, with title flanked by turbanned figures, shielded from a burning sun by African cherubs with umbrellas. Ref:Koemans, Atlantes Neerlandici, volI 8720:1.B

Dimensions (W x H): 49 x 38 / 19½ x 15

Handsome map of Africa with an accurately depicted coastline, and a fairly blank interior, apart from the names of tribes. Thomson’s New General Atlas was one of the most accurate and best produced atlases of the day. His ‘County Atlas of Scotland’ is generally considered the finest of its kind.

Dimensions (W x H): 50 x 57 / 19½ x 22½

A decorative map of middle Africa from Ethiopia and Somali in the east to the Congo in the west with elephants and ostriches. The cartouche shows natives, two of which are holding parasols, bathed in rays from the sun.

Dimensions (W x H): 37.5 x 28.8 / 15 x 11½

This early nineteenth century map of Africa is notable for its accuracy and restraint; the unknown interior is left blank. Earlier mapmakers often went overboard when making maps of ‘dark amd mysterious Africa’, filling it with all sorts of imaginary lakes and other features. Nevertheless, with its ...

Dimensions (W x H): 53 x 47 / 21 x 18½

Beautiful map of Africa from Jansson’s edition of Mercator’s Atlas Minor. Petrus Kaerius, Abraham Goos and others, engraved additional maps showing new discoveries.

Dimensions (W x H): 19 x 14 / 7½ x 5½

In the mid-eighteenth century, French mapmaking was at its peak. Brion de la Tour was one of its most prolific cartographers. This beautiful decorated little map of Africa, elegantly surrounded by an ornate engraved uncoloured frame, is a fine example of the period.

Dimensions (W x H): 30 x 28 / 12 x 11

An attractive map of North East Africa. As with many maps of the time, the map is charmingly inaccurate - The unexplored interior is divided into various kingdoms, the river Niger flows into the Nile, and numerous short texts in French make up for the lack of hard knowledge. Title cartouche at top ...

Dimensions (W x H): 33 x 23 / 13 x 9

A detailed map of Africa with three insets showing Mauritius, Cape Colony and Vicinity, and the regions around the Delta of the Niger. Further tiny inset map in left hand margin showing the Cape Verde Islands.

Dimensions (W x H): 40 x 49.5 / 15½ x 19½

A fascinating and imaginative map of the interior of Africa, from the Atlantic to the Indian Ocean - The river Niger never reaches the sea, there is no Horn of Africa, and the Nile reaches the twin lakes of Zaire and Zeflin just to the north of the Mountains of the Moon. Large decorated cartouche ...

Dimensions (W x H): 46 x 31 / 18 x 12

Dimensions (W x H): 38 x 33 / 15 x 13

Map of Africa with inset map of ‘...the rivers Sierra Leone and Sherbro.’ Thomas Brown was an Edinburgh Bookseller and Publisher of the late 18th and early 19th century. The maps from his General Atlas are on the cusp between the decorative maps of the eighteenth century and the more accurate ...

Dimensions (W x H): 35 x 28 / 14 x 11

Very detailed map of Africa with three insets on the right side showing the islands of The Republic of Mauritius, Réunion, and the South African province of Natal. The northern part of the continent overlaps the top margin and Cape Colony overlaps the bottom margin.

Dimensions (W x H): 50 x 33.5 / 19½ x 13

Dimensions (W x H): 51 x 39 / 20 x 15½