Africa
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Large poster map showing the origin (highlighted in shiny silver) of the ingredients for the production of Astra’s margarine. Palm and peanut oil from French West and Equatorial Africa. The coconut oil from Polynesia. Published in Paris at Courbet 1955.
- Dimension: 120 x 80 cm
- Place of publication: Paris
- Year: 1955
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Relief map by S.J. Turner representing a bird’s eye view from space encompassing a wide swath of the globe from Italian Somaliland at the lower edge to Morocco and Italy at the upper edge of the map. Shows the political divisions in the Horn of Africa during Italy’s conquest of the region, railways. major cities, and rivers. Includes European possession in Africa. Published in London, 1938 for Daily Herald.
- Dimension: 69 x 47 cm
- Place of publication: London
- Year: 1938
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Interesting map of Morocco showing metal mines from prehistoric times to the 19th century.
- Dimension: 52 x 72 cm
- Place of publication: Rabat
- Year: 1975
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Fascinating pictorial map of Sierra Leone showing through delightful vignettes the typical products and industries of the West African state at the time of British colonialism. At the top, two panels with imports and exports while the lower part is dominated by the legend with conventional signs, types of industries and a graphic list of vignettes with agricultural products. The map is undated but the right margin lists the most important historical events for the…
- Dimension: 50 x 38 cm
- Place of publication: London
- Year: 1925
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Fascinating map of Africa and the Arabian Peninsula based on Ortelius and engraved by Girolamo Porro for “Geografia di Claudio Tolomeo” by Giovanni Antonio Magini published in Padua, 1621. The rivers of central and north Africa feature prominently including the Ptolemaic concept of the origin of the Nile in two lakes south of the Equator. The largest of these lakes also has a river flowing southeast.
- Year: 1621
- Dimension: 14 x 18 cm
- Place of publication: Padova
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Uncommon map of South Africa from the rarest and most elegant cartographic work by Francesco Celestino Marmocchi, the Corso di Geografia Commerciale published in Genoa in 1858.
- Dimension: 29 x 34 cm
- Place of publication: Genoa
- Year: 1858
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Uncommon map of Africa by G. Kearsley engraved by James Barlow published in London in 1807.
- Dimension: 18 x 21,5 cm
- Place of publication: London
- Year: 1807
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“This is one of the most decorative and popular of all the early maps of Africa” [Norwich]
- Dimension: 41 x 55,5 cm
- Place of publication: Amsterdam
- Year: 1635
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Afrique Divisee en ses Grandes Regions et Subdivisee en ses Grands Estats… Corrigee l’An 2 par L. Denis
More Info € 600,00A fashinating engraved map of Africa by J.B. Nolin here corrected by L- Denis with the last discoveries. Elaborate decorative cartouche. Side text in French. Published in Paris and dated second years after the French revolution. [cod.1093/15]
- Year: 1793
- Dimension: 470 x 650 mm
- Place of publication: Paris
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A lovely and uncommon map of French equatorial Africa published in Paris by the pharmaceutical laboratories Neutroses-Vichy in 1939 at Petit Jean. The French Congo, Gabon, Oubangui-Chari (now Central African Republic) and Chad are symbolized by small vignette.
- Dimension: 310 x 210 mm
- Place of publication: Paris
- Year: 1939
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A large pictorial map by J. Choain Audiberti of French Equatorial Africa showing several African countries including Nigeria, Chad, Cameroon, Gabon, Central African Republic and the Belgian Congo. The map is illustrated with lovely vignettes of people, farming, trees, mountains and animals like tigers, camels, horses, antelopes, ostriches, giraffes, elephants. It is completed by ships at sea, cars driving through the desert, planes flying over the map; at bottom a fine cartouche with a traditional African village scene surrounding the larger map of Africa. Published in Paris, 1950
- Dimension: 120 x 80 cm
- Place of publication: Paris
- Year: 1950
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Detailed and very fine map of South Africa showing the Madagascar, Mauritius and Seychelles. From Atlas Spheroidal et Universel de Geographie by M.F.A. Garnier published in Paris at Veuve Jules Renouard in 1862. This atlas is exceptional for its “spheroidal” maps of the globe, showing the various continents and poles, shaded to give the effect of a sphere floating in space. [cod.1091/15]
- Year: 1862
- Dimension: 350 x 480 mm
- Place of publication: Paris