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.
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Out of stockA colourful lithograph map of Belgian Congo, a Belgian colony in Central Africa between 1908 and 1960, what is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Marked are cities, towns, rivers, factories, ports, Catholic and Protestant missions, people, agricultural products, mines and minerals, plants, animals, roads, railroads, airways with distances, rivers, waterways, etc. Designed by Frans Laboulais and published in Brussels at Visscher in 1949.
- Dimension: 110 x 84 cm
- Place of publication: Bruxelles
- Year: 1949
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Out of stockRare propaganda broadside illustrating the Italian East Africa.
- Dimension: 42 x 66 cm
- Place of publication: Milan
- Year: 1936
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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
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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
