Beautiful little map of Morocco from the Mercator Hondius “Atlas Minor” published in Amsterdam in 1648 at Jannsonius with german text on verso. In 1607 Jodocus Hondius published a reduced size version of Mercator’s “Atlas”, itself suitably titled “Atlas Minor”. The maps were copied from those of the great cartographer Mercator of around 1580-90 or were reductions of Hondius’ own maps of 1606. Almost 20 years later Joannes Janssonius commissioned a new set of copperplates to be engraved by Piete
- Author: MERCATOR Gerard - HONDIUS Henricus
- Year: 1648
- Dimension: 190 x 145 mm
- Place of publication: Amsterdam
Scarce map of the harbour of Algeri on the Mediterranean. Engraved by van Loon. From Suitte des Forces de l’Europe ou Quatrime Partie de l’Introduction la Fortification by Nicolas De Fer published in Paris in 1695.
Nicolas de Fer held the title of Geographer at Louis XIV’s court. He was one of the most prolific publishers of plans of European cities in the late seventeenth century.
- Author: DE FER Nicolas
- Year: 1695
- Dimension: 31 x 15 cm
- Place of publication: Paris
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Interesting map of Africa engraved on copper by Glot. From the scarce “Atlas Portatif, contenant la Gographie Universelle Ancienne et Moderne” by Eustache Herisson published in Paris in 1809 at Desray.
- Author: HERISSON Eustache
- Year: 1809
- Dimension: 215 x 185 mm
- Place of publication: Paris
An important rare separate map showing northern Africa during the war between the Kingdom of Italy and the Ottoman Empire from September 29, 1911, to October 18, 1912. As a result of this conflict, Italy captured the Ottoman Tripolitania Vilayet (province), of which the main sub-provinces (sanjaks) were Fezzan, Cyrenaica, and Tripoli itself. These territories together formed what became known as Italian Libya. The Italo-Turkish War saw numerous military technological changes, notably the first use of the airplane for reconnaissance and bombing. Although minor, the war was a significant precursor of the First World War as it sparked nationalism in the Balkan states. Seeing how easily the Italians had defeated the weakened Ottomans, the members of the Balkan League attacked the Ottoman Empire starting the First Balkan War before the war with Italy had ended.
The interesting really detailed map by Arcangelo Ghisleri based on E. Heber published in Bergamo in 1911 shows also the entire Africa on the right and the Dodecanese and the Ottoman Empire inset on the left.
- Author: Arcangelo Ghisleri
- Dimension: 68 x 98 cm
- Place of publication: Bergamo
- Year: 1911