Africa

Sketch Map of Northern and Central East Africa / [Cover title:] Road Map of East Africa This map was ‘compiled with the help of the Public Works an...

Fessae et Marocci Regna – a miniature map of Morocco. Condition & MaterialsCopper engraving, printed area measurement 7.8 x 10.6 cm. Modern ha...

Map showing the Western/Eastern Half of Equatorial Africa and the Explorations by Land and Water of Henry M. Stanley in the Years 1874-77 This map ...

Also published in Stanford’s London Atlas, our example of this map of Africa was separately issued and illustrates the speed and scale of the Scram...

This steamship route map of the western Mediterranean and Northwest Africa shows the routes from Marseille and Bordeaux to Tunisia, Algeria and Mor...

This route map advertises passenger, postal and cargo steamship services between Marseille and West Africa. The SS Canada was built for the Fabre L...

This map of Morocco was one of only two original maps engraved by the son of Johann Baptist Homann, Johann Christoph, in his short life (1701-30). ...

The Empire of Morocco, since 1912, had been divided between the Spanish and French. Our map dates to the period of the Rif War, 1921-26, in which a...

This map of South Africa was published by The Times during the Second Anglo-Boer War, for the benefit of members of the British public following th...

This of Cape Verde was published 'Geography Rectified' in various editions from 1680 onward.  Condition & Materials Copper engraving, 11.5 x 13...

This map of Africa reflects the state of European knowledge of the interior before the mid 19th century search for the sources of the Nile. It mark...

This map of Africa features was published in ‘Oddy’s New General Atlas of the World’. It features an inset of the Azores and Cape Verde islands. Mu...

This British chart of Durban port was engraved by John and Charles Walker. It shows soundings etc, interior detail of relief and settlements includ...

This map of Algeria features an inset of the Bay of Algiers. Ottoman Algeria was a hub of privateering and the Mediterranean slave trade. Well know...

Port Florence [Kisumu, Kenya] Kisumu, a port on Lake Victoria, was surveyed as a terminus for the Uganda Railway in 1898. The railway was completed...

Karte von der Küste von Angola von dem Flusse Bengo bis an den Fluss Quanza This map show the coastline of northern Angola between the rivers Bengo...

This map of Alexandria is from Mallet’s Description de l’Univers, first published in Paris in 1683 and reprinted with German text in Frankfurt the ...

This map of ancient Egypt is from Mallet’s Description de l’Univers, first published in Paris in 1683 and reprinted with German text in Frankfurt t...

Dapper’s plan of Cairo follows Matteo Pagano’s magnificent 21 sheet wall map, published in Venice in 1549. Cairo was one of the great trading centr...

This map of Africa was drawn and engraved by Edward Weller, and includes insets of Mauritius, Réunion and Natal,  Some of the most recent geographi...

This map of the continent of Africa is from Mallet’s Description de l’Univers, first published in Paris in 1683 and reprinted with German text in F...

Insula S. Laurentii, vulgo Madagascar The name 'Isle of St Laurence' was given by the Portuguese, who landed on Madagascar on St Laurence's day (Fe...

The practical pocket sea atlas by Marseilles hydrographer Joseph Roux, charting the ports and harbours of the Mediterranean, remained popular half ...

This map of the sources of the Nile is from Mallet’s Description de l’Univers. Condition & Materials  Copper engraving, 14.5 x 10.5 cm, recent ...

Tabula Aphricae II Ruscelli’s map of North Africa, following Gastaldi, was first issued in his edition of Ptolemy’s Geographia printed by Valgrisi ...

This map of ancient Egypt is from Butler's Atlas of Ancient Geography and was engraved by Sidney Hall. Condition & Materials  Copper engraving,...

This map of São Salvador is from Mallet’s Description de l’Univers. São Salvador was once the capital of the kingdom of Congo, but as M’banza-Kongo...

Du Nil et ses Embouchures et des Crocodiles This map of the Nile delta (with crocodiles) is from Mallet’s Description de l’Univers. Condition &...

Biledulgerid en General This map of North Africa is from Mallet’s Description de l’Univers. Condition & Materials  Copper engraving, 15 x 10.5 ...

This map of Cairo is from Mallet’s Description de l’Univers. It derives, ultimately, from Matteo Pagano’s magnificent 21 sheet wall map, published ...

Le Pik de Teneriffe/De Piek-Bergh op het Eilant Tenerifto The Anaga mountain range meets the sea in the northeastern part of Tenerife, close to the...

Carte des Isles du Cap-Verd This chart of the Cape Verde islands was engraved by Guillaume de la Haye. D’Après de Mannevillette (1707-1780) was a p...

This map of South Africa, including an inset of Cape Town, was engraved by John & Charles Walker. It was published by the SDUK. The Society for...

Blatt 29. Warmbad This map covers the Karas region in modern Namibia (then German South West Africa), which was the scene of one of the earliest at...

Indischer Ocea – Afrika, Ost Küst – Lindi-Bucht This Imperial German Naval Office chart shows sands, soundings etc, with interior detail of relief,...

Natoliae quae olim Asia Minor nova descriptio / Aegypti recentior descriptio / Carthaginis celeberrimi sinus typus Here on one sheet we have three ...

Topographia Repraesentio Barbarici Portus et Urbis Munitae Oran … Oran, an important trading port and now Algeria’s second city, was governed by th...

“Hell on Wheels” War Against the Axis 1942 – 1943 – 1944 The lower panel of this map deals with operations in North Africa and Sicily, with the uni...

First published in 1914, this revised edition highlights administrative boundaries. Though technically administered jointly by Egypt and Britain be...