27 THEVET, A. Table d'Afrique. Paris, 1575. Col. d'époque. Gravure sur bois en coloris d'époque, coupée en haut à l'ext. du filet d'encadrement, en bas, à l'int. - Wood-cut map in attractive original colours. Upper part cut on the neat line, lower part cut into the neat line. Paper slightly age-toned as usual. Generally in good condition. 345 x 450 mm.

1500 - 2000 €
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¤ Carte publiée dans la "Cosmographie Universelle" d' A.Thevet. C'est la première carte in-folio à s'inspirer largement du modèle de Mercator et pas seulement de celui de Gastaldi-Ortelius. A. Thevet était le cosmographe d'Henri III. - Uncommon wood-cut map. It is the first folio map to show Africa largely based on the Mercator model and not solely that of Gastaldi-Ortelius model. Following Mercator, a major lake is shown to the southwest of the traditional twin Ptolemaic Nile source lakes. The surrounding sea is cut in very great detail. The seas are teeming with numerous small sailing vessels of different shapes and sizes together with a number of kinds of sea monsters. André Thevet was a Franciscan monk who travelled extensively in Europe and made a reputed short journey to South America. - Tooley, The printed maps of the continent of Africa, 98 ; Norwich, 12 ; Betz, The Mapping of Africa, 17

28 LONGCHAMPS, le Sieur. / JANVIER, le Sieur. L'Afrique divisée en tous ses etats dressée sur des nouveaux mémoires et sur les dernières observations… Paris, 1754. Col. Entoilé et encadré. Papier un peu jauni, quelques taches. Non examiné hors du cadre. - Paper slightly age toned, and with light staining. Two very small holes expertly restored. Backed on linen. Framed and glazed. Unexamined out of frame, overall in very good condition. 1180 x 1270 mm.

3000 - 4500 €
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¤ Rare carte murale entourées d'une superbe bordure dans le style Rococo, constituée de 17 scènes à sujet historique retraçant la découverte de l'Afrique.
- Uncommon wall map representing the African continent with Madagascar. In the lower right corner inset map of "Isle d'France levée en 1753". Surrounded by 17 elaborately engraved vignettes depicting events from African history. The focus of the vignettes is on the better known North African regions, however, there is also a great deal of attention paid to French commercial activities in Guinea. Insets showing the French arrival in Africa, the first commercial contacts between the French and inhabitants of Guinea. The arrival of Dutch and Portuguese in Africa, etc. In bottom two large panels in French and Spanish describing Africa's history.
Geographically, the map is relatively progressive. The map adopts the eighteenth-century conceptions popularized by Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d' Anville (1697-1782). The coastlines are well defined, having been explored for over two-hundred and fifty years, however, the heart of Africa remains blank.
Janvier and Longchamps both sold maps from the Rue St. Jacques in Paris and came together around 1751 to collaborate in the expensive production of wall maps for the nobility and gentry of France. The two mapmakers continued the tradition of the publication of wall maps in France begun by Nolin in the late 17th century.

30 SEUTTER, M. Deserta Aegypti Thebaidis, Arabiae, Syriae etc. Augsbourg, 1730. Beau col. d'époque. Bel exemplaire. Marges courtes. 495 x 580 mm.

200 - 300 €
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¤ Comprend l'Arabie, la Syrie, la Palestine et Chypre. Ornée de 2 cartouches et d'une rose des vents.

32 DÉPÔT GÉNÉRAL DE LA MARINE. Canaries. Paris, 1849. Carte grand in-folio. Papier un peu jauni, pâles rousseurs..

150 - 200 €
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¤ Partie comprise entre le cap Ghir et le cap Bojador.

34 SCHRAEMBL, F.A. Das Vorgebirg der Guten Hofnung. Vienne, 1789. Limites en col. d'époque. Printed on heavy paper, paper with some surface dirt. Wide margins. 495 x 325 mm.

150 - 200 €
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¤ Well-engraved map of the Cape of Good Hope copied from De La Rochette and Faden’s influential map of seven years earlier.
The map has a pictorial appearance with hills and mountains shown, very effectively shaded, in profile and contains a considerable amount of detail on roads, settlements and harbour depths. A large cartouche, at top right, includes a scene of an elephant hunt against a rocky background.
The publisher Schraembl, produced a number of maps for the German market copied from the leading French and English mapmakers of the day.
A decorative example. - Dörflinger, Österr. Karten des 18.Jhdts, Schl/49. Norwich, Maps Of Africa, 225