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- Africa, Maps and Prints, Mauritius, Réunion
- MAURITIUS / RÉUNION / RODRIGUES / MASCARENE ISLANDS: [5 Charts on 1 Sheet:] A New Chart of the Isle of France or Mauritius [and] Plan of Port Louis [and] Plan of Port Bourbon with its Entrances, &c. [and] The Island of Bourbon, called also Mascarenhas [an
- 1,800.00€
- Very rare - a stellar example of a sheet featuring the most important sea charts of the Mascarene Islands (Réunion, Mauritius and Rodrigues) made during the 19th Century, created by the Heather-Norie dynasty, predicated upon the finest sources collected in the wake of Britain attaining dominance over the Indian Ocean.
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- Africa, Books, Maps and Prints, Mauritius
- MAURITIUS: Charte von Île de France oder der Insel Frankreich Nach der Zeichnung von Bory de St. Vincent. Prag 1811
- 140.00€
- Copper engraving, 21.5 x 16 cm (8,5 x 6.3 inches) (in a good condition).
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- Africa, Maps and Prints
- MOROCCO – Essaouira (Mogador): Verklaaring van deeze Paskaart Sedy Besorktom is de Graf plaats van een Marabouw, hebbende rondom de muer cenige spitze Naaden, Zynde een goed merk als men uit het Noorden komt om niet roorby Magodor te zeilen t Rif Teran va
- 750.00€
- An extremely rare separately-issued chart of the important port of Essaouira (formerly Mogador), Morocco, issued when the city was being transformed into the country’s greatest port, by Gerard Hulst van Keulen, masterfully engraved and of an uncommonly beautiful design.
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- Africa, Maps and Prints
- NIGERIA – SOVIET CARTOGRAPHY: Нигерия [Nigerija]
- 85.00€
- Colour print, 67 x 78 cm (26.3 x 30.7 inches). Housed in an original illustrated wrappers with a flap (a small hand-written monogram of the previous owner, otherwise in a near-mint unused condition with a minimal stains on the spine of the wrappers).
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- Africa, Archives and Documents, Books, Geography, Maps and Prints
- NILE RIVER EXPLORATION ARCHIVE: An Archive consisting of 1 Original Photograph and 16 Manuscript Documents from the Personal Papers of Gabriel Aubaret, the Chief Scientific Officer of the Comte d’Escayrac’s 1856 Expedition that aimed to discover the Sourc
- 3,500.00€
- An impressive archive consisting of a stellar original photograph and sixteen manuscript documents relating to the Comte d’Escayrac’s 1856 planned expedition to find the source of the White Nile, two years before John Hanning Speke successfully accomplished said objective, from the personal papers of Gabriel Aubaret, the mission’s second-in-command and subsequently a famous diplomat and a leading figure in…
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- Africa, India, Maps and Prints
- PASSAGE TO INDIA / THEMATIC MAPPING / INDIAN OCEAN / HYDROLOGY / IMPORTANT ENLIGHTENMENT CARTOGRAPHY: Carte du Sisteme des Courants des Mers de l’Inde dans le Tems de la Mousson du N.E. au N. de la Ligne. Publiée par le Vicomte Grenier.
- 750.00€
- Highly Important and Rare – a great monument of Enlightenment Era thematic cartography - Vicomte Grenier’s of sea chart showcasing his new, faster sailing routes across the Indian Ocean, discoveries which revolutionized European-Asian transportation and geopolitics.
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- Africa, Maps and Prints, Spain
- PEÑÓN DE ALHUCEMAS, Spain / Morocco: Alhuzemas
- 750.00€
- A 1778 manuscript map of the Spanish fortification Peñón de Alhucemas, off the Moroccan coast, was made by a North German officer and engineer Philip Ernst Colson.
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- Africa, Madagscar, Maps and Prints
- PIRATES / MADAGASCAR: [2 Charts on 1 Sheet:] Ambodifotatra, Nosy Boraha Island (Île Sainte-Marie) and Antongil Bay: A Plan of the Principal Harbour & Town, of the Isl. S. Maries, Laying of the East Coast of the Isl. Madagascar in Lat. 17º 00’S. [and] The
- 850.00€
- Very Rare – two charts of Madagascar harbours on a single sheet, presenting the famed pirate base of St. Mary’s Harbour and Antongil Bay, from William Herbert’s magnificent sea atlas, ‘A New Directory for the East Indies’.
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