January 31, 2013
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Lot 1: Boulton (S.) Africa with All its States, Kingdoms,
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Description: Boulton (S.) Africa with All its States, Kingdoms, Republics, Regions, Islands &c., Improved and Inlarged from D'Anville's Map, decorative title upper right, inset chart of the Gold Coast lower left, with numerous boxes of descriptive text, engraved map, with some hand-colouring, on 4 sheets joined, 1050 x 1240mm., laid onto canvas, rolled with nicks and tears to edges, handling creases, particularly at upper left, large whole at upper centre, surface dirt and browning, Laurie & Whittle, 1794.
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Lot 2: Bowen (Emanuel) Nubia & Abissinia, engraved map,
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Description: Bowen (Emanuel) Nubia & Abissinia, engraved map, with outline hand-colouring, 355 x 435mm, central vertical fold, minor surface dirt, c.1745; Barbary, showing the eastern and western parts in two sections, engraved map with outline hand-colouring, 340 x 430mm, central vertical fold, c.1745 § Bonne (Rigobert). Carte de l'Egypte Ancienne et Moderne, engraved map with outline hand-colouring, 450 x 320mm, central horizontal fold, Paris, Lattre, [1762]; with an 18th century map of Egypt and Syria, and 2 other small maps of Egypt, one published by J. & F. Tallis, v.s., engraved maps, 19th century.
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Lot 3: Mercator (Gerard) and Jodocus Hondius. Africæ
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Description: Mercator (Gerard) and Jodocus Hondius. Africæ descriptio; Guinea, 2 small maps, the continent and West Africa, from an English edition of the Atlas Minor, engraved maps, each c.155 x 200mm., English text verso with slight show-through, rectos headed Africke and Guinea, respectively, pale even browning, Amsterdam, [1637] (2)
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Lot 4: Mount (J.) and T. Page. Publishers. A Chart of ye
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Description: Mount (J.) and T. Page. Publishers. A Chart of ye Coast of Barbary from Cape Geer to Cape Bajadore, with A Chart of ye Coast of Barbary from C. Bajadore to the Golfe of St. Anne, two charts on single sheet, title cartouches upper right and lower left, north oriented to the left, engraved charts on one sheet, original outline colour, 430 x 530mm., split along central vertical fold extending into image, offsetting, c.1715 § Aa (P van der) Barbarie, Biledulgerid (autrefois Libye) et une partie du Pays des Negres, with title cartouche and figures lower left, engraved map, 265 x 325mm., slight upper and lower splits to central vertical fold, Amsterdam, c.1729 (2).
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Lot 5: Sandrart (Johann Jakob von) Accuratissima totius
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Description: Sandrart (Johann Jakob von) Accuratissima totius Africæ Tabula in Lucem producta, large vignette title of various African costume figures and animals, engraved map by Johann Baptist Homann with original hand-colouring, 490 x 575mm., central vertical fold with a parallel repaired tear at the lower end, repaired marginal losses including both upper corners of border supplied in pen facsimile, Nuremberg, c.1700 § Robert de Vaugondy (Gilles & Didier) Afrique divisée en ses principaux Empires et Royaumes, decorative title cartouche upper right, text panel to the right side, engraved map with hand-colouring, 505 x 670mm., central vertical fold, some browning and surface dirt, mostly marginal, a small marginal loss just to platemark, upper centre, a few short marginal tears, Paris, Delamarche, c.1795; with a mixed group of other maps of the continent of Africa, including a large 4-sheet map by D'Anville, 1749, others by Bellin, Mortier, Levasseur, Tallis, SDUK, including Lieut. William Allen's chart of the Quorra and Tchadda, or Niger and Chad, 1837, with 5 maps showing British possessions in West Africa, 1865, and others (Qty.)
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