SANUTO, Livio. [An early engraved map of Southern Africa.]
Africae Tabula X. Venice, Damiano Zenaro, 1588, 400 x 520mm Lateral margins extended, excellent impression.
A very finely engraved map of Southern Africa, showing amongst others, the course of the Limpopo River and the Zimbabwe Ruins.Livio Sanuto (c.1520-1576), was a Venetian cosmographer, mathematician and maker of terrestrial globes and also belonged to the prestigious Lafreri school of engravers, whose output signalled the transition between the maps of Ptolemy and the maps of Mercator and Ortelius. He and his brother Giulio, planned a massive and comprehensive atlas to include maps and descriptions of the whole world, which he believed would be more accurate than any previously published. Unfortunately, he died in 1576 having only completed 12 maps of Africa. The 12 maps were eventually published in 1588 by Livio's brother Giulio, under the title "Geografia Di M. Livio Sanuto..." . In the compliation of this and the other African maps, Sanuto relied on Gastaldi's 1564 map and Portuguese sea charts for the mapping of the coasts and for information about the interior, used accounts by Duarte Barbosa and João de Barros. After its publication in 1588 this work was copied by other leading map makers for nearly a century afterwards. NORWICH Map 152.
[Ref: 10944]    £3,250.00 ($5,005 • €3,933 rates)

DU VAL, Pierre. [South Africa]
Cafrerie et Monomotapa. Paris, 1682. Original outline colour. 110 x 130mm.
Southern Africa from Du Val's miniature atlas, 'Géographie Universelle'. Not in Norwich.
[Ref: 10798]    £160.00 ($246 • €194 rates)

THORNTON, John. [South West Africa]
A New Mapp of ye Coast of Guinea from Cape de Verd to Cape Bona-Esperance. London, Samuel Thornton, c. 1711. 425 x 530mm. Trimmed into printed border at bottom, false margin with mss. fill added.
Uncommon sea chart orientated with north to the left, published in Thornton's 'English Pilot The Third Book', concentrating on oriental navigation.
[Ref: 9452]    £950.00 ($1,463 • €1,150 rates)

CHÂTELAIN, Henri Abraham. Cotumes Moers & Habillemens des Peuples qui habitent aux environs du Cap De Bonne Esperance... Amsterdam, Gueudeville, 1719, 360 x 430mm Narrow margins.
A very attractive print from volume six of Châtelain's seven volume " Atlas Historique". With a map of South Africa at the top centre of the print, surrounded by depictions of local native tribes and fauna together with descriptions of each
[Ref: 7892]    £400.00 ($616 • €484 rates)

BELLIN, Jacques-Nicolas. [Chart of South Africa]
Carte Réduite d'une Partie des Costes Occidentales et Meridionales de L'Afrique depuis Cabo Frio ou Cap Froid... jusqu'a la Baye de S.Blaise... MDCCLIV. Paris, Dépôt de la Marine, c.1754. Coloured. 900 x 575mm.
Large and detailed chart of the southern African coastline from Cape Fria in Namibia to Cape Agulhas, with a rococo title cartouche and a profile of the Cape of Good Hope. Bellin was the first Chief Hydrographer of the Dépôt, the French equivalent of the British Admiralty.
[Ref: 11224]    £700.00 ($1,078 • €847 rates)

BRION DE LA TOUR, Louis. [South Africa]
Partie de L'Afrique audelà de l'Equateur, Comprenant Le Congo, La Cafrerie &c. Paris, Desnos, 1766, original colour, 280 x 320mm, with two strips of separately-printed text..
From the "Géographie Moderne Historique et Politique". Showing Africa from Benin to the south cape. With pasted text on either side giving details about the flora, fauna, regions and peoples of the area. The title contained in a Rococo cartouche surrounded by African flora. NORWICH: Africa 175 & Southern Africa p.70-71 with illus. of variant.
[Ref: 7546]    £125.00 ($193 • €151 rates)

HUQUIER, Jacques-Gabriel. [A "Vue d'Optique" print of the Cape of Good Hope]
Cap De Bonne Esperance Huquier, Paris, c.1780, original colour, 265 x 420mm
In the 18th and 19th centuries a device with a lens and mirror called the zograscope was used to give an illusion of depth to hand colored engravings called vue d'optique prints. The zograscope is placed over a hand colored print so that the print is reflected in the mirror held at an angle. The spectator looks into the magnifying lens on the front of the instrument to view the reflection. The lens and mirror impart a quality of depth to the flat print. These instruments were popular parlor amusements in the 18th and early 19th centuries. The present item is a typical example of a print designed to be viewed through one of these devices, with the reversed title and very typical casually applied and strong colouring
[Ref: 7999]    £360.00 ($554 • €436 rates)

CASSINI, Giovanni Maria. [South Africa]
Parte Meridionale Dell' Africa cho comprende La Bassa Guinea, E La Cafreria Coll'Isola di Madagascar delineata sulle Ultime Osservazioni. Rome, 1797, original outline colour, 365 x 500mm.
Africa south of the Equator, from the 'Nuovo Atlante Geografico Universale'. Not in NORWICH.
[Ref: 7819]    £600.00 ($924 • €726 rates)

IMRAY, James & Son. [Blue Back Sea Chart of South Africa]
The Coast Of The Cape Colony... London, 1867, on original blue backing paper, 860 x 1960mm
A very large and detailed blue-back chart of the coast of South Africa divided into two charts one showing from St Helena Bay to Algoa Bay, the other showing from Waterloo Bay to Port Natal. With numerous wind roses, coastal profiles, rhumb lines and arrows to indicate current direction. With insets of Danger Point & Dyer Island, Mossel Bay, Knysel Harbour, Table Bay, Cape Agulhas, Plettenberg Bay, Great Fish River, Simon's Bay, False Bay, Algoa Bay, Port Natal, Bird Islands and the mouth of the Buffalo River.
[Ref: 8364]    £2,200.00 ($3,388 • €2,662 rates)