(Code No. 5255)

STANLEY, Henry M.

How I Found Livingstone. Travels, Adventures and Discoveries in Central Africa; Including four Months' Residence with Dr. Livingstone.

Date. 1890.

London: Sampson Low, Marston. 8vo,5 x 7 1/2ins. Pp. lxxix, 552 + 19 illustrations + Folding map. Original half morocco. Raised spine bands with gilt-decorated panels, some surface loss and rubbing.

Sir Henry Morton Stanley, born John Rowlands (1841 -1904), was a Welsh journalist and explorer and his search for David Livingstone. Stanley is often remembered for the words uttered to Livingstone upon finding him: "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?", although there is some question as to authenticity of this now famous greeting. £55.00

(Code No. 4975)

Ogilby, John.

(Antique Map.)

St. Helena.

Date. 1670

London. Image size 12 x 9 1/2ins. taken from John Ogilby's book Africa, (mostly derived from Cavendish), "being an accurate description of the regions of Ægypt, Barbary, Libya ... with all the adjacent islands ... Collected and translated from the most authentick authors and augmented with later observations, etc". The map portrays the island as square in outline. Locations on the northwest side of the island are keyed to numbers and named in Dutch (bottom left) and English (top right). £150.00

(Code No. 4883)

BELL, James.

A System of Geography, Popular and Scientific; or, A Physical, Political, and Statistical Account of the World and its various Divisions.

Date. 1840.

London: A Fullarton and Co. 8vo, [6 x 9ins.] Volume 3, Part 2. Pp.281-558 + Steel engraved print of "Rome from the Tiber" + 3 Folding maps of Africa, Egypt and South Africa, (Image size 9 x 7 1/2ins), slight foxing Original cloth gilt. £40.00

(Code No. 4827)

Edwards, Ellis, (Writer on South Africa).

A journey through South Africa .

Date. 1897.

Liverpool: C. Tinling and Co.,( printers). 8vo, [5 1/2 x 7 1/2ins]. Pp. 122 + plates & portraits, slight marks & small hole to margin of one page leaf. Original cloth gilt, faded. Rare copy. £50.00

(Code No. 4649)Bellin, Jacques-Nicolas (1703-1772).(Antique Map of Madagascar.)Carte de la baye d'Antongil dans l'isle de Madagascar.Date. [c.1764]Paris. Jean Francois de La Harpe, Image size 8 1/2 x 7ins. Page size 8 1/2 x 10ins. Original copper engraved map, very good condition. Taken from "Le Petit Atlas Maritime". Jacques-Nicolas Bellin was a French hydrographer and cartographer. Bellin was born in Paris. In 1721 Bellin was appointed hydrographer (chief cartographer) to the French Navy upon the creation of France's hydrographic office, the Dépôt des cartes et plans de la Marine. Appointed "ingénieur hydrographe" in August 1741. Member of the Académie de Marine and of the Royal Society of London. Over a 50 year career, he produced a large number of maps of particular interest to the Ministère de la Marine. His maps of Canada and of French territories in North America (New France, Acadia, Louisiana) are particularly valuable. He died at Versailles.

(Code No. 4581)

(Antique Print of the Guinea's Gold Coast. )

Schley. J. van.

VUE SUD OUEST, DE WILLIAMS FORT OU DU FORT GUILLAUME A JUIDA. - Zuidwest-gezigt van de Engelsse sterkte, Williams-Fort, te Whida of Juida.

Date. [c.1820.]

London. (UK watermark). Image size 11x 7 1/2ins. Page size 14 x 10ins. Original copper coloured engraving.  £35.00

Fort William in Fida or Ouidah, Benin: 'Three hundred miles of Gold Coast, roughly a hundred trading-post (castles, forts and lesser posts) existed at one time or another, and most of them contemporaneously. Beyond, on the Slave Coast, was the isolated group at Whydah; thence a succession of lagoons and swamps, without a single permanent European station, continued along the remainder of West Africa' (Lawrence, Trade castles & forts of West Africa, p.42).

(Code No. 4580)

Schley. J. V.

(Antique Print of the Guinea's Gold Coast )

Vue Sud Ouest des Forts Anglois et Hollandois de Sukkondi, tirée de Smith.

Date. [c.1820.]

London. (UK watermark). Image size 11x 7 1/2ins. Page size 14 x 10ins. Original copper coloured engraving. View of the British and Dutch forts at Sukkondi, West Africa, seen from the south-west. £35.00

(Code No. 4579)

MALLET, Alain Manesson .1630-1706.

(Antique Map of the Attractive view of Chateau de la Mine, Gold Coast.)

Chateau de la Mine, (Ghana , West Africa).

Date. [c.1683.]

Frankfurt, Image size 4 x 6ins. Page size 8 1/4 x 5 1/2ins. Original copper engraved coloured print, very good condition. £35.00

This is a view of The Chateau de la Mine, St. George on the Gold Coast, Africa. Allain Manesson Mallet was an eminent mapmaker. He started his career as a foot soldier in the Portuguese army under Louis XIV; he was promoted to the post of sergeant major in artillery division and was made the inspector of fortifications. He subsequently published a number of books on military engineering. His book the "Description de l'Univers" was published in 1683-86, it contained many maps charts and views.

(Code No. 4578)

MALLET, Alain Manesson .1630-1706.

(Antique Map of the Ascension Island.)

Isle d'Ascencion.

Date. [c.1683.]

Frankfurt, Image size 4 x 6ins. Page size 8 1/4 x 5 1/2ins. Original copper engraved coloured print, very good condition. £35.00

Allain Manesson Mallet was an eminent mapmaker. He started his career as a foot soldier in the Portuguese army under Louis XIV; he was promoted to the post of sergeant major in artillery division and was made the inspector of fortifications. He subsequently published a number of books on military engineering. His book the "Description de l'Univers" was published in 1683-86, it contained many maps charts and views.

(Code No. 4576)Bellin, Jacques Nicolas. (1703-1772).(Antique Map of the Cape Verde Islands.)Carte des Isles du Cap Verd Dressee sur les Journaux et les Remarques des plus habiles Navigateurs. Par N. Bellin Ingr de la Marine. 1746.Date. [c.1764]Paris. Jean Francois de La Harpe, Image size 11 x 8 1/2ins. Page size 13 x 10ins. Original copper engraved map, very good condition. Taken from "Le Petit Atlas Maritime".Jacques-Nicolas Bellin was a French hydrographer and cartographer. Bellin was born in Paris. In 1721 Bellin was appointed hydrographer (chief cartographer) to the French Navy upon the creation of France's hydrographic office, the Dépôt des cartes et plans de la Marine. Appointed "ingénieur hydrographe" in August 1741. Member of the Académie de Marine and of the Royal Society of London. Over a 50 year career, he produced a large number of maps of particular interest to the Ministère de la Marine. His maps of Canada and of French territories in North America (New France, Acadia, Louisiana) are particularly valuable. He died at Versailles.

(Code No. 4571)

Bonne, Rigobert. 1727-1794.

( Map of South Africa & Madagascar.)

Carte du Canal de Mosambique contenant l'isle de Madagascar avec les cotes d'Afrique, depuis le Cap de Bonne Esperance jusqu a Melinde. Par M. Bonne, Ingenr. Hydrographe de la Marine.

Date. [c.1780].

Geneva. J.L. Pellet. Page sizes, (approx), [14 1/2 x 9 1/2ins.] Copper engraved map. Engraved by Andre, very good condition. Originally published in 1762 in Bonne's "Atlas Maritime". £40.00

(Code No. 4568)

(Antique Map of South Africa.)

Schley, Van Der & Jacques Nicolas Bellin (1703-1772).

Carte de Toures les Isles connues sur la Coste de Zanguebar et de Madagascar.....

Date. [c.1740].

Paris. Page size 11 1/2 x 10 1/2ins Image size 11 x 9 ins. Original folding hand-coloured map drawn by J. V. Schley. Bellin and Schley worked together to produce an Atlas to accompany "Prevost's Histoire des Voyages, 1738-75".    £70.00

(Code No. 4547)

Pasha, Rudolf C. Slatin.

Fire and Sword in Sudan. A Personal Narrative of Fighting and Serving the Dervishes 1879-1895.

Date. 1898.

London. Edward Arnold. 8vo, 5 1/2 x 8ins. Pp. xviii, 416, (32, adverts), some foxing spots + 22 Plates + 2 folding maps, split to one fold, no loss. Original cloth gilt, very slight rubbing and faded spine. £35.00.

(Code No. 4524)Ruscelli ,Girolamo. Claudio Ptolemy.(Antique map of South Africa.)Africa Nuova Tavola.Date. 1561.Venice. Page size 11 3/4 x 9ins. Image size 7 x 10ins. Original copper engraved map. Taken from La geografia di Claudio Tolomeo Alessandrino, and based on a 1548 edition by Giacomo Gastaldi.An early view of the southern portion of the African continent and the island of Madagascar, (Isola de Lorenzo). Very good condition.

(Code No. 4519)

CORONELLI, Vincenzo.

(Antique globe gore)

MADAGASCAR, Southeast Africa, Mauritius and the Comoro Islands.

Date. 1688 or later edition.

Venice, Page size 13 1/4 x 19 3/4ins. Image size 10 x 16ins, (approx). For a 42inch globe. Original copper engraved hand coloured map showing a figure symbolizing the source of the Nile. £400.00

Coronelli's maps were based on details which he had produced on globes in 1688. these large globes are very rare, as are the complete set of gores, but separate gores, (this Madagascar map been one of them), do come on the market occasionally. During his career Coronelli produced globes of various sizes, subsequently, issued the gores in book form in 1693. Ref :- Jonathan Potter. Antique Maps.

(Code No.4452)

Bonne, Rigobert .1727-1794.

( 4 Maps of various parts of Africa.).

Carte de Canal de Mosambique, Carte du la Haute et de la Basse Guinee, Carte du la Partie Septentrionale D'Afrique, ou de la Barbarie & Partie Occidentale de L' Ancient Continent.....Sierra Leona.

Date. ca1780.

Geneva. J.L. Pellet. Page sizes, (approx), [10 1/2 x 16ins.] 4 Copper engraved maps. Engraved by Andre, slight marks, browning and nick to blank margins. Taken from "Atlas de Toutes les Parties Connues du Globe Terrestre".  £70.00

(Code No. 4413)

Dixon, Captain Clive. 16th Lancers.

The Leaguer of Ladysmith.

Nov. 2nd 1899 to Feb. 28th 1900.

London, Eyre & Spootiswoode. Oblong 4to.[12 x 9 1/2ins]. 1900. 18 Full page humorous coloured plates drawn over the four months siege of Ladysmith. Bevelled edge boards, slight marks, and stains. £75.00

Tallis, John. Africa. London. Ca 1850. Size Approx 330 x 255mm. Original steel engraved map. 5 vignette views, Decorated border, vg. split to fold, repaired on back of map.

(Code No. 4275)

Tallis, John.

(Antique Map of South Africa.)

Natal and Kaffraria.

London. Ca1850. Size Approx 360 x 275mm. Original steel engraved map with original outline hand colouring. Two vignette views that includes Port Natal and Durban. Decorated border. Centre fold. £60.00

(Code No. 4262)

KITCHIN, Thomas.

Africa Agreeable to the most Approved Maps & Charts.

No date ca1780.

England. Image size [15 x 13 ins.] Original copper engraved map, slight browning to folds and creasing. Taken from Millar's New Complete Universal System of Geography . £80.00

(Code No. 4125)

Various Charts of Islands &c. in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

London. Alex Hogg. ca1780. Image size 7 1/2 x 12ins, (approx). Page size 15 X 9 1/2 ins, (approx). Copper engraved map of Various Charts of the Islands &c. in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Showing:- The Charts of the Northern Archipelago, discovered by the Russians in the seas of Kamtschatka & Anadir, Azores Isles, Cape Verd Isles, Canary Isles and Madera Isles. Decorated border. Taken from Millar's Geography. Three pages of text describing Cape Verd Isles,. £90.00

(Code No. 4072)Tallis, John.Western Africa and Northern Africa.[2 Antique Maps.]London. Ca 1850. Sizes approx 360 x 275mm. 2 Original steel engraved maps with original outline hand colouring. Northern Africa with modern colouring to the vignettes. Decorated borders.

(Code No. 4070)Tallis, John.Natal and Kaffraria.(Antique Map of South Africa.)London. Ca 1850. Size Approx 360 x 275mm. Original steel engraved map with original outline hand colouring. Two vignette views that includes Port Natal and Durban. Decorated border.

(Code No. 3826).

Anon.

(Antique Map of Egypt).

Aegyptus Antiqua.

London. Printed for James Bettenham. 1745. Image size 19 1/4 x 14 1/2 ins. Page size 20 1/4 x 16 ins. Original copper engraved folding map, split to folds, repaired on back. £50.00

(Code No. 3167).Lodge, John.(Antique Map).AFRICA, from the best Authorities.London. No date, ca1780. Image size 14 x 13 ins. Plate size 16 x 14 ins. Original copper engraved folding map. Guaranteed to be over 200 years old.

(Code No. 3826).Original copper engraved map of south east Africa and Madagascar, 2 nicks into engraved area (approx 1 inch) and foxing spots.

(Code No. 3808).

Macdonald. D.

( Antique map of Africa ).

Africa " New Sixpenny Maps, Embracing the Most Recent Discoveries"

Glasgow. D. Macdonald, 51 Argyll Street. ca1850. Page size 15 x 17 1/2 ins. Image size 14 1/2 x 13 ins. Original steel engraved hand coloured map, slight nicks to blank margins well away from map image. £65.00

(Code No.3022)Tallis, John:Africa. (Antique Map )London. Ca 1850. Size Approx 330 x 255mm. Original steel engraved map. 5 vignette views, one view showing St Helena. Decorated border, vg. Blank margins cropped to near engraved area.

(Code No. 3027)London. ca1850. Size Approx 370 x 260mm. Original steel engraved map with original outline hand colouring. Four vignette views. Decorated border. Centre fold, vg.