Nice old color example of the Ottens sea chart of West Africa. The map extends from Senegal in the north to Angola in the south, centered on the Bay of Guinea. There is a wealth of navigational information including sandbanks and shoals. The chart is...
Strikingly-Illustrated Eighteenth-Century Atlas Map of West Africa Dynamic example of this highly decorative and detailed antique map of West Africa, published by the Homann Heirs in 1743. This is one of the best atlas maps of the region made during...
Detailed map of the of the West African Coastline, with a large inset of the Gold Coast, from an early edition of the Universal Magazine. These early Universal Magazine maps are quite rare on the market.
Fine example of Philppe Buache's edition of De L'Isle's highly detailed map of part of the West Coast of Africa, from Cap Blanc to the Pays des Mallus, centered on the Gambia River and Senegal River. Extraordinary detail along the two rivers, tracking...
Detailed map of the Gulf of Guinea, published in Paris in 1749 Includes all or part of the modern countries of Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon, Equatorial Ginea and Gabon, which at the time was primarily the "Kingdom of Benin."
Detailed map of a part of the Senegal River, published by Bellin in Paris.
Detailed regional map of the region between Benguela, Angola and the Cantonbelle (Catumbela) River, from J.N. Bellin, the map maker to the King of France. The map includes Fort. Kabuto, which Bellin notes as having been identifed by the English and De...
Scarce map of the coast of West Africa, centered on the Gambia Rive and Senegal River, from Heiden's Americanische urquelle derer innerlichen kriege des bedrängten Teutschlands.
Fascinating German hand-colored engraved map of western central Africa, encompassing the Congo River Basin south to Angola. Congolese peoples are labelled and divided with hand-color into regions, with little detail shown outside of the coast. In the...
Detailed map of the region bounded by the Gambia River in the north and Cape Mezurado (Liberia) in the south, covering the countries of Gambia, Guinea, Sierra Leone and part of Gambia, which appeared in Captain Philip Beaver's A frican Memoranda:...
Rare early 19th Century map of the west coast of from Equatorial Guinea and Gabon to Namibia. The map is centered on Angola and the Congo.
Scarce map of a portion of West Africa, published in Weimar in 1806. Incudes a fantastic depiction of the Sahara Desert in the north and the open unknown regions in the interior, with the extensive European Trading posts along the coastline. A scarce...
Scarce map of western Africa illustrating the travels of Gaspard Theodore Mollien to the sources of the Senegal and Gambia Rivers. The map covers modern day Senegal and Gambia along with Mauritania, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau and Mali, naming numerous...
Rare separately issued map of a part of West Africa, showing Sierra Leone and the Southwestern Part of Guinea, published in London by James Wyld. Wyld's map presents one of the most detailed treatments of the country of Sierra Leon to appear on a...
Fine large map of West Africa, published by German mapmaker Heinrich Kiepert in Weimar. Includes several insets, including an inset of the Free Colony of Liberia. Many early trade routes are located in the Sahara.
Decorative map of Western Africa, showing towns, roads, rivers, lakes, mountains, etc. Vignettes show Chirstianborg, Cape Coast Castle, Bakel and Sierra Leone. Engraved for R. Montgomery Martin's Illustrated Atlas. Tallis was one of the last great...
