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69 PIGAFETTA, F./ DE BRY, Th. Tabula Geogra: Regni Congo. Francfort, ca.1597. Belle<br />

impression de cette carte en parfait état. Infimes rousseurs. - A good and dark impression.<br />

Very good condition. 305 x 375 mm. 400 - 500 ¤<br />

wo Pigafetta réalisa cette carte d’Afrique d’après Duarte Lopes, un explorateur portuguais, qui avait collecté de<br />

nombreuses informations sur le bassin du congo. Il s’agit de l’édition regravée pour l’édition des “Petits Voyages”<br />

de De Bry, d’après celle publiée par Pigafetta, dans son ouvrage “Relatione del reame di Congo”. - Pigafetta drew<br />

on the work of Duarte Lopes, a Portuguese explorer who collected a mass of geographic information on the<br />

Congo and its basin. This is the De Bry’s re-engraved edition of Pigafetta’s very rare map published in his book<br />

“Relatione del reame di Congo”.<br />

70 BELLIN, J.N. Afrique. 7 cartes. Paris, 1758. Infimes rousseurs. 250 x 260 mm. 50 - 80 ¤<br />

Lot de 7 cartes des côtes est et ouest de l’Afrique.<br />

71 FER, N. de. Cap de Bonne Esperance. Paris, 1705. Bon état. - Good condition. 25 x 352 mm.<br />

50 - 100 ¤<br />

Three views on one sheet, depicting the northern end of the Cape Peninsula, Table Bay and a Dutch settlement<br />

in the area.<br />

72 LE VAILLANT, F. Carte de la Partie Méridionale de l’Afrique, pour servir d’intelligence<br />

aux deux voyages de Le Vaillant. Paris, H.J. Jansen & Perronneau, ca. 1795. Limites en col.<br />

d’époque. Très bel exemplaire. - In mint condition. Orig. outline col. 595 x 880 mm.<br />

300 - 400 ¤<br />

wo Superbe carte sur papier fort. Le naturaliste François Le Vaillant (1753-1824) explora l’Afrique australe au<br />

cours de deux expéditions, dont les relations parurent à 6 ans d’intervalle. Il explora le pays des petits et des<br />

grands Namaquois. - This map depict Le Vaillant’s two journeys into the interior of Africa, during the years 1783,<br />

1784 and 1785. The route through Namaqualand and along the southern coast marks the halting places, and the<br />

adventures encountered make interesting reading. - Norwich/Stone, Africa, Map 181<br />

AMÉRIQUE<br />

73 ANVILLE, J-B. Bourguignon d. Amérique Septentrionale. Paris, 1746. Limites en col. d’époque.<br />

Carte en 2 ff. non jointes. Quelques rousseurs, plis légèrement empoussiérés. - 2 sheets<br />

not joined, orig. outline col. Paper slightly age-toned as usual, a few spotting. 887 x 864 mm.<br />

1000 - 1200 ¤<br />

wo Amerique Septentrionale Publiee sous les Auspices de Monseigneur le Duc d’Orleans… MDCCXLVI avec<br />

Privilege. A Paris, Chez l’Auteur, aux Galeries du Louvre. A decorative large scale map printed on four sheets by<br />

the renowned and influential French map maker Jean- Baptiste D’Anville. D’Anville’s maps of each of continent<br />

were widely copied by many other European mapmakers and continued the tradition established in France for<br />

precise and correct cartography. Large, elegant cartouche of a classically draped semi-nude female wearing a feathered<br />

headdress, two children or putti, animals (engraved after St. Gravelot). With inset map of Hudson and<br />

Baffin Bays. - Tooley, “The Mapping of the Great Lakes”, pp. 316-17.<br />

74 JANVIER, le Sr. L’Amerique divisée en ses principaux Etats… Venise, Santini / Remondini,<br />

ca. 1780. Limites en col. ancien. Bel exemplaire, infimes rousseurs. - Minor browning,<br />

overall in very good condition. 472 x 645 mm. 450 - 550 ¤<br />

wo Uncommon map published by Lattré. This map is most notable for it’s depiction of “Mer ou Baye de L’Ouest”<br />

or “Sea of the West”. A great sea, easily the size of the Mediterranean, to flow from the then-known Strait of Juan<br />

de Fuca. Showing an opening to the ocean from this great sea at roughly in North California or Oregon and<br />

Quivira somewhere in Idaho. Fattening Alaska and appropriately leaving blank the unknown parts of Northern<br />

America. Listing Indian nations, towns such as Santa Fe.<br />

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