Africa | Fine Antique Prints

H.S. Tanner (Africa) Philadelphia, 1834

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“Africa. Possessions of the European Powers”

A detailed but easily legible map of the African continent showing the colonial interests of Great Britain, France, Spain, Portugal, Holland, Denmark and the United States. There is an inset of Liberia and the capital city, Monrovia.

Beautiful original hand coloring.
Sheet has some chipping and creasing of extremities.
Repaired tear without loss just into image at lower right.

(North Africa and Middle East) Jean Baptiste Tardieu.Atlas Complete … Paris, 1812

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“Afrique Ancienne”

Jean Baptiste Pierre Tardieu (1746-1816) was a prominent French cartographer and engraver operating in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Tardieu’s work is known for its beauty and accuracy as well as for its depth of detail. The maps are particularly highly valued for the decoration that surrounds the area of the title known as the cartouche. The prime meridian is shown to be Paris. Included in Conrad Malte-Brun’s
Atlas Complete du Precis de la Geographie Universelle
, published in Paris in 1812. This map was drawn by Giraldon and engraved by Chamouin. An obelisque adrosn the lower left.

9 7/8 x 13 1/2 inches, sheet.
Engravings with modern hand color beautifully applied.
Excellent condition

(Africa) Johnson’s New Illustrated Family Atlas. New York 1864

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“Johnson’s Africa”
An large and detailed map of the African continent. This map was included in Alvin J. Johnson’s , New Illustrated Family Atlas of the World with Physical Geography and with Descriptions Geographical, Statistical and Historic…, from plates he purchased from J. H. Colton. This map is typical of those Johnson produced between 1863-69 with its identifying fretwork border design. It is wonderfully detailed with place names that are long forgotten, descriptions of the Cape Verde Islands, St Helena, Madagascar, along with insets of the Cape Colony (South Africa), hte Nile River delta, and Liberia infamous for its involvement in the slave trade. Terrific map of Africa in the mid 19th century.
Lithograph with full original hand color.
26 ½ x 18 inches sheet size.
Very good condition.

(Africa) Finley, Anthony. New General Atlas… Philadelphia, 1824

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“Africa”

Anthony Finley (ca. 1790–1840) was a successful Philadelphia mapmaker and publisher. This original antique map was included in his
New General Atlas…
, published in 1824 when Finley’s offices were at the corner of Fourth and Chestnut Streets. As Walter Ristow states in his reference
American Maps & Mapmakers…
(pp. 268-9) the ”engraving is done almost uniformly with remarkable distinctness and the face of the maps is frequently beautiful, not overloaded with a confusion of useless names.” Indeed these maps are beautiful. Indeed, the maps from this atlas are beautiful examples of the American mapmaking during the first quarter of the 19th century.

Area including present-day Zambia, Zaire and Angola labeled “Regions Unexplored” and “Country occupied by the JAGAS & other barbarous Tribes”. Area above labeled Nigrita. Top left yellow region labeled “Sahara or Great Desert”.Hand-colored engraving.

10 1/4 x 13 inches, sheet.
Very nice condition with light browning of extremes of margins.