(AFRICA) Abraham Ortelius Two sixteenth century engraved map

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(AFRICA.) Abraham Ortelius. Two sixteenth-century engraved maps. Antwerp, 1570s

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- Barbariae et Biledulgerid Nova Descriptio. Hand-colored double-page engraved map of northern Africa and the western Mediterranean Sea. 16¼x21½ inches sheet size, wide margins, Latin text on verso; minor signs of age only. Van den Broecke 176.1 1575L69. Antwerp, 1575.

- Presbiteri Johannis, Sive, Abissinorum Imperii Descriptio. Double-page engraved map of the mythical African kingdom of Prester John. 17½x22¼ inches sheet size, wide margins, Latin text on verso; light finger soiling, red rule lines. Van den Broecke 175.1 1573L1Add52.A. Antwerp, 1573.