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17th century map of Southern Africa

Stock No. 17998 Category: Tags: , Cartographer: BLAEU, Willem Janszoon.

Aethiopia Inferior vel Exterior. Partes magis Septentrionales, que hic desiderantus, vide in tabula Aethiopiae Superioris.
Amsterdam, 1665, Dutch text edition. Original colour. 385 x 505mm.

£765

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A map of Africa below the Equator, with Congo, Angola and Zanzibar, based on Portuguese surveys, decorated with a cartouche with natives holding up an animal skin with the map's title. The map objective of the founder of the Dutch colony at the Cape of Good Hope, Jan van Riebeeck, was to gather such skins to trade with Japan.

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Dimensions505 × 385 mm
Cartographer

Date

1665

Extra Info

Aethiopia Inferior vel Exterior. Partes magis Septentrionales, que hic desiderantus, vide in tabula Aethiopiae Superioris.

Publication

Amsterdam, 1665, Dutch text edition. Original colour. 385 x 505mm.

Condition

Near mint condition

References

TOOLEY: Africa, p.29, illustrated on frontis.; NORWICH: Africa 154, & Southern Africa, p.36-37, both illus.