Early 18th century map of Africa in fine colour

HOMANN, Johann Baptist.

Totius Africae Nova Repraesentatio...
Nuremberg, c.1720. Original colour. 496 x 575mm.

Printer's crease in cartouche.

A fine map of Africa, with plenty of fictitious detail in the interior and a decorative title cartouche lower left featuring natives, ivory and a sheep with such a fat tail that it needed a cart to stop it being damaged on the ground.

NORWICH: 72.
Stock ID : 19382