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Amsterdam, (1606) 1628 or 1633 Guinea and West Africa: Guinea nova Descriptio Original copperplate
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This is an early map of West Africa. It shows an area from the Senegal River and Cape Verde in the north to Cape Lopez below the Equator. There is a detailed inset map of Sao Thome in the bottom left. The map contains considerable coastal detail reflecting Portuguese and later European exploration along the coast as well as up some of the river systems. The Portuguese fortress of El Mina is shown as is the African Kingdom of Benin. On the ocean are a European ship firing a cannon and an African canoe. This map was engraved by Jodocus Hondius for his first edition of Gerard Mercator's atlas, Gerardi Mercatoris Atlas sive Cosmographicae. It went through numerous editions to 1639-44. The map was re-engraved by Jansson for later editions of the atlas to c.1680. This map is from a French edition of the Mercator-Hondius Atlas Sive Cosmographicae with a signature of 7 "y"s and pgs. 637 & 640, indicating a date of 1628 or 1633. for this map (v.d. Krogt). Reference: Norwich, map # 316. Krogt, Peter van der, Koeman's Atlantes Neerlandici, vol. 1. 't Goy-Houten: HES Publishers,1997, p. 713. Fine Condition. This
is an elegantly engraved map. Strong,
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