Ortelius' North Africa:   Africae Propriae Tabula In qua Punica regna vides..............

Original copperplate engraved map
Fine Handcolor
335 x 485 mm
Map # AF-532
$ 600

A beautiful map with a visually appealing cartouche.  This map is of North Africa with Italy at the top center of the map.   An inset map of Carthage is at the bottom left.  The lengthy text to the right of the inset map describes the series of wars fought between Rome and Carthage.   In a text box at the bottom of the title cartouche is a dedication to Christophorus ad Assonville. 

This map was originally issued in 1590 in Ortelius' Parergon.   The Parergon came to form part of Ortelius' famous Theatrum Orbis Terrarum and contained a series of maps reconstructed in part from historical sources.   This map was made by Ortelius based on information from Gastaldi's 1564 map of Africa and from ancient sources such as Pliny's description of the Carthaginian Wars (van den Broecke, p. 272).   There is Latin text on the verso of this map with a signature of “C”, indicating a date of 1595 for this map (vd Krogt, p. 880-881).

Reference:  van den Broecke, Marcel. map # 218.  Krogt, Peter van der. Koeman's Atlantes Neerlandici, vol. 3 (Ortelius). 't Goy-Houten: HES Publishers, 2003.

Very Fine Condition.   This is an especially attractive, finely colored map.  Solid paper.