A detailed map of the Cape of Good Hope with Cape Town:  Carta Geographica del Capo di Buona Speranza

Original copperplate engraved map
Fine Handcolor
330 x 430 mm 
Map # AFS-062
$ 450

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This is a finely engraved map that provides considerable detail.  Of particular interest, the names of numerous early Dutch and Huguenot settlers to the Cape are listed by the houses they occupy..  Also on the map are the roads systems, the Dutch Fort at Cape Town, the 'kraals' of Hottentot and other African areas, lands cultivated by the Dutch East Indies Company for provisions for their ships to and fro the Dutch East Indies.  Robben Island (as Isola di Robbi), the former prison of Nelson Mandela,  is in Cape Town Harbor. 

Several ships along with a compass rose are in the sea.  The cartouche and the surrounding scene are almost as interesting as the map itself:  The title  is on a large stone wall.  To its left of the title is a traditional African home with several Africans;  also shown are an elephant and several rhinoceros as well as ships in the harbor

This map is from an Italian edition of Delisle's Atlante Novissimo, edited in Venice by Albrizzi between 1740 and 1756.

References:  Norwich, map # 218, under De'L'Isle.

Very Fine Condition.