A vigorously decorative map of Africa--the first in English but adopting the rich Dutch cartes a figures style so popular at the time. As is customarily seen on 17th century maps, Africa's interior is filled with fictitious mountains, rivers and lakes as well as notations concerning legends, notably where gold.....
South & Western Africa. LINSCHOTEN, J. VAN/ LANGREN, A. & H. VAN [Amsterdam, 1596] Typus orarum maritimarum Guineae, Manicongo, & Angolae ultrap promontorium Bonae spei . . . 15 1/8 x 20 3/8 inches. Fine hand color; margins expertly extended with no loss of engraved surface, excellent. .....
A splendid example, with rich, vibrant hand color, of a wall map of extraordinary intricacy and detail: "one of the most decorative maps of North America of the 18th century" (Tooley). Its elaborate illustrations provide a panorama of the Discovery Period, colorfully depicting the mores, rituals and practices of indigenous.....
