Original Copperplate Engraved Detailed Map of South Africa, ca.1680
- Reference
- BG-12416-2
- Date
- 1680
- Region
- Africa
- Category
- Antique Map
- Sheet size
- 24.5 x 37.0 cm (9.6 x 14.6 in)
- Condition
- Good
- Availability
- Available
- Price
- EUR 360
Antique map titled 'Pays et Coste des Caffres Empires de Monomotapa (..)'.
Detailed map of South Africa. Engraved by Antoine d'Winter for a Dutch edition of Sanson's pocket atlas.
Artists and Engravers: Nicholas Sanson d'Abbeville (1600 - 1667) and his descendents were important French cartographer's active through the 17th century. Sanson started his career as a historian where, it is said, he turned to cartography as a way to illustrate his historical studies. In the course of his research some of his fine maps came to the attention of King Louis XIII who, admiring the quality of his work, appointed Sanson 'Geographe Ordinaire du Roi'. Sanson's duties in this coved position included advising the King on matters of Geography and compiling the royal cartographic archive. Sanson's corpus of some three hundred maps initiated the golden age of French Cartography.
Where this sits in the catalogue
Other sheets of Africa
- Original Illustration “Le Faucon d’Or” by Charles Burki, 1971 – Gouache on Board, 1971
- “Explosion at the Border Gate” by Charles Burki, 1970 – War Illustration Gouache, 1970
- The Phenomenon of Man - Original Gouache Illustration by Charles Burki, 1967, 1967
- Original 1947 Map of South Africa by C. Burki – Jan van Riebeeck & Cape Colony, 1947
- Original Illustration Map of South Africa by Charles Burki, c.1945 – Ink Drawing, 1945
- Antique Map of the Region of the Nile River by Bartholomew, 1922, 1922
- Antique Map of Northwest Africa by Bartholomew, 1922, 1922
- Antique Map of Lower Egypt, Showing Port Said, Suez and Surroundings, 1922, 1922
- Set of Two Large Panoramic Vintage Postcards of Algeria, 'circa 1920', 1920
- Set of Two Large Panoramic Vintage Postcards of the Sahara, 'circa 1920', 1920
- Set of 2 Antique Prints of Butterflies of Africa and America, Published in 1910, 1910
- Antique Map of Africa by Johnston (1909), 1909
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