Danckerts’ Africa
SKU: 7466
£1,250.00
Title:
Danckerts’ Africa
Date of publication:
c.1700
Printed Measurement:
50 x 58 cm
Colour:
original
Mapmaker(s):
Novissima et Perfectissima Africae Descriptio
Copper engraving, 50 x 58 cm, original hand-colour, closed split at foot of centrefold, blank verso.
Danckerts’ map of Africa follows Frederick de Wit's model, and it is a typical late seventeenth-century European perception of the continent: good coastal detail together with a great deal of speculation about the interior, including the mythical twin lakes of Zaire and Zaflan, and the mythical Saharan branch of the Nile.