Media Information

 
 
 
Collection name:
Maps of Africa
Record:
Title:
Africa Tertia Pars Terrae.
Title in Translation:
Africa the third continent.
Publication Place:
Hanover
Publisher:
Bunting, Heinrich, 1545-1606
Publication Date:
1592
Cartographer:
Bunting, Heinrich, 1545-1606
Physical Description:
Woodcut
Height:
26 cm.
Width:
34 cm.
Scale:
No scale given
Color:
Uncolored
Descriptive Notes:
Appeared in the first edition of Itinerarum Saccrae Scripturae (1581). This map has an unusual shape, tapering to a narrow angle in the south. The sea is engraved in vertical, wavy lines, with a galleon, a merman and a sea-bird. Top left: 20. Top right: 21.
Provenance:
Dr. Oscar I. Norwich
General Area:
Africa
Geographic Focus:
Africa
Period:
16th c.
Norwich Number:
17
Call Number:
NOR 0017
References:
Norwich (2nd ed.), ckey = 3871463
Page:
map 0017, p. 25
Program:
Jacobson Africana Program

Africa Tertia Pars Terrae.