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Collection name:
Maps of Africa
Record:
Title:
Africa ab Auctore Naturae Suis Dotibus Instructa Geographice Exhibita an MDCC.
Title in Translation:
Africa geographically represented in 1700.
Publication Place:
Munich
Publisher:
Scherer, Heinrich, 1628-1704
Publication Date:
1700
Cartographer:
Scherer, Heinrich, 1628-1704
Engraver:
Homann, Johann Baptist, 1663-1724
Height:
22 cm.
Width:
35 cm.
Scale:
No scale given
Color:
Uncolored
Descriptive Notes:
Includes Arabia, India, the Middle East, and the bulge of Brazil. Includes islands, sea monsters (one of which has a human face), and flying fish. Animals and birds of Africa featured surrounding the cartouche; This map appeared in parts variously entitled: Geographica Naturalis, Atlas Marianne (1702), Geographica Politica, Geographica Artificalis, Tabellae Geographicae (1703), Critica Quadruportita (1710).
Provenance:
Dr. Oscar I. Norwich
General Area:
Africa
Geographic Focus:
Africa
Period:
17th c.
Norwich Number:
62
Call Number:
NOR 0062
Source:
Atlas Novus (1710)
References:
Norwich (2nd ed.), ckey = 3871463
Page:
map 0062, p. 76
Program:
Jacobson Africana Program

Africa ab Auctore Naturae Suis Dotibus Instructa Geographice Exhibita an MDCC.