Media Information

 
 
 
Collection name:
Maps of Africa
Record:
Title:
Africa.
Publication Place:
London
Publisher:
Wolfe, John, d. 1601
Publication Date:
1597
Cartographer:
Pigafetta, Filippo, 1533-1604
Engraver:
Rogers, William, b. ca. 1545
Height:
62 cm.
Width:
43 cm.
Scale:
Scale in leagues
Color:
Uncolored
Descriptive Notes:
English edition, copied from the original Italian edition of 1591 (see NOR 0016). Also appeared in Linschoten's His Discours of Voyages to the East and West Indies (1598). The sea is stippled and contains several ships and sea monsters.
Provenance:
Dr. Oscar I. Norwich
General Area:
Africa
Geographic Focus:
Africa
Period:
16th c.
Norwich Number:
23
Call Number:
NOR 0023
References:
Norwich (2nd ed.), ckey = 3871463
Page:
map 0023, p. 31
Program:
Jacobson Africana Program

Africa.