Media Information

 
 
 
Collection name:
Maps of Africa
Record:
Title:
A new and most exact map of Africa described by N.I. Vischer and don into English; Enlarged and Corrected according to J. Blaeu and Others, With the Habits of ye people, and ye manner of ye Cheife sitties ye like never before.
Publication Place:
London
Publisher:
Overton, John, 1640-1708?
Publication Date:
1666
Cartographer:
Overton, John, 1640-1708?
Engraver:
Holmes, P., d. 1702
Height:
42 cm.
Width:
51 cm.
Scale:
No scale given
Color:
Colored
Descriptive Notes:
Similar to Blaeu's map (see NOR 0030). The sea is decorated with more ships than usual for "maps of this period and the sea monsters are fewer and smaller."
Provenance:
Dr. Oscar I. Norwich
General Area:
Africa
Geographic Focus:
Africa
Period:
17th c.
Norwich Number:
40
Call Number:
NOR 0040
References:
Norwich (2nd ed.), ckey = 3871463
Page:
map 0040, p. 50
Program:
Jacobson Africana Program

A new and most exact map of Africa described by N.I. Vischer and don into English; Enlarge…