Africae descriptio
- Author(s)
- Hondius, Jodocus, 1563-1612
- Description
- The map is crisply engraved and decorated with title set in strapwork cartouche at bottom left. Map depicts a sea monster south of Madagascar, and a sea battle off the coast of C. Negro. Latitude and longitude coordinates are given on all four sides of the map. Coordinates approximate and based on Greenwich meridian. Bar scale on map given in "Miliaria Germanica." Details drawn from Richard L. Betz, The mapping of Africa : a cartobibliography of printed maps of the African continent to 1700. 't Goy-Houten : Hes & de Graaf, c2007, p. 211-213. Probably extracted from the Atlas minor (Gerhard Mercator and Jodocus Hondius) Amsterodami: Iudoci Hondij. Arnhemi, 1607.
- Publisher
- [Publisher not identified]
- Collection
- Africana Historical Maps
- Place(s)
- Africa
- Held by
- Stanford
- More details at
- https://purl.stanford.edu/xc766zn8181
- Use and reproduction
- Image courtesy University of Cape Town Libraries, Special Collections: Maps scanned under the William and Yvonne Jacobson Digital Africana Program at UCT. If you have questions, please contact David Rumsey Map Center at rumseymapcenter@stanford.edu.
- Copyright
- Property rights reside with the repository. Copyright © Stanford University. All Rights Reserved.
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
