1736 Africa
DESCRIPTION
This remarkable map of Africa was first published in 1715 by Johann Homann, founder of the famous Nuremberg map publishing house.
This revision was done later by Johann Mathias Haas, who augmented the original to include important cartographic developments as had been noted by Guillaume de l’Isle and Jean Baptiste d’Anville. The revision is distinguished by the absence of many fictitious and legendary features which earlier had been featured in maps of Africa. Thus, this version of the map is a fairly accurate representation of the continent, focusing on coastal areas which were well known and documented while leaving much of the interior blank or marked Terra Incognita.
Egypt, Nubia and Abyssinia are clearly separate territories, Lake Nyasa is depicted labeled as Lac Marawi, and Dutch settlements at the Cape are denoted, with ‘Hotentotae’ written at the tip of the continent. The map is embellished with a beautiful cartouche featuring peoples indigenous to Africa and Europeans, and much flora and fauna native to Africa.
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