West Africa, Congo, Angola, Nigeria, Ghana, Cameroon, Liberia, Togo, Gabon, Benin… Dapper/Van Meurs, 1668, Nigritarum Regio

Large view of western Africa on a double page. Based on the cartography of Blaeu,the map covers the coast from Southern Morocco to Angola. Decorative title cartouche with elephant; decorated with lions, elephants and other wild animals to body of map and ships to sea.

From the first edition of Olfert Dapper´s "Naukeurige Beschrijvingen der Afrikaensche gewesten" and "Naukeurige beschrijvinge der Afrikaensche Eylanden"

Olfert Dapper’s ‘Description of Africa’ was an ethnographic book which offered a detailed description of the parts of Africa known to Europeans in the mid-seventeenth century. Despite the work being regarded as one of the most important and detailed seventeenth-century publications on Africa, Dapper himself never actually visited the continent. Instead, he relied on the reports of Jesuit missionaries and Dutch explorers. The ‘Description of Africa’ was first published in 1668 by Jacob van Meurs in Amsterdam

Excellent condition.

Image 26x36,5cm, page 31,5x38cm