The first issue of this 16th century miniature map of Africa

LANGENES, Barent.

Africa.
Amsterdam, Cornelis Claez, 1599, Dutch text edition. 85 x 125mm, trimmed to printed border and pasted into atlas text, as issued.

A scarce map of Africa, engraved by either Jodocus Hondius or Pieter van den Keere for the 'Caert-Thresoor', with a text by an unknown author. For some reason it was omitted from the first edition, and only appears in this second as a correction.
By 1600 this map was being published in the 'Tabularum Geographicarum' with a text by Petrus Bertius, and in 1616 a new plate was engraved by Jodocus Hondius II, slightly larger and with wider borders with scales of longitude and latitude.


Stock ID : 21290