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Map of Africa

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Map of Africa

Visscher I, Nicolaas

Map of Africa.

Africae Accurata Tabula.

The chart is taken from the Atlas Blaeu-Van der Hem.

Nicolaas Visscher dedicated the map to Gerardus Schaep, master of Kortenhoeff, ambassador for the Republic in Sweden and Denmark.

This chart closely resembles Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Vienna, inv. nr. Van der Hem 36:02 and Van der Hem 37:02. Only the colouring is different.

Please contact Österreichische Nationalbibliothek for reuse and copyrights.

Sources and literature

Krogt, Peter van der, The Atlas Blaeu - Van der Hem: of the Austrian National Library (2005)