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Map of South Africa and a view of Table Bay

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Map of South Africa and a view of Table Bay

Meurs, Weduwe van Jacob van

Map of South Africa with a view of Table Bay, taken from the Atlas van der Hagen, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, The Hague, Part 4.

This map of the Cape of Good Hope and Table Mountain is one of the many illustrations accompanying the travel journal of the Amsterdam-based globetrotter Johan Nieuhoff.

Cf. Koninklijke Bibliotheek, inv. nr. 388 A 9 deel II, na p. 6.

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Sources and literature

Nieuhof, Joan, Gedenkwaerdige zee- en lantreize (1682)