Carta geografica del Capo di Buona Speranza

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Title: Carta geografica del Capo di Buona Speranza
Creator: L'Isle, Guillaume de, 1675-1726.
Subject: Cape of Good Hope (South Africa) -- Maps -- Early works to 1800.
Description: The map spans the area from Saldanha Bay to False Bay and shows land cultivated by the Dutch East India Company (with Italian versions of the names of many of the early farmers), sweet water wells, salt pans, woods, rivers and sailing ships off the West Coast. The map indicates "Isola di Robbi" (Robben Island) and "Isola de Daini" (Dassen Island), routes to the homesteads of indigenous peoples and the real or imagined location of "Elefanti", "Tigri" and "Rinoceri". Included is a detailed, ornamental, coloured cartouche depicting an elephant, a rhinoceros, people building a hut with wood and grass, trees, ships at anchor and mountains across the bay., Relief shown pictorially., Appears in: Atlante novissimo che contiene tutti le parti del mondo / Guillaume de l'Isle. Venice : Presso Giambatista Albrizzi, 1740-1750., "Scala di Miglia 15 Italiane 60 in un grado"., Restored and hinged between acid-free boards.
Publisher: University of Cape Town Libraries, South Africa
Contributor: L'Isle, Guillaume de, 1675-1726. Atlante novissimo. (contributor)
Date: 1750
Type: map
Format: image/jpeg, 1 map : col. ; 39 x 52 cm.
Identifier: islandora:19706
Source: aslmaps_bmmc_682_a_1_543.jpg
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Relation: Aleph: 833584, BMMC 682.a.1 (543)
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