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Title: Africa
Subject: Africa -- Maps -- Early works to 1800.
Description: "This is the earliest, readily available, printed map to show the entire continent of Africa. It is famous for the medieval depiction of the Cyclopses, called the Monoculi on the map, and the parrots and elephant in Southern Africa. Crowns and scepters identify various African kingdoms throughout the continent of Africa …"--The mapping of Africa : a cartobibliography of printed maps of the African continent to 1700 / Richard L. Betz. 't Goy-Houten: Hes & de Graaf, c2007, p. 83-84. On verso: A woodcut containing the words "Des gantzen Landts Africe/ ein gemeine beschreibung" and showing "a phoenix rising from the sun at the top and a group of men at the bottom" (Betz: p. 93). Below this text is printed "xxv"., Cartographic authority, Richard L. Betz, has identified 15 variants of Münster's map of Africa. This copy closely resembles variant number 15 (though with some minor differences). See The mapping of Africa : a cartobibliography of printed maps of the African continent to 1700 / Richard L. Betz. 't Goy-Houten : Hes & de Graaf, c2007, p. 93., German title and text, Latin place names., Published in the German text edition of Münster's Cosmographia [1578]., Restored and placed between acid-free boards.
Identifier: islandora:19697

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