Cartouche illustrates a native woman reclining between two palms. Interior of southern Africa is fairly blank other than tribal names; Prime meridian through Ferro Island., Paris. Robert de Vaugondy, Gilles, 1688-1766; Robert de Vaugondy, Didier, 1723-1786
Issued a revised edition in 1722. L'Isle was the first to give the correct longitude, 42 degrees, to the Mediterranean and the first to discard Lakes Zaire and Zaflan; Prime meridian through Ferro Island., Paris. L'Isle, Guillaume de, 1675-1726
Retains the geographical features of L'Isle's map of 1700 (see NOR 0059). Title across top: Africa Accurate in Imperia, Regna, Status and Populos Divisa, ad Usum Serenissimi Bourgundiae Ducis. Dedicated to the Duke to Burgundy; Prime meridian through Ferro Island., Amsterdam. Covens, Jean; Mortier, Corneille
Reissued in 1729. Cartouche includes a nude woman sitting on a rectangle of masonry located in a rural scene with elephants, a lion and a snake. Legend states, "I would rather show this part of Africa as unknown and unihabited than rely on my imagination." Title across top, Africa in praecipuas ipsius partes distributa ..., Leiden. Aa, Pieter van der, 1659-1733
Cartouche is "on a stone pediment surmounted by a lion and lioness, with a view of Table Bay in the background and the Governor's garden and homestead." Map includes a note describing the Cape of Good Hope and a legend explaining the contents of the mainland., Leiden. Aa, Pieter van der, 1659-1773
