Le Cap de Bonne Esperance
| Reference: | S10755 |
| Author | Pieter VANDER AA |
| Year: | 1713 |
| Zone: | Southern Africa |
| Printed: | Leyden |
| Measures: | 390 x 265 mm |
€275.00
| Reference: | S10755 |
| Author | Pieter VANDER AA |
| Year: | 1713 |
| Zone: | Southern Africa |
| Printed: | Leyden |
| Measures: | 390 x 265 mm |
€275.00
Description
This is a small detailed map of the Cape from Saldanha to False Bay. The attractive cartouche on lower left shows a view of Table Bay in the background, and the Governor’s garden on the right.
The map is sourranded by a decorative engraved frame; included in the Galerie Agreable du Monde, the well-known atlas by Vander Aa, completed in 1729 and containing over 3000 maps.
Copperplate with later hand colour, in good condition.
Literature
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O. I. Norwich, "Norwich's Maps of Africa", map 212.
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Pieter VANDER AA (1659 - 1733)
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Records show that van der Aa, born in Leyden in 1659, made an early start in life by being apprenticed to a bookseller at the age of nine and starting on his own in business as a book publisher by the time he was twenty-three.
During the following fifty years he published an enormous amount of material, including atlases and illustrated works in every shape and size, two of them consisting of no less than 27 and 28 volumes containing over 3,000 maps and plates.
Most of his maps were not of the first quality and were certainly not original, but they are often very decorative and are collected on that account.
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Literature
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O. I. Norwich, "Norwich's Maps of Africa", map 212.
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Pieter VANDER AA (1659 - 1733)
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Records show that van der Aa, born in Leyden in 1659, made an early start in life by being apprenticed to a bookseller at the age of nine and starting on his own in business as a book publisher by the time he was twenty-three.
During the following fifty years he published an enormous amount of material, including atlases and illustrated works in every shape and size, two of them consisting of no less than 27 and 28 volumes containing over 3,000 maps and plates.
Most of his maps were not of the first quality and were certainly not original, but they are often very decorative and are collected on that account.
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