This is the first state of De Fer's depiction of the continent. A thickened west coast expands between the Cape and the Congo, based on his wall map of 1696-98. Unusual islands appear in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans including a mythical second island of St. Helena. Monomotapa is shown in the south. In Central Africa there is a paragraph concerning the origin of the Nile in Abyssinia - however the two sub-equatorial Ptolemaic lakes are still shown on the map. The map is graced with a decorative dedication to the Dauphin and a title cartouche featuring lime kilns.

References: Betz # 170.1; cf Norwich #64 (larger version).

Condition: A

A nice impression on a sound sheet of laid paper. There is a faint stain in the blank right margin that just touches the map.