"Barbaria [on sheet with] Carthaginensis Sinus [and] Aegyptus", Mercator/Hondius
Subject: Northern Africa
Period: 1630 (published)
Publication: Atlas Minor
Color: Hand Color
Size:
7.4 x 5.7 inches
18.8 x 14.5 cm
Charming map of the whole of North Africa and the famed Barbary coast. There are two large insets at bottom: Carthaginensis Sinus with the city of Tunis, and a map of the Nile Delta. The map is richly engraved with place names, mountains, and numerous spurious lakes in the Sahara Desert. The map is adorned with strapwork title and scale cartouches. Dutch text on verso.
References: Van der Krogt (Vol. III) #8610:352.1.
Condition: B+
A dark impression with full contemporary color on a lightly toned sheet with some show-through of text on verso. There is a chip in the top margin that has been replaced with old paper, with partial loss of the alternate title above the map.
