Description de L'Afrique

Alternative Title:

L'Afrique and Description de l'Afrique ; D'O. Drapper, D. M. ; 1686

Description:

D'O. Dapper, D. M. French edition; originally published in Flemish. Relief shown pictorially. Latitudinal and longitudinal lines on maps. Includes indexes. Leather binding. First 6 and last 4 pages blank (included in page description). Engraved frontispiece, title page, head and tail-pieces throughout. "Traduite du Flamand" from title page. Illustrations include indigenous figures (involved in boat-building, food preparation, torture), plants, animals. Introductory text. Descriptive text accompanies maps; descriptive text on some maps. Decorative cartouches (e.g. cherubs, mythical figures), compass roses, rhumb lines, bar scales, indexes, coats of arms. Maps show topography, vegetation, waterways, shoals, ports, routes. Illustrations of topography, settlements, figures, flora, fauna, ships, sea creatures. Maps 3, 4, 15, 16, 27, 33, 40 are bird's eye views; Maps 5, 6, 9-14, 17, 18, 21-25, 29, 30, 31, 35, 36, 38 are views. Map 2 locates Egyptian pyramids geographically; Map 6 illustrates pyramids. Map 5 depicts pilgrimage to Mecca. Maps 35 and 39 feature ships in battle. Dutch title translations on some maps; Latin titles on some maps.

Creator:

Dapper, Olfert, 1635 or 1636-1689, Wolfgang, Abraham, active 1658-1694, Janssonius van Waesberge, Johannes, active 1642-1681, and Someren, Johan van, 1634-1706

Publisher:

Chez Wolfgang, Waesberge, Boom & van Someren, MDCLXXXVI [1686]

Provider:

Stanford

Resource Class:

Maps

Subject:

Pilgrims and pilgrimages

Date Issued:

1686

Spatial Coverage:

Saudi Arabia, Mecca, Africa, Egypt, Syria, Tangier (Morocco), Algeria, Tunis (Tunisia), Tripoli (Libya), Guinea, Benin, Ethiopia, Angola, Cape of Good Hope (South Africa), Horn of Africa, Madagascar, Gorée Bay (Senegal), Malta, Europe, Portugal, Middle East, and Mecca (Saudi Arabia)

Rights:

Images from the The Renaissance Exploration Collection courtesy Stanford University Libraries. This item is in the public domain. There are no restrictions on use. If you have questions, please contact the David Rumsey Map Center at rumseymapcenter@stanford.edu.

Rights Holder:

This work has been identified as being free of known restrictions under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights. You can copy, modify, distribute and perform the work, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission.

License:

https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

Access Rights:

Public

Format:

JPEG2000

Georeferenced:

More details at:

https://purl.stanford.edu/vq586cs8631