The Continents
Hondius's Africa
A new table of Africa, dated 1631.
- Map
- Africae nova tabula
- Mapmaker
- Henricus Hondius
- Date
- 1631, printed 1638
- Held by
- Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center, Boston Public Library · via Digital Commonwealth
Format
The full-resolution scan, color-managed to the source — yours to print, study, and explore.
Size
$29.00
The story
Africae nova tabula: a new table of Africa. Henricus Hondius dated this plate 1631, and it was printed in the Atlas Novus that he and Jan Jansson brought out in Amsterdam in 1638, carrying on the atlas Gerard Mercator had begun. Relief is drawn as rows of small hills, the way a traveller might sketch a range seen from the coast. On the back the printer's signature, Gggg, places the sheet in its book. It belongs to a set of four continents from the same atlas, and on a wall it answers the America, Asia and Europe that were bound beside it.
About this reproduction
- A faithful reproduction of a public-domain map held by Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center, Boston Public Library · via Digital Commonwealth — the work is centuries out of copyright.
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