Atlas Minor - Africae Descriptio.

Gerard Mercator.

 

Date of original: 1607

Dimensions: 5.51" x 7.48" (original size), 8.27" x 11.22" (150% original), 11.02" x 14.96"  (200% original).  [Custom sizing also available.  Please contact us for more information.]

Coverage: Scale c. 1:65,464,000

Subject: Africa - Early Works to 1800

Language: Latin

Notes: Relief shown pictorially.  Letterpress title reads Africa; atlas plate number 11.  Appears in Atlas Minor, Gerardi Mercatoris, 1607.

 

Alan M. Voorhees Collection - The Alan M. Voorhees Map Collection extends from the 1493 Nuremberg Chronicle through the U.S. Civil War period with the bulk of the collection consisting of pre20th century maps. In a variety of map formats, such as nautical charts and views, the collection focuses primarily on the Chesapeake Bay area and the development of Virginia within the larger geographical and historical contexts of Europe and America.