Cape Verde Islands: Isles Du Cap Verd Coste Et Pays Des Negres Aux Environs Du Cap Verd

Sanson, Nicholas

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Original engraving. Date: 1656. Size: 29cm x 20.3cm. A finely engraved map of the coast of Africa and the Cape Verde Islands. Dated 1656 in the plate. Sanson was Royal Geographer to the King of France and was widely considered to be the most important French mapmaker from the mid-seventeenth to the mid-eighteenth century. Central fold line else a fine, clean copy.