Carte de l'Afrique méridionale au pays entre la ligne Cap de Bonne Espérance et l'Isle de Madagascar
Description
| Type of resource | cartographic |
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| Form | cartographic image |
| Extent | 1 map : color ; 53 x 63 cm |
| Place | Amsterdam |
| Publisher | chez Henry de Leth Marchand d'Estampes près de la Boursse |
| Publication date | 1730 |
| Language | French |
| Digital origin | reformatted digital |
| Map data | Scale not determined ; E 5°17'00"--E 53°37'00"/N 5°14'00"--S 36°53'00" |
Creators/Contributors
| Associated with | Visscher, Elizabeth |
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Subjects
| Subject | Africa > Maps > Early works to 1800 |
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| Subject | Good Hope, Cape of (South Africa : Cape) > Maps > Early works to 1800 |
| Subject | Africa, Southern > Maps > Early works to 1800 |
| Subject | Slaves > South Africa > Good Hope, Cape of (South Africa : Cape) > Maps > Early works to 1800 |
| Subject | Farm ownership > South Africa > Good Hope, Cape of (South Africa : Cape) > Maps > Early works to 1800 |
| Genre | Map |
| Genre | Early maps |
Bibliographic information
| Note | The details regarding Elizabeth, Nicolas Visscher's widow, are drawn from Gallica, Bibliothèque Nationale de France: http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b7759505j.notice. See also: Atlas nouveau … by Guillaume de L'Isle (Amsterdam: Covens & Mortier, 1730); R.V. Tooley, Collectors’ guide to maps of the African continent and Southern Africa (London: Carta Press, 1969), p. 120; Norwich's maps of Africa : an illustrated and annotated carto-bibliography (Norwich, Vt. : Terra Nova Press, 1997), map 180 (note). |
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| Note | Coordinates approximate and based on Greenwich meridian. |
| Note | Compass rose. |
| Note | Bar scale on map given in "Lieues Marines." |
| Note | The inset of the Cape of Good Hope is of particular importance. It indicates the presence of slaves on Robben Island ("daar de Slaven in de Ketting loopen"). It also gives "extensive detailed and fairly accurate topographical information ... together with the names of owners of farms and plots of that period. Amongst these are de Beer, Swart Pieter, Martin de Smit, Roelof Pasman, Gerrit Kloeton, and the French Huguenot settlement. These place names add considerably to the knowledge of the history of the ... Cape of Good Hope"--Norwich's Maps of Africa, p. 203. |
| With | 3 inset maps: "Élévation du Port et Mont Table au Cap de Bonne Espérance" (5 x 11 cm); "Plan du Port et Mont Table au Cap de Bonne Espérance" (10 x 11 cm); "[Cabo de Bona Esperanca]" (13 x 23 cm). |
| Note | Text primarily in French. The inset of the Cape is also in Dutch with some Portuguese notations. |
| Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/gx299hy1611 |
| Repository | University of Cape Town |
Access conditions
- Use and reproduction
- Image courtesy University of Cape Town Libraries, Special Collections: Maps scanned under the William and Yvonne Jacobson Digital Africana Program at UCT. If you have questions, please contact David Rumsey Map Center at rumseymapcenter@stanford.edu.
- Copyright
- Property rights reside with the repository. Copyright © Stanford University. All Rights Reserved.
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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Africana Historical Maps
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