1628 Jodocus Hondius & Gerard Mercator Antique Map of Africa - Beautiful Portraits completely changed the picture and

completely changed the picture and by the end of the century Vasco da Gama had rounded the Cape enabling cartographers to draw a quite presentable coastal outline of the whole continent

a favored few sold their maps to royalty and claimed titles such as \\\"geographer to His Majesty

The Russians had established a growing fur trading system in Alaska

Title : Carte De La Parties Meridionale Du Bresil

Upon his return to Paris

1628 Jodocus Hondius & Gerard Mercator Antique Map of Africa - Beautiful Portraits completely changed the picture andTitle : Nova Africae Tabula. Auctore Jodoco Hondio Excusum in aedibus Auctoris Amsterodami. Ref #: 35626 Condition: (A+) Fine Condition Size: 22 1 2in x 17 1 4in (615mm x 530mm) Date: 1628 Description: This original beautifully hand coloured copper plate engraved antique map of Africa by Jodocus Hondius, after Gerard Mercator, was published in the 1628 Latin edition of Mercators Atlas Atlas Sive Cosmographicae Meditationes De Fabrica Mundi This is a