De Stadt Alger
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John Ogilby's work "Africa" was based on the Dutch publication of two years earlier, by Jacob van Meurs, of Olfert Dapper's "Naukeurige Beschrijvinghe Der Afrikaensche ...". Using, in the main, the same copperplate maps and views, this translation was the best English account of the continent to that time and was intended to be part of a series of atlases of all parts of the world, which, in fact, was never completed. The maps, with title cartouches supported by native figures, animals and so on, and the plates were finely engraved and represent evocative European perceptions of the regions as known during the seventeenth century. A detailed plan/view of Algiers. Lower centrefold split repaired.
region: Maps of Northern Africa
place and date of publication:
London 1668-1670
medium and colour:
copperplate, Uncoloured
ref:
30660
size in cms: 35.5 x 26 literature: MABL p765 T.Ogil-1a Price: £ 350 |
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