AFRICAE ACCURATA TABULA EX OFFICINA JACABUM MEURSIUM
£225
Uncommon foio Van Mers / Ogilby map. Folded into
Ogilby (John), Africae Accurata Tabula ex officina Jacobum Meursium, circa 1670, engraved map with contemporary outline colouring, early proof state with the dedication cartouche blank, old folds, toned overall.
A striking, fully colored seventeenth-century map of the African continent, originally engraved by Jacob van Meurs for Olfert Dapper's influential Naukeurige Beschrijvinge der Afrikaensche Gewesten (1668). The map was subsequently utilized by John Ogilby for his English translation, Africa, published in London in 1671.
Highly decorative with flying fish & whale. Ships, and continent liberally scattered with animals monkeys to elephants.
Fattened folds & laid on archival paper
Original outline colour
Good condition Would look very impressive framed
Ref ; R. V. Tooley. Collector's Guide to the Maps of the African Continent and Southern Africa, page 87.
code : M5659
Cartographer : OGILBY John
Date : 1588
Size : 43.5*54 cms
availability : Available
Price : £225
John Ogilby (1600-1676) had a variety of colourful careers (not invariably ending in disaster) before he embarked on a career as a surveyor and cartographer. "Tooley's Dictionary Of Mapmakers" suggests he was a dancing master, poet, translator, historian, printer, publisher, Royal Cosmographer (1671), Master of the King's Revels in Ireland, founder manager and director of Dublin's first theatre and surveyor to the City of London, amongst others.
