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Seaweed and birds seen approaching the Cape of Good Hope.
The sailors saw many plants floating on the surface of the sea during their voyage to India. Among these was the ‘trombas’, which was a pipe-like growth with its root...
Date: Frankfurt, 1598
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How the inhabitants catch whales off the east coast of Madagascar.
When the natives of Santa Marta, off the east coast of Madagascar see a whale, they row out in their little boats and throw out a rope with a large hook on the end. When ...
Date: Frankfurt, 1598
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II. Delineatio Promontorii, qvod Cabo de bona Esperanca vulgo vocatur.
One of the earliest map of Cape of Good Hope region.
Date: Frankfurt 1600
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The inhabitants of the Cape of Good Hope
This is the first print to show the inhabitants of the Cape together with Europeans, and one of the first large scale prints of the native peoples of the Cape..The plate ...
Date: Frankfurt 1601
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Die Insul Madagascar, Laurenti Genand.
An attractive miniature copper-engraved map of Madagascar from the German edition of Abraham Ortelius' Epitome, With German title at the top, a ship, two sea-monsters and...
Date: Frankfurt, 1604
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St. Thomas.
A lovely miniature map of the one time Portuguese island of St. Thomas, published by Petrus Bertius, in Amsterdam at the beginning of the seventeenth century. The island ...
Date: Amsterdam, 1606
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Africae pars meridionalior.
A fine miniature map of central and southern Africa, published by Petrus Bertius in Amsterdam early in the seventeenth century. The lovely map and has a strap-work title,...
Date: Amsterdam, 1606
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I.S. Laurentij. [Madagasgar]
A nice miniature map of the Indian Ocean island of Madagasgar, published by Petrus Bertius in Amsterdam early in the seventeenth century. North is orientated to the left....
Date: Amsterdam, 1606
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Insulae Capitis Viridis.
A nice early miniature map by Petrus Bertius of the Cape Verde islands in the Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of Africa. With a decorative, strap-work title cartouche, a g...
Date: Amsterdam, 1606
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Africae Pars Meridionalior.
Very fine early miniature map of southern Africa, including also Madagascar. Title cartouche on the lower right corner : a sea monster is depicted.First published in 1598...
Date: Amsterdam/Frankfurt 1609
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