Important South African & International Art, Furniture, Decorative Arts & Jewellery
Live Auction, 13 October 2014
Cape & Colonial Silver & Furniture, International & South African Art Day Sale
About this Item
Emanuel Bowen
A New & Accurate Map of the Southern Parts of Africa, containing Lower Guinea, Monoemugi, Zanguebar, the Empire of Monomotapa, Country of the Cafres and the Island of Madagascar
London, 1747
first edition
Depicts Southern Africa with reliefs shown pictorially. Includes geographic and ethnographic notes and an ornamental cartouche depicting lions, fruit, a farmstead with labourers and a bay.
37 by 45cm excluding frame
Literature
Oscar I Norwich. (1983) Maps of Africa, Johannesburg and Cape Town: Donker. Illustrated on page 235, Map 170.
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