A NEW & ACCURATE MAP OF THE SOUTHERN PARTS OF AFRICA, CONTAINING LOWER GUINEA, MONOEMUGI, ZANGUEBAR, AND EMPIRE OF MONOMOTAPA, COUNTY OF THE CAFRES &C. AND THE ISLD. OF MADAGASCAR. London, 1747 first edition
Bowen, Emanuel
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ZAR 2 000 - 3 000
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Bowen, Emanuel
A NEW & ACCURATE MAP OF THE SOUTHERN PARTS OF AFRICA, CONTAINING LOWER GUINEA, MONOEMUGI, ZANGUEBAR, AND EMPIRE OF MONOMOTAPA, COUNTY OF THE CAFRES &C. AND THE ISLD. 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; 61 by 67,5 by 2cm including frame
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