Item details: Barbaria/ Cartaginens/ Aegyptus
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£ 95.00
HONDIUS, Jodocus
Barbaria/ Cartaginens/ Aegyptus
Imprint: Amsterdam, 1607
140 x 180 mm., in good modern wash colour, good condition.
The top half of the map features the coast of Barbary, or the whole of North Africa. Below are two insets of Carthage in modern day Tunisia and the Nile Delta in Egypt. This attractive map is from Jodocus Hondius' miniature version of Gerard Mercator's great atlas entitled the 'Atlas Minor'. With German text to the verso. Van der Krogt, P. (Atlantes) 8610.351.
Stock number:4549.