Beschreibung:

Africa Propria; Africa Interior; Aegyptus et Cyrenaica; Aegypti et Nili Ostia
4 maps of North Africa and Egypt on 1 sheet, each with decorative title vignettes, each respectively illustrating the sack of Carthage, elephants and lions by palm trees, pyramids and a man-eating crocodile, the Nile river god by a sphynx, engraved maps with original hand-colouring, the vignettes with full original colour and heightened with gum-arabic, each c.205 x 305mm., three vertical folds, one not affecting maps, a vertical crease affecting two maps, otherwise in good condition, [1697] § [Dapper (Olfert)] Nieuwe Kaert van Egipten, Upper Egypt, the Nile Delta and the Red Sea, with north oriented to the left, decorative title and scale cartouches upper left and lower right, respectively, engraved map, 285 x 360mm., central vertical fold, slight marginal browning, [Amsterdam], late 17th century