Antique hand coloured map; Blaeu [J] Aethiopia Superior vel ...

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£120 - £150

Antique hand coloured map; Blaeu [J] Aethiopia Superior vel Interior Vuldo Abissinorum Sive Presbiteri Joannis Imperium. Coloured, Embracing the whole of East and Central Africa, from the Egyptian border in the North to Mozambique in the south, 19 by 15 inches, with a finely coloured cartouche depicting a native family sheltering from a fierce sun beneath a pair of scarlet parasols; elephants, monkeys and ostriches completing the decoration; [No.106 in 'Decorative Maps of Africa up to 1800, 'Johannesburg, 1952'] Has letter to the back detailing the maps information.