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BG-12416-2
Antique Map of South Africa by De Winter (c.1680)
- Condition: Good, age-related toning. Some wear and foxing, blank verso. Please study image carefully.
- Date: c.1680
- Overall size: 37 x 24.5 cm.
- Image size: 28.5 x 20 cm.
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Description: Antique map titled 'Pays et Coste des Caffres Empires de Monomotapa (..)'. Detailed map of South Africa. Engraved by Antoine d'Winter for a Dutch edition of Sanson's pocket atlas.
Artists and Engravers: Nicholas Sanson d'Abbeville (1600 - 1667) and his descendents were important French cartographer's active through the 17th century. Sanson started his career as a historian where, it is said, he turned to cartography as a way to illustrate his historical studies. In the course of his research some of his fine maps came to the attention of King Louis XIII who, admiring the quality of his work, appointed Sanson 'Geographe Ordinaire du Roi'. Sanson's duties in this coved position included advising the King on matters of Geography and compiling the royal cartographic archive. Sanson's corpus of some three hundred maps initiated the golden age of French Cartography.