1628 Jodocus Hondius & Gerard Mercator Antique Map of Africa - Beautiful Portraits completely changed the picture and

completely changed the picture and by the end of the century Vasco da Gama had rounded the Cape enabling cartographers to draw a quite presentable coastal outline of the whole continent

The Russians knew of Novaya Zemlya from the 11th century

concluded on December 24

This copper-plate engraved original antique map of Duff or Wilson Islands located northeast of the Santa Cruz Islands in the Solomon Islands province of Temotu

1628 Jodocus Hondius & Gerard Mercator Antique Map of Africa - Beautiful Portraits completely changed the picture andTitle : Nova Africae Tabula. Auctore Jodoco Hondio Excusum in aedibus Auctoris Amsterodami. Ref #: 35626 Condition: (A+) Fine Condition Size: 22 1 2in x 17 1 4in (615mm x 530mm) Date: 1628 Description: This original beautifully hand coloured copper plate engraved antique map of Africa by Jodocus Hondius, after Gerard Mercator, was published in the 1628 Latin edition of Mercators Atlas Atlas Sive Cosmographicae Meditationes De Fabrica Mundi This is a