{"id":24951,"date":"2020-06-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-24T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inter-antiquariaat.nl\/dev-en\/antiek\/uncategorized\/africa-de-lisle-1724\/"},"modified":"2024-06-10T11:10:35","modified_gmt":"2024-06-10T09:10:35","slug":"africa-de-lisle-1724","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/inter-antiquariaat.nl\/en\/antiques\/maps\/maps-world\/africa-and-middle-east\/africa-de-lisle-1724\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa &#8211; Guillaume de L\u2019Isle, Covens and Mortier, 1724"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201c<strong><em>Africa Accurate in Imperia, Regna, Status &amp; Populos divisa, ad usum serenissimi Ludovici XV Galliarum Regis. &#8211; Carte D&#8217;Afrique Dress\u00e9e pour l&#8217;usage du Roy<\/em><\/strong>\u201c. Copper engraving made by Johannes Condet, after the design of <strong>Guillaume de L\u2019Isle<\/strong> (aka Delisle), published in Amsterdam by the firm of <strong>Johannes Covens<\/strong> and <strong>Cornelis Mortier<\/strong> in <strong>1742<\/strong>.\u00a0 Original outline colouring with additions by a later hand. Size: 49 x 64 cm.<\/p>\n<p>In this map Delisle shows Africa without the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ptolemy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ptolomaic<\/a>-based Nile River imaginary source lakes. Delisle also gives the correct longitude for the Mediterranean Sea of 42<sup>o<\/sup>, thus correcting the width of the northern shape of Africa.<\/p>\n<p>The interior has the main regions identified with capital letters for <em>BARBARIE<\/em>, <em>EGYPTE<\/em>, <em>NUBIE<\/em>, <em>NIGRITIE<\/em>, <em>GUIN\u00c9E<\/em>, <em>ABISSINIE<\/em>, <em>ETHIOPIE <\/em>and <em>CAFFERIE<\/em>. Dotted lines divide all of Africa into numerous sub regions labelled <em>Royaumes<\/em>, <em>Etates<\/em>, etc. Within the regions, considerable detail and additional placenames are shown particularly around those areas settled or explored by Europeans in West-Africa, Abyssinia, the Congo, Southeast Africa on the Zambesi River and South Africa. At Cape of Good Hope, the Dutch settlements at <em>Drakenstein<\/em>, <em>Stellenbosch<\/em> and<em> Fort Hollandia<\/em> are shown. Lake <em>Marawi<\/em> [Malawi] in Central Africa is identified for the first time on this Delisle map. It is also the first time Senegal and Niger Rivers are separated.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Guillaume_Delisle\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Guillaume De L\u00b4isle<\/a> (1626- 1757) is often referred to as the father of modern geography. He was elected a member of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/French_Academy_of_Sciences\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">French Acad\u00e9mie Royale des Sciences<\/a> in 1702, and then was appointed <em>Premier geographe du Roi<\/em> in 1718. His new office consisted of teaching geography to the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Louis_XV_of_France\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dauphin<\/a>, King Louis XIV\u2019s son, hence the dedication in the title.<\/p>\n<p>Price: Euro 650,-<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAfrica Accurate in Imperia, Regna, Status &amp; Populos divisa, ad usum serenissimi Ludovici XV Galliarum Regis. &#8211; Carte D&#8217;Afrique Dress\u00e9e pour l&#8217;usage du Roy\u201c. Copper engraving made by Johannes Condet, after the design of Guillaume de L\u2019Isle (aka Delisle), published in Amsterdam by the firm of Johannes Covens and Cornelis Mortier in 1742.\u00a0 Original outline [&#8230;]\n","protected":false},"featured_media":18012,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[1409,1407,1408],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-24951","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"artist-covens-mortier","7":"artist-isle-guillaume-de-l","8":"product_cat-africa-and-middle-east","9":"product_cat-maps","10":"product_cat-maps-world","12":"first","13":"instock","14":"shipping-taxable","15":"product-type-simple"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>rare old map of Africa original 18th century engraving antique print<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" 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