Price: £240.00

• Date: 1667
• Condition: AA
• Colour: Original
• Size: 11.6 x 8.3 inches

Title: 'Le Zanguebar Partie du Zanguebar ou sont les Costes d’AJAN et d’ABEX'.

Two maps on one sheet showing the coasts of East Africa. The left hand map shows the Zanzibar coast, the right hand map shows the coast north from Zanzibar, round the Horn of Africa to the Red Sea.
An attractive miniature map prepared by N.Sanson and published by Pierre Mariette.
Published in an early edition of the small Sanson atlas L'Europe Dediée a Monseigneur . . . Le Tellier Secret. D'Estat &c."The atlas proved popular and the maps were imitated by Johann Zunners in Frankfurt (1679) and by Joannes Ribbius and François Halma (1682-1730s). The map offered here is the first plate with the address of Pierre Mariette, but with the date removed. Engraved by A.Peyrounin.

In very good condition, paper slightly age toned, slight water staining and spotting.