Published in Rome.
By Giovanni Giacomo de Rossi (1627 - 1691)
Copperplate engraving.
Rossi’s map was faithfully modeled on Guglielmo Sansone’s map of 1668 as cited in the title cartouche, only substituting Italian for French text. Some characteristics of this map are; the two St. Helena Islands; the inaccuracy of Southern Africa (before the discovery of longitude); Brazil is depicted as 10 degrees further West than it should be (Treaty of Tordesillas); Cape Aghullas (Cape of Needles) and Monomatapa (The Kingdom that ruled from the Zimbabwe ruins).

56cm x 41.5cm excluding mountboard, unframed.

R16,500.