New Map of Africa 1805
From the New Universal Atlas.
Hand-coloured copperplate engraving.
By John Cary (c. 1754–1835), an English cartographer.
Cary served his apprenticeship as an engraver in London, before setting up his own business in the Strand in 1783. He soon gained a reputation for his maps and globes, his atlas, The New and Correct English Atlas published in 1787, becoming a standard reference work in England.
Some repairs and discolouration.
517mm x 600mm excluding mountboard (unframed)
R7,500