A scarce French map of Africa

DANET, Guillaume.

L'Afrique Dressée Sur Les Relations & nouvelles decouvertes de differens Voyageurs Conformes aux observatio.ns Astronomiques.
Paris: Louis Charles Desnos, 1760. Original colour. 490 x 720mm.

A large and rare map of Africa, not listed in either Tooley or Norwich. It is decorated with a large allegorical cartouche featuring a female Europe and a male Africa, both holding manacles, representing the valuable slaves trade.

The engraved border is filled with 4 armorials, European and Asian as well as African, interspersed with shells.
Danet was the son-in-law and successor of De Fer, and republished many of his maps, but this item is apparently a new work, one of a series of World and Continents originally published 1729-32. The crack in the printing plate in the right border was present in the 1732 edition.


Stock ID : 16496