An early Victorian map of Africa

DE LA ROCHETTE, Louis Stanislas d'Arcy.

Africa.
London: James Wyld, 1840. Original colour. 530 x 590mm.

A detailed map of Africam decorated with a title cartouche of a medallion featuring an Egyptian diety with a cornucopia and a strange scorpion/lobster creature. The interior is beginning to be explored, and Mungo Park's mythical 'Mountains of Kong' are marked.

See NORWICH: 136 for earlier issue.
Stock ID : 23427