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Rare late-17th-century Dutch map of Africa, by the accomplished, but not prolific, Amsterdam publisher Johannes De Ram.
Betz (130) says of the map:
This map copies the same large, decorative title cartouche of the Frederick de Wit map of Africa of c.1670. However, the geography on this De Ram map closely follows the earlier De Wit map of 1660, which was based on the geography of the Jodocus Hondius Jr. map of 1623 and the Willem Blaeu map of 1617.
States
Tooley (123) notes a second state with the addition of "ex officina Jacobi de la Feuille." Betz says this state is untraced.
De Ram's widow, Mari van Zutphen, married Jacques de la Feuille in 1696, and the latter continued publishing De Ram's oeuvre, though not in great numbers.
Rarity
Rare. This is the first time we have had the map for sale.
De Wit Gazetteer
The present example was included in a composite atlas with a very rare Frederick De Wit letterpress gazetteer for Africa. It is captioned in several languages. The English explanation reads:
An Alphabetical Table of AFRICA. This Table hath two diviſions, in the one are the Cities; in the other, the lettres set upon the margent of this Table schewing in what square these Cities may be found. By example, if you wil find Cairo at the lettre C, you ſhall find it to be in the square H. b. so like-wyes you may find all the others.
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