Italian edition of Jacques-Nicolas Bellin’s map of the Cape of Good Hope region, engraved in Venice for Formaleoni’s maritime atlas. The map depicts the southwestern part of South Africa, including Cape Town, False Bay, and Mossel Bay, with detailed attention to interior topography, river systems, and tribal territories including the Ottentotti, Boschimani, and Gorachouquas. Settlements such as Stellenbosch and Robben Island are marked, along with ethnographic regions and named geographic features drawn from Dutch and French sources.
The title cartouche is adapted in Italian and set in a decorative landscape, with the map reflecting Bellin’s mid-18th-century data reengraved for a wartime Italian audience. One of the few contemporary Italian-engraved maps of the Cape published outside of a general atlas.