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  • Author: Jan Jansson
  • Date: 1639
  • Medium: Hand-colored copperplate engraving
  • Condition: Excellent
  • Inches: 15 1/4" x 20 3/4"
  • Centimeters: 39.10 x 53.21
  • Product ID: 000073

Decorative map of the west-central African coastline, stretching from the area of Freetown, Sierra Leone on the left down to Equatorial Guinea on the lower right, and encompassing the territories of present-day Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, and Cameroon. A fanciful rendering of an ape sits atop a cartouche, flanked by a man and woman of the region. Two cherubs lug an elephant tusk through the water in the lower left, suggesting the riches of the ivory trade.