Guinea

Keere, Pieter: van den · 1600

Guinea/Petrus Kaerius caelavit. - [Approx. 1: 19400000], Germanic milliaria com. [60 = 2.3 cm] - [S. l.]: [s. n.], [first half of 17th cent.] - 1 geographic map: strong and bulb; 138 x 185 mm. (On the left, magnification of the island of Sao Tomé on a scale of about 1: 2600000, calculated from the grid. - Engraved engraving on the r of a paper with title and page indication: Guinea, 591. On the v printed text in Latin with title and page indication at the head: Insula S. Thomae, p. 592. - The same map is present in norwich: 316 in another edition, attributed to J. Hondius' Atlas minor published several times by J. Janssonius, may indeed be one of the many editions of this work since P. van der Keere, relative to Hondius and Janssonius, worked extensively with the latter. - Specimen: Residues of adhesive material on the head. - On the left hand note manuscript in lapis (165). - Watercolor model. - Good conservation conditions with some spots