"Le Pays des Hottentots aux Environs du Cap de Bonne Esperance", Bellin/Van Schley

A beautifully engraved copperplate map of the Cape of Good Hope from Saint Helena Bay to Mossel Bay. Dutch settlements are mostly confined along the coast and southern regions. The inland regions are depicted as deserts, savannas, forests and mountain ranges with tribal names indicated and a few Boer colonies. Adorned by a decorative title cartouche with distance scales. Secondary title in Dutch at bottom.

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Condition: B+

Issued folding on a clean sheet with a Strasbourg Lily watermark. There is a binding trim at lower left and the sheet is trimmed to the border at right, also likely by the binder.