Map of the African continent from Blaeu's Atlas Maior (originally produced by Willem Blaeu, father of Johannes), 1663 edition.
"The map shows major African cities across the top border. These include Tangiers, Ceuta, Algiers, Tunis, Alexandria, Cairo, the island of Mozambique, the mine at St. George in Guinea, and the Canary Islands...They offer a hint of the rich port economies that ringed the continent in the seventeenth century."
"Blaeu added many place names from the Portuguese discoveries and those of the Dutch as they came to dominate the East Indies trade. Blaeu used his favored status as hydrographer to the Dutch East India Company and his central location in Amsterdam to access the latest published and manuscript sources."
--from Barry Ruderman Antique Maps.
