1598 Africae Tabula Nova

BThis exceptional map of Africa was published by Abraham Ortellius in 1598. It was  originally printed in 1570 in the first edition of Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, Western Europe's first modern atlas. The work was widely produced for over forty years, in seven different languages. Ortelius’ map of Africa is based on Gastaldi's eight sheet wall map and Mercator's world map of 1569. Two notable geographic changes Ortelius made to the shape of Africa are a more pointed Cape of Good Hope and an eastern coastline that extends far less to the east than do many earlier maps of Africa. Ortelius was also the first to include sources to the information displayed in his map. Also, while many map makers tend to fill the African continent with vignettes of animals, often in an attempt to mask their geographical ignorance of the area, Ortelius leaves the African continent completely void of any such distraction. The map however, is not completely void of ornamentation. A vignette in the lower right depi