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Southwest coast of Africa
By GOOS, Pieter, 1666
Pas-Kaarte van de Zuyd-west-kut van Africa; van Cabo Negro tot beoosten cabo de Bona Esperance.
- Author: GOOS, Pieter
- Publication place: Amsterdam
- Publisher: Pieter Goos
- Publication date: 1666
- Physical description: Engraved map in original outline hand-colour heightened in gold
- Inventory reference: 3872
Notes
A chart of the southwest coast of Africa, from Namibia to South Africa. The inset maps show the Cape of Good Hope in detail and Vleesbay (now Vleesbai) on the Western Cape. Vleesbai (from the Dutch Vleys Baeye, meaning ‘bay of meat’) was named by Paulus van Caerden, a Dutch explorer who traded with natives for livestock there.
Bibliography
- Burden 388
- Burden, Philip. (2007). The mapping of North America. Rickmansworth: Raleigh Publications.
- Koeman Goos 1B
- Koeman, C. (1967). Atlantes Neerlandici. Amsterdam: Theatrum Orbis Terrarum. 6 vols.
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