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Engraved by Joannes Somer and published in Paris by Pierre Mariette this attractive map of central north Africa bears an ornate title cartouche top right. It is centred on Tunisia and Libya and includes the island of Malta in the Mediterranean. It comes from Sanson’s ‘Cartes Generales de Toutes les Parties du Monde’. Pastoureau Sanson V A no. 16.
SANSON, Nicolas

Partie de la Coste de Barbarie en Africque ou Sont les Royaumes de Tunis, et Tripoli ...

Paris, 1655
370 x 530 mm., in early outline colour.
Stock number: 3952
£ 175
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