Antique Print-SEA CHART-AFRICA-MOROCCO-TANGER-ESSAOUIRA-Thronton-1707

Price: € 292,50

Subject: Antique print, titled: 'A Chart of the Coast of Barbary from C. Spartell to C. Cantin.' - A map/chart of the coast of West Africa, from Cape Cantin (Safi / El Jadida) to the Straight of Gibraltar in the North. This includes Casablanca and Rabat as well as Tangier. An inset map continues the coast south as far as Cape Geer (Essaouira).

Condition: Good, given age. Original middle fold, as issued. Some small stains in the margin edges. A printer's crease (a sharp crease as a result of the printing process) from the lower margin to the left margin. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

Medium: Engraving with handcolouring on hand laid paper.

Size (in cm): The overall size is ca. 58.5 x 46.3 cm. The image size is ca. 53.2 x 43.2 cm.

Size (in inch): The overall size is ca. 23 x 18.2 inch. The image size is ca. 20.9 x 17 inch.

Part Number: 63712

Location: GK-291

Description: From "Sea-Atlas, Containing an Hydrographical Description of most of the Sea-Coasts of the Known Parts of the World", published by Seller & Prica, ca. 1707.

Artists and Engravers: Made by an anonymous engraver after 'Samuel Thornton'. Samuel Thornton (d.1715) was the son the English mapmaker John Thornton, an eminent English mapmaker of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century. After his father's death in 1708, Samuel Thornton continued to re-issue his father’s map (often with his imprint substituted).