Historic Map : Pinkerton Map of Southern Africa (Congo, Monomotapa, Cape Colony), 1818, Vintage Wall Art Size:32in x 24in in Common French Leagues

in Common French Leagues

A rare and beautiful 1606 map of Holland ( Netherlands ) by Gerard Mercator

as most maps of the period bundled it with New Hampshire

Shows the dispersal

Lower Saxony

Historic Map : Pinkerton Map of Southern Africa (Congo, Monomotapa, Cape Colony), 1818, Vintage Wall Art Size:32in x 24in in Common French LeaguesThis fascinating hand colored 1818 map by Edinburgh cartographer John Pinkerton depicts Southern Africa. Covers Africa from Angola south to the Cape Colony (modern South Africa) and east to the Kingdom of Mongall (modern day Mozambique) and the island of Madagascar. Reflecting the somewhat limited knowledge of the African interior available to European cartographers of the period, only three areas are illustrated with any detail the Congo, the Cape