Guillaume Danet

A scarce French map of Africa.

• Guillaume Danet (French).
• L'Afrique Dressée Sur Les Relations & nouvelles decouvertes de differens Voyageurs Conformes aux observations Astronomiques.
• Paris: Louis Charles Desnos, 1760. 
• Original color.
• Unframed.

A large and rare map of Africa, not listed in either Tooley or Norwich. It is decorated with a large allegorical cartouche featuring a female Europe and a male Africa, both holding manacles, representing the slave trade.

The engraved border is filled with four armorials, European and Asian as well as African, interspersed with shells.

Danet was the son-in-law and successor of De Fer, and republished many of his maps, but this item is apparently a new work, one of a series of "World and Continents" originally published in 1729-32. The crack in the printing plate in the right border was present in the 1732 edition.