Africae Pars [A part of Africa]

This uncommon small map is arguably the first printed map of the Cape of Good Hope. It is from Joris van Spilbergen's voyage to the region of the Cape of Good Hope fifty years before the Dutch settled at the Cape. He anchored in and named Saldanha Bay and also renamed Table Bay, which had been known to the Portuguese as Aguada de Saldanha

  The map is printed above some text on a page from Theodore de Bry's, [Petit Voyages] Collectiones Indiae orientalis (Frankfurt: Wolfgang Richter, 1612). 

  The map illustrated numerous publications of travels, which Spilbergen undertook from 1601 to 1604. The numbers on the map are explained in the text of Spilbergen's journal:

1. Table Bay;

2. Table Mountain 'which is seen 9 or 10 miles at sea';

3. Isla d'Elizabeth (now Dassen Island);

4. Isla de Cornelia (now Robben Island);

5. Caep de bon Esperance;

6. 'These inhabitants have a clucking speech like turkeys (Khoekhoe, formerly known as Hottentot), and there are many harts and hinds (male and female deer) here' - from the translation by R. Raven-Hart.

  This De Bry map has the appearance of a wood but was engraved on copper by GK (bottom right), i.e. Georg Keller. The imprint is dark and the paper clean; overall the map is in very good condition; having been printed on flimsy paper, it has been strengthened reversably with Japanese tissue paper on the verso.

 Reference: Norwich's Maps of Africa #205. Not in Tooley's Guide to Maps of Africa.