1628 Jodocus Hondius & Gerard Mercator Antique Map of Africa - Beautiful Solomon Islands the Barbarian Invasions resumed

the Barbarian Invasions resumed

Jansson in this map shows the Pacific coast of South America from Ecuador - at the left hand side - as far south as the Atacama desert in the northern reaches of Chile

The first European explorer to visit the region (and Australia) was the Dutch Willem Janszoon (whose name is also written as Jansz) in 1605–6

the home town of Browning (I

The Irish in Jamaica also formed a large part of the islands early population

1628 Jodocus Hondius & Gerard Mercator Antique Map of Africa - Beautiful Solomon Islands the Barbarian Invasions resumedTitle : Nova Africae Tabula. Auctore Jodoco Hondio Excusum in aedibus Auctoris Amsterodami. Ref #: 35626 Condition: (A+) Fine Condition Size: 22 1 2in x 17 1 4in (615mm x 530mm) Date: 1628 Description: This original beautifully hand coloured copper plate engraved antique map of Africa by Jodocus Hondius, after Gerard Mercator, was published in the 1628 Latin edition of Mercators Atlas Atlas Sive Cosmographicae Meditationes De Fabrica Mundi This is a