“Basses Aethiopie qui Comprend les Ryaume de Congo, Coste, et Pays des Cafres, Empires du Monomotapa, et Monoemugi.” This 1655 map is engraved by Jean Somer Pruthenus.
This is one of two Sanson maps in Stanford’s collection that show southern Africa in some detail and comes from the Norwich Collection. According to Oscar Norwich’s cartobibliography, this map is based on sparse information and sparked subsequent exploration in seach of cities noted on this map. Norwich speculates that this map was taken from a previous work by Nicolas Sanson called “Cartes Generales de Toutes les Parties du Monde published in 1632.”