Map of Africa - the inset in lower left titles it: Africa tabula Nova. Below that is the date 1570 and the place Antwerp. The cartographer is Abraham Ortelius, a Dutch cartographer, geographer, and cosmographer, conventionally recognized as the creator of the first modern atlas, the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum.

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