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The upper and interior parts of Ethiopia commonly known as Abyssinia or the empire of Prester John
A copy of Blaeu's much copied 1642 map of the same name but with different cartouches. Jonathan Swift commented: 'So geographers in Afric maps/With savage pictures fill their gaps/And o'er uninhabitable downs/Place elephants for want of towns'.
Credit/copyright
© National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, UK
Accession number
National Maritime Museum, F0309, G290:6/1
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