Media Information

 
 
 
Collection name:
Maps of Africa
Record:
Title:
Carta Generale Dell' Africa.
Title in Translation:
General map of Africa.
Publication Place:
Italy
Publication Date:
1740-1750
Cartographer:
L'Isle, Guillaume de, 1675-1726
Height:
33 cm.
Width:
42 cm.
Scale:
Scale in Italian miles
Color:
Uncolored
Descriptive Notes:
Italian edition. The cartouche illustrates a youth spearing a crocodile, another person riding a horse, nearby an elephant and a ostrich. An accurate geographical outline of the continent.
Provenance:
Dr. Oscar I. Norwich
General Area:
Africa
Geographic Focus:
Africa
Period:
18th c.
Norwich Number:
84
Call Number:
NOR 0084
References:
Norwich (2nd ed.), ckey = 3871463
Page:
map 0084, p. 100
Program:
Jacobson Africana Program

Carta Generale Dell' Africa.