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Collection name:
Maps of Africa
Record:
Title:
Africa divided according to the extent of its Principall Parts in which are distinquished one from the other Empires, Monarchies, Kingdoms, States and Peoples which at this time inhabite Africa.
Publication Place:
London
Publisher:
Berry, William, fl. 1669-1708
Publication Date:
1680
Cartographer:
Berry, William, fl. 1669-1708
Height:
54 cm.
Width:
89 cm.
Scale:
Scale in English and Italian miles, French, German and Spanish leagues
Color:
Colored
Descriptive Notes:
Based on Jaillot's map, (see NOR 0046). Title across top: Africa distinguished in its principal parts viz. Barbary. Biledulgerid, Egypt, Zaara or The Desert, the Country of the Negros, Guinea, Nubia, Abissinea, Zanguebar; Congo, Monomotapa, Caffrares, the Islands of the Canaries, Cape Verd, St. Thomas, Madagascar or St. Lawrence ... Described by Sanson. Corrected and amended by William Berry. Dedicated to Charles II; Prime meridian through Ferro Island.
Provenance:
Dr. Oscar I. Norwich
General Area:
Africa
Geographic Focus:
Africa
Period:
17th c.
Norwich Number:
47
Call Number:
NOR 0047
References:
Norwich (2nd ed.), ckey = 3871463
Page:
map 0047, p. 58
Program:
Jacobson Africana Program

Africa divided according to the extent of its Principall Parts in which are distinquished …