Media Information

 
 
 
Collection name:
Maps of Africa
Record:
Title:
Guinea.
Publication Place:
Amsterdam
Publisher:
Blaeu, Willem Janszoon, 1571-1638
Publication Date:
1663
Cartographer:
Blaeu, Willem Janszoon, 1571-1638
Height:
38 cm.
Width:
52 cm.
Scale:
Scale in German and Spanish miles
Color:
Outline color
Descriptive Notes:
Interior is illustrated with animals, rivers, lakes and mountains. Sea contains five ships and two compass roses with rhumb lines. Dedicated to D. Nicolao Tulp. "Tulp is the Dutch doctor who appears in Rembrandt's painting, The Anatomy Lesson."
Provenance:
Dr. Oscar I. Norwich
General Area:
Africa
Geographic Focus:
Western Africa
Period:
17th c.
Norwich Number:
315
Call Number:
NOR 0315
Source:
Grand Atlas (1663)
References:
Norwich (2nd ed.), ckey = 3871463
Page:
map 0315, p. 359
Program:
Jacobson Africana Program

Guinea.