Media Information

 
 
 
Collection name:
Maps of Africa
Record:
Title:
Africa According to the best Authorities.
Publication Place:
Philadelphia
Publisher:
Carey, Mathew, 1760-1839
Publication Date:
No date
Cartographer:
Carey, Mathew, 1760-1839
Height:
33.5 cm.
Width:
33.5 cm.
Scale:
Scale in statute miles
Color:
Outline color
Descriptive Notes:
Map was issued in Carey's General Atlas and also in Gunthrie's Geography Improved. Geographically inaccurate, states fictitious tribal names and inaccurate naming of bays and rivers. Title across top: Engraved for Carey's American edition of Gunthrie's Geography Improved; Prime meridian through Philadelphia.
Provenance:
Dr. Oscar I. Norwich
General Area:
Africa
Geographic Focus:
Africa
Period:
18th c.
Norwich Number:
130
Call Number:
NOR 0130
References:
Norwich (2nd ed.), ckey = 3871463
Page:
map 0130, p. 149
Program:
Jacobson Africana Program

Africa According to the best Authorities.