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Collection name:
Maps of Africa
Record:
Title:
Chorographia originis Nili juxta observationem Odoardi Lopez. Fol. 55. Chorographia Originis Nili ... ex Arabum Geographia deprompta. Fol. 53. Vera et Genuina Fontium Nili Topographia facta a P. Petro Pais ... 1618. Fol. 56.
Title in Translation:
Three maps of the origins of the Nile according to Duarte Lopez, to Arab geography and Peter Pais.
Publication Place:
Amsterdam
Publisher:
Kircher, Athanasius, 1602-1680
Publication Date:
1652
Cartographer:
Kircher, Athanasius, 1602-1680
Height:
46 cm.
Width:
36 cm.
Scale:
No scale given
Color:
Uncolored
Descriptive Notes:
Includes three maps on one sheet. "Kircher is reputed to be the first to have described the finding of the Nile as recorded by the Jesuit traveller Paez." Title across top: I Conismas II Tom. I Fol. 53. Upper right: Tomus I.
Provenance:
Dr. Oscar I. Norwich
General Area:
Africa
Geographic Focus:
Southern Africa
Map Use:
Exploration
Period:
17th c.
Norwich Number:
156
Call Number:
NOR 0156
Source:
Oedipus Aegyptiacus (1652)
References:
Norwich (2nd ed.), ckey = 3871463
Page:
map 0156, p. 177
Program:
Jacobson Africana Program

Chorographia originis Nili juxta observationem Odoardi Lopez. Fol. 55. Chorographia Origin…