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Collection name:
Maps of Africa
Record:
Title:
Carta Geographica del Capo de Buona Speranza.
Title in Translation:
Map of the Cape of Good Hope.
Publication Place:
Venice
Publisher:
L'Isle, Guillaume de, 1675-1726
Publication Date:
1740-1756
Cartographer:
L'Isle, Guillaume de, 1675-1726
Height:
32 cm.
Width:
42 cm.
Scale:
Scale in Italian miles
Color:
Colored
Descriptive Notes:
Example of a popular L'Isle map, which others copied. Map "shows the routes from the Cape inland to the kraals of the various tribes, sweet water wells, salt pans, woods, rivers, and many of the early farming settlements." Inset: Spiegazione.
Provenance:
Dr. Oscar I. Norwich
General Area:
Africa
Geographic Focus:
Cape of Good Hope
Period:
18th c.
Norwich Number:
218
Call Number:
NOR 0218
Source:
Atlante Novissimo Che Contiene tutti le parti del Mondo (1740-1756)
References:
Norwich (2nd ed.), ckey = 3871463
Page:
map 0218, p. 245
Program:
Jacobson Africana Program

Carta Geographica del Capo de Buona Speranza.