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Collection name:
Maps of Africa
Record:
Title:
L'Afrique Dressee sur les Observations de Ms. de l'Academie Royale des Sciences et quelques autres sur les Memoires les plus recens.
Title in Translation:
Africa according to the observations made by the Royal Academy of Science.
Publication Place:
Amsterdam
Publisher:
Covens, Jean; Mortier, Corneille
Publication Date:
1730
Cartographer:
L'Isle, Guillaume de, 1675-1726
Height:
46 cm.
Width:
57 cm.
Scale:
Scale in French and Spanish sea leagues, Spanish and German leagues, traveling leagues
Color:
Colored
Descriptive Notes:
Retains the geographical features of L'Isle's map of 1700 (see NOR 0059). Title across top: Africa Accurate in Imperia, Regna, Status and Populos Divisa, ad Usum Serenissimi Bourgundiae Ducis. Dedicated to the Duke to Burgundy; Prime meridian through Ferro Island.
Provenance:
Dr. Oscar I. Norwich
General Area:
Africa
Geographic Focus:
Africa
Period:
18th c.
Norwich Number:
74
Call Number:
NOR 0074
References:
Norwich (2nd ed.), ckey = 3871463
Page:
map 0074, p. 89
Program:
Jacobson Africana Program

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